Mishkat al-Masabih
Mishkat al-Masabih 1516
عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: «الرِّيحُ مِنْ روح الله تَأْتِي بِالرَّحْمَةِ وَبِالْعَذَابِ فَلَا تَسُبُّوهَا وَسَلُوا اللَّهَ مِنْ خَيْرِهَا وَعُوذُوا بِهِ مِنْ شَرِّهَا» . رَوَاهُ الشَّافِعِي وَأَبُو دَاوُدَ وَابْنُ مَاجَهْ وَالْبَيْهَقِيُّ فِي الدَّعَوَاتِ الْكَبِيرِ
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abu Hurayra said: I heard the Messenger of God say: The wind is from the rawh of God; it brings mercy and punishment. Do not revile it. Ask God for its good and seek refuge in Him from its evil.
Al-Shafii, Abu Dawud, Ibn Majah, and al-Bayhaqi transmitted it in al-Daawat al-Kabir.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The source uses روح الله (rawh Allah), retained in transliteration because its precise sense here is not settled by the Arabic wording alone.
الرِّيحُ مِنْ روح الله
The Arabic expression may refer to relief, breath, or another sense of rawh. The English witness interprets it as mercy from God, but does not establish that reading.
Which sense of روح الله is intended in this report, and how should it be rendered in English?