Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1751
حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ، حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، عَنْ أَيُّوبَ، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " مَنْ صَوَّرَ صُورَةً عَذَّبَهُ اللَّهُ حَتَّى يَنْفُخَ فِيهَا يَعْنِي الرُّوحَ وَلَيْسَ بِنَافِخٍ فِيهَا وَمَنِ اسْتَمَعَ إِلَى حَدِيثِ قَوْمٍ وَهُمْ يَفِرُّونَ بِهِ مِنْهُ صُبَّ فِي أُذُنِهِ الآنُكُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ " . قَالَ وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ وَأَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ وَأَبِي جُحَيْفَةَ وَعَائِشَةَ وَابْنِ عُمَرَ . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى حَدِيثُ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Qutaybah narrated to us: Hammad ibn Zayd narrated to us, from Ayyub, from Ikrimah, from Ibn Abbas, who said: The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) said: ‘Whoever makes an image, Allah will punish him until he breathes a soul into it, though he cannot breathe a soul into it. And whoever eavesdrops on a people’s conversation when they are trying to get away from him, molten lead will be poured into his ear on the Day of Resurrection.’
There are also reports on this subject from Abdullah ibn Masud, Abu Hurayrah, Abu Juhaifah, Aishah, and Ibn Umar. Abu Isa said: The hadith of Ibn Abbas is hasan sahih.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The English witness begins at Ibn Abbas and omits the preceding Arabic chain (Qutaybah, Hammad ibn Zayd, Ayyub, and Ikrimah). The Arabic explicitly glosses the breath as ‘the soul’ and uses the image of molten lead (al-anuk) being poured into the eavesdropper’s ear.
The phrase about people ‘fleeing from him’ is kept close to the Arabic: it conveys that they are trying to get away from the eavesdropper while he listens.
حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ،
The English witness omits four transmitters preceding Ibn Abbas in the Arabic chain.
Can the English witness’s abbreviated isnad be confirmed as an intentional editorial choice?