Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 906
حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ بُكَيْرٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا اللَّيْثُ، عَنْ يُونُسَ، عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ، عَنْ ثَابِتِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ، أَنَّ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: أَخَذَتِ النَّاسَ الرِّيحُ فِي طَرِيقِ مَكَّةَ، وَعُمَرُ حَاجٌّ، فَاشْتَدَّتْ، فَقَالَ عُمَرُ لِمَنْ حَوْلَهُ: مَا الرِّيحُ؟ فَلَمْ يَرْجِعُوا بِشَيْءٍ، فَاسْتَحْثَثْتُ رَاحِلَتِي فَأَدْرَكْتُهُ، فَقُلْتُ: بَلَغَنِي أَنَّكَ سَأَلْتَ عَنِ الرِّيحِ، وَإِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَقُولُ: الرِّيحُ مِنْ رَوْحِ اللهِ، تَأْتِي بِالرَّحْمَةِ، وَتَأْتِي بِالْعَذَابِ، فَلاَ تَسُبُّوهَا، وَسَلُوا اللَّهَ خَيْرَهَا، وَعُوذُوا مِنْ شَرِّهَا.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Yahya ibn Bukayr related to us, saying: al-Layth related to us, from Yunus, from Ibn Shihab, from Thabit ibn Qays, that Abu Hurayra said: The people were struck by wind on the road to Mecca while ‘Umar was performing Hajj. It grew strong. ‘Umar asked those around him: “What is the wind?” They had no answer. I urged my mount on and caught up with him. I said: “I heard that you asked about the wind. I heard the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, say: ‘The wind is from the relief of Allah. It brings mercy and it brings punishment. Do not curse it; ask Allah for its good and seek refuge in Him from its evil.’”
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic uses رَوْح (rawh, relief or mercy), not رُوح (ruh, spirit); this is not a wordplay on ‘wind’ and ‘spirit’ in the supplied wording.
الرِّيحُ مِنْ رَوْحِ اللهِ
The witness identifies the second word as ruh (“spirit”), but the Arabic vocalization here is rawh, meaning relief or mercy.
Should the English remove the unsupported ruh wordplay?