Musnad Ahmad 23282

Translation

✧ I came to al-Yashkuri in a group from Banu Layth. He said: He asked, 'Who are the people?' We said, 'Banu Layth.' He said: We asked him and he asked us, then we said, 'We have come to ask you about the hadith of Hudhayfah.' He said: We returned with Abu Musa as travelers, and the riding animals became expensive in Kufah. So I and a companion of mine sought permission from Abu Musa, and he permitted us. We arrived in Kufah early in the day. I said to my companion, 'I am entering the mosque, and when the market opens I will come out to you.' He said: I entered the mosque and found a circle of people, as if their heads had been cut off, listening to the speech of a man. I stood over them. A man came and stood beside me. I said, 'Who is this?' He said, 'Are you from Basrah?' I said, 'Yes.' He said, 'I knew it. If you were from Kufah you would not ask about this. This is Hudhayfah b. al-Yaman.' He said: So I drew near to him and heard him say: The people used to ask the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about good, but I used to ask him about evil, knowing that good would not overtake me. I said, 'O Messenger of Allah, after this good will there be evil?' He said, 'O Hudhayfah, learn the Book of Allah and follow what is in it' — three times. He said: I said, 'O Messenger of Allah, after this good will there be evil?' He said, 'A tribulation and evil.' I said, 'O Messenger of Allah, after this evil will there be good?' He said, 'O Hudhayfah, learn the Book of Allah and follow what is in it' — three times. He said: I said, 'O Messenger of Allah, after this evil will there be good?' He said, 'A truce upon corruption, and a community upon grudges.' I said, 'O Messenger of Allah, what is a truce upon corruption?' He said, 'The hearts of some people will not return to what they were upon.' I said, 'O Messenger of Allah, after this good will there be evil?' He said, 'O Hudhayfah, learn the Book of Allah and follow what is in it' — three times. He said: I said, 'O Messenger of Allah, after this good will there be evil?' He said, 'A blind and deaf tribulation, with callers at the gates of the Fire. If you die, O Hudhayfah, while biting onto a tree stump, that is better for you than following any one of them.'

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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
   قال
2. 2
   Subayʿ b. Khālid

   acceptable (maqbūl)
   سبيع بن خالد اليشكريمقبول
   قال
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
   نَصْرُ بْنُ عَاصِمٍ اللَّيْثِيُّثقة رمي برأي الخوارج وصح رجوعه عنه
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Ḥumayd b. Hilāl al-ʿAdawī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a scholard. during the governorship of Khālid b. ʿAbd Allāh over Iraq
   حُمَيْدٌ ، يَعْنِي : ابْنَ هِلَالٍثقة عالم
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Sulaymān b. al-Mughīrah

   trustworthy, trustworthy (thiqah thiqah) — said by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīnd. 165 AH
   سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ الْمُغِيرَةِثقة ثقة ـ قاله يحيى بن معين
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Bahz

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. Ibn Qāniʿ said: 197 AH, ʿUqbah b. Mukram al-ʿAmmī said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal: before 198 AH, others said: after 200 AH
   بَهْزٌثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.