Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 1948
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنْ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، قَالَتْ أَتَانِي عَمِّي مِنَ الرَّضَاعَةِ أَفْلَحُ بْنُ أَبِي قُعَيْسٍ يَسْتَأْذِنُ عَلَىَّ بَعْدَ مَا ضُرِبَ الْحِجَابُ فَأَبَيْتُ أَنْ آذَنَ لَهُ حَتَّى دَخَلَ عَلَىَّ النَّبِيُّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ فَقَالَ " إِنَّهُ عَمُّكِ فَأْذَنِي لَهُ " . فَقُلْتُ إِنَّمَا أَرْضَعَتْنِي الْمَرْأَةُ وَلَمْ يُرْضِعْنِي الرَّجُلُ قَالَ " تَرِبَتْ يَدَاكِ أَوْ يَمِينُكِ " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Aishah said: My uncle through breastfeeding, Aflaḥ ibn Abi Qays, came and asked permission to enter after the veiling rules had been instituted. I refused to let him in until the Prophet (ﷺ) came to me and said, ‘He is your uncle, so let him enter.’ I said, ‘The woman breastfed me; the man did not.’ He replied, ‘May your hands be covered with dust—or your right hand.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The closing expression taribat yadaki is an idiom, retained literally; the source gives ‘your hands’ or ‘your right hand.’
فَقُلْتُ إِنَّمَا أَرْضَعَتْنِي الْمَرْأَةُ وَلَمْ يُرْضِعْنِي الرَّجُلُ قَالَ " تَرِبَتْ يَدَاكِ أَوْ يَمِينُكِ " .
Taribat yadaki is an idiomatic expression whose force is not straightforwardly literal; the source also gives an alternative, ‘or your right hand.’
Should the idiom be rendered literally or with an English equivalent?