Sunan Ibn Majah 2002

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

Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah and Muhammad ibn al-Sabbah narrated to us; they said: Sufyan ibn ʿUyaynah narrated to us, from al-Zuhri, from Saʿid ibn al-Musayyib, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: A man from Banu Fazara came to the Messenger of Allah and said, ‘My wife has given birth to a black boy.’ The Messenger of Allah asked, ‘Do you have camels?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ He asked, ‘What colors are they?’ He said, ‘Red.’ He asked, ‘Are there any grayish ones among them?’ He said, ‘There are indeed grayish ones among them.’ He asked, ‘How did that come about?’ He said, ‘Perhaps an ancestral strain was passed on to them.’ He said, ‘And this one may have inherited a strain.’ This is the wording of Ibn al-Sabbah.