Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 421
حَدَّثَنَا شِهَابُ بْنُ عَبَّادٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍ الرُّؤَاسِيُّ، عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ، عَنْ قَيْسٍ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ: إِذَا قَالَ الرَّجُلُ لِصَاحِبِهِ: أَنْتَ عَدُوِّي، فَقَدْ خَرَجَ أَحَدُهُمَا مِنَ الإِسْلاَمِ، أَوْ بَرِئ مِنْ صَاحِبِهِ.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Shihab ibn ‘Abbad narrated to us: Ibrahim ibn Humayd al-Ru’asi narrated to us, from Isma‘il, from Qays, who said that ‘Abd Allah said: When a man says to his companion, ‘You are my enemy,’ one of them has departed from Islam—or has disavowed his companion.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The final phrase أو برئ من صاحبه is rendered closely as ‘or has disavowed his companion’; its exact force is uncertain.
أَوْ بَرِئ مِنْ صَاحِبِهِ.
The phrase literally says ‘or he is free of/disavows his companion’; the English witness adds ‘of what his companion said,’ which is not in the Arabic.
Should this be rendered as disavowing one’s companion, or does the phrase carry another sense in context?