Sunan an-Nasa'i

Sunan an-Nasa'i 1360

Arabic hadith text

أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو حَفْصٍ، عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ عُمَارَةَ، عَنِ الأَسْوَدِ، قَالَ قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ لاَ يَجْعَلَنَّ أَحَدُكُمْ لِلشَّيْطَانِ مِنْ نَفْسِهِ جُزْءًا يَرَى أَنَّ حَتْمًا عَلَيْهِ أَنْ لاَ يَنْصَرِفَ إِلاَّ عَنْ يَمِينِهِ لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم أَكْثَرَ انْصِرَافِهِ عَنْ يَسَارِهِ ‏.‏

Translation

Abu Hafs, ‘Amr ibn ‘Ali, informed us; he said: Yahya narrated to us; he said: al-A‘mash narrated to us, from ‘Umarah, from al-Aswad, who said: ‘Abdullah said: “Let none of you give Satan a share of himself by thinking that he is bound to turn only to his right. I saw that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) most often turned to his left.”