Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 1166
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدٌ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا دَاوُدُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ سَعِيدًا الْمَقْبُرِيَّ يَقُولُ: مَرَرْتُ عَلَى ابْنِ عُمَرَ، وَمَعَهُ رَجُلٌ يَتَحَدَّثُ، فَقُمْتُ إِلَيْهِمَا، فَلَطَمَ فِي صَدْرِي فَقَالَ: إِذَا وَجَدْتَ اثْنَيْنِ يَتَحَدَّثَانِ فَلاَ تَقُمُّ مَعَهُمَا، وَلاَ تَجْلِسْ مَعَهُمَا، حَتَّى تَسْتَأْذِنَهُمَا، فَقُلْتُ: أَصْلَحَكَ اللَّهُ يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، إِنَّمَا رَجَوْتُ أَنْ أَسْمَعَ مِنْكُمَا خَيْرًا.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Muhammad related to us: ‘Abd Allah informed us: Dawud ibn Qays informed us: I heard Sa‘id al-Maqburi say: I passed by Ibn ‘Umar while a man was talking with him. I stood by the two of them, and Ibn ‘Umar struck me on the chest and said, ‘When you find two people talking together, do not join them or sit with them until you ask their permission.’ I said, ‘May Allah set you right, Abu ‘Abd al-Rahman, I only hoped to hear something good from you both.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
فَلاَ تَقُمُّ مَعَهُمَا
The first verb may literally describe standing with the two men or idiomatically approaching their conversation.
Should فلا تقم معهما be translated literally as ‘do not stand with them’ or idiomatically as ‘do not join them’?