Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 3549
حَدَّثَنَا هَارُونُ بْنُ حَيَّانَ، حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مُوسَى، أَنْبَأَنَا عَبْدَةُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو جَنَابٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَى، عَنْ أَبِيهِ أَبِي لَيْلَى، قَالَ كُنْتُ جَالِسًا عِنْدَ النَّبِيِّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ إِذْ جَاءَهُ أَعْرَابِيٌّ فَقَالَ إِنَّ لِي أَخًا وَجِعًا . قَالَ " مَا وَجَعُ أَخِيكَ " . قَالَ بِهِ لَمَمٌ . قَالَ " اذْهَبْ فَأْتِنِي بِهِ " . قَالَ فَذَهَبَ فَجَاءَ بِهِ فَأَجْلَسَهُ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ فَسَمِعْتُهُ عَوَّذَهُ بِفَاتِحَةِ الْكِتَابِ وَأَرْبَعِ آيَاتٍ مِنْ أَوَّلِ الْبَقَرَةِ وَآيَتَيْنِ مِنْ وَسَطِهَا وَإِلَهُكُمْ إِلَهٌ وَاحِدٌ وَآيَةِ الْكُرْسِيِّ وَثَلاَثِ آيَاتٍ مِنْ خَاتِمَتِهَا وَآيَةٍ مِنْ آلِ عِمْرَانَ - أَحْسِبُهُ قَالَ {شَهِدَ اللَّهُ أَنَّهُ لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ هُوَ} - وَآيَةٍ مِنَ الأَعْرَافِ {إِنَّ رَبَّكُمُ اللَّهُ الَّذِي خَلَقَ} الآيَةَ وَآيَةٍ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ {وَمَنْ يَدْعُ مَعَ اللَّهِ إِلهًا آخَرَ لاَ بُرْهَانَ لَهُ بِهِ } وَآيَةٍ مِنَ الْجِنِّ {وَأَنَّهُ تَعَالَى جَدُّ رِبِّنَا مَا اتَّخَذَ صَاحِبَةً وَلاَ وَلَدًا} وَعَشْرِ آيَاتٍ مِنْ أَوَّلِ الصَّافَّاتِ وَثَلاَثِ آيَاتٍ مِنْ آخِرِ الْحَشْرِ وَ {قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ } وَالْمُعَوِّذَتَيْنِ . فَقَامَ الأَعْرَابِيُّ قَدْ بَرَأَ لَيْسَ بِهِ بَأْسٌ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Hārūn ibn Ḥayyān narrated to us; Ibrāhīm ibn Mūsā narrated to us; ʿAbdah ibn Sulaymān informed us; Abū Janāb narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Laylā, from his father Abū Laylā, who said: I was sitting with the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, when a Bedouin came to him and said, “My brother is ill.” He asked, “What is wrong with your brother?” He replied, “He is afflicted by lamm.” He said, “Go and bring him to me.”
The man went and brought him, and the Prophet seated him in front of himself. I heard him reciting a protective invocation over him with the Opening of the Book, four verses from the beginning of al-Baqarah, two verses from its middle, “Your God is One God,” the Verse of the Throne, and three verses from its end; a verse from Āl ʿImrān—I think he said, “Allah bears witness that there is no god but Him”; a verse from al-Aʿrāf, “Indeed, your Lord is Allah, who created…”—the verse; a verse from al-Muʾminūn, “Whoever invokes another god alongside Allah, having no proof for it”; a verse from al-Jinn, “Exalted is the majesty of our Lord; He has taken neither wife nor child”; ten verses from the beginning of al-Ṣāffāt; three verses from the end of al-Ḥashr; “Say: He is Allah, One”; and the two chapters of seeking refuge. The Bedouin stood up, healed, with nothing wrong with him.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
Lamm is an uncommon term for an affliction; the report does not further define it. The Arabic also marks the identification of the Āl ʿImrān verse as the narrator’s recollection (‘I think he said’), which is retained.
The two chapters of seeking refuge are al-Falaq and al-Nās. The verse quotations are brief excerpts; where the Arabic says ‘the verse,’ it indicates continuation to the end of that verse.
قَالَ بِهِ لَمَمٌ .
Lamm is an uncommon word indicating an affliction, with a possible association with spirit-related disturbance; the report does not explain it.
Should lamm remain transliterated, or should it be rendered with a broader gloss such as ‘affliction’?
قَالَ فَذَهَبَ فَجَاءَ بِهِ فَأَجْلَسَهُ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ فَسَمِعْتُهُ عَوَّذَهُ بِفَاتِحَةِ الْكِتَابِ وَأَرْبَعِ آيَاتٍ مِنْ أَوَّلِ الْبَقَرَةِ وَآيَتَيْنِ مِنْ وَسَطِهَا وَإِلَهُكُمْ إِلَهٌ وَاحِدٌ وَآيَةِ الْكُرْسِيِّ وَثَلاَثِ آيَاتٍ مِنْ خَاتِمَتِهَا وَآيَةٍ مِنْ آلِ عِمْرَانَ - أَحْسِبُهُ قَالَ {شَهِدَ اللَّهُ أَنَّهُ لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ هُوَ} - وَآيَةٍ مِنَ الأَعْرَافِ {إِنَّ رَبَّكُمُ اللَّهُ الَّذِي خَلَقَ} الآيَةَ وَآيَةٍ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ {وَمَنْ يَدْعُ مَعَ اللَّهِ إِلهًا آخَرَ لاَ بُرْهَانَ لَهُ بِهِ } وَآيَةٍ مِنَ الْجِنِّ {وَأَنَّهُ تَعَالَى جَدُّ رِبِّنَا مَا اتَّخَذَ صَاحِبَةً وَلاَ وَلَدًا} وَعَشْرِ آيَاتٍ مِنْ أَوَّلِ الصَّافَّاتِ وَثَلاَثِ آيَاتٍ مِنْ آخِرِ الْحَشْرِ وَ {قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ } وَالْمُعَوِّذَتَيْنِ .
The report enumerates passages by verse count and contains a narrator’s hesitation in identifying one verse; the translation preserves those counts and the stated uncertainty.
Are the passage descriptions and short quotations aligned with the Arabic enumeration without silently correcting it?