Sahih al-Bukhari 6497

Translation

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ told us two narrations: I have seen one of them, and I am waiting for the other. He told us: (1) “Trustworthiness was sent down into the depths of peoples hearts; then they learned it from the Quran, then they learned it from the Sunnah.”  And then he told us about its being taken away. He said: (2) “A man will sleep a while, and trustworthiness will be taken from his heart, leaving its trace like the slight marks. Then he will sleep again, and it will be taken away, and its trace will remain like a callus you develop on your foot and it blisters: you see it raised up, yet there is nothing inside. Then people will come to trade with one another, and hardly anyone will fulfill the trust, until it is said: ‘Among the tribe of so-and-so there is a trustworthy man.’ And it will be said of a man: ‘How intelligent is he! How refined is he! How strong and capable is he!’ while there is not in his heart even the weight of a mustard seed of faith.” There was a time that passed over me when I did not care which of you I traded with: if he was a Muslim, Islam would bring him back to me, and if he was a Christian, his official would bring him back to me. But as for today, I would not trade except with so-and-so and so-and-so.

Notes

• al-Firabrī said: Abū Jaʿfar said: I related (it) to Abū ʿAbd Allāh, and he said, ‘I heard Aḥmad ibn ʿĀṣim say, “I heard Abū ʿUbayd say: al-Aṣmaʿī, Abū ʿAmr, and others said: ‘The “jadhr” of men’s hearts—“jadhr” means the root, the origin of everything. “wakt” is the slight trace left by a thing. “majl” is the trace of work on the palm when it becomes thickened.

• قَالَ الْفِرَبْرِيُّ قَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ حَدَّثْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ فَقَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَحْمَدَ بْنَ عَاصِمٍ يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عُبَيْدٍ يَقُولُ قَالَ الأَصْمَعِيُّ وَأَبُو عَمْرٍو وَغَيْرُهُمَا جَذْرُ قُلُوبِ الرِّجَالِ الْجَذْرُ الأَصْلُ مِنْ كُلِّ شَىْءٍ وَالْوَكْتُ أَثَرُ الشَّىْءِ الْيَسِيرُ مِنْهُ وَالْمَجْلُ أَثَرُ الْعَمَلِ فِي الْكَفِّ إِذَا غَلُظَ

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Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 5381وَعَنْهُ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ حَدِيثَيْنِ رَأَيْتُ أَحَدَهُمَا وَأَنَا أَنْتَظِرُ الْآخَرَ: حَدَّثَنَا: «إِنَّ الْأَمَانَةَ نَزَلَتْ فِي جَذْرِ قُلُوبِ الرِّجَالِ ثُمَّ عَلِمُوا مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ
• Shahih al-Bukhari 7086حَدَّثَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ حَدِيثَيْنِ رَأَيْتُ أَحَدَهُمَا وَأَنَا أَنْتَظِرُ الآخَرَ حَدَّثَنَا أَنَّ الأَمَانَةَ نَزَلَتْ فِي جَذْرِ قُلُوبِ الرِّجَالِ ثُمَّ عَلِمُوا مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ ثُمَّ عَلِمُوا مِنَ السُّنَّةِ وَحَدَّثَنَا عَنْ رَف

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 7276Sahih Muslim 143bSunan Ibn Majah 4053Musnad Ahmad 23255Sahih Ibn Hibban 6762Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 20271

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
   حدثنا
2. 2
   Zayd b. Wahb

   A mukhaḍram (lived through both the Jāhiliyyah and Islam), trustworthy (thiqah) and eminent; the one who alleged a flaw in his hadith was not correctd. 96 AH, Ibn Saʿd said: he died during al-Ḥajjāj's governorship, after al-Jamājim
   زَيْدِ بْنِ وَهْبٍمخضرم ثقة جليل ، لم يصب من قال في حديثه خلل
   عن
3. 3
   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
4. 4
   Sufyān al-Thawrī

   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 AH
   سُفْيَانُثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
   أخبرنا
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. Kathīr

   Trustworthy (thiqah); those who declared him weak were not correct.d. 223 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍثقة ، لم يصب من ضعفه
   حدثنا
6. 6
   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

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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