Sahih al-Bukhari

Sahih al-Bukhari 2039

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي أَخِي، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي عَتِيقٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ ـ رضى الله عنهما ـ أَنَّ صَفِيَّةَ، أَخْبَرَتْهُ‏.‏ حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، قَالَ سَمِعْتُ الزُّهْرِيَّ، يُخْبِرُ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ، أَنَّ صَفِيَّةَ ـ رضى الله عنها ـ أَتَتِ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَهْوَ مُعْتَكِفٌ، فَلَمَّا رَجَعَتْ مَشَى مَعَهَا، فَأَبْصَرَهُ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الأَنْصَارِ، فَلَمَّا أَبْصَرَهُ دَعَاهُ فَقَالَ ‏"‏ تَعَالَ هِيَ صَفِيَّةُ ـ وَرُبَّمَا قَالَ سُفْيَانُ هَذِهِ صَفِيَّةُ ـ فَإِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ يَجْرِي مِنَ ابْنِ آدَمَ مَجْرَى الدَّمِ ‏"‏‏.‏ قُلْتُ لِسُفْيَانَ أَتَتْهُ لَيْلاً قَالَ وَهَلْ هُوَ إِلاَّ لَيْلٌ

Translation

Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd Allāh related to us, saying: My brother informed me, from Sulaymān, from Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAtīq, from Ibn Shihāb, from ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn (may Allah be pleased with them both), that Ṣafiyyah informed him. ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh related to us: Sufyān related to us, saying: I heard al-Zuhrī relate from ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn that Ṣafiyyah (may Allah be pleased with her) came to the Prophet (Allah bless him and grant him peace) while he was observing iʿtikāf. When she returned, he walked with her. A man from the Anṣār saw him; when he noticed the man, he called to him and said: ‘Come here; she is Ṣafiyyah’—though Sufyān may have said, ‘This is Ṣafiyyah’—‘for Satan flows through a human being as blood flows through him.’ I asked Sufyān: ‘Did she come to him at night?’ He said: ‘And what time could it have been other than night?’