Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1983
حَدَّثَنَا مَحْمُودُ بْنُ غَيْلاَنَ، حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ زُبَيْدِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ، عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " سِبَابُ الْمُسْلِمِ فُسُوقٌ وَقِتَالُهُ كُفْرٌ " . قَالَ زُبَيْدٌ قُلْتُ لأَبِي وَائِلٍ أَأَنْتَ سَمِعْتَهُ مِنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ نَعَمْ . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Mahmud ibn Ghaylan narrated to us: Waki‘ narrated to us: Sufyan narrated to us, from Zubayd ibn al-Harith, from Abu Wa’il, from ‘Abd Allah ibn Mas‘ud, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Insulting a Muslim is disobedience, and fighting him is disbelief.”
Zubayd said: I asked Abu Wa’il, “Did you hear it from ‘Abd Allah?” He replied, “Yes.” Abu ‘Isa said: This hadith is hasan sahih.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The term kufr is rendered “disbelief,” following the Arabic wording; the text itself does not elaborate on its legal-theological scope.
قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " سِبَابُ الْمُسْلِمِ فُسُوقٌ وَقِتَالُهُ كُفْرٌ " .
The matn uses kufr for fighting a Muslim; its precise theological and legal scope is not explained in this passage.
Does the direct rendering “disbelief” preserve the wording without adding an interpretation about its scope?