Sahih al-Bukhari 4602

Translation

While we were sitting in a circle in ʿAbdullah's gathering, Hudhaifa came and stopped before us, and greeted us and then said, "People better than you became hypocrites." Al-Aswad said: I testify the uniqueness of Allah! Allah says: "Verily! The hypocrites will be in the lowest depths of the Fire." (4.145) On that ʿAbdullah smiled and Hudhaifa sat somewhere in the Mosque. ʿAbdullah then got up and his companions (sitting around him) dispersed. Hudhaifa then threw a pebble at me (to attract my attention). I went to him and he said, "I was surprised at ʿAbdullah's smile though he understood what I said. Verily, people better than you became hypocrite and then repented and Allah forgave them."

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Other narrations of this report

al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 16941al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 11560

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
   صريح في السماع
2. 2
   al-Aswad b. Yazīd al-Nakhaʿī

   Mukhaḍram (lived in both the pre-Islamic and Islamic eras), trustworthy (thiqah), prolific narrator (mukthir), jurist (faqīh)d. 74 AH, or 75 AH
   الْأَسْوَدِمخضرم ، ثقة ، مكثر ، فقيه
   عن
3. 3
   Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), except that he often narrates with omission of the Companion (irsāl).d. 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 96 AH
   إِبْرَاهِيمُثقة إلا أنه يرسل كثيرا
   حدثني
4. 4
   al-Aʿmash

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AH
   الْأَعْمَشُثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Ḥafṣ b. Ghiyāth

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), whose memory changed slightly toward the end of his lifed. 194 AH, also said: 195 AH, or 196 AH
   أَبِيثقة فقيه ، تغير حفظه قليلا في الآخر
   حدثنا
6. 6
   ʿUmar b. Ḥafṣ b. Ghiyāth

   Trustworthy (thiqah), who sometimes erred (rubbamā wahima)d. 222 AH
   عُمَرُ بْنُ حَفْصٍثقة ربما وهم
   حدثنا
7. 7
   al-Bukhārī

   a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
   الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

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