Al-Adab Al-Mufrad

Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 668

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ بِشْرٍ، قَالَ‏:‏ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو قَطَنٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ يَعْنِي عَبْدَ الْعَزِيزِ، عَنْ قُدَامَةَ بْنِ مُوسَى، عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ‏:‏ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَدْعُو‏:‏ اللَّهُمَّ أَصْلِحْ لِي دِينِي الَّذِي هُوَ عِصْمَةُ أَمْرِي، وَأَصْلِحْ لِي دُنْيَايَ الَّتِي فِيهَا مَعَاشِي، وَاجْعَلِ الْمَوْتَ رَحْمَةً لِي مِنْ كُلِّ سُوءٍ، أَوْ كَمَا قَالَ‏.‏

Translation

Yahya ibn Bishr related to us: Abu Qatan related to us, from Ibn Abi Salama—that is, ‘Abd al-‘Aziz—from Qudama ibn Musa, from Abu Salih, from Abu Hurayra, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to supplicate: “O Allah, set right for me my religion, which safeguards my affairs; set right for me my worldly life, in which is my livelihood; and make death a mercy for me from every evil”—or words to that effect.

Translation notes
  • وَأَصْلِحْ لِي دُنْيَايَ الَّتِي فِيهَا مَعَاشِي

    The Arabic second asks for the worldly life to be set right and says that livelihood is within it; the English witness repeats “my deen” and says it contains livelihood.

    Should the witness's repeated “deen” be treated as a translation error?