Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 322
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ هَمَّامٍ: كُنَّا مَعَ حُذَيْفَةَ، فَقِيلَ لَهُ: إِنَّ رَجُلا يَرْفَعُ الْحَدِيثَ إِلَى عُثْمَانَ، فَقَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ: سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَقُولُ: لا يَدْخُلُ الْجَنَّةَ قَتَّاتٌ.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Muhammad narrated to us: Abu Nu‘aym narrated to us: Sufyan narrated to us, from Mansur, from Ibrahim, from Hammam, who said: We were with Hudhayfa when someone said to him, ‘A man attributes a report to ‘Uthman.’ Hudhayfa said, ‘I heard the Prophet ﷺ say: “A tale-bearer will not enter the Garden.”’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The term قتّات means a person who carries tales or relays gossip; ‘mischief-maker’ in the witness is less specific. The phrase يرفع الحديث إلى عثمان is rendered ‘attributes a report to ‘Uthman.’
قَتَّاتٌ
The Arabic term specifically denotes tale-bearing or maliciously carrying reports, not mischief in general.
Should ‘tale-bearer’ be preferred to the witness’s broader ‘mischief-maker’?