Sunan an-Nasa'i

Sunan an-Nasa'i 3484

Arabic hadith text

أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا اللَّيْثُ، عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ، عَنْ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، قَالَتِ اخْتَصَمَ سَعْدُ بْنُ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ وَعَبْدُ بْنُ زَمْعَةَ فِي غُلاَمٍ فَقَالَ سَعْدٌ هَذَا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ابْنُ أَخِي عُتْبَةَ بْنِ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ عَهِدَ إِلَىَّ أَنَّهُ ابْنُهُ انْظُرْ إِلَى شَبَهِهِ ‏.‏ وَقَالَ عَبْدُ بْنُ زَمْعَةَ أَخِي وُلِدَ عَلَى فِرَاشِ أَبِي مِنْ وَلِيدَتِهِ ‏.‏ فَنَظَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم إِلَى شَبَهِهِ فَرَأَى شَبَهًا بَيِّنًا بِعُتْبَةَ فَقَالَ ‏"‏ هُوَ لَكَ يَا عَبْدُ الْوَلَدُ لِلْفِرَاشِ وَلِلْعَاهِرِ الْحَجَرُ وَاحْتَجِبِي مِنْهُ يَا سَوْدَةُ بِنْتَ زَمْعَةَ ‏" ‏ ‏.‏ فَلَمْ يَرَ سَوْدَةَ قَطُّ ‏.‏

Translation

Qutaybah informed us; he said: al-Layth narrated to us, from Ibn Shihab, from Urwah, from Aishah, who said: Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas and Abd ibn Zam'ah disputed over a boy. Sa'd said, ‘Messenger of Allah, this is the son of my brother Utbah ibn Abi Waqqas. He confided to me that the boy was his son. Look at whom he resembles.’ Abd ibn Zam'ah said, ‘He is my brother; he was born on my father's bed to his slave woman.’ The Messenger of Allah looked at the boy and saw a clear resemblance to Utbah. He said, ‘He is yours, Abd. The child belongs to the marital bed, and the adulterer gets nothing. Veil yourself from him, Sawdah bint Zam'ah.’ After that, he never saw Sawdah again.

Translation notes
  • The final Arabic clause leaves its subject implicit; the English witness takes it to mean that the Prophet never saw Sawdah again. The phrase about the adulterer is rendered idiomatically; the English witness translates it literally as ‘the stone.’