Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 807
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ، عَنْ عَاصِمٍ الْعَنَزِيِّ، عَنِ ابْنِ جُبَيْرِ بْنِ مُطْعِمٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، قَالَ رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ حِينَ دَخَلَ فِي الصَّلاَةِ قَالَ " اللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ كَبِيرًا اللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ كَبِيرًا - ثَلاَثًا - الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ كَثِيرًا الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ كَثِيرًا - ثَلاَثًا - سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ بُكْرَةً وَأَصِيلاً - ثَلاَثَ مَرَّاتٍ - اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيمِ مِنْ هَمْزِهِ وَنَفْخِهِ وَنَفْثِهِ " . قَالَ عَمْرٌو هَمْزُهُ الْمُوتَةُ وَنَفْثُهُ الشِّعْرُ وَنَفْخُهُ الْكِبْرُ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Muhammad ibn Bashshar narrated to us: Muhammad ibn Ja'far narrated to us: Shu'bah narrated to us, from 'Amr ibn Murrah, from 'Asim al-'Anazi, from Ibn Jubayr ibn Mut'im, from his father, who said: I saw the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), when he began the prayer, say: ‘Allah is supremely great’ three times; ‘Much praise belongs to Allah’ three times; ‘Glory be to Allah morning and evening’ three times. ‘O Allah, I seek refuge in You from Satan, the accursed, from his hamz, nafkh, and nafth.’ 'Amr said: ‘His hamz is the seizure, his nafth is poetry, and his nafkh is pride.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The report includes a transmitter's gloss: hamz is identified as al-mawtah (a seizure), nafth as poetry, and nafkh as pride. The Arabic terms are retained in the supplication and glossed immediately after.
مِنْ هَمْزِهِ وَنَفْخِهِ وَنَفْثِهِ
The three terms are specialized; the subsequent narrator gloss explains them but hamz's exact English equivalent remains uncertain.
Is ‘seizure’ an adequate rendering of الْمَوْتَةُ in the transmitter's gloss?