Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 191
حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي ابْنُ وَهْبٍ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَمْرٌو، عَنْ أَبِي يُونُسَ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّهُ قَالَ: أَعِينُوا الْعَامِلَ مِنْ عَمَلِهِ، فَإِنَّ عَامِلَ اللهِ لاَ يَخِيبُ، يَعْنِي: الْخَادِمَ.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Yahya ibn Sulayman narrated to us. He said: Ibn Wahb narrated to me. He said: Amr informed us, from Abu Yunus, from Abu Hurayra, who said: ‘Help the worker with his work, for one who works for Allah will not be disappointed’—meaning the servant.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The final words, ‘meaning the servant,’ are an explanatory gloss present in the Arabic source itself.
فَإِنَّ عَامِلَ اللهِ لاَ يَخِيبُ،
The expression ‘one who works for Allah’ is unusual and the Arabic source does not specify the intended nuance beyond its following gloss, ‘the servant.’
Should the phrase be rendered more idiomatically while retaining the source gloss?