Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Words
كتاب الْكَلامِ
Chapter 387
بَابُ كَثْرَةِ الْكَلامِ
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‘Abdullah ibn Muhammad related to us, saying: Abu ‘Amir al-‘Aqadi related to us, saying: Zuhayr related to us, from Zayd ibn Aslam, who said: I heard Ibn ‘Umar say: Two orators came from the East during the time of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. They stood and spoke, then sat down. Thabit ibn Qays, the Messenger of Allah’s orator, stood and spoke. The people were amazed by the two men’s speech. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, stood to address them and said: “People, speak plainly; affected and ornate speech is from Satan.” Then the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Some eloquence is magic.”
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The expression تَشْقِيقُ الْكَلاَمِ refers to affected, elaborate speech.
فَعَجِبَ النَّاسُ مِنْ كَلاَمِهِمَا
The Arabic says people were amazed by the two orators’ speech, not simply that they liked one speaker’s words.
Should the English witness be corrected to retain the plural attribution and sense?
فَإِنَّمَا تَشْقِيقُ الْكَلاَمِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ
The Arabic warns that affected, elaborate speech is from Satan; the witness’s wording is ungrammatical and appears to invert or obscure the meaning.
Should the witness phrase be replaced with a clear rendering of the Arabic?
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Sa‘id ibn Abi Maryam related to us, saying: Muhammad ibn Ja‘far related to us, saying: Humayd informed me that he heard Anas say: A man delivered a sermon in ‘Umar’s presence and spoke at length. ‘Umar said: “Excessive talk in sermons is among Satan’s bombastic utterances.”
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic uses the expressive term شَقَاشِق, suggesting bombastic or florid outpourings of speech.
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Ahmad ibn Ishaq related to us, saying: Yahya ibn Hammad related to us, saying: Abu ‘Awana related to us, from ‘Asim ibn Kulayb, who said: Suhayl ibn Dhira‘ related to me, saying: I heard Abu Yazid—or Ma‘n ibn Yazid—say that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Gather in your mosques, and whenever a group gathers, let them inform me.” He came to us first and sat down. One of our speakers spoke, then said: “Praise belongs to Allah, beyond whom praise has no goal and from whom there is no escape.” He became angry and stood up, and we blamed one another among ourselves. We said: “He came to us first, then went to another mosque and sat there.” We went to him and spoke with him, and he came back with us and sat in his place or near it. Then he said: “Praise belongs to Allah, who places whatever He wills before it and whatever He wills behind it. Some eloquence is magic.” Then he instructed and taught us.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The two formulations of praise in this report are unusual; the first speaker’s wording appears to be corrected by the Prophet’s later wording.
إِنَّ الْحَمْدَ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي لَيْسَ لِلْحَمْدِ دُونَهُ مَقْصَدٌ، وَلاَ وَرَاءَهُ مَنْفَذٌ
The phrase is difficult, but the Arabic says praise has no destination apart from Allah and no way beyond Him; the witness’s ‘escape’ appears to misread the second clause.
Should the Arabic phrasing be rechecked before finalizing the English?
Chapter 388
بَابُ التَّمَنِّي
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Khalid ibn Makhlad related to us, saying: Sulayman ibn Bilal related to us, saying: Yahya ibn Sa‘id related to us, saying: I heard ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Amir ibn Rabi‘a say that ‘A’isha said: The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was unable to sleep one night and said: “If only a righteous man among my Companions would come and guard me tonight!” Then we heard the sound of weapons. He said: “Who is that?” He replied: “It is Sa‘d, Messenger of Allah. I have come to guard you.” The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, slept until we heard him snoring.
Chapter 389
بَابُ يُقَالُ لِلرَّجُلِ وَالشَّيْءِ وَالْفَرَسِ: هُوَ بَحْرٌ
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Adam related to us, saying: Shu‘ba related to us, from Qatada, who said: I heard Anas ibn Malik say: There was an alarm in Madina, so the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, borrowed a horse belonging to Abu Talha called al-Mandub and rode it. When he returned, he said: “We saw nothing, though we found it to be a sea.”
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
“A sea” is a metaphor for the horse’s speed or strength.
Chapter 390
بَابُ الضَّرْبِ عَلَى اللَّحْنِ
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Abu Nu‘aym related to us, saying: Sufyan related to us, from ‘Ubaydullah, from Nafi‘, who said: Ibn ‘Umar used to strike his son for grammatical errors.
