Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 2069
حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ سِنَانٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ، عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ أَنَسٍ، عَنْ نَافِعٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ، أَنَّ رَجُلاً، لاَعَنَ امْرَأَتَهُ وَانْتَفَى مِنْ وَلَدِهَا فَفَرَّقَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ بَيْنَهُمَا وَأَلْحَقَ الْوَلَدَ بِالْمَرْأَةِ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Ahmad ibn Sinan narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi narrated to us, from Malik ibn Anas, from Nafiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, that a man performed liʿan with his wife and disavowed her child as his. The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) then separated them and affiliated the child with the mother.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
لاَعَنَ امْرَأَتَهُ وَانْتَفَى مِنْ وَلَدِهَا فَفَرَّقَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ بَيْنَهُمَا وَأَلْحَقَ الْوَلَدَ بِالْمَرْأَةِ .
انتفى من ولدها literally means that he disavowed himself of her child; ألحق الولد بالمرأة states that the child was affiliated to the mother, a concise legal formulation concerning parentage.
Does ‘disavowed her child as his’ accurately convey the denial of paternity, followed by the child’s affiliation with the mother?