Bulugh al-Maram
Bulugh al-Maram 86
Arabic hadith text
وَلِلْحَاكِمِ. عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ مَرْفُوعًا: { إِذَا جَاءَ أَحَدَكُمُ الشَّيْطَانُ, فَقَالَ: إِنَّكَ أَحْدَثْتَ, فَلْيَقُلْ: كَذَبْتَ }
Translation
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Al-Hakim also reports, from Abu Sa'id in a report traced to the Prophet: ‘If Satan comes to one of you and says, “You have invalidated your ablution,” let him say, “You have lied.”’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
إِنَّكَ أَحْدَثْتَ
The historical English witness adds ‘by releasing air’, which has no counterpart in the Arabic wording and narrows the accusation to one specific cause of ritual impurity.
Should the added parenthetical be removed or documented as an editorial gloss in the witness?