Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2711
حَدَّثَنَا سُوَيْدُ بْنُ نَصْرٍ، أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ، أَنْبَأَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ، قَالَ اسْتَأْذَنْتُ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم فِي دَيْنٍ كَانَ عَلَى أَبِي فَقَالَ " مَنْ هَذَا " . فَقُلْتُ أَنَا . فَقَالَ " أَنَا أَنَا " . كَأَنَّهُ كَرِهَ ذَلِكَ . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Jabir reported: I sought permission to enter upon the Prophet concerning a debt my father owed. He asked, ‘Who is it?’ I replied, ‘It is I.’ He said, ‘Me, me?’—as though he disliked that answer.
Abu ‘Isa said: This is a hasan sahih hadith.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The repeated ‘I, I’ reflects an answer that did not identify the speaker; the narrator notes that the Prophet seemed to dislike it.