And likewise it was narrated from him, peace and blessings of God be upon him, that he saw Abū Hurayra lying on his stomach and said to him: "Ashkanb dard?" (Does your stomach hurt?) He said: Yes. He said: "Stand up and pray, for indeed in prayer there is healing." (1)
Notes
- (1) Hadith: 851 - Thus al-Ṭabarī mentioned it suspended (muʿallaq), without a chain of transmission (isnad). Aḥmad narrated it in al-Musnad (9054; 2: 390 Ḥalabī) from Aswad ibn ʿĀmir, from Dhawwād Abū al-Mundhir, from Layth, from Mujāhid, from Abū Hurayra. Then he narrated it again (9229; 2: 403 Ḥalabī) from Mūsā ibn Dāwūd, from Dhawwād. Ibn Mājah also narrated it (3458) with two chains of transmission from Dhawwād. "Dhawwād": with a fatḥa on the pointed dhāl, a tashdīd on the wāw, and ending with an unpointed dāl. The author of al-Khulāṣa vocalized it as "Dhuʾād" with a ḍamma on the pointed letter followed by an open hamza, which is an error. Dhawwād is the son of ʿUlba al-Ḥārithī, and he was a righteous, truthful sheikh; Ibn Maʿīn declared him weak, saying: "He is nothing." al-Bukhārī gave a biography for him in al-Kabīr (2/1/241) and al-Ṣaghīr (p. 214), saying: "He contradicts in some of his hadiths." He narrated this hadith in al-Ṣaghīr from Ibn al-Aṣbahānī, from al-Muḥāribī, from Layth, from Mujāhid: "Abū Hurayra said to me: O Persian, shikam dard!" Then al-Bukhārī said: "Ibn al-Aṣbahānī said: Dhawwād raised it [to the Prophet], but it has no basis; Abū Hurayra was not Persian, rather Mujāhid was Persian." This is a precise explanation from Ibn al-Aṣbahānī, and then from al-Bukhārī, requiring the weakness of the hadith's chain of transmission (isnad) as a marfu' (attributed to the Prophet) report. His statement in the text of the narration "ashkanb dard": it was written in the Būlāq edition as follows: "Meaning: Are you complaining of your stomach? In Persian. Thus in the margin of the original." Likewise this wording was established in al-Musnad, except the first place in it where "dhard" was written with a dot over the first dāl, which is a clerical error. This wording was established in the narration of al-Bukhārī in al-Tārīkh al-Ṣaghīr (p. 214) as "shikam dard", and in the narration of Ibn Mājah as "ashkamat dard". Professor Fuʾād ʿAbd al-Bāqī wrote explaining it: "In Persian: ashkam, meaning stomach; dard, meaning pain; the tāʾ is for address, and the hamza is a hamzat waṣl. Thus Dr. Ḥusayn al-Hamdānī verified it, and its meaning is: Are you complaining of your stomach? But in the supplement of Majmaʿ Biḥār al-Anwār (p. 7), it appears as (ashkanb dadam), and in one narration with a sukūn on the bāʾ." And I hold that this last citation contains an error, because I transcribed long ago in notes on that its correct form is "ashkanb dardam", and my strongest inclination now is that I transcribed that from the supplement of , which is not within my reach as I write this.
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