Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 1019
حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ الْمُنْذِرِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي مَعْنُ بْنُ عِيسَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو رُزَيْقٍ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ عَلِيَّ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللهِ يَكْرَهُ الأَسْبِرَنْجَ وَيَقُولُ: لاَ تُسَلِّمُوا عَلَى مَنْ لَعِبَ بِهَا، وَهِيَ مِنَ الْمَيْسِرِ.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abu Ruzaq reported that he heard Ali ibn Abdullah disapprove of al-asbaranj and say: “Do not offer the greeting of peace to someone who plays it; it is a form of gambling.”
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The game name الْأَسْبِرَنْجَ is obscure; the translation retains its transliteration rather than identifying it definitively as chess.
الأَسْبِرَنْجَ
The Arabic game name is al-asbaranj; its identification as chess is uncertain.
Can this game be identified with confidence, or should its name remain transliterated?