Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 1781
حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْكَرِيمِ، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أُمَيَّةَ، حَدَّثَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ مُوسَى الْبُخَارِيُّ، عَنْ عَبِيدَةَ الْعَمِّيِّ، عَنْ فَرْقَدٍ السَّبَخِيِّ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ قَالَ فِي الْمُعْتَكِفِ " هُوَ يَعْكِفُ الذُّنُوبَ وَيُجْرَى لَهُ مِنَ الْحَسَنَاتِ كَعَامِلِ الْحَسَنَاتِ كُلِّهَا " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Ubayd Allah ibn Abd al-Karim narrated to us; Muhammad ibn Umayyah narrated to us; Isa ibn Musa al-Bukhari narrated to us, from Ubaydah al-Ammi, from Farqad al-Sabakhi, from Sa‘id ibn Jubayr, from Ibn Abbas, that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said about a person observing i‘tikaf: ‘He remains apart from sins, and good deeds are credited to him like one who performs all good deeds.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The wording about the person observing i‘tikaf and sins is unusual; ‘remains apart from sins’ follows its literal sense without adding an explanation.
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ قَالَ فِي الْمُعْتَكِفِ " هُوَ يَعْكِفُ الذُّنُوبَ وَيُجْرَى لَهُ مِنَ الْحَسَنَاتِ كَعَامِلِ الْحَسَنَاتِ كُلِّهَا " .
The clause ‘huwa ya‘kufu al-dhunub’ is unusual and its intended relation between the person observing i‘tikaf and sins is not explicit.
Should this clause be rendered as remaining apart from sins, or is another sense intended?