Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 3521
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَبْدِ رَبِّهِ، عَنْ عَمْرَةَ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ كَانَ مِمَّا يَقُولُ لِلْمَرِيضِ بِبُزَاقِهِ بِإِصْبَعِهِ " بِسْمِ اللَّهِ بِتُرْبَةِ أَرْضِنَا بِرِيقَةِ بَعْضِنَا لِيُشْفَى سَقِيمُنَا بِإِذْنِ رَبِّنَا " .
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: Sufyān narrated to us, from ʿAbd Rabbih, from ʿAmrah, from ʿĀʾishah: Among the things the Prophet would say for a sick person, with his saliva on his finger, was: ‘In the name of Allah; with the soil of our land and the saliva of some of us, let our sick person be healed by the permission of our Lord.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic explicitly mentions the Prophet’s saliva on his finger and the supplication’s references to soil and saliva. The English witness adds a parenthetical action of dipping the finger in dust; that action is not stated in this Arabic clause.
أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ كَانَ مِمَّا يَقُولُ لِلْمَرِيضِ بِبُزَاقِهِ بِإِصْبَعِهِ " بِسْمِ اللَّهِ بِتُرْبَةِ أَرْضِنَا بِرِيقَةِ بَعْضِنَا لِيُشْفَى سَقِيمُنَا بِإِذْنِ رَبِّنَا " .
The Arabic says ببزاقه بإصبعه (‘with his saliva, with his finger’) but does not state in this clause that the finger was dipped in dust; the English witness supplies that detail parenthetically.
Should the added dipping action be omitted in a direct translation of this Arabic wording?