Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 1275
حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا رَبِيعَةُ بْنُ كُلْثُومِ بْنِ جَبْرٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي قَالَ: خَطَبَنَا ابْنُ الزُّبَيْرِ فَقَالَ: يَا أَهْلَ مَكَّةَ، بَلَغَنِي عَنْ رِجَالٍ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ يَلْعَبُونَ بِلُعْبَةٍ يُقَالُ لَهَا: النَّرْدَشِيرُ، وَكَانَ أَعْسَرَ، قَالَ اللَّهُ: {إِنَّمَا الْخَمْرُ وَالْمَيْسِرُ}، وَإِنِّي أَحْلِفُ بِاللَّهِ: لاَ أُوتَى بِرَجُلٍ لَعِبَ بِهَا إِلاَّ عَاقَبْتُهُ فِي شَعْرِهِ وَبَشَرِهِ، وَأَعْطَيْتُ سَلَبَهُ لِمَنْ أَتَانِي بِهِ.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Musa related to us: Rabi‘ah ibn Kulthum ibn Jabr related to us: My father related to me: Ibn al-Zubayr addressed us and said: ‘People of Makkah, I have heard that some men of Quraysh play a game called nardashir; he was left-handed. Allah says: “Wine and gambling...” I swear by Allah, if any man who has played it is brought to me, I will punish him in his hair and his skin, and I will give his belongings to the one who brings him to me.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic preserves وكان أعسر (“and he was left-handed”) after the game name; the precise referent of this short description is unclear, so it has not been expanded into an explanation of how the game is played.
The quoted Quranic phrase is partial; the full verse reference is not included in this source block.
وَكَانَ أَعْسَرَ
The pronoun’s referent is not explicit in the isolated text; the English witness treats the clause as describing how the game is played, but the Arabic form may refer to Ibn al-Zubayr or another person.
Does this note describe Ibn al-Zubayr as left-handed, or does it refer to the game?