Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 1056
حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي، عَنْ يَزِيدَ النَّحْوِيِّ، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: {لاَ تَدْخُلُوا بُيُوتًا غَيْرَ بُيُوتِكُمْ حَتَّى تَسْتَأْنِسُوا وَتُسَلِّمُوا عَلَى أَهْلِهَا}، وَاسْتَثْنَى مِنْ ذَلِكَ، فَقَالَ: {لَيْسَ عَلَيْكُمْ جُنَاحٌ أَنْ تَدْخُلُوا بُيُوتًا غَيْرَ مَسْكُونَةٍ فِيهَا مَتَاعٌ لَكُمْ وَاللهُ يَعْلَمُ مَا تُبْدُونَ وَمَا تَكْتُمُونَ}.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Ibn Abbas recited: “Do not enter houses other than your own until you have sought permission and greeted their inhabitants.” He said this was excepted by Allah’s words: “There is no blame upon you for entering uninhabited houses in which you have some use; Allah knows what you disclose and what you conceal.”
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
This is Qur’an 24:27–29; مَتَاعٌ لَكُمْ means something of use or benefit to you.
فِيهَا مَتَاعٌ لَكُمْ
مَتَاعٌ means something useful or beneficial, not necessarily a service.
Should “service” be corrected to “use or benefit”?