Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 2073
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى، حَدَّثَنَا وَهْبُ بْنُ جَرِيرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامٌ الدَّسْتَوَائِيُّ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ، عَنْ يَعْلَى بْنِ حَكِيمٍ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ، قَالَ قَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ فِي الْحَرَامِ يَمِينٌ . وَكَانَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ يَقُولُ لَقَدْ كَانَ لَكُمْ فِي رَسُولِ اللَّهِ أُسْوَةٌ حَسَنَةٌ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Muhammad ibn Yahya narrated to us; Wahb ibn Jarir narrated to us; Hisham al-Dastawaʾi narrated to us, from Yahya ibn Abi Kathir, from Yaʿla ibn Hakim, from Saʿid ibn Jubayr, who said: Ibn ʿAbbas said, ‘Declaring something forbidden is an oath.’ Ibn ʿAbbas used to say, ‘You have an excellent example in the Messenger of Allah.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
قَالَ قَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ فِي الْحَرَامِ يَمِينٌ .
في الحرام يمينٌ literally says ‘concerning al-haram, [it is] an oath’; the surrounding reports suggest declaring something forbidden is treated as an oath, but the statement itself is elliptical.
Does ‘Declaring something forbidden is an oath’ make the implied referent clear while preserving the terse statement?
وَكَانَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ يَقُولُ لَقَدْ كَانَ لَكُمْ فِي رَسُولِ اللَّهِ أُسْوَةٌ حَسَنَةٌ .
The wording echoes Qur’an 33:21, though this report gives no verse number.
Should the allusion remain as a quotation without an added verse citation?