Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 2137
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، وَعَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، وَإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ حَبِيبٍ، قَالُوا حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا الأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنِ الأَسْوَدِ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، قَالَتْ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " إِنَّ أَطْيَبَ مَا أَكَلَ الرَّجُلُ مِنْ كَسْبِهِ وَإِنَّ وَلَدَهُ مِنْ كَسْبِهِ " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah, ʿAli ibn Muhammad, and Ishaq ibn Ibrahim ibn Habib narrated to us; they said: Abu Muʿawiyah narrated to us; al-Aʿmash narrated to us, from Ibrahim, from al-Aswad, from ʿAʾishah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) said: ‘The best food a man eats is from his own earnings, and his child is part of his earnings.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
قَالَتْ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " إِنَّ أَطْيَبَ مَا أَكَلَ الرَّجُلُ مِنْ كَسْبِهِ وَإِنَّ وَلَدَهُ مِنْ كَسْبِهِ " .
أطيب ما أكل الرجل means the best/most wholesome thing a person eats; the repeated من كسبه identifies both the food and the child as arising from his own earnings.
Does ‘best food’ and ‘part of his earnings’ preserve the repeated wording naturally?