Sunan Ibn Majah

Sunan Ibn Majah 2568

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي فُدَيْكٍ، حَدَّثَنِي ابْنُ أَبِي حَبِيبَةَ، عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ الْحُصَيْنِ، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ ‏ "‏ إِذَا قَالَ الرَّجُلُ لِلرَّجُلِ يَا مُخَنَّثُ فَاجْلِدُوهُ عِشْرِينَ وَإِذَا قَالَ الرَّجُلُ لِلرَّجُلِ يَا لُوطِيُّ فَاجْلِدُوهُ عِشْرِينَ ‏"‏ ‏.‏

Translation

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ibrahim narrated to us; Ibn Abi Fudayk narrated to us; Ibn Abi Habibah narrated to me, from Dawud ibn al-Husayn, from 'Ikrimah, from Ibn 'Abbas, from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: If a man says to another, 'O effeminate one,' flog him twenty lashes; and if a man says to another, 'O sodomite,' flog him twenty lashes.

Notes and open questions — unreviewed
  • The English witness has a duplicated “twenty” in its second clause; the Arabic says twenty lashes in each clause.