Sunan Ibn Majah 2003

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

Abu Kurayb narrated to us: ʿAbaʾah ibn Kulayb al-Laythi Abu Ghassan narrated to us, from Juwayriyah ibn Asmaʾ, from Nafiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar: A man from the desert came to the Prophet and said, ‘Messenger of Allah, my wife has given birth to a black boy on my bed, though we are a household in which there has never been a black person.’ He asked, ‘Do you have camels?’ The man said, ‘Yes.’ He asked, ‘What colors are they?’ He said, ‘Red.’ He asked, ‘Are any of them black?’ He said, ‘No.’ He asked, ‘Are any grayish?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ He asked, ‘How did that happen?’ He said, ‘Perhaps an ancestral strain was passed on.’ He said, ‘Then perhaps this son of yours inherited an ancestral strain.’