Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 600
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، وَعَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ زَيْنَبَ بِنْتِ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ أُمِّهَا أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ، قَالَتْ جَاءَتْ أُمُّ سُلَيْمٍ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ فَسَأَلَتْهُ عَنِ الْمَرْأَةِ تَرَى فِي مَنَامِهَا مَا يَرَى الرَّجُلُ قَالَ " نَعَمْ إِذَا رَأَتِ الْمَاءَ فَلْتَغْتَسِلْ " . فَقُلْتُ فَضَحْتِ النِّسَاءَ وَهَلْ تَحْتَلِمُ الْمَرْأَةُ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " تَرِبَتْ يَمِينُكِ فَبِمَ يُشْبِهُهَا وَلَدُهَا إِذًا " .
Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah and Ali ibn Muhammad reported to us; they said: Waki reported to us, from Hisham ibn Urwah, from his father, from Zaynab bint Umm Salamah, from her mother Umm Salamah, who said: ‘Umm Sulaym came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and asked him about a woman who sees in her dream what a man sees. He said, “Yes. If she sees fluid, let her perform the ritual bath.” I said, “You have exposed the women! Do women also have wet dreams?” The Prophet said, “May your right hand be covered in dust! From what, then, would her child resemble her?”’
Translation notes
The idiomatic rebuke تَرِبَتْ يَمِينُكِ is rendered closely as ‘May your right hand be covered in dust.’
تَرِبَتْ يَمِينُكِ
This is an idiomatic expression of rebuke, not necessarily a literal wish.
Would an idiomatic English rebuke better preserve the tone without changing the wording's force?