Sunan Ibn Majah

Sunan Ibn Majah 3148

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ، أَنْبَأَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ، وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ، ح وَحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ، جَمِيعًا عَنْ سُفْيَانَ الثَّوْرِيِّ، عَنْ بَيَانٍ، عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي سَرِيحَةَ، قَالَ حَمَلَنِي أَهْلِي عَلَى الْجَفَاءِ بَعْدَمَا عَلِمْتُ مِنَ السُّنَّةِ كَانَ أَهْلُ الْبَيْتِ يُضَحُّونَ بِالشَّاةِ وَالشَّاتَيْنِ وَالآنَ يُبَخِّلُنَا جِيرَانُنَا ‏.‏

Translation

Isḥāq ibn Manṣūr informed us: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī and Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf informed us. [A second chain:] Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated to us. All transmitted from Sufyān al-Thawrī, from Bayān, from al-Shaʿbī, from Abū Sarīḥah, who said: My family pressed me toward miserliness, despite what I knew of the Sunnah. Households used to offer one or two sheep as sacrifices, but now our neighbors make us seem miserly.