Sahih Muslim
Sahih Muslim 176a
Arabic hadith text
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا حَفْصٌ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ، عَنْ عَطَاءٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، قَالَ رَآهُ بِقَلْبِهِ .
Translation
Ibn ‘Abbas said: He saw Him with his heart.
Translation notes
The Arabic pronoun has no explicit referent in this concise statement.
قَالَ رَآهُ بِقَلْبِهِ .
The referent of the pronoun is not specified in this concise Arabic statement; the English witness supplies Allah, but the source text itself does not.
Should a later editor retain the unspecified pronoun or identify its referent from context?