Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 422
حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا لَيْثٌ، عَنْ طَاوُسٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، أَظُنُّهُ رَفَعَهُ، شَكَّ لَيْثٌ، قَالَ: فِي ابْنِ آدَمَ سِتُّونَ وَثَلاَثُمِئَةِ سُلاَمَى، أَوْ عَظْمٍ، أَوْ مَفْصِلٍ، عَلَى كُلِّ وَاحِدٍ فِي كُلِّ يَوْمٍ صَدَقَةٌ، كُلُّ كَلِمَةٍ طَيْبَةٍ صَدَقَةٌ، وَعَوْنُ الرَّجُلِ أَخَاهُ صَدَقَةٌ، وَالشَّرْبَةُ مِنَ الْمَاءِ يَسْقِيهَا صَدَقَةٌ، وَإِمَاطَةُ الأَذَى عَنِ الطَّرِيقِ صَدَقَةٌ.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Musaddad narrated to us: ‘Abd al-Wahid narrated to us: Layth narrated to us from Tawus, from Ibn ‘Abbas—‘I think he traced it back to the Prophet; Layth was uncertain’—who said: In the son of Adam there are three hundred and sixty joints—or bones, or articulations. Each one is owed a charity every day. Every good word is charity; a man’s helping his brother is charity; giving someone a drink of water is charity; and removing something harmful from the road is charity.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The source itself marks uncertainty about whether Ibn ‘Abbas traced the statement back to the Prophet, and gives three variants for the anatomical term: joints, bones, or articulations.
أَظُنُّهُ رَفَعَهُ،
The narrator says ‘I think he traced it back’ and then explicitly says Layth was uncertain.
Should this uncertainty about prophetic attribution be retained exactly as rendered?