أخبرنا أبو الحسين محمد بن هارون الزنجاني فيما كتب إلي قال: حدثنا علي بن عبد العزيز، قال: سمعت القاسم بن سلام يقول في معنى قول النبي صلى الله عليه وآله: " الرحم شجنة من الله عز وجل ": يعني أنه قرابة مشتبكة كاشتباك العروق. وقول القائل: " الحديث ذو شجون " إنما هو تمسك بعضه ببعض. وقال بعض أهل العلم: يقال: " شجر متشجن " إذا التف بعضه ببعض. ويقال: شجنة وشجنة والشجن كالغصن يكون من الشجرة وقد قال النبي صلى الله عليه وآله: إن فاطمة شجنة مني يؤذيني ما آذاها ويسرني ما يسرها صلوات الله عليها.
We were informed by Abu’l-Hussain, Muhammed bin Harun al-Zanjani, with regards to what he wrote to me, that hsaid: We were told by Ali bin Abdul-Aziz, that he said: I heard Qasem bin Salam say with regards to the meaning of the saying of the Prophet, Allah’s blessings be upon him and his Family: «The womb is a shujna from Allah, Exalted and Glorious is He», that he means that it is a common kinship that is entangled like the entangling of veins. The saying of a sayer: «The narration has shujoun [1]» is that some parts of it adhere to other parts. Some from the people of knowledge said: It is said: «Trees that are mutashajjin» if some of them are wrapped around each other. It is also said: Shajna and shijna. Shujn is like a branch  that is from a tree. The Prophet, Allah’s blessings be upon him and his Family, has said: Indeed, Fatima is a shujna from me; that which hurts her, hurts me, and that which makes her happy, makes me happy. Allah’s blessings be upon her.