Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 2099
حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ، حَدَّثَنَا بَقِيَّةُ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مُحَرَّرٍ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ، قَالَ سَمِعَ النَّبِيُّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ رَجُلاً يَقُولُ أَنَا إِذًا لَيَهُودِيٌّ . فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " وَجَبَتْ " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Hisham ibn ʿAmmar narrated to us; Baqiyyah narrated to us, from ʿAbdullah ibn Muharrar, from Qatadah, from Anas, who said: The Prophet (Allah bless him and grant him peace) heard a man say, ‘In that case, I would indeed be a Jew.’ The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) said, ‘It has become binding.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
قَالَ سَمِعَ النَّبِيُّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ رَجُلاً يَقُولُ أَنَا إِذًا لَيَهُودِيٌّ .
The man’s conditional antecedent is not included in this report; أنا إذًا ليهودي means ‘I would then be a Jew.’
Does ‘In that case, I would indeed be a Jew’ preserve the incomplete context without supplying the missing condition?
فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " وَجَبَتْ " .
وجبت literally means ‘it became obligatory/was established’; the report provides no further object or explanation for the Prophet’s brief response.
Does ‘It has become binding’ preserve the terse response without adding an unstated referent?