Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 317
حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ بِلاَلٍ، عَنِ الْعَلاَءِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم: لاَ يَنْبَغِي لِلصِّدِّيقِ أَنْ يَكُونَ لَعَّانًا.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
‘Abd al-‘Aziz ibn ‘Abd Allah narrated to us: Sulayman ibn Bilal narrated to us, from al-‘Ala’, from his father, from Abu Hurayra, who said: The Prophet ﷺ said: ‘It is not fitting for a person steadfast in truth to be a habitual curser.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The word الصديق can mean a very truthful or sincere person. The witness renders it ‘the true person’; ‘steadfast in truth’ preserves the emphatic quality.
لِلصِّدِّيقِ
The term may mean one who is exceptionally truthful or sincere, beyond simply a truthful person.
Should ‘the profoundly truthful person’ or ‘the sincere person’ be preferred here?