Sunan an-Nasa'i
Sunan an-Nasa'i 1890
أَخْبَرَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ زُرَارَةَ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ، عَنْ أَيُّوبَ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدٍ، عَنْ أُمِّ عَطِيَّةَ، قَالَتْ أَتَانَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَنَحْنُ نَغْسِلُ ابْنَتَهُ فَقَالَ " اغْسِلْنَهَا ثَلاَثًا أَوْ خَمْسًا أَوْ أَكْثَرَ مِنْ ذَلِكِ إِنْ رَأَيْتُنَّ ذَلِكِ بِمَاءٍ وَسِدْرٍ وَاجْعَلْنَ فِي الآخِرَةِ كَافُورًا أَوْ شَيْئًا مِنْ كَافُورٍ فَإِذَا فَرَغْتُنَّ فَآذِنَّنِي " . فَلَمَّا فَرَغْنَا آذَنَّاهُ فَأَلْقَى إِلَيْنَا حَقْوَهُ وَقَالَ " أَشْعِرْنَهَا إِيَّاهُ " . قَالَ أَوْ قَالَتْ حَفْصَةُ اغْسِلْنَهَا ثَلاَثًا أَوْ خَمْسًا أَوْ سَبْعًا . قَالَ وَقَالَتْ أُمُّ عَطِيَّةَ مَشَطْنَاهَا ثَلاَثَةَ قُرُونٍ .
‘Amr ibn Zurarah narrated to us, saying: Isma‘il narrated to us, from Ayyub, from Muhammad, from Umm ‘Atiyyah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) came to us while we were washing his daughter. He said: ‘Wash her three or five times, or more than that if you think it appropriate, with water and lote leaves. Put camphor—or some camphor—in the final wash, and when you have finished, let me know.’ When we had finished, we informed him. He handed us his waist-wrapper and said: ‘Wrap her with it against her skin.’ The narrator said—or Hafsah said: ‘Wash her three, five, or seven times.’ The narrator said: Umm ‘Atiyyah said: ‘We combed her hair into three braids.’
Translation notes
The Arabic preserves uncertainty over whether the statement about three, five, or seven washes is attributed by the narrator or by Hafsah.
The phrase ‘the narrator said’ renders قال, whose speaker is not named in the source text.