Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 2100
حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ رَافِعٍ الْبَجَلِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا الْفَضْلُ بْنُ مُوسَى، عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ وَاقِدٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ بُرَيْدَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " مَنْ قَالَ إِنِّي بَرِيءٌ مِنَ الإِسْلاَمِ فَإِنْ كَانَ كَاذِبًا فَهُوَ كَمَا قَالَ وَإِنْ كَانَ صَادِقًا لَمْ يَعُدْ إِلَيْهِ الإِسْلاَمُ سَالِمًا " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
ʿAmr ibn Rafiʿ al-Bajali narrated to us; al-Fadl ibn Musa narrated to us, from al-Husayn ibn Waqid, from ʿAbdullah ibn Buraydah, from his father, who said: The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) said: ‘Whoever says, “I disavow Islam”: if he is lying, then he is as he has said; but if he is truthful, Islam will not return to him intact.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " مَنْ قَالَ إِنِّي بَرِيءٌ مِنَ الإِسْلاَمِ فَإِنْ كَانَ كَاذِبًا فَهُوَ كَمَا قَالَ وَإِنْ كَانَ صَادِقًا لَمْ يَعُدْ إِلَيْهِ الإِسْلاَمُ سَالِمًا " .
لم يعد إليه الإسلام سالما literally means ‘Islam does not return to him intact/safely’; it appears to warn that one who truthfully disavows Islam has left it, but this implication is not made explicit in the wording.
Does ‘Islam will not return to him intact’ preserve the source metaphor without making the theological implication more explicit?