Sahih al-Bukhari 7320
“Certainly you will follow the ways of those who were before you.”
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عُمَرَ الصَّنْعَانِيُّ مِنَ الْيَمَنِ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ
لَتَتْبَعُنَّ سَنَنَ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ شِبْرًا شِبْرًا وَذِرَاعًا بِذِرَاعٍ حَتَّى لَوْ دَخَلُوا جُحْرَ ضَبٍّ تَبِعْتُمُوهُمْ قُلْنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ الْيَهُودُ وَالنَّصَارَى قَالَ فَمَنْ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
- Abū ʿUmar al-Ṣanʿānī Min al-Yaman
- Zayd b. Aslam
- ʿAṭāʾ b. Yasār
- Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī
- al-Nabī ﷺ
The Prophet ﷺ said, "You will follow the ways of those nations who were before you, span by span and cubit by cubit (i.e., inch by inch) so much so that even if they entered a hole of a mastigure, you would follow them." We said, "O Messenger of Allah ﷺ! (Do you mean) the Jews and the Christians?" He said, "Whom else?"
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| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Agreed Upon | hadithunlocked |
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Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 10641Musnad Ahmad 17135Musnad Ahmad 9819Musnad al-Bazzar 8416al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 106al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 8404
Narrators
- He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. 63 AH, or 64 AH, or 65 AH, or 74 AHأَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيُّله ولأبيه صحبةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), a man of admonitions and worship.d. 94 AH, or 97 AH, or 103 AH, or 104 AHعَطَاءِ بْنِ يَسَارٍثقة فاضل ، صاحب مواعظ وعبادةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a scholar, and he would narrate with omission of the Companion link (yursil)d. 135 AH or 136 AHزَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَثقة عالم ، وكان يرسلعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), though he sometimes erred (rubbