Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1759
حَدَّثَنَا سُوَيْدُ بْنُ نَصْرٍ، أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ، عَنْ نَافِعٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " لَعَنَ اللَّهُ الْوَاصِلَةَ وَالْمُسْتَوْصِلَةَ وَالْوَاشِمَةَ وَالْمُسْتَوْشِمَةَ " . قَالَ نَافِعٌ الْوَشْمُ فِي اللَّثَةِ . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ . قَالَ وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ وَابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ وَأَسْمَاءَ بِنْتِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ وَمَعْقِلِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ وَمُعَاوِيَةَ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Suwayd ibn Nasr informed us: Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak informed us, from Ubaydullah ibn Umar, from Nafi, from Ibn Umar, that the Prophet (Allah bless him and grant him peace) said: ‘Allah has cursed the woman who joins hair extensions and the woman who seeks to have them joined, and the woman who tattoos and the woman who seeks to be tattooed.’ Nafi said: Tattooing is on the gums.
Abu Isa said: This hadith is hasan sahih. Reports on this subject are also related from Aishah, Ibn Masud, Asma bint Abi Bakr, Ibn Abbas, Ma‘qil ibn Yasar, and Muawiyah.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The English witness begins at Ibn Umar and omits the preceding chain (Suwayd ibn Nasr, Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak, Ubaydullah ibn Umar, and Nafi). The Arabic uses feminine forms for both the practitioner and the one seeking each practice. Nafi’s note locates tattooing on the gums (al-lithah).
حَدَّثَنَا سُوَيْدُ بْنُ نَصْرٍ،
The English witness omits four transmitters preceding Ibn Umar in the Arabic chain.
Can the English witness’s abbreviated isnad be confirmed as an intentional editorial choice?