Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 27
حَدَّثَنَا الْعَبَّاسُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَظِيمِ الْعَنْبَرِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ، أَنْبَأَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنِ ابْنِ طَاوُسٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، قَالَ سَمِعْتُ ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ، يَقُولُ إِنَّمَا كُنَّا نَحْفَظُ الْحَدِيثَ وَالْحَدِيثُ يُحْفَظُ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ فَأَمَّا إِذَا رَكِبْتُمُ الصَّعْبَ وَالذَّلُولَ فَهَيْهَاتَ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Azim al-Anbari narrated to us: Abd al-Razzaq narrated to us: Mamar informed us, from Ibn Tawus, from his father, who said: I heard Ibn Abbas say: We used to memorize reports, and reports were memorized from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). But if you ride the difficult and the easy, then how far off that is!
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic uses the expression riding the difficult and the easy and ends with hayhat, an exclamation of remoteness or improbability. The English witness adds an interpretation about extremes, negligence, and trustworthiness that is not stated in the Arabic; the translation preserves the source image without adopting that gloss.