Sunan an-Nasa'i
Sunan an-Nasa'i 1010
أَخْبَرَنَا نُوحُ بْنُ حَبِيبٍ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْقَطَّانُ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا قُدَامَةُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، قَالَ حَدَّثَتْنِي جَسْرَةُ بِنْتُ دَجَاجَةَ، قَالَتْ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا ذَرٍّ، يَقُولُ قَامَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم حَتَّى أَصْبَحَ بِآيَةٍ وَالآيَةُ { إِنْ تُعَذِّبْهُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ عِبَادُكَ وَإِنْ تَغْفِرْ لَهُمْ فَإِنَّكَ أَنْتَ الْعَزِيزُ الْحَكِيمُ } .
Nuh ibn Habib informed us: Yahya ibn Saʿid al-Qattan narrated to us: Qudamah ibn ʿAbdullah narrated to me: Jasrah bint Dajajah said: “I heard Abu Dharr say: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) stood in prayer until dawn reciting a verse. The verse was: ‘If You punish them, they are Your servants; but if You forgive them, then indeed You are the Almighty, the All-Wise.’”
Translation notes
The English witness states that the Prophet repeated the verse throughout the night. The Arabic says he stood until dawn with this verse, without explicitly stating “repeated”; the translation keeps to the wording present.
يَقُولُ قَامَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم حَتَّى أَصْبَحَ بِآيَةٍ وَالآيَةُ { إِنْ تُعَذِّبْهُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ عِبَادُكَ وَإِنْ تَغْفِرْ لَهُمْ فَإِنَّكَ أَنْتَ الْعَزِيزُ الْحَكِيمُ } .
The witness makes repetition explicit; the Arabic states that he stood until dawn with the verse, without an explicit repetition verb.
Does this wording imply repeated recitation, or should repetition remain an inference from the context?