Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 130
حَدَّثَنَا الْحُمَيْدِيُّ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا سَالِمُ بْنُ أَبِي حَفْصَةَ، عَنْ مُنْذِرٍ الثَّوْرِيِّ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَنَفِيَّةِ: {هَلْ جَزَاءُ الإِحْسَانِ إِلاَّ الإِحْسَانُ}، قَالَ: هِيَ مُسَجَّلَةٌ لِلْبَرِّ وَالْفَاجِرِ.
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Al-Humaydi related to us: Sufyan related to us: Salim ibn Abi Hafsah related to us, from Mundhir al-Thawri, from Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn al-Hanafiyyah, regarding the words, ‘Is the reward for goodness anything but goodness?’ He said: ‘It is assured for the righteous and the wicked alike.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The quoted Arabic is rendered here as ‘Is the reward for goodness anything but goodness?’; the source contains the quotation without naming its source.
هِيَ مُسَجَّلَةٌ لِلْبَرِّ وَالْفَاجِرِ
The uncommon term مسجلة is rendered as ‘assured’; the statement's scope over both the righteous and the wicked is clear, but this lexical choice could be checked.
Is ‘assured’ the best concise rendering of مسجلة in this context?