Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 2299
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الصَّبَّاحِ، وَيَعْقُوبُ بْنُ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ كَاسِبٍ، قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا مُعْتَمِرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ، قَالَ سَمِعْتُ ابْنَ أَبِي الْحَكَمِ الْغِفَارِيَّ، قَالَ حَدَّثَتْنِي جَدَّتِي، عَنْ عَمِّ، أَبِيهَا رَافِعِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو الْغِفَارِيِّ قَالَ كُنْتُ وَأَنَا غُلاَمٌ، أَرْمِي نَخْلَنَا - أَوْ قَالَ نَخْلَ الأَنْصَارِ - فَأُتِيَ بِيَ النَّبِيَّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ فَقَالَ " يَا غُلاَمُ - وَقَالَ ابْنُ كَاسِبٍ فَقَالَ يَا بُنَىَّ - لِمَ تَرْمِي النَّخْلَ " . قَالَ قُلْتُ آكُلُ . قَالَ " فَلاَ تَرْمِي النَّخْلَ وَكُلْ مِمَّا يَسْقُطُ فِي أَسَافِلِهَا " . قَالَ ثُمَّ مَسَحَ رَأْسِي وَقَالَ " اللَّهُمَّ أَشْبِعْ بَطْنَهُ " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Rafiʿ ibn ʿAmr al-Ghifari said: When I was a boy, I used to throw stones at our palm trees—or, he said, the palms of the Ansar. I was brought to the Prophet, who said, ‘Young boy’—Ibn Kasib’s version says, ‘My son’—‘why are you throwing stones at the palms?’ I said, ‘I want to eat.’ He said, ‘Then do not throw stones at the palms. Eat what falls beneath them.’ Then he stroked my head and said, ‘O Allah, satisfy his hunger.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The report preserves variants concerning whose palm trees they were (‘ours’ or those of the Ansar) and the Prophet’s form of address (‘young boy’ or ‘my son’). The boy’s stated reason is that he wanted to eat.
أَرْمِي نَخْلَنَا - أَوْ قَالَ نَخْلَ الأَنْصَارِ - فَأُتِيَ بِيَ النَّبِيَّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ فَقَالَ " يَا غُلاَمُ - وَقَالَ ابْنُ كَاسِبٍ فَقَالَ يَا بُنَىَّ - لِمَ تَرْمِي النَّخْلَ " .
The report gives two variants for whose palms the boy was throwing at and for the Prophet’s form of address.
Which variant is intended: ‘our palms’ or ‘the Ansar’s palms’, and ‘young boy’ or ‘my son’?