Bulugh al-Maram
Bulugh al-Maram 92
زَادَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ, عَنْ مُعَاذٍ: { وَالْمَوَارِدَ } 1 .1 - ضعيف. أي بلفظ: "والموارد" وباقيه صحيح. رواه أبو داود (26) ولفظه: "اتقوا الملاعن الثلاث: البراز في الموارد، وقارعة الطريق، والظل".
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abu Dawud added, from Mu'adh, the wording ‘and the watering places.’ 1 — Weak, that is, in the wording ‘and the watering places’; the rest is sound. Abu Dawud (26) reported it with the wording: ‘Beware of the three curse-inviting places: defecating at watering places, in the middle of the road, and in the shade.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
1 - ضعيف. أي بلفظ: "والموارد" وباقيه صحيح. رواه أبو داود (26) ولفظه: "اتقوا الملاعن الثلاث: البراز في الموارد، وقارعة الطريق، والظل".
The historical English witness gives a compressed rendering of the base report but omits this Arabic annotation's weak grading, the distinction that only the added wording is weak while the rest is sound, the named added wording, and the full Abu Dawud wording.
Should the English witness be marked as substantially shorter than this Arabic block?
اتقوا الملاعن الثلاث
The expression literally invokes three ‘curse-inviting’ items or places, which the following enumeration identifies; English rendering can keep the figurative wording or state the locations directly.
Should ‘the three places that bring curses’ be preferred to ‘the three curse-inviting places’?