Sahih al-Bukhari
Sahih al-Bukhari 3053
حَدَّثَنَا قَبِيصَةُ، حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ الأَحْوَلِ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ـ رضى الله عنهما ـ أَنَّهُ قَالَ يَوْمُ الْخَمِيسِ، وَمَا يَوْمُ الْخَمِيسِ ثُمَّ بَكَى حَتَّى خَضَبَ دَمْعُهُ الْحَصْبَاءَ فَقَالَ اشْتَدَّ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَجَعُهُ يَوْمَ الْخَمِيسِ فَقَالَ " ائْتُونِي بِكِتَابٍ أَكْتُبْ لَكُمْ كِتَابًا لَنْ تَضِلُّوا بَعْدَهُ أَبَدًا ". فَتَنَازَعُوا وَلاَ يَنْبَغِي عِنْدَ نَبِيٍّ تَنَازُعٌ فَقَالُوا هَجَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم. قَالَ " دَعُونِي فَالَّذِي أَنَا فِيهِ خَيْرٌ مِمَّا تَدْعُونِي إِلَيْهِ ". وَأَوْصَى عِنْدَ مَوْتِهِ بِثَلاَثٍ " أَخْرِجُوا الْمُشْرِكِينَ مِنْ جَزِيرَةِ الْعَرَبِ، وَأَجِيزُوا الْوَفْدَ بِنَحْوِ مَا كُنْتُ أُجِيزُهُمْ ". وَنَسِيتُ الثَّالِثَةَ . وَقَالَ يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ سَأَلْتُ الْمُغِيرَةَ بْنَ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ جَزِيرَةِ الْعَرَبِ. فَقَالَ مَكَّةُ وَالْمَدِينَةُ وَالْيَمَامَةُ وَالْيَمَنُ. وَقَالَ يَعْقُوبُ وَالْعَرْجُ أَوَّلُ تِهَامَةَ.
Qabisa narrated to us: Ibn ʿUyayna narrated to us, from Sulayman al-Ahwal, from Saʿid ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ʿAbbas (may Allah be pleased with them both), who said: Thursday—and what a Thursday it was! Then he wept until his tears stained the gravel. He said: The Messenger of Allah’s (ﷺ) pain became severe on Thursday, and he said, “Bring me writing materials so I may write something for you after which you will never go astray.” They disputed, though dispute is not fitting in the presence of a Prophet. They said, “The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) is speaking incoherently.” He said, “Leave me; the state I am in is better than what you are calling me to.” As death approached, he instructed three things: “Expel the polytheists from the Arabian Peninsula, and grant delegations hospitality in the way I used to grant them.” I forgot the third. Yaʿqub ibn Muhammad said: I asked al-Mughira ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman about the Arabian Peninsula. He said, “Mecca, Medina, al-Yamama, and Yemen.” Yaʿqub said: “Al-ʿArj is at the beginning of Tihama.”
Translation notes
The source says “they said, ‘The Messenger of Allah is speaking incoherently’”; the English witness softens this to “is seriously sick.” The final sentences are a separate comment by Yaʿqub ibn Muhammad and a geographical clarification attributed to al-Mughira ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman.
فَقَالُوا هَجَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم
The verb هجر can be rendered as incoherent speech; the English witness instead gives “is seriously sick,” changing the reported words.
Which English rendering best preserves the Arabic wording and tone here?