Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 55
حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي سُلَيْمَانُ، عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ أَبِي مُزَرِّدٍ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ رُومَانَ، عَنْ عُرْوَةَ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ: الرَّحِمُ شُجْنَةٌ مِنَ اللهِ، مَنْ وَصَلَهَا وَصَلَهُ اللَّهُ، وَمَنْ قَطَعَهَا قَطَعَهُ اللَّهُ.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Isma‘il narrated to us, saying: Sulayman narrated to me, from Mu‘awiyah ibn Abi Muzarrid, from Yazid ibn Ruman, from ‘Urwah ibn al-Zubayr, from ‘A’ishah, may Allah be pleased with her, that the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Kinship is a branch from Allah. Whoever maintains it, Allah maintains connection with him; and whoever severs it, Allah severs him.”
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic uses the image of kinship as a branch (شُجْنَةٌ); the following clauses repeat that branch image through maintaining or severing it.