Al-Adab Al-Mufrad

Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 54

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ، قَالَ‏:‏ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ، عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ، عَنْ أَبِي الْعَنْبَسِ قَالَ‏:‏ دَخَلْتُ عَلَى عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو فِي الْوَهْطِ يَعْنِي أَرْضًا لَهُ بِالطَّائِفِ، فَقَالَ‏:‏ عَطَفَ لَنَا النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم إِصْبَعَهُ فَقَالَ‏:‏ الرَّحِمُ شُجْنَةٌ مِنَ الرَّحْمَنِ، مَنْ يَصِلْهَا يَصِلْهُ، وَمَنْ يَقْطَعْهَا يَقْطَعْهُ، لَهَا لِسَانٌ طَلْقٌ ذَلْقٌ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ‏.‏

Translation

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Musa ibn Isma‘il narrated to us, saying: Abu ‘Awanah narrated to us, from ‘Uthman ibn al-Mughirah, from Abu al-‘Anbas, who said: I visited ‘Abd Allah ibn ‘Amr at al-Waht—that is, land of his in al-Ta’if. He said: The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, bent his finger toward us and said, “Kinship is a branch from al-Rahman. Whoever maintains it, He maintains connection with him; and whoever severs it, He severs him. It will have a fluent, eloquent tongue on the Day of Resurrection.”

Notes and open questions — unreviewed
  • الرَّحِمُ شُجْنَةٌ مِنَ الرَّحْمَنِ

    شُجْنَةٌ is an image of a branch or intertwined offshoot, while the witness renders it as a relation/derivation.

    Should the image be retained as ‘branch’ or rendered more explicitly as an offshoot/connection?