Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 3519
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ زِيَادٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ حَكِيمٍ، حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَزْمٍ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَزْمٍ، قَالَ عَرَضْتُ النَّهْشَةَ مِنَ الْحَيَّةِ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ فَأَمَرَ بِهَا .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: ʿAffān narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ziyād narrated to us: ʿUthmān ibn Ḥakīm narrated to us: Abū Bakr ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥazm narrated to me, from ʿAmr ibn Ḥazm, who said: I presented the recitation used for a snakebite to the Messenger of Allah, and he instructed that it be used.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic says عَرَضْتُ النَّهْشَةَ مِنَ الْحَيَّةَ (‘I presented al-nahshah from the snake’) without explicitly naming ruqya in this sentence. The translation follows the contextual English witness in understanding it as a treatment/recitation for snakebite.
قَالَ عَرَضْتُ النَّهْشَةَ مِنَ الْحَيَّةِ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ فَأَمَرَ بِهَا .
النَّهْشَةَ مِنَ الْحَيَّةِ literally names a snakebite, while the English witness interprets it as a ruqya recited for snakebite; the Arabic sentence does not explicitly say ‘ruqya.’
Does عَرَضْتُ النَّهْشَةَ refer to presenting the snakebite itself or presenting the recitation/treatment for it?