Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 345
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ، أَخْبَرَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي سِنَانٍ الشَّامِيِّ، عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ أَبِي سَوْدَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ: إِذَا عَادَ الرَّجُلُ أَخَاهُ أَوْ زَارَهُ، قَالَ اللَّهُ لَهُ: طِبْتَ وَطَابَ مَمْشَاكَ، وَتَبَوَّأْتَ مَنْزِلاً فِي الْجَنَّةِ.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abu Hurayra reported that the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) said: When a man visits his brother or goes to see him, Allah says to him, ‘You have done well, your steps have been blessed, and you have secured a home in Paradise.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic distinguishes visiting a sick brother (عَادَ) from visiting him more generally (زَارَهُ), and speaks of his brother in the singular. The witness’s ‘your evening will be good’ does not match طاب ممشاك, ‘your path/steps have been good.’
إِذَا عَادَ الرَّجُلُ أَخَاهُ أَوْ زَارَهُ، قَالَ اللَّهُ لَهُ: طِبْتَ وَطَابَ مَمْشَاكَ، وَتَبَوَّأْتَ مَنْزِلاً فِي الْجَنَّةِ.
The Arabic reads ‘your path/steps have been good’; the witness says ‘your evening will be good.’
Should this phrase follow the Arabic wording about the visitor’s path or the English witness’s wording about evening?