Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 1167
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَلاَمٍ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَهَّابِ الثَّقَفِيُّ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدٌ، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: مَنْ تَسَمَّعَ إِلَى حَدِيثِ قَوْمٍ وَهُمْ لَهُ كَارِهُونَ، صُبَّ فِي أُذُنِهِ الْآنُكُ. وَمَنْ تَحَلَّمَ بِحُلْمٍ كُلِّفَ أَنْ يَعْقِدَ شَعِيرَةً.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Muhammad ibn Salam related to us: ‘Abd al-Wahhab al-Thaqafi informed us: Khalid related to us, from ‘Ikrimah, from Ibn ‘Abbas, who said: Whoever listens in on people’s conversation when they dislike it will have molten lead poured into his ear. Whoever claims to have dreamed a dream will be charged with tying a barley grain.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
وَمَنْ تَحَلَّمَ بِحُلْمٍ كُلِّفَ أَنْ يَعْقِدَ شَعِيرَةً
The verb تحلّم refers to claiming or relating a dream; the exact force is more specific than merely dreaming.
Is ‘claims to have dreamed a dream’ the best rendering of تحلّم in this warning?
شَعِيرَةً
The English witness says ‘a barley bead’ and misreads the object; the Arabic explicitly names a grain of barley.
Should the Arabic-specific ‘barley grain’ be retained against the witness’s ‘barley bead’?