Sahih al-Bukhari
Sahih al-Bukhari 22
حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي مَالِكٌ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ يَحْيَى الْمَازِنِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ، رضى الله عنه ـ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " يَدْخُلُ أَهْلُ الْجَنَّةِ الْجَنَّةَ، وَأَهْلُ النَّارِ النَّارَ، ثُمَّ يَقُولُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى أَخْرِجُوا مَنْ كَانَ فِي قَلْبِهِ مِثْقَالُ حَبَّةٍ مِنْ خَرْدَلٍ مِنْ إِيمَانٍ. فَيُخْرَجُونَ مِنْهَا قَدِ اسْوَدُّوا فَيُلْقَوْنَ فِي نَهَرِ الْحَيَا ـ أَوِ الْحَيَاةِ، شَكَّ مَالِكٌ ـ فَيَنْبُتُونَ كَمَا تَنْبُتُ الْحِبَّةُ فِي جَانِبِ السَّيْلِ، أَلَمْ تَرَ أَنَّهَا تَخْرُجُ صَفْرَاءَ مُلْتَوِيَةً " . قَالَ وُهَيْبٌ حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرٌو " الْحَيَاةِ ". وَقَالَ " خَرْدَلٍ مِنْ خَيْرٍ ".
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Ismail narrated to us. He said: Malik narrated to me, from Amr ibn Yahya al-Mazini, from his father, from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him), from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: ‘The people of Paradise will enter Paradise, and the people of the Fire will enter the Fire. Then Allah Most High will say: “Bring out whoever has in his heart faith weighing as much as a mustard seed.” They will be brought out of it, already blackened, and cast into the River of al-Haya—or al-Hayat; Malik was unsure. They will grow as a seed grows at the edge of a flood channel. Do you not see how it emerges yellow and twisted?’ Wuhayb said: Amr narrated to us, using ‘al-Hayat.’ He also said: ‘a mustard seed's weight of good.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic preserves Malik's uncertainty between al-Haya and al-Hayat, then records Wuhayb's wording as al-Hayat and a variant of ‘faith’ as ‘good.’ The English witness omits these final transmission variants.
شَكَّ مَالِكٌ
Malik reports uncertainty between the forms al-Haya and al-Hayat; a later transmission note favors al-Hayat, while another changes ‘faith’ to ‘good.’
Should the river name be rendered with a gloss for both transmitted forms, or retained as transliteration with the variants shown?