Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 187
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبَّادٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا حَاتِمُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ، عَنْ يَعْقُوبَ بْنِ مُجَاهِدِ أَبِي حَزْرَةَ، عَنْ عُبَادَةَ بْنِ الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ عُبَادَةَ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ قَالَ: خَرَجْتُ أَنَا وَأَبِي نَطْلُبُ الْعِلْمَ فِي هَذَا الْحَيِّ فِي الأَنْصَارِ، قَبْلَ أَنْ يَهْلِكُوا، فَكَانَ أَوَّلَ مَنْ لَقِينَا أَبُو الْيَسَرِ صَاحِبُ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَمَعَهُ غُلاَمٌ لَهُ، وَعَلَى أَبِي الْيَسَرِ بُرْدَةٌ وَمَعَافِرِيٌّ، وَعَلَى غُلاَمِهِ بُرْدَةٌ وَمَعَافِرِيٌّ، فَقُلْتُ لَهُ: يَا عَمِّي، لَوْ أَخَذْتَ بُرْدَةَ غُلاَمِكَ وَأَعْطَيْتَهُ مَعَافِرِيَّكَ، أَوْ أَخَذْتَ مَعَافِرِيَّهُ وَأَعْطَيْتَهُ بُرْدَتَكَ، كَانَتْ عَلَيْكَ حُلَّةٌ أَوْ عَلَيْهِ حُلَّةٌ، فَمَسَحَ رَأْسِي وَقَالَ: اللَّهُمَّ بَارِكْ فِيهِ، يَا ابْنَ أَخِي، بَصَرُ عَيْنَيَّ هَاتَيْنِ، وَسَمْعُ أُذُنَيَّ هَاتَيْنِ، وَوَعَاهُ قَلْبِي وَأَشَارَ إِلَى نِيَاطِ قَلْبِهِ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَقُولُ: أَطْعِمُوهُمْ مِمَّا تَأْكُلُونَ، وَاكْسُوهُمْ مِمَّا تَلْبَسُونَ وَكَانَ أَنْ أُعْطِيَهُ مِنْ مَتَاعِ الدُّنْيَا أَهْوَنُ عَلَيَّ مِنْ أَنْ يَأْخُذَ مِنْ حَسَنَاتِي يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Muhammad ibn Abbad narrated to us. He said: Hatim ibn Isma‘il narrated to us, from Ya‘qub ibn Mujahid Abu Hazra, from ‘Ubada ibn al-Walid ibn ‘Ubada ibn al-Samit, who said: My father and I went out to seek knowledge among the Ansar in this quarter before they passed away. The first person we met was Abu al-Yasar, a Companion of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. He had a young servant with him. Abu al-Yasar was wearing a burdah and a ma‘afiri garment, and his servant was wearing a burdah and a ma‘afiri garment. I said to him, ‘Uncle, if you took your servant’s burdah and gave him your ma‘afiri garment, or took his ma‘afiri garment and gave him your burdah, then one of you would have a complete outfit and so would the other.’ He wiped my head and said, ‘O Allah, bless him! Nephew, these two eyes of mine have seen, these two ears of mine have heard, and my heart retained it’—and he pointed to the core of his heart—that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘Feed them from what you eat, and clothe them from what you wear.’ It is easier for me to give him the goods of this world than to have some of my good deeds taken from me on the Day of Resurrection.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
Burdah and ma‘afiri are garment terms retained in transliteration because their precise textile forms are not clear from this passage. The expression ‘the core of his heart’ renders niyat qalbihi literally as the innermost part of his heart.
The source shifts from Abu al-Yasar’s account of what the Prophet said to his own reflection about giving his servant worldly goods rather than losing good deeds on the Day of Resurrection.
وَعَلَى أَبِي الْيَسَرِ بُرْدَةٌ وَمَعَافِرِيٌّ، وَعَلَى غُلاَمِهِ بُرْدَةٌ وَمَعَافِرِيٌّ،
The Arabic names two garment types, but their exact forms are not identified by the passage itself.
Should a specialist gloss these garment terms in a later editorial review?
فَمَسَحَ رَأْسِي وَقَالَ: اللَّهُمَّ بَارِكْ فِيهِ،
The object of the blessing is implicit in the pronoun and context.
Is retaining the implicit object the preferred rendering?