An-Nawawi's Forty Hadiths
Hadith 14, 40 Hadith an-Nawawi
عَنْ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه و سلم "لَا يَحِلُّ دَمُ امْرِئٍ مُسْلِمٍ [ يشهد أن لا إله إلا الله، وأني رسول الله] إلَّا بِإِحْدَى ثَلَاثٍ: الثَّيِّبُ الزَّانِي، وَالنَّفْسُ بِالنَّفْسِ، وَالتَّارِكُ لِدِينِهِ الْمُفَارِقُ لِلْجَمَاعَةِ". [رَوَاهُ الْبُخَارِيُّ] ، [وَمُسْلِمٌ]
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
On the authority of Ibn Mas‘ud (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “The blood of a Muslim is not lawful [one who bears witness that there is no deity but Allah and that I am the Messenger of Allah] except in one of three cases: a previously married adulterer; a life for a life; and one who abandons his religion and separates from the community.” [Narrated by al-Bukhari and Muslim].
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
عَنْ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه و سلم "لَا يَحِلُّ دَمُ امْرِئٍ مُسْلِمٍ [ يشهد أن لا إله إلا الله،
This is a legal passage concerning protected life and specified cases. The Arabic source includes a bracketed profession of faith, but the provided context does not establish how that inserted phrase relates to the sentence or governs legal scope.
How should the bracketed profession be construed, and what contextual legal qualification is required? Qualified human review is needed; this translation does not supply a ruling.
وأني رسول الله] إلَّا بِإِحْدَى ثَلَاثٍ: الثَّيِّبُ الزَّانِي،
The term الثيب has a legal-cultural range that is not fully established by this source passage; the English witness gives “married person.”
Which sourced rendering of الثيب is appropriate in this legal context?