Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 2072
حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ قَزَعَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا مَسْلَمَةُ بْنُ عَلْقَمَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا دَاوُدُ بْنُ أَبِي هِنْدٍ، عَنْ عَامِرٍ، عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، قَالَتْ آلَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ مِنْ نِسَائِهِ وَحَرَّمَ فَجَعَلَ الْحَرَامَ حَلاَلاً . وَجَعَلَ فِي الْيَمِينِ كَفَّارَةً .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Al-Hasan ibn Qazaʿah narrated to us; Maslamah ibn ʿAlqamah narrated to us; Dawud ibn Abi Hind narrated to us, from ʿAmir, from Masruq, from ʿAʾishah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) swore to abstain from his wives and declared something forbidden; then he made the forbidden permissible, and assigned expiation for the oath.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
قَالَتْ آلَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ مِنْ نِسَائِهِ وَحَرَّمَ فَجَعَلَ الْحَرَامَ حَلاَلاً .
The report says the Prophet performed ilaʾ (swore to abstain from his wives) and ‘made [something] forbidden’; it does not identify here what he declared forbidden. The following phrase states that the forbidden was made permissible.
Does ‘declared something forbidden’ preserve the wording without importing what was prohibited?
وَجَعَلَ فِي الْيَمِينِ كَفَّارَةً .
The phrase وَجَعَلَ فِي الْيَمِينِ كَفَّارَةً states that expiation was assigned for the oath.
Is ‘assigned expiation for the oath’ a clear rendering of the report’s statement?