Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1743
حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ، حَدَّثَنَا حَاتِمُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ، عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، قَالَ كَانَ الْحَسَنُ وَالْحُسَيْنُ يَتَخَتَّمَانِ فِي يَسَارِهِمَا . وَهَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Qutaybah narrated to us: Hatim ibn Ismail narrated to us, from Ja‘far ibn Muhammad, from his father, who said: Al-Hasan and al-Husayn used to wear rings on their left hands.
This hadith is hasan sahih.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The English witness begins at Ja‘far ibn Muhammad and omits Qutaybah and Hatim ibn Ismail from the Arabic chain. The Arabic dual verb says that both al-Hasan and al-Husayn wore rings on their left hands.
حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ،
The English witness omits the two transmitters preceding Ja‘far ibn Muhammad in the Arabic chain.
Can the English witness’s abbreviated isnad be confirmed as an intentional editorial choice?
قَالَ كَانَ الْحَسَنُ وَالْحُسَيْنُ يَتَخَتَّمَانِ فِي يَسَارِهِمَا .
The Arabic uses a dual verb and dual ‘their left,’ while the English uses singular ‘ring’ and ‘hand.’
Does the English singular phrasing intend the distributive meaning that each of the two wore a ring on his own left hand?