Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 1631
حَدَّثَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ هِلاَلٍ الصَّوَّافُ، حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ الضُّبَعِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا ثَابِتٌ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ، قَالَ لَمَّا كَانَ الْيَوْمُ الَّذِي دَخَلَ فِيهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ الْمَدِينَةَ أَضَاءَ مِنْهَا كُلُّ شَىْءٍ فَلَمَّا كَانَ الْيَوْمُ الَّذِي مَاتَ فِيهِ أَظْلَمَ مِنْهَا كُلُّ شَىْءٍ . وَمَا نَفَضْنَا عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ الأَيْدِيَ حَتَّى أَنْكَرْنَا قُلُوبَنَا .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Bishr ibn Hilal al-Sawaf narrated to us; Ja‘far ibn Sulayman al-Duba‘i narrated to us; Thabit narrated to us, from Anas, who said: On the day the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) entered Medina, everything in it was illuminated. When the day on which he died came, everything in it grew dark. We had not yet shaken the dust from our hands after the Prophet’s burial when our hearts had become strange to us.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The final clause is translated closely: the Arabic says they no longer recognized their hearts, without specifying the exact feeling meant.
وَمَا نَفَضْنَا عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ الأَيْدِيَ حَتَّى أَنْكَرْنَا قُلُوبَنَا .
The phrase أنكرنا قلوبنا literally speaks of no longer recognizing their hearts; the intended emotional nuance is not specified.
Does ‘our hearts had become strange to us’ preserve the source’s meaning without narrowing its emotional sense?