Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 216
حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ، عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم: مَنِ اسْتَعَاذَ بِاللَّهِ فَأَعِيذُوهُ، وَمَنْ سَأَلَ بِاللَّهِ فَأَعْطُوهُ، وَمَنْ أَتَى إِلَيْكُمْ مَعْرُوفًا فَكَافِئُوهُ، فَإِنْ لَمْ تَجِدُوا فَادْعُوا لَهُ، حَتَّى يَعْلَمَ أَنْ قَدْ كَافَأْتُمُوهُ.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Musaddad narrated to us. He said: Abu Awana narrated to us, from al-A‘mash, from Mujahid, from Ibn Umar, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘Give refuge to whoever seeks refuge in Allah. Give to whoever asks you by Allah. Whoever shows you a kindness, repay him. If you cannot find anything with which to repay him, then pray for him until he knows that you have repaid him.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The phrase ‘asks you by Allah’ refers to asking someone by invoking Allah’s name, not asking Allah directly.
وَمَنْ سَأَلَ بِاللَّهِ فَأَعْطُوهُ،
The English witness renders this as asking from Allah, while the Arabic wording says ‘asks by Allah.’
Should a later editor preserve the Arabic distinction with a note on the idiom?