Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Book 14, Hadith 261
حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَاصِمٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ عُفَيْرٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي ابْنُ وَهْبٍ، عَنْ حَيْوَةَ بْنِ شُرَيْحٍ، عَنْ دَرَّاجٍ، عَنْ عِيسَى بْنِ هِلاَلٍ الصَّدَفِيِّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ: إِنَّ رُوحَ الْمُؤْمِنَيْنِ لَيَلْتَقِيَانِ فِي مَسِيرَةِ يَوْمٍ، وَمَا رَأَى أَحَدُهُمَا صَاحِبَهُ.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Ahmad ibn ‘Asim narrated to us, saying: Sa‘id ibn ‘Ufair narrated to us, saying: Ibn Wahb narrated to me, from Haywa ibn Shurayh, from Darrāj, from ‘Isa ibn Hilal al-Sadafi, from ‘Abd Allah ibn ‘Amr ibn al-‘As, from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, who said: ‘The souls of two believers surely meet within the course of a day, though neither of them has seen the other.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
إِنَّ رُوحَ الْمُؤْمِنَيْنِ لَيَلْتَقِيَانِ فِي مَسِيرَةِ يَوْمٍ، وَمَا رَأَى أَحَدُهُمَا صَاحِبَهُ.
The English witness recasts the phrase as ‘should meet in the course of a day even if they do not actually see each other’; the Arabic states that they meet within a day’s journey and neither has seen the other.
Confirm the temporal relation and whether ‘within the course of a day’ or ‘over a day’s journey’ best expresses مسيرة يوم.