Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 2007
حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ، حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ، حَدَّثَنَا شُرَحْبِيلُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ، قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا أُمَامَةَ الْبَاهِلِيَّ، يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ يَقُولُ " 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: Ismaʿil ibn ʿAyyash narrated to us: Shurahbil ibn Muslim narrated to us, saying: I heard Abu Umamah al-Bahili say: I heard the Messenger of Allah say, ‘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.
يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ يَقُولُ " الْوَلَدُ لِلْفِرَاشِ 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?