Mishkat al-Masabih
Mishkat al-Masabih 2688
وَعَنْ كَعْبِ بْنِ عُجْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مَرَّ بِهِ وَهُوَ بِالْحُدَيْبِيَةَ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَدْخُلَ مَكَّةَ وَهُوَ مُحْرِمٌ وَهُوَ يُوقِدُ تَحْتَ قِدْرٍ وَالْقَمْلُ تهافت عَلَى وَجْهِهِ فَقَالَ: «أَتُؤْذِيكَ هَوَامُّكَ؟» . قَالَ: نَعَمْ. قَالَ: «فَاحْلِقْ رَأْسَكَ وَأَطْعِمْ فَرَقًا بَيْنَ سِتَّةِ مَسَاكِينَ» . وَالْفَرَقُ: ثَلَاثَةُ آصُعٍ: «أَوْ صُمْ ثَلَاثَةَ أَيَّام أوانسك نسيكة»
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Ka‘b ibn ‘Ujrah reported: Before entering Makkah, while he was in ihram at al-Hudaybiyah, the Prophet ﷺ passed by me as I was tending a pot over a fire and lice were falling onto my face. He asked: “Are your lice troubling you?” I replied: “Yes.” He said: “Shave your head and feed a faraq of food to six poor people.” A faraq is three sa‘s. “Or fast for three days, or offer a sacrificial animal.” [Agreed upon]
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The source’s final phrase is malformed; the sacrificial-animal instruction is reconstructed from its apparent wording and the familiar parallel form.
أوانسك نسيكة
The final Arabic phrase is malformed but appears to refer to offering a sacrificial animal.
Is the intended instruction to offer a sacrificial animal?