Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 3485
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ طَرِيفٍ، حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ سَقَطَ مِنْ فَرَسِهِ عَلَى جِذْعٍ فَانْفَكَّتْ قَدَمُهُ . قَالَ وَكِيعٌ يَعْنِي أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ احْتَجَمَ عَلَيْهَا مِنْ وَثْءٍ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Muḥammad ibn Ṭarīf narrated to us: Wakīʿ narrated to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Sufyān, from Jābir: The Prophet fell from his horse onto a tree trunk, and his foot was dislocated. Wakīʿ said: ‘That is, the Prophet had cupping applied to it for a contusion.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
جِذْع means a tree trunk; the Arabic does not specify a palm tree. وَثْء denotes a contusion or sprain, and Wakīʿ supplies this as an explanatory comment on the cupping.
أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ سَقَطَ مِنْ فَرَسِهِ عَلَى جِذْعٍ فَانْفَكَّتْ قَدَمُهُ .
جِذْع is a tree trunk, while the English witness specifies a palm trunk; this Arabic clause does not name a tree species.
Should the tree remain unspecified as in the Arabic wording?
قَالَ وَكِيعٌ يَعْنِي أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ احْتَجَمَ عَلَيْهَا مِنْ وَثْءٍ .
وَثْء can refer to a contusion or sprain; the report gives no further description of the injury.
Should وَثْء be rendered broadly as contusion or sprain rather than specified more narrowly?