Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 2006
حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ قَالَ " الْوَلَدُ لِلْفِرَاشِ . وَلِلْعَاهِرِ الْحَجَرُ " .
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: Sufyan ibn ʿUyaynah narrated to us, from al-Zuhri, from Saʿid ibn al-Musayyib, from Abu Hurayrah, that the Prophet said: ‘The child belongs to the marital bed, and the adulterer gets the stone.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The phrase وللعاهر الحجر is kept close to its literal wording as a legal maxim.
وَلِلْعَاهِرِ الْحَجَرُ " .
‘The adulterer gets the stone’ is literal; الحجر may idiomatically convey that the adulterer has no claim or share, while also retaining the word ‘stone.’
Should the literal ‘stone’ remain, or should the maxim be rendered by its idiomatic sense?