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Musnad Ahmad 7974

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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ سِمَاكٍ عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ ظَالِمٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ يَقُولُ

إِنَّ هَلَاكَ أُمَّتِي أَوْ فَسَادَ أُمَّتِي رُؤُوسٌ أُمَرَاءُ أُغَيْلِمَةٌ سُفَهَاءُ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar
  2. Shuʿbah
  3. Simāk
  4. Mālik b. Ẓālim
  5. Abū Hurayrah

✧ The ruin of my Ummah, or the corruption of my Ummah, will be at the hands of young, foolish commanders from Quraysh.

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  • Mizzī

    اختلف فيه على سماك بن حرب فقيل عنه عن عبد الله بن ظالم وقيل عنه عن مالك بن ظالم

    machine translationThere is disagreement about it concerning Simāk b. Ḥarb: it was said that it is from him, from ʿAbdullāh b. Ẓālim, and it was said that it is from him, from Mālik b. Ẓālim.

    in مسند أحمد, p. 8048

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
    أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
    سمعت
  2. Truthful (ṣadūq); al-Bukhārī considered him weak (layyin).
    مَالِكِ بْنِ ظَالِمٍصدوق ، لينه البخاري
    عن
  3. Truthful (ṣadūq); his narrations from ʿIkrimah in particular are inconsistent (muḍṭarib); he changed (taghayyara) towards the end of his life, and at times he would accept prompting (yulaqqan).d. 123 AH
    سِمَاكٍصدوق , وروايته عن عكرمة خاصة مضطربة , وقد تغير بأخرة ، فكان ربما يلقن
    عن
  4. Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
    شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
    حدثنا
  5. Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AH
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلة
    حدثنا
  6. 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

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