al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 17701
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( أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو طَاهِرٍ الْفَقِيهُ، أَنْبَأَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ الْقَطَّانُ، ثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ السُّلَمِيُّ، ثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ الْفِرْيَابِيُّ، ثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ ثَوْرٍ، عَنْ رَاشِدِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ، عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ:
" إِنَّكَ إِنِ اتَّبَعْتَ عَوْرَاتِ النَّاسِ أَوْ عَثَرَاتِ النَّاسِ أَفْسَدْتَهُمْ أَوْ كِدْتَ أَنْ تُفْسِدَهُمْ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Ṭāhir al-Faqīh Anbaʾ Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Qaṭṭān
- Aḥmad b. Yūsuf al-Sulamī
- Muḥammad b. Yūsuf al-Firyābī
- Sufyān
- Thawr
- Rāshid b. Saʿd
- Muʿāwiyah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
Machine translation, not reviewed
"If you pursue the faults of the people, or the slips of the people, you will corrupt them, or you will almost corrupt them.
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- Riyadhus Shalihin 1571"إنك إن اتبعت عورات المسلمين أفسدتهم، أو كدت تفسدهم".
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 60 AH, also said: 59 AHمُعَاوِيَة بْن أَبِي سُفْيَانصحابيعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), frequently narrates mursald. 108 AH, also said: 113 AHرَاشِدِ بْنِ سَعْدٍثقة ، كثير الإرسالعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt), except that he held the Qadarī viewd. al-Tirmidhī said: 150 AH. From al-Haytham b. ʿAdī: 151 AH. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā said: I was informed that he died in the year 152 AH. Ibn Saʿd and a group said: 153 AH. Yaḥyā b. Bukayr and others said: 155 AHثَوْرٍثقة ثبت ، إلا أنه يرى القدرعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AHسُفْيَانُثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), virtuous, it is said: he erred in some of the hadith of Sufyān, despite that, he is given precedence in it by them over ʿAbd al-Razzāqd. 212 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ الْفِرْيَابِيُّثقة فاضل ، يقال : أخطأ في شيء من حديث سفيان ، وهو مقدم فيه مع ذلك عندهم على عبد الرزاقحدثنا
- a reliable memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), trustworthy (thiqah)d. 263 AH, or 264 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ السُّلَمِيُّحافظ ثقةحدثنا
- أَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ الْقَطَّانُأنبأ
- d. 410 AHأَبُو طَاهِرٍ الْفَقِيهُأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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