Forty Hadith Qudsi
Hadith 4, 40 Hadith Qudsi
عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: " قَالَ اللَّهُ: يَسُبُّ بَنُو آدَمَ الدَّهْرَ، وَأَنَا الدَّهْرُ، بِيَدِي اللَّيْلُ وَالنَّهَارُ" رواه البخاري (وكذلك مسلم)
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) said:
Allah said: ‘The children of Adam speak abusively of Time, while I am Time; the night and the day are in My hand.’
It was related by al-Bukhari (and likewise by Muslim).
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
وَأَنَا الدَّهْرُ،
The statement ‘I am Time’ may be misconstrued as identifying God with time. The English witness adds an interpretation about cursing misfortunes, which is absent from this Arabic block.
Should a separate, sourced translator note address this interpretive risk, and can the witness’s added footnote be sourced to an edition?