An-Nawawi's Forty Hadiths
Hadith 21, 40 Hadith an-Nawawi
عَنْ أَبِي عَمْرٍو وَقِيلَ: أَبِي عَمْرَةَ سُفْيَانَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: "قُلْت: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ! قُلْ لِي فِي الْإِسْلَامِ قَوْلًا لَا أَسْأَلُ عَنْهُ أَحَدًا غَيْرَك؛ قَالَ: قُلْ: آمَنْت بِاَللَّهِ ثُمَّ اسْتَقِمْ" . [رَوَاهُ مُسْلِمٌ].
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
On the authority of Abu ‘Amr—and it is said, Abu ‘Amrah—Sufyan ibn ‘Abd Allah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: I said, “O Messenger of Allah, tell me a statement about Islam after which I will ask no one but you.” He said, “Say: ‘I believe in Allah,’ then remain steadfast.” [Narrated by Muslim].
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
عَنْ أَبِي عَمْرٍو وَقِيلَ: أَبِي عَمْرَةَ سُفْيَانَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: "قُلْت: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ!
The Arabic itself records a name variant (“Abu ‘Amr; and it is said: Abu ‘Amrah”); the English witness additionally supplies a nisbah absent from this Arabic text.
Can the added nisbah in the witness be confirmed from a separately identified source? The translation retains the Arabic variant and does not add it.