Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 1815
حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ، حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ جَدِّهِ، قَالَ إِنَّمَا سَنَّ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ الزَّكَاةَ فِي هَذِهِ الْخَمْسَةِ فِي الْحِنْطَةِ وَالشَّعِيرِ وَالتَّمْرِ وَالزَّبِيبِ وَالذُّرَةِ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Hisham ibn Ammar narrated to us; Ismail ibn Ayyash narrated to us, from Muhammad ibn Ubayd Allah, from Amr ibn Shu‘ayb, from his father, from his grandfather, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) prescribed zakah only on these five: wheat, barley, dates, raisins, and dhurrah.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
Dhurrah is retained in transliteration because the precise modern crop identification is uncertain from the source wording alone.
قَالَ إِنَّمَا سَنَّ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ الزَّكَاةَ فِي هَذِهِ الْخَمْسَةِ فِي الْحِنْطَةِ وَالشَّعِيرِ وَالتَّمْرِ وَالزَّبِيبِ وَالذُّرَةِ .
The crop name al-dhurrah can be rendered with different modern grain names, and this wording alone does not settle which one is intended.
Which English crop name should be used for al-dhurrah in this corpus?