Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 2093
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ، ح وَحَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ كَاسِبٍ، حَدَّثَنَا مَعْنُ بْنُ عِيسَى، جَمِيعًا عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ هِلاَلٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ كَانَتْ يَمِينُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " لاَ وَأَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us; Hammad ibn Khalid narrated to us. (A second chain:) Yaʿqub ibn Humayd ibn Kasib narrated to us; Maʿn ibn ʿIsa narrated to us. Both chains go back through Muhammad ibn Hilal, from his father, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah’s (Allah bless him and grant him peace) oath was, ‘No, and I seek Allah’s forgiveness.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
قَالَ كَانَتْ يَمِينُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " لاَ وَأَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ " .
لاَ وَأَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ is the wording given as the Prophet’s oath; the initial لاَ may be emphatic (‘No’) and the second clause is ‘I seek Allah’s forgiveness.’
Does ‘No, and I seek Allah’s forgiveness’ preserve both parts without supplying an unstated divine name for the oath?