Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 3483
حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي الْخَصِيبِ، حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، عَنْ جَرِيرِ بْنِ حَازِمٍ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ احْتَجَمَ فِي الأَخْدَعَيْنِ وَعَلَى الْكَاهِلِ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
ʿAlī ibn Abī al-Khaṣīb narrated to us: Wakīʿ narrated to us, from Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim, from Qatādah, from Anas: The Prophet had cupping at the two jugular veins and at the upper-back area (al-kāhil).
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The anatomical terms الأخدعان and الكاهل are rendered consistently with the preceding report.
أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ احْتَجَمَ فِي الأَخْدَعَيْنِ وَعَلَى الْكَاهِلِ .
الأخدعان and الكاهل are historical anatomical site terms; the former is conventionally identified with the jugulars and the latter with the upper-back/withers region.
Should these anatomical terms be retained literally or rendered using conventional English equivalents?