Sahih al-Bukhari
Sahih al-Bukhari 7213
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْيَمَانِ، أَخْبَرَنَا شُعَيْبٌ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، وَقَالَ اللَّيْثُ، حَدَّثَنِي يُونُسُ، عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ، أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو إِدْرِيسَ الْخَوْلاَنِيُّ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ عُبَادَةَ بْنَ الصَّامِتِ، يَقُولُ قَالَ لَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَنَحْنُ فِي مَجْلِسٍ " تُبَايِعُونِي عَلَى أَنْ لاَ تُشْرِكُوا بِاللَّهِ شَيْئًا، وَلاَ تَسْرِقُوا، وَلاَ تَزْنُوا، وَلاَ تَقْتُلُوا أَوْلاَدَكُمْ، وَلاَ تَأْتُوا بِبُهْتَانٍ تَفْتَرُونَهُ بَيْنَ أَيْدِيكُمْ وَأَرْجُلِكُمْ وَلاَ تَعْصُوا فِي مَعْرُوفٍ، فَمَنْ وَفَى مِنْكُمْ فَأَجْرُهُ عَلَى اللَّهِ، وَمَنْ أَصَابَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ شَيْئًا فَعُوقِبَ فِي الدُّنْيَا فَهْوَ كَفَّارَةٌ لَهُ، وَمَنْ أَصَابَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ شَيْئًا فَسَتَرَهُ اللَّهُ فَأَمْرُهُ إِلَى اللَّهِ إِنْ شَاءَ عَاقَبَهُ وَإِنْ شَاءَ عَفَا عَنْهُ "، فَبَايَعْنَاهُ عَلَى ذَلِكَ.
ʿUbāda ibn al-Ṣāmit said: The Messenger of God said to us while we were gathered, “Will you pledge to me that you will not associate anything with God, steal, commit adultery, kill your children, bring a slanderous fabrication that you have devised between your hands and feet, or disobey in what is right? Whoever among you fulfills this pledge will have his reward with God. Whoever commits any of these acts and is punished for it in this world, that will be an expiation for him. Whoever commits any of them and God conceals it, his affair rests with God: if He wills, He will punish him, and if He wills, He will forgive him.” So we pledged to him on those terms.
Translation notes
The pledge forbids the listed acts and disobedience in maʿrūf, “what is right/recognized as good.” The source’s image of a fabricated slander “between your hands and feet” is retained rather than replaced by an inferred specific accusation. It distinguishes worldly punishment as expiation from sins God conceals, whose outcome is left to God.