Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 113
حَدَّثَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ أَبِي عِمْرَانَ الْجَوْنِيِّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ قَالَ: أَوْصَانِي خَلِيلِي صلى الله عليه وسلم بِثَلاَثٍ: أَسْمَعُ وَأُطِيعُ وَلَوْ لِعَبْدٍ مُجَدَّعِ الأَطْرَافِ، وَإِذَا صَنَعْتَ مَرَقَةً فَأَكْثِرْ مَاءَهَا، ثُمَّ انْظُرْ أَهْلَ بَيْتٍ مِنْ جِيرَانِكَ، فَأَصِبْهُمْ مِنْهُ بِمَعْرُوفٍ، وَصَلِّ الصَّلاَةَ لِوَقْتِهَا، فَإِنْ وَجَدْتَ الإِمَامَ قَدْ صَلَّى، فَقَدْ أَحْرَزْتَ صَلاَتَكَ، وَإِلاَّ فَهِيَ نَافِلَةٌ.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Bishr ibn Muhammad related to us: 'Abdullah informed us: Shu'bah informed us, from Abu 'Imran al-Jawni, from 'Abdullah ibn al-Samit, from Abu Dharr, who said: ‘My close friend, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, enjoined three things upon me: Listen and obey, even if [the one you are to obey is] a slave with mutilated limbs; when you make broth, add plenty of water, then look for a household among your neighbours and give them a fair share of it; and pray each prayer at its proper time. If you find that the imam has already prayed, you will have secured your prayer; otherwise, it will be a supererogatory prayer.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic leaves the person who is to be obeyed implicit in the first injunction; the bracketed words make that ellipsis readable without adding them to the translated source.
أَسْمَعُ وَأُطِيعُ وَلَوْ لِعَبْدٍ مُجَدَّعِ الأَطْرَافِ
The person to whom obedience is directed is not named in this clause; the translation supplies an elliptical referent in brackets.
Should the target translation retain this ellipsis more literally, or render the implied authority explicitly?