Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 808
حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْمُنْذِرِ، حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ فُضَيْلٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عَطَاءُ بْنُ السَّائِبِ، عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيِّ، عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ قَالَ " اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيمِ وَهَمْزِهِ وَنَفْخِهِ وَنَفْثِهِ " . قَالَ 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.
'Ali ibn al-Mundhir narrated to us: Ibn Fudayl narrated to us: 'Ata' ibn al-Sa'ib narrated to us, from Abu 'Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami, from Ibn Mas'ud, from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: ‘O Allah, I seek refuge in You from Satan, the accursed, and from his hamz, nafkh, and nafth.’ He said: ‘His hamz is the seizure, his nafth is poetry, and his nafkh is pride.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The report itself supplies the gloss for the three terms; the transliterations are retained alongside that explanation.
وَهَمْزِهِ وَنَفْخِهِ وَنَفْثِهِ
The terms are specialized and are glossed in the following sentence, including hamz as al-mawtah.
Is ‘seizure’ the most accurate English rendering of الْمَوْتَةُ in this explanatory gloss?