Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 3538
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، عَنْ سُفْيَانَ، عَنْ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ عِيسَى بْنِ عَاصِمٍ، عَنْ زِرٍّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " الطِّيَرَةُ شِرْكٌ وَمَا مِنَّا إِلاَّ وَلَكِنَّ اللَّهَ يُذْهِبُهُ بِالتَّوَكُّلِ " .
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: Wakīʿ narrated to us, from Sufyān, from Salamah, from ʿĪsā ibn ʿĀṣim, from Zirr, from ʿAbd Allāh, who said: The Messenger of Allah said: ‘Taking omens is shirk. None of us is wholly free of it, but Allah removes it through reliance on Him.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The clause وَمَا مِنَّا إِلَّا is elliptical: it literally says ‘there is none of us except…’ without repeating what the person has. The translation supplies ‘is wholly free of it’ to make the implied sense readable; the final word is reliance/trust in Allah (tawakkul).
قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " الطِّيَرَةُ شِرْكٌ وَمَا مِنَّا إِلاَّ وَلَكِنَّ اللَّهَ يُذْهِبُهُ بِالتَّوَكُّلِ " .
وَمَا مِنَّا إِلَّا omits the proposition after ‘none of us except’; the English witness supplies the idea that anyone may experience or perceive an omen.
What implied phrase should be supplied after ‘none of us except’ while preserving the source’s ellipsis?