Sunan Ibn Majah

Sunan Ibn Majah 2061

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ السُّلَمِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَاصِمٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ صَيْفِيٍّ، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ آلَى مِنْ بَعْضِ نِسَائِهِ شَهْرًا فَلَمَّا كَانَ تِسْعَةً وَعِشْرِينَ رَاحَ أَوْ غَدَا ‏.‏ فَقِيلَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّمَا مَضَى تِسْعٌ وَعِشْرُونَ ‏.‏ فَقَالَ ‏"‏ الشَّهْرُ تِسْعٌ وَعِشْرُونَ ‏"‏ ‏.‏

Translation

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Ahmad ibn Yusuf al-Sulami narrated to us: Abu ʿAsim narrated to us, from Ibn Jurayj, from Yahya ibn ʿAbdullah ibn Muhammad ibn Sayfi, from ʿIkrimah ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman, from Umm Salamah: The Messenger of Allah swore to abstain from some of his wives for a month. When twenty-nine days had passed, he went out in the evening—or in the morning. Someone said, ‘Messenger of Allah, only twenty-nine days have passed.’ He said, ‘A month is twenty-nine days.’

Notes and open questions — unreviewed
  • The report gives both possibilities, رَاحَ أَوْ غَدَا (‘went out in the evening or morning’), without resolving which occurred.