Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 1803
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ نُمَيْرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ عِيسَى الرَّمْلِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا الأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ شَقِيقٍ، عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ، عَنْ مُعَاذِ بْنِ جَبَلٍ، قَالَ بَعَثَنِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ إِلَى الْيَمَنِ وَأَمَرَنِي أَنْ آخُذَ مِنَ الْبَقَرِ مِنْ كُلِّ أَرْبَعِينَ مُسِنَّةً وَمِنْ كُلِّ ثَلاَثِينَ تَبِيعًا أَوْ تَبِيعَةً .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Numayr narrated to us; Yahya ibn Isa al-Ramli narrated to us; al-A‘mash narrated to us, from Shaqiq, from Masruq, from Mu‘adh ibn Jabal, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sent me to Yemen and instructed me to collect from cattle one musinnah for every forty, and one tabi‘ or tabi‘ah for every thirty.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
Musinnah, tabi‘, and tabi‘ah are retained as technical cattle-age terms; no age in years is supplied.