Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1964
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ رَافِعٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ، عَنْ بِشْرِ بْنِ رَافِعٍ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ، عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " الْمُؤْمِنُ غِرٌّ كَرِيمٌ وَالْفَاجِرُ خِبٌّ لَئِيمٌ " . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ غَرِيبٌ لاَ نَعْرِفُهُ إِلاَّ مِنْ هَذَا الْوَجْهِ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Muhammad ibn Rafi‘ narrated to us: ‘Abd al-Razzaq narrated to us, from Bishr ibn Rafi‘, from Yahya ibn Abi Kathir, from Abu Salamah, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “The believer is guileless and noble, while the wicked person is deceitful and base.”
Abu ‘Isa said: This hadith is gharib; we know it only through this route.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic contrasts a guileless, noble believer with a wicked person who is deceitful and base. The English witness substitutes ‘stingy’ for ‘wicked’, a meaning not present in the Arabic.
قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " الْمُؤْمِنُ غِرٌّ كَرِيمٌ وَالْفَاجِرُ خِبٌّ لَئِيمٌ " .
The Arabic says al-fajir (the wicked person), not the miser; khibb is deceitful/cunning and la’im is base or ignoble.
Should the English witness’s ‘stingy person’ be corrected to ‘wicked person’?
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ رَافِعٍ،
The witness omits all transmitters in the source chain.
Should the complete isnad be included?
قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ غَرِيبٌ لاَ نَعْرِفُهُ إِلاَّ مِنْ هَذَا الْوَجْهِ .
Abu ‘Isa calls this report gharib and says it is known only by this route.
Should the route limitation remain alongside the text?