Sunan Abi Dawud 4246

Translation

The tradition mentioned above (No. 4232) has also been transmitted through a different chain of narrators by Nasr ibn Asim al-Laythi who said: We came to al-Yashkuri with a group of the people of Banu Layth. He asked: Who are these people? We replied: Banu Layth. We have come to you to ask you about the tradition of Hudhayfah. He then mentioned the tradition and said: I asked: Messenger of Allah, will there be evil after this good? He replied: There will be trial (fitnah) and evil. I asked: Messenger of Allah, will there be good after this evil? He replied: Learn the Book of Allah, Hudhayfah, and adhere to its contents. He said it three times. I asked: Messenger of Allah, will there be good after this evil? He replied: An illusory truce and a community with specks in its eye. I asked: Messenger of Allah, what do you mean by an illusory community? He replied: The hearts of the people will not return to their former condition. I asked: Messenger of Allah, will there be evil after this good? He replied: There will be wrong belief which will blind and deafen men to the truth in which there will be summoners at the gates of Hell. If you, Hudhayfah, die adhering to a stump, it will be better for you than following any of them.

Notes

• حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ الْقَعْنَبِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ، - يَعْنِي ابْنَ الْمُغِيرَةِ - عَنْ حُمَيْدٍ، عَنْ نَصْرِ بْنِ عَاصِمٍ اللَّيْثِيِّ، قَالَ أَتَيْنَا الْيَشْكُرِيَّ فِي رَهْطٍ مِنْ بَنِي لَيْثٍ فَقَالَ مَنِ الْقَوْمُ فَقُلْنَا بَنُو لَيْثٍ أَتَيْنَاكَ نَسْأَلُكَ عَنْ حَدِيثِ حُذَيْفَةَ فَذَكَرَ الْحَدِيثَ قَالَ قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ هَلْ بَعْدَ هَذَا الْخَيْرِ شَرٌّ قَالَ " فِتْنَةٌ وَشَرٌّ ". قَالَ قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ هَلْ بَعْدَ هَذَا الشَّرِّ خَيْرٌ قَالَ " يَا حُذَيْفَةُ تَعَلَّمْ كِتَابَ اللَّهِ وَاتَّبِعْ مَا فِيهِ ". ثَلاَثَ مِرَارٍ. قَالَ قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ هَلْ بَعْدَ هَذَا الشَّرِّ خَيْرٌ قَالَ " هُدْنَةٌ عَلَى دَخَنٍ وَجَمَاعَةٌ عَلَى أَقْذَاءٍ فِيهَا أَوْ فِيهِمْ ". قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ الْهُدْنَةُ عَلَى الدَّخَنِ مَا هِيَ قَالَ " لاَ تَرْجِعُ قُلُوبُ أَقْوَامٍ عَلَى الَّذِي كَانَتْ عَلَيْهِ ". قَالَ قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَبَعْدَ هَذَا الْخَيْرِ شَرٌّ قَالَ " فِتْنَةٌ عَمْيَاءُ صَمَّاءُ عَلَيْهَا دُعَاةٌ عَلَى أَبْوَابِ النَّارِ فَإِنْ تَمُتْ يَا حُذَيْفَةُ وَأَنْتَ عَاضٌّ عَلَى جِذْلٍ خَيْرٌ لَكَ مِنْ أَنْ تَتَّبِعَ أَحَدًا مِنْهُمْ

  machine translationʿAbdullāh b. Maslamah al-Qaʿnabī narrated to us, Sulaymān – meaning Ibn al-Mughīrah – narrated to us, from Ḥumayd, from Naṣr b. ʿĀṣim al-Laythī, who said: We came to al-Yashkurī with a group from Banū Layth, and he said: Who are the people? We said: Banū Layth. We have come to ask you about the ḥadīth of Ḥudhayfah. Then he mentioned the ḥadīth. He said: I said: O Messenger of Allah, is there any evil after this good? He said: "A trial (fitnah) and evil." He said: I said: O Messenger of Allah, is there any good after this evil? He said: "O Ḥudhayfah, learn the Book of Allah and follow what is in it," three times. He said: I said: O Messenger of Allah, is there any good after this evil? He said: "A truce upon smokiness and a community upon impurities in it or in them." I said: O Messenger of Allah, what is the truce upon smokiness? He said: "The hearts of some people will not return to what they were upon." He said: I said: O Messenger of Allah, is there any evil after this good? He said: "A blind, deaf trial, with callers at the gates of the Fire. If you die, O Ḥudhayfah, while biting on the trunk of a tree, it is better for you than following any one of them." Report a problem

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Narrators

1. 1
   Ḥudhayfah b. al-Yamān

   An eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī), among the earliest to accept Islamd. 36 AH, also said 35 AH, and al-Ṭabarī considered it an error
   حُذَيْفَةُ بْنُ الْيَمَانِصحابي جليل من السابقين
   عن
2. 2
   Subayʿ b. Khālid

   acceptable (maqbūl)
   سبيع بن خالد اليشكريمقبول
   أتينا
3. 3
   Naṣr b. ʿĀṣim

   Trustworthy (thiqah), accused of holding the view of the Khawārij, and his retraction from it is authenticd. after 80 AH
   نَصْرِ بْنِ عَاصِمٍ اللَّيْثِيِّثقة رمي برأي الخوارج وصح رجوعه عنه
   عن
4. 4
   Ḥumayd b. Hilāl al-ʿAdawī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a scholard. during the governorship of Khālid b. ʿAbd Allāh over Iraq
   حُمَيْدٍثقة عالم
   عن
5. 5
   Sulaymān b. al-Mughīrah

   trustworthy, trustworthy (thiqah thiqah) — said by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīnd. 165 AH
   سُلَيْمَانُ يَعْنِي ابْنَ الْمُغِيرَةِثقة ثقة ـ قاله يحيى بن معين
   نا
6. 6
   al-Qaʿnabī

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 220 AH, or 221 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ الْقَعْنَبِيُّثقة عابد
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AH
   أَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء

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