Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 2092
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو إِسْحَاقَ الشَّافِعِيُّ، إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْعَبَّاسِ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ رَجَاءٍ الْمَكِّيُّ، عَنْ عَبَّادِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ، عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ، عَنْ سَالِمٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، قَالَ كَانَتْ أَكْثَرُ أَيْمَانِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " لاَ وَمُصَرِّفِ الْقُلُوبِ " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abu Ishaq al-Shafiʿi, Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn al-ʿAbbas, narrated to us; ʿAbdullah ibn Rajaʾ al-Makki narrated to us, from ʿAbbad ibn Ishaq, from Ibn Shihab, from Salim, from his father, who said: The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) most often swore, ‘No—by the Turner of hearts!’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
قَالَ كَانَتْ أَكْثَرُ أَيْمَانِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " لاَ وَمُصَرِّفِ الْقُلُوبِ " .
لاَ at the beginning of the oath formula may be an emphatic ‘No!’ rather than a negation of the oath; مُصَرِّفُ الْقُلُوبِ means the One who turns hearts.
Does ‘No—by the Turner of hearts!’ preserve the emphatic opening and the divine epithet?