Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 3480
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ رُمْحٍ الْمِصْرِيُّ، أَنْبَأَنَا اللَّيْثُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ، عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ، أَنَّ أُمَّ سَلَمَةَ، زَوْجَ النَّبِيِّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ اسْتَأْذَنَتْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ فِي الْحِجَامَةِ فَأَمَرَ النَّبِيُّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ أَبَا طَيْبَةَ أَنْ يَحْجُمَهَا . وَقَالَ حَسِبْتُ أَنَّهُ كَانَ أَخَاهَا مِنَ الرَّضَاعَةِ أَوْ غُلاَمًا لَمْ يَحْتَلِمْ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Muḥammad ibn Rumḥ al-Miṣrī informed us: al-Layth ibn Saʿd informed us, from Abū al-Zubayr, from Jābir: Umm Salamah, the wife of the Prophet, asked the Messenger of Allah’s permission to have cupping. The Prophet ordered Abū Ṭaybah to perform cupping on her. Jābir said: ‘I think he was either her foster-brother or a boy who had not yet reached puberty.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
Jābir presents the relationship/age as uncertain: he thought Abū Ṭaybah was either Umm Salamah’s foster-brother or a boy who had not reached puberty.
وَقَالَ حَسِبْتُ أَنَّهُ كَانَ أَخَاهَا مِنَ الرَّضَاعَةِ أَوْ غُلاَمًا لَمْ يَحْتَلِمْ .
Jābir marks the detail with حَسِبْتُ (‘I think’), and the alternatives are either foster kinship or prepubescent age.
Should the uncertainty and both alternatives remain explicit?