al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 16707
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أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ، ثَنَا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ: مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ، أَنْبَأَ الْعَبَّاسُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ مَزْيَدٍ، ثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ شُعَيْبِ بْنِ شَابُورَ، ثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ بْنِ جَابِرٍ، ( ح ) وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ، أَنْبَأَ أَبُو الْفَضْلِ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، ثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، ثَنَا أَبُو عَمَّارٍ: الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ حُرَيْثٍ الْخُزَاعِيُّ، وَإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ مُوسَى الْأَنْصَارِيُّ، وَعُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْيَشْكُرِيُّ، قَالُوا: ثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ، حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ بْنِ جَابِرٍ، حَدَّثَنِي بُسْرُ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ الْحَضْرَمِيُّ، حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو إِدْرِيسَ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ حُذَيْفَةَ بْنَ الْيَمَانِ يَقُولُ:
كَانَ النَّاسُ يَسْأَلُونَ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ عَنِ الْخَيْرِ، وَكُنْتُ أَسْأَلُهُ عَنِ الشَّرِّ مَخَافَةَ أَنْ يُدْرِكَنِي، فَقُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، إِنَّا كُنَّا فِي جَاهِلِيَّةٍ وَشَرٍّ فَجَاءَنَا اللهُ بِهَذَا الْخَيْرِ، فَهَلْ بَعْدَ هَذَا الْخَيْرِ مِنْ شَرٍّ ؟ قَالَ: " نَعَمْ ". قَالَ: فَهَلْ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ الشَّرِّ مِنْ خَيْرٍ ؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ وَفِيهِ دَخَنٌ. فَقُلْتُ: وَمَا دَخَنُهُ ؟ قَالَ: " قَوْمٌ يَهْدُونَ بِغَيْرِ هَدْيِي، تَعْرِفُ مِنْهُمْ وَتُنْكِرُ ". قُلْتُ: هَلْ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ الْخَيْرِ مِنْ شَرٍّ ؟ قَالَ: " نَعَمْ دُعَاةٌ عَلَى أَبْوَابِ جَهَنَّمَ، مَنْ أَجَابَهُمْ إِلَيْهَا قَذَفُوهُ فِيهَا ". قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، صِفْهُمْ لَنَا. قَالَ: " هُمْ مِنْ جِلْدَتِنَا، وَيَتَكَلَّمُونَ بِأَلْسِنَتِنَا ". قُلْتُ: فَمَا تَأْمُرُنِي إِنْ أَدْرَكَنِي ذَلِكَ ؟ قَالَ: " تَلْزَمُ جَمَاعَةَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَإِمَامَهُمْ ". قُلْتُ: فَإِنْ لَمْ تَكُنْ جَمَاعَةٌ وَلَا إِمَامٌ ؟ قَالَ: " فَاعْتَزِلْ تِلْكَ الْفِرَقَ كُلَّهَا، وَلَوْ أَنْ تَعَضَّ بِأَصْلِ شَجَرَةٍ حَتَّى يُدْرِكَكَ الْمَوْتُ وَأَنْتَ كَذَلِكَ
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Chain of narrators
- [Chain 1] Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ
- Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb Anbaʾ al-ʿAbbās b. al-Walīd b. Mazyad
- Muḥammad b. Shuʿayb b. Shābūr
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Yazīd b. Jābir [Chain 2] Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ Anbaʾ Abū al-Faḍl b. Ibrāhīm
- Aḥmad b. Salamah
- Abū ʿAmmār al-Ḥusayn b. Ḥurayth al-Khuzāʿī and ʾIsḥāq b. Mūsá al-Anṣārī Waʿubayd Allāh b. Saʿīd al-Yashkurī
- al-Walīd b. Muslim
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Yazīd b. Jābir
- Busr b. ʿUbaydullāh al-Ḥaḍramī
- Abū Idrīs
- Ḥudhayfah b. al-Yamān
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The people used to ask the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about the good, and I used to ask him about the evil, fearing that it might overtake me. So I said: "O Messenger of Allah, we were in ignorance (jāhiliyyah) and evil, then Allah brought us this good. Is there any evil after this good?" He said: "Yes." I said: "Is there any good after that evil?" He said: "Yes, but it has some smoke (dakhan) in it." I said: "And what is its smoke?" He said: "A people who guide by other than my guidance; you will recognize some of them and disapprove of others." I said: "Is there any evil after that good?" He said: "Yes, callers at the gates of Hell; whoever answers them, they will throw him into it." I said: "O Messenger of Allah, describe them to us." He said: "They are from our own skin, and they speak with our tongues." I said: "What do you command me to do if that overtakes me?" He said: "Stick to the community of the Muslims and their leader." I said: "And if there is no community and no leader?" He said: "Then withdraw from all those sects, even if you have to bite on the root of a tree until death overtakes you while you are in that state."
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- An eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī), among the earliest to accept Islamd. 36 AH, also said 35 AH, and al-Ṭabarī considered it an errorحُذَيْفَةُ بْنُ الْيَمَانِصحابي جليل من السابقينسمع
- Saʿīd b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz said: "He was the scholar of the Levant after Abū al-Dardāʾ."d. 80 AHأَبُو إِدْرِيسَقال سعيد بن عبد العزيز : كان عالم الشام بعد أبى الدرداءحدثني
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. between 101 and 110 AHبُسْرُ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ الْحَضْرَمِيُّثقة حافظحدثني
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 153 AH, or 154 AH, or 155 AH, or 156 AHعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ بْنِ جَابِرٍثقةحدثني
- Trustworthy (thiqah), but he very often practiced concealment (tadlīs) and levelling (taswiyah).d. 194, or 195 AH, or 196 AHالْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍثقة ، لكنه كثير التدليس والتسويةحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (maʾmūn), a Sunnīd. 241 AHوَعُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْيَشْكُرِيُّثقة مأمون سنيحدثنا
- d. 286 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَحدثنا
- d. 347 AHأَبُو الْفَضْلِ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَأنبأ
- d. 403 AH, or 405 AHأَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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