al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 16896
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أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو عَمْرٍو الْأَدِيبُ، أَنْبَأَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ الْإِسْمَاعِيلِيُّ، أَخْبَرَنِي الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ، ثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى، ثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ، ثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ بْنِ جَابِرٍ، حَدَّثَنِي بُسْرُ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ الْحَضْرَمِيُّ: أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ أَبَا إِدْرِيسَ الْخَوْلَانِيَّ يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ 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 شَرٌّ ؟ قَالَ: " نَعَمْ ". فَقُلْتُ: هَلْ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ الشَّرِّ مِنْ خَيْرٍ ؟ قَالَ: " نَعَمْ. وَفِيهِ دَخَنٌ ". قُلْتُ: وَمَا دَخَنُهُ ؟ قَالَ: قَوْمٌ يَسْتَنُّونَ بِغَيْرِ سُنَّتِي، وَيَهْدُونَ بِغَيْرِ هَدْيِي، تَعْرِفُ مِنْهُمْ وَتُنْكِرُ. فَقُلْتُ: هَلْ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ الْخَيْرِ مِنْ شَرٍّ ؟ قَالَ: " نَعَمْ، دُعَاةٌ عَلَى أَبْوَابِ جَهَنَّمَ مَنْ أَجَابَهُمْ إِلَيْهَا قَذَفُوهُ فِيهَا ". فَقُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ صِفْهُمْ لَنَا. قَالَ: " نَعَمْ، هُمْ مِنْ جِلْدَتِنَا، يَتَكَلَّمُونَ بِأَلْسِنَتِنَا ". قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، فَمَا تَأْمُرُنِي إِنْ أَدْرَكَنِي ذَلِكَ ؟ قَالَ: " تَلْزَمُ جَمَاعَةَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَإِمَامَهُمْ ". قُلْتُ: فَإِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُمْ جَمَاعَةٌ وَلَا إِمَامٌ ؟ قَالَ: " فَاعْتَزِلْ تِلْكَ الْفِرَقَ كُلَّهَا، وَلَوْ أَنْ تَعَضَّ عَلَى أَصْلِ شَجَرَةٍ حَتَّى يُدْرِكَكَ الْمَوْتُ وَأَنْتَ عَلَى ذَلِكَ
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Chain of narrators
- Abū ʿAmr al-Adīb Anbaʾ Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī
- al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān
- Muḥammad b. al-Muthanná
- al-Walīd b. Muslim
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Yazīd b. Jābir
- Busr b. ʿUbaydullāh al-Ḥaḍramī
- Abū Idrīs al-Khawlānī
- 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 in it is a dakhan (murkiness)." I said: "And what is its murkiness?" He said: "A people who follow a way other than my Sunnah and 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 responds to them, they throw him into it." I said: "O Messenger of Allah, describe them to us." He said: "Yes, they are from our own skin, and they speak with our tongues." I said: "O Messenger of Allah, what do you order me to do if that overtakes me?" He said: "Stick to the community of the Muslims and their leader." I said: "And if they have no community and no leader?" He said: "Then withdraw from all those sects, even if you must 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 السابقينسمعت
- Saʿīd b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz said: "He was the scholar of the Levant after Abū al-Dardāʾ."d. 80 AHأَبَا إِدْرِيسَ الْخَوْلَانِيَّقال سعيد بن عبد العزيز : كان عالم الشام بعد أبى الدرداءسمع
- 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 جَابِرٍثقةحدثنا
- 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, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 252 AH, also said: 250 AH, also said: 251 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّىثقة ثبتحدثنا
- d. 303 AHالْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَأخبرني
- d. 371 AHأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْإِسْمَاعِيلِيُّأنبأ
- d. 427 AHأَبُو عَمْرٍو الْأَدِيبُأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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