Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 1437
حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ، حَدَّثَنَا مَسْلَمَةُ بْنُ عُلَىٍّ، حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ، عَنْ حُمَيْدٍ الطَّوِيلِ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ، قَالَ كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ لاَ يَعُودُ مَرِيضًا إِلاَّ بَعْدَ ثَلاَثٍ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Hisham ibn Ammar narrated to us; Maslamah ibn Ali narrated to us; Ibn Jurayj narrated to us, from Humayd al-Tawil, from Anas ibn Malik, who said: ‘The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would not visit a sick person until three days had passed.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The report gives the timing as ‘after three’; it does not specify a counting convention or further circumstance.