Al-Thawri narrated that a man once asked Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah about cheese. He replied, “Girl, take this dirham and buy nabīdh with it.” She went out, bought nabīdh, and returned—meaning that she brought back cheese.
In sum, dropping an occasional foreign word is of little consequence. People did so mostly when their interlocutor was a non-Arab or someone accustomed to a foreign tongue, in order to make the meaning easier for him to grasp. Hence the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) said to Umm Khālid bint Khālid ibn Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ—who was a small child born in Abyssinia when her father had migrated there—after he had clothed her in a striped cloak: “O Umm Khālid, this is sanā,” and sanā in the Abyssinian language means “beautiful.”
(1) Al-Mundhir ibn Yaʿla al-Thawri, Abu Yaʿla, a Kufan transmitter; he is thiqah (reliable), belongs to the sixth generation, and all six canonical collectors cite his reports. See: Taqrib al-Tahdhib 2:275, no. 1376.
(2) Muhammad ibn ʿAli ibn Abi Talib al-Hashimi, Abu al-Qasim—better known as Ibn al-Hanafiyyah because his mother was from Banu Hanifah—is a reliable scholar of the second generation. The Six include him, and he died sometime after 80 AH. See: Taqrib al-Tahdhib 2:192, no. 549.
(3) The printed edition reads tanbizan in both places, but the reading adopted here is probably correct, as all the manuscripts agree on it. In the printed Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah the word appears as baniran (9:12, no. 6337).
(4) Same remark as the previous note.
(5) The printed text glosses the word as “meaning bread,” yet the manuscript reading, adopted here, is the accurate one.
(6) The word dhalika (“that”) is absent from manuscript A.
(7) Manuscript B reads Abu al-ʿAs; the correct reading, retained here, is ibn.
(8) The noble Companion was named Amah but became famous by her kunyah Umm Khalid. Al-Bukhari transmits this hadith from her, and some historians report that she lived to an advanced age. See: al-Isabah 4:238, no. 82 (Women).
(9) The printed edition has qamisan (“a shirt”).
(10) This sentence is part of a hadith recorded by al-Bukhari, Book of Dress, “What is to be said to someone who puts on new clothes,” hadith no. 5845 (Fath al-Bari 10:303).