Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Book 14, Hadith 277
حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، وَسُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ الْمُغِيرَةِ، عَنْ ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ: خَدَمْتُ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم عَشْرَ سِنِينَ، فَمَا قَالَ لِي: أُفٍّ، قَطُّ، وَمَا قَالَ لِي لِشَيْءٍ لَمْ أَفْعَلْهُ: أَلاَ كُنْتَ فَعَلْتَهُ؟ وَلاَ لِشَيْءٍ فَعَلْتُهُ: لِمَ فَعَلْتَهُ؟.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Sulayman ibn Harb narrated to us: Hammad ibn Zayd and Sulayman ibn al-Mughira narrated to us, from Thabit, from Anas, who said: ‘I served the Prophet ﷺ for ten years. He never once said “uff” to me. If I failed to do something, he never said to me, “Why didn’t you do it?” And if I had done something, he never said, “Why did you do it?”’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic preserves the interjection ‘uff’ and contrasts an omitted task with a completed one.