Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2051
حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْقُدُّوسِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَاصِمٍ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا هَمَّامٌ، وَجَرِيرُ بْنُ حَازِمٍ، قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا قَتَادَةُ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ، قَالَ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَحْتَجِمُ فِي الأَخْدَعَيْنِ وَالْكَاهِلِ وَكَانَ يَحْتَجِمُ لِسَبْعَ عَشْرَةَ وَتِسْعَ عَشْرَةَ وَإِحْدَى وَعِشْرِينَ . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ وَمَعْقِلِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ . وَهَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صحيح .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
‘Abd al-Quddus ibn Muhammad narrated to us; he said: ‘Amr ibn ‘Asim and Jarir ibn Hazim narrated to us; they said: Hammad narrated to us, from Qatadah, from Anas, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would have cupping performed on the two akhda‘ regions and the kahil. He would have cupping performed on the seventeenth, nineteenth, and twenty-first (days). Abu ‘Isa said: There are reports on this topic from Ibn ‘Abbas and Ma‘qil ibn Yasar. This is a hasan sahih hadith.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
Akhda‘ refers to the two areas at the sides of the neck, and kahil to the upper back; the Arabic names are retained to avoid implying more precise anatomical boundaries. The source gives the dates by day number without naming the month.
قَالَ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَحْتَجِمُ فِي الأَخْدَعَيْنِ وَالْكَاهِلِ وَكَانَ يَحْتَجِمُ لِسَبْعَ عَشْرَةَ وَتِسْعَ عَشْرَةَ وَإِحْدَى وَعِشْرِينَ .
The anatomical terms al-akhda‘ayn and al-kahil have approximate location glosses but no exact boundaries in this wording.
Are these concise location glosses clear enough while retaining the source terms?