Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1956
حَدَّثَنَا عَبَّاسُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَظِيمِ الْعَنْبَرِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا النَّضْرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْجُرَشِيُّ الْيَمَامِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا عِكْرِمَةُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو زُمَيْلٍ، عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ مَرْثَدٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " تَبَسُّمُكَ فِي وَجْهِ أَخِيكَ لَكَ صَدَقَةٌ وَأَمْرُكَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَنَهْيُكَ عَنِ الْمُنْكَرِ صَدَقَةٌ وَإِرْشَادُكَ الرَّجُلَ فِي أَرْضِ الضَّلاَلِ لَكَ صَدَقَةٌ وَبَصَرُكَ لِلرَّجُلِ الرَّدِيءِ الْبَصَرِ لَكَ صَدَقَةٌ وَإِمَاطَتُكَ الْحَجَرَ وَالشَّوْكَةَ وَالْعَظْمَ عَنِ الطَّرِيقِ لَكَ صَدَقَةٌ وَإِفْرَاغُكَ مِنْ دَلْوِكَ فِي دَلْوِ أَخِيكَ لَكَ صَدَقَةٌ " . قَالَ وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ وَجَابِرٍ وَحُذَيْفَةَ وَعَائِشَةَ وَأَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ . وَأَبُو زُمَيْلٍ اسْمُهُ سِمَاكُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ الْحَنَفِيُّ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
‘Abbas ibn ‘Abd al-‘Azim al-‘Anbari narrated to us: al-Nadr ibn Muhammad al-Jurashi al-Yamami narrated to us: ‘Ikrimah ibn ‘Ammar narrated to us: Abu Zumayl narrated to us, from Malik ibn Marthad, from his father, from Abu Dharr, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Your smile to your brother is charity. Your enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong is charity. Your guiding a man in a land where he has lost his way is charity. Your helping a person with poor eyesight is charity. Your removing a stone, thorn, or bone from the road is charity. Your pouring what remains in your bucket into your brother’s bucket is charity.”
There are also reports on this topic from Ibn Mas‘ud, Jabir, Hudhayfah, ‘A’ishah, and Abu Hurayrah. Abu ‘Isa said: This hadith is hasan gharib. Abu Zumayl’s name was Simak ibn al-Walid al-Hanafi.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The phrase ‘your sight for a man poor in sight’ is rendered as helping someone with poor eyesight; it is left broad rather than specifying a particular act. Each item is described as charity.
قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " تَبَسُّمُكَ فِي وَجْهِ أَخِيكَ لَكَ صَدَقَةٌ وَأَمْرُكَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَنَهْيُكَ عَنِ الْمُنْكَرِ صَدَقَةٌ وَإِرْشَادُكَ الرَّجُلَ فِي أَرْضِ الضَّلاَلِ لَكَ صَدَقَةٌ وَبَصَرُكَ لِلرَّجُلِ الرَّدِيءِ الْبَصَرِ لَكَ صَدَقَةٌ وَإِمَاطَتُكَ الْحَجَرَ وَالشَّوْكَةَ وَالْعَظْمَ عَنِ الطَّرِيقِ لَكَ صَدَقَةٌ وَإِفْرَاغُكَ مِنْ دَلْوِكَ فِي دَلْوِ أَخِيكَ لَكَ صَدَقَةٌ " .
The source phrase about one’s sight for a person with weak eyesight is ambiguous in English; the translation renders it as helping someone with poor eyesight without specifying the action.
Should this phrase be rendered more literally as ‘your sight for a person with poor eyesight’?
حَدَّثَنَا عَبَّاسُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَظِيمِ الْعَنْبَرِيُّ،
The witness omits the Arabic transmission chain before Abu Dharr.
Should the full isnad be retained?
وَأَبُو زُمَيْلٍ اسْمُهُ سِمَاكُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ الْحَنَفِيُّ .
The Arabic identifies Abu Zumayl as Simak ibn al-Walid al-Hanafi, absent from the witness.
Should the narrator’s personal name be included in the end note?