Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 663
حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ مُوسَى، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا سَعْدُ بْنُ أَوْسٍ، عَنْ بِلاَلِ بْنِ يَحْيَى، عَنْ شُتَيْرِ بْنِ شَكَلِ بْنِ حُمَيْدٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، عَلِّمْنِي دُعَاءً أَنْتَفِعُ بِهِ، قَالَ: قُلِ: اللَّهُمَّ عَافِنِي مِنْ شَرِّ سَمْعِي، وَبَصَرِي، وَلِسَانِي، وَقَلْبِي، وَشَرِّ مَنِيِّي.
Yahya ibn Musa related to us: Waki‘ related to us: Sa‘d ibn Aws related to us, from Bilal ibn Yahya, from Shuthayr ibn Shakal ibn Humayd, from his father, who said: I said, “Messenger of Allah, teach me a supplication from which I may benefit.” He said, “Say: ‘O Allah, keep me safe from the evil of my hearing, my sight, my tongue, my heart, and my sexual desire.’”
Translation notes
عَنْ بِلاَلِ بْنِ يَحْيَى، عَنْ شُتَيْرِ بْنِ شَكَلِ بْنِ حُمَيْدٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ
The Arabic includes Bilal ibn Yahya and Shuthayr ibn Shakal ibn Humayd before his father, who is the speaker. The witness omits these narrators and attributes the speech directly to Shakal ibn Humayd.
Should the witness's shortened attribution be flagged as an omission of two narrators?
وَشَرِّ مَنِيِّي
مَنِيِّي literally refers to my semen; “desire” interprets its likely contextual force but is less literal.
Should this be rendered literally as “my semen” or interpretively as “my sexual desire”?