Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 126
حَدَّثَنَا مَخْلَدُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو زُهَيْرٍ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَغْرَاءَ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْفَضْلُ يَعْنِي ابْنَ مُبَشِّرٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ جَابِرًا يَقُولُ: جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَسْتَعْدِيهِ عَلَى جَارِهِ، فَبَيْنَا هُوَ قَاعِدٌ بَيْنَ الرُّكْنِ وَالْمَقَامِ إِذْ أَقْبَلَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَرَآهُ الرَّجُلُ وَهُوَ مُقَاوِمٌ رَجُلاً عَلَيْهِ ثِيَابٌ بَيَاضٌ عِنْدَ الْمَقَامِ حَيْثُ يُصَلُّونَ عَلَى الْجَنَائِزِ، فَأَقْبَلَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَقَالَ: بِأَبِي أَنْتَ وَأُمِّي يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، مَنِ الرَّجُلُ الَّذِي رَأَيْتُ مَعَكَ مُقَاوِمَكَ عَلَيْهِ ثِيَابٌ بِيضٌ؟ قَالَ: أَقَدْ رَأَيْتَهُ؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ، قَالَ: رَأَيْتَ خَيْرًا كَثِيرًا، ذَاكَ جِبْرِيلُ صلى الله عليه وسلم رَسُولُ رَبِّي، مَا زَالَ يُوصِينِي بِالْجَارِ حَتَّى ظَنَنْتُ أَنَّهُ جَاعِلٌ لَهُ مِيرَاثًا.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Mukhallad ibn Malik narrated to us: Abu Zuhayr ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Maghraʾ narrated to us: al-Fadl (meaning Ibn Mubashshir) narrated to us, saying: I heard Jabir say: A man came to the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, seeking his help against his neighbor. While he was sitting between al-Rukn and al-Maqam, the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, approached. The man saw him standing face-to-face with a man dressed in white near al-Maqam, where funeral prayers are offered.
The man approached the Prophet and said, ‘May my father and mother be your ransom, Messenger of Allah! Who is the man I saw standing opposite you, dressed in white?’ He asked, ‘Did you see him?’ The man said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘You have seen much good. That was Jibril, peace be upon him, the Messenger of my Lord. He kept advising me about the neighbor until I thought he would assign him a share of inheritance.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The existing English witness says that the Prophet and the man went together to the Maqam; the Arabic instead says the man saw the Prophet facing a man in white near the Maqam. The translation follows the Arabic wording.
The subject of the pronoun in ‘while he was sitting’ is not explicit in the Arabic; the English preserves the sequence without adding a new participant.
‘Assign him a share of inheritance’ renders the idiom literally: the narrator says he thought Jibril would make the neighbor an heir.