English translation
5199. It was narrated from Anas that the Prophet ﷺ wore a ring of silver with an Ethiopian stone (Fass), on which was inscribed (the phrase): “Muhammad Rasûl Allâh (Muhammad the Messenger of Allāh).” (Sahīh)
Hadith 5199
Description Of The Ring Of The Prophet ﷺ
- English source
Darussalam · Volume 6
48. The Book Of Adornment, From As-Sunan[1]Sunan an-Nasai Darussalam English translation
- Arabic source
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الحديث: 5196 ¦ الجزء: 8 ¦ الصفحة: 172
Al-Albani source references (2)
- صحيح وضعيف سنن النسائي (opens in a new tab)
Source no. 5196 · Volume 1 · Page 111
Sahih
صحيح، ابن ماجة (٣٦٤١)
- صحيح سنن النسائي (opens in a new tab)
Source no. 4796 · Volume 3 · Page 1058
Sahih
(صحيح) - ابن ماجه ٣٦٤١: ق.
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Arabic text
5196 - أَخْبَرَنَا الْعَبَّاسُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَظِيمِ الْعَنْبَرِيُّ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عُمَرَ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يُونُسُ، عَنْ الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ، «أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ اتَّخَذَ خَاتَمًا مِنْ وَرِقٍ فَصُّهُ حَبَشِيٌّ، وَنُقِشَ فِيهِ مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ»
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Commentary
1. ‘Abyssinian (Habashi)’ means it was fashioned in the Abyssinian (Ethiopian) style, or was made in Abyssinia, because it comes in other narrations that it was of silver only. Some have taken it to mean that its stone (Fass) was black. But it does not follow that it was assuredly of silver only. Some researchers have established parallelism between the two cases that the Abyssinian stone was on the gold ring, and in the silver ring, the stone was of silver. 2. ‘On it which was engraved’: It is elucidated in other reports that these three terms were not engraved straight in one line or linear, but they were in three lines. The word Allāh was on the top, Rasūl in the middle, and in the bottom Muhammad (May Allāh’s peace and greetings be upon him). This displays his handsomest decorum that despite his name having been occurring first in the sequence, the Prophet ﷺ placed his name below and the name of Allāh above.