Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2026
حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي عُمَرَ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ هَمَّامِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ، قَالَ مَرَّ رَجُلٌ عَلَى حُذَيْفَةَ بْنِ الْيَمَانِ فَقِيلَ لَهُ إِنَّ هَذَا يُبَلِّغُ الأُمَرَاءَ الْحَدِيثَ عَنِ النَّاسِ . فَقَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَقُولُ " لاَ يَدْخُلُ الْجَنَّةَ قَتَّاتٌ " . قَالَ سُفْيَانُ وَالْقَتَّاتُ النَّمَّامُ . وَهَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Ibn Abi ‘Umar narrated to us: Sufyan ibn ‘Uyaynah narrated to us, from Mansur, from Ibrahim, from Hammam ibn al-Harith, who said: A man passed by Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman, and someone said to him, “This man carries reports about people to the rulers.” Hudhayfah said: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: “A tale-carrier will not enter Paradise.” Sufyan said: A qattat is a tale-bearer. This hadith is hasan sahih.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The source’s report about carrying people’s words to rulers is followed by Sufyan’s explicit gloss of qattat as nammam (a tale-bearer).
قَالَ سُفْيَانُ وَالْقَتَّاتُ النَّمَّامُ .
Sufyan equates the term qattat with nammam; the preceding context describes a man carrying reports about people to rulers.
Does “tale-carrier” preserve the source’s gloss without narrowing it to a specific political setting?