Sahih al-Bukhari
Sahih al-Bukhari 2925
حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْفَرْوِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا مَالِكٌ، عَنْ نَافِعٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ ـ رضى الله عنهما ـ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " تُقَاتِلُونَ الْيَهُودَ حَتَّى يَخْتَبِيَ أَحَدُهُمْ وَرَاءَ الْحَجَرِ فَيَقُولُ يَا عَبْدَ اللَّهِ هَذَا يَهُودِيٌّ وَرَائِي فَاقْتُلْهُ ".
Abdullah bin Umar reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “You will fight the Jews until one of them hides behind a stone, and it says: ‘O servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; kill him.’”
Translation notes
The Arabic has the singular “stone” and the vocative “servant of Allah”; both are retained rather than the English witness’s plural “stones” and name-like “Abdullah.”
وَرَاءَ الْحَجَرِ فَيَقُولُ يَا عَبْدَ اللَّهِ
The Arabic uses a singular stone and can be read as the vocative “servant of Allah”; the witness pluralizes “stones” and gives an explanatory gloss.
Should the translation retain the singular stone and literal vocative, as done here?