Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 3540
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، عَنْ أَبِي جَنَابٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " لاَ عَدْوَى وَلاَ طِيَرَةَ وَلاَ هَامَةَ " . فَقَامَ إِلَيْهِ رَجُلٌ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ الْبَعِيرُ يَكُونُ بِهِ الْجَرَبُ فَتَجْرَبُ بِهِ الإِبِلُ . قَالَ " ذَلِكَ الْقَدَرُ فَمَنْ أَجْرَبَ الأَوَّلَ " .
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 Abū Janāb, from his father, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said: The Messenger of Allah said, ‘There is no contagion, no omen-taking, and no hāmah.’ A man stood up and said, ‘Messenger of Allah, a camel may have mange, and then other camels contract mange from it.’ He said, ‘That is the divine decree. Who caused the first one to become mangy?’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The camel and mange example is retained as the man’s question; the Prophet’s reply calls it decree and asks rhetorically who caused the first camel’s mange. هَامَة is left transliterated as in the adjacent report because this brief wording does not define it.
قَالَ " ذَلِكَ الْقَدَرُ فَمَنْ أَجْرَبَ الأَوَّلَ " .
فَمَنْ أَجْرَبَ الأَوَّلَ (‘who caused the first one to become mangy?’) is a rhetorical reply pointing to divine decree; the text does not explain further how this relates to the preceding observation about mange spreading.
Should the rhetorical question be kept literally without adding an explanation of transmission?