Ash-Shama'il Al-Muhammadiyah
Ash-Shama'il Al-Muhammadiyah 416
Arabic hadith text
حدثنا محمد بن علي، قال سمعت أبي يقول: قال عبد الله ابن المبارك: إذا ابتليت بالقضاء فعليك بالأثر.
Translation
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Muhammad ibn 'Ali narrated to us. He said: I heard my father say: 'Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak said, 'If you are tried with the office of judge, then hold fast to the transmitted reports.'
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The saying is attributed to 'Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak, not presented here as a prophetic hadith. Al-athar refers to transmitted reports or tradition; the English witness supplies '[Prophetic]'.