Mishkat al-Masabih
Mishkat al-Masabih 1586
وَعَن شَقِيق قَالَ: مرض عبد الله بن مَسْعُود فَعُدْنَاهُ فَجَعَلَ يَبْكِي فَعُوتِبَ فَقَالَ: إِنِّي لَا أَبْكِي لِأَجْلِ الْمَرَضِ لِأَنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: «الْمَرَضُ كَفَّارَةٌ» وَإِنَّمَا أبْكِي أَنه أَصَابَنِي عَلَى حَالِ فَتْرَةٍ وَلَمْ يُصِبْنِي فِي حَال اجْتِهَاد لِأَنَّهُ يكْتب للْعَبد من الْجَرّ إِذَا مَرِضَ مَا كَانَ يُكْتَبُ لَهُ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَمْرَضَ فَمَنَعَهُ مِنْهُ الْمَرَضُ. رَوَاهُ رَزِينٌ
Shaqiq said: Abd Allah ibn Masud became ill, and we visited him. He began to weep and was reproached. He said: I am not weeping because of the illness, for I heard the Messenger of God say: Illness is an expiation. I weep because it came upon me during a period of slackness, not during a period of exertion. For when a servant becomes ill, the reward that had been recorded for him before he became ill is recorded for him, and the illness prevents him from performing those deeds.
Razin transmitted it.
Translation notes
The supplied Arabic reads الجر where the English witness reads reward; the translation interprets this as a likely omission or transcription error and records the discrepancy.
الْجَرّ
The Arabic text appears to read الجر, while the English witness has reward. The context suggests الأجر but the source form is preserved as a diagnostic discrepancy.
Can the Arabic word be checked against a reliable edition to confirm whether this is a transcription error for الأجر?