Mishkat al-Masabih
Mishkat al-Masabih 3386
عَن الغريف بن عَيَّاش الديلمي قَالَ: أَتَيْنَا وَاثِلَة بن الْأَسْقَع فَقُلْنَا: حَدِّثْنَا حَدِيثًا لَيْسَ فِيهِ زِيَادَةٌ وَلَا نُقْصَانٌ فَغَضِبَ وَقَالَ: إِنَّ أَحَدَكُمْ لَيَقْرَأُ وَمُصْحَفُهُ مُعَلَّقٌ فِي بَيْتِهِ فَيَزِيدُ وَيَنْقُصُ فَقُلْنَا: إِنَّمَا أَرَدْنَا حَدِيثًا سَمِعْتَهُ مِنَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسلم فَقَالَ: أَتَيْنَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي صَاحِبٍ لَنَا أَوْجَبَ يَعْنِي النَّارَ بِالْقَتْلِ فَقَالَ: «أعتقوا عَنهُ بِعِتْق الله بِكُل عُضْو مِنْهُ عُضْو أَمنه من النَّار» . رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُد وَالنَّسَائِيّ
Al-Ghurayf ibn Ayyash al-Daylami reported: We came to Wathilah ibn al-Asqa and said, ‘Tell us a report without addition or omission.’ He became angry and said, ‘One of you recites while his copy of the Qur’an hangs in his house, yet he adds and omits.’ We said, ‘We only meant a report you heard from the Prophet.’ He said: We came to the Messenger of God regarding a companion of ours who had incurred the Fire by killing. He said, ‘Free a slave on his behalf; for every limb of the slave, God will free a corresponding limb from the Fire.’ Abu Dawud and al-Nasa'i transmitted it.
Translation notes
The English witness adds editorial footnotes about the narrator name and the possible circumstances of the killing; neither note is present in the Arabic text.