Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 2011
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ، حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ نَوْفَلٍ الْقُرَشِيِّ، عَنْ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، عَنْ جُدَامَةَ بِنْتِ وَهْبٍ الأَسَدِيَّةِ، أَنَّهَا قَالَتْ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ يَقُولُ " قَدْ أَرَدْتُ أَنْ أَنْهَى عَنِ الْغِيَالِ فَإِذَا فَارِسُ وَالرُّومُ يُغِيلُونَ فَلاَ يَقْتُلُونَ أَوْلاَدَهُمْ " . وَسَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ وَسُئِلَ عَنِ الْعَزْلِ فَقَالَ " هُوَ الْوَأْدُ الْخَفِيُّ " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us: Yahya ibn Ishaq narrated to us: Yahya ibn Ayyub narrated to us, from Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Nawfal al-Qurashi, from ʿUrwah, from ʿAishah, from Judamah bint Wahb al-Asadiyyah, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah say, ‘I had intended to forbid ghayl, but I saw that the Persians and Romans practice it, yet do not kill their children.’ I also heard him say, when asked about coitus interruptus, ‘It is the hidden burial alive.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
Ghayl is retained as a transliterated term because it may refer to intercourse with a nursing woman or nursing during pregnancy; the Arabic here does not specify further.
أَنَّهَا قَالَتْ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ يَقُولُ " قَدْ أَرَدْتُ أَنْ أَنْهَى عَنِ الْغِيَالِ فَإِذَا فَارِسُ وَالرُّومُ يُغِيلُونَ فَلاَ يَقْتُلُونَ أَوْلاَدَهُمْ " .
The term الغيل has been explained in more than one related way, including intercourse with a nursing woman and nursing during pregnancy.
Should ghayl remain transliterated here, or should the translation adopt one of these explanations?