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Sunan Ibn Majah 3525

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Sunan Ibn Majah 3525
Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ هِشَامٍ الْبَغْدَادِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، ح وَحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ خَلاَّدٍ الْبَاهِلِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَامِرٍ، قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ مِنْهَالٍ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، قَالَ كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ يُعَوِّذُ الْحَسَنَ وَالْحُسَيْنَ يَقُولُ ‏ "‏ أَعُوذُ بِكَلِمَاتِ اللَّهِ التَّامَّةِ مِنْ كُلِّ شَيْطَانٍ وَهَامَّةٍ وَمِنْ كُلِّ عَيْنٍ لاَمَّةٍ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ قَالَ ‏"‏ وَكَانَ أَبُونَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ يَعُوِّذُ بِهَا إِسْمَاعِيلَ وَإِسْحَاقَ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ أَوْ قَالَ ‏"‏ إِسْمَاعِيلَ وَيَعْقُوبَ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ وَهَذَا حَدِيثُ وَكِيعٍ ‏.‏

Translation

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān ibn Hishām al-Baghdādī narrated to us: Wakīʿ narrated to us. [Another chain:] Abū Bakr ibn Khallād al-Bāhilī narrated to us: Abū ʿĀmir narrated to us. Both narrated to us: Sufyān, from Manṣūr, from Minhāl, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: The Prophet used to seek protection for al-Ḥasan and al-Ḥusayn, saying, ‘I seek refuge in the perfect words of Allah from every devil and venomous creature, and from every harmful evil eye.’

He said, ‘Our forefather Ibrāhīm used to seek protection with these words for Ismāʿīl and Isḥāq’—or he said, ‘Ismāʿīl and Yaʿqūb.’ This is Wakīʿ’s version of the hadith.

Notes and open questions — unreviewed

  • The Arabic recitation does not include the English witness’s added words ‘for you both’; the context identifies al-Ḥasan and al-Ḥusayn as those being protected. The narrator explicitly gives two alternatives for the second son’s name: Isḥāq or Yaʿqūb.

  • قَالَ كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ يُعَوِّذُ الْحَسَنَ وَالْحُسَيْنَ يَقُولُ ‏ "‏ أَعُوذُ بِكَلِمَاتِ اللَّهِ التَّامَّةِ مِنْ كُلِّ شَيْطَانٍ وَهَامَّةٍ وَمِنْ كُلِّ عَيْنٍ لاَمَّةٍ ‏"‏ ‏.

    هَامَّةٌ can refer to a venomous creature/reptile, and عَيْنٌ لَامَّةٌ to a harmful or afflicting evil eye; the Arabic does not give more specific identifications.

    Should these terms remain broad as ‘venomous creature’ and ‘harmful evil eye’?

  • ‏ أَوْ قَالَ ‏"‏ إِسْمَاعِيلَ وَيَعْقُوبَ ‏"‏ ‏.

    The text explicitly gives alternate names for the second son: Isḥāq or Yaʿqūb.

    Should both names remain as alternatives exactly as transmitted?