و حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حَاتِمٍ حَدَّثَنَا رَوْحُ بْنُ عُبَادَةَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو الزُّبَيْرِ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ جَابِرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ يَقُولُا سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ لَا عَدْوَی وَلَا صَفَرَ وَلَا غُولَ وَسَمِعْتُ أَبَا الزُّبَيْرِ يَذْکُرُ أَنَّ جَابِرًا فَسَّرَ لَهُمْ قَوْلَهُ وَلَا صَفَرَ فَقَالَ أَبُو الزُّبَيْرِ الصَّفَرُ الْبَطْنُ فَقِيلَ لِجَابِرٍ کَيْفَ قَالَ کَانَ يُقَالُ دَوَابُّ الْبَطْنِ قَالَ وَلَمْ يُفَسِّرْ الْغُولَ قَالَ أَبُو الزُّبَيْرِ هَذِهِ الْغُولُ الَّتِي تَغَوَّلُ
صحیح مسلم · Hadith 5797
Jabir b. 'Abdullah reported Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: There is no transitive disease, no safar, no ghoul. He (the narrator) said: I heard Abu Zubair say: Jabir explained for them the word safar. Abu Zubair said: safar means belly. It was said to Jabir: Why is it so? He said that it was held that safar implied the worms of the belly, but he gave no explanation of ghoul. Abu Zubair said: Ghoul is that which kills the travellers.
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020