Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 886
حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ صَالِحٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي مُوسَى بْنُ عَلِيٍّ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ قَالَ: عَجِبْتُ مِنَ الرَّجُلِ يَفِرُّ مِنَ الْقَدَرِ وَهُوَ مُوَاقِعُهُ، وَيَرَى الْقَذَاةَ فِي عَيْنِ أَخِيهِ وَيَدَعُ الْجِذْعَ فِي عَيْنِهِ، وَيُخْرِجُ الضَّغْنَ مِنْ نَفْسِ أَخِيهِ وَيَدَعُ الضَّغْنَ فِي نَفْسِهِ، وَمَا وَضَعْتُ سِرِّي عِنْدَ أَحَدٍ فَلُمْتُهُ عَلَى إِفْشَائِهِ، وَكَيْفَ أَلُومُهُ وَقَدْ ضِقْتُ بِهِ ذَرْعًا؟.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
‘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?