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Musa related to us, saying: Hammad ibn Salama related to us, from Kathir Abu Muhammad, from ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn ‘Ajlan, who said: ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him, passed by two men who were shooting. One of them said to the other: “Did you hit it?”—using the letter sin instead of sad. ‘Umar said: “Bad grammar is worse than a bad shot.”
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The reported mistake is pronouncing sin where sad is required in أصبتَ (asabta, “you hit”).
Chapter 391
بَابُ الرَّجُلِ يَقُولُ: لَيْسَ بِشَيْءٍ، وَهُوَ يُرِيدُ أَنَّهُ لَيْسَ بِحَقٍّ
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Ahmad ibn Salih related to us, saying: ‘Anbasa ibn Khalid related to us, saying: Yunus related to us, from Ibn Shihab, who said: Yahya ibn ‘Urwa ibn al-Zubayr informed me that he heard ‘Urwa ibn al-Zubayr say: ‘A’isha, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: People asked the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, about soothsayers. He said to them: “They are nothing.” They said: “Messenger of Allah, they sometimes tell of something that comes true.” The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “That is a word of truth that Satan snatches and clucks into the ear of his close companion, like a hen’s clucking; then they mix into it more than a hundred lies.”
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
بِأَكْثَرَ مِنْ مِئَةِ كِذْبَةٍ
The Arabic says more than one hundred lies, while the English witness says one hundred.
Should the witness retain the explicit ‘more than’?
Chapter 392
بَابُ الْمَعَارِيضِ
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Adam related to us, saying: Shu‘ba related to us, from Thabit al-Bunani, from Anas ibn Malik, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was on one of his journeys when the camel driver began chanting. The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Gently, Anjasha! Woe to you—take care with the glass vessels!”
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The English witness adds the gloss that “the glass vessels” means the women; that explanation is not stated in this Arabic text.
وَيْحَكَ بِالْقَوَارِيرِ
The parenthetical identification of the vessels with women is an explanatory gloss in the witness, not explicit in the Arabic wording.
Should the explanatory gloss be separated from the translated narration?
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Al-Hasan ibn ‘Umar related to us, saying: Mu‘tamir related to us. My father said: Ibn ‘Umar related to us, from ‘Umar—as I think; my father was uncertain—that he said: “It is enough for a man to be considered a liar that he narrates everything he hears.”
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
حَسْبُ امْرِئٍ مِنَ الْكَذِبِ أَنْ يُحَدِّثَ بِكُلِّ مَا سَمِعَ
The English witness adds a separate sentence about indirect allusion that does not occur in the supplied Arabic text.
Should the added sentence be removed or traced to another source?
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Adam related to us, saying: Shu‘ba related to us, from Qatada, from Mutarrif ibn ‘Abdullah ibn al-Shikhkhir, who said: I accompanied ‘Imran ibn Husayn to Basra. Not a day passed without his reciting poetry to us. He said: “In indirect expressions there is ample room to avoid lying.”
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
مُطَرِّفِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الشِّخِّيرِ
The Arabic names him Mutarrif ibn ‘Abdullah ibn al-Shikhkhir; the witness substitutes ‘Imran for his father.
Should the narrator’s name be corrected in the English witness?
Chapter 393
بَابُ إِفْشَاءِ السِّرِّ
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‘Abdullah ibn Salih related to us, saying: Musa ibn ‘Ali related to me, from his father, from ‘Amr ibn al-‘As, who said: I am amazed by a man who flees from destiny while inevitably encountering it; who sees the speck in his brother’s eye but leaves the log in his own; and who draws resentment out of his brother’s heart while leaving resentment in his own. Whenever I have entrusted someone with my secret, I have never blamed him for disclosing it. How could I blame him, when I had become burdened by it?
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The idiom ضِقْتُ بِهِ ذَرْعًا means that the speaker felt unable to bear or contain it.
وَكَيْفَ أَلُومُهُ وَقَدْ ضِقْتُ بِهِ ذَرْعًا
The idiom means the speaker himself had become unable to bear or contain the secret, not that he assigned the other person an impossible task.
Should the English witness’s final clause be corrected to preserve the idiom’s subject and sense?
Chapter 394
بَابُ السُّخْرِيَةِ
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Isma‘il related to us, saying: My brother related to me, from Sulayman ibn Bilal, from ‘Alqama ibn Abi ‘Alqama, from his mother, from ‘A’isha, may Allah be pleased with her, who said: A man afflicted with a condition passed by some women. They laughed at him mockingly, and some of them were afflicted in turn.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
فَأُصِيبَ بَعْضُهُنَّ
The Arabic says that some of them were afflicted; the witness specifies one.
Should the plural sense be retained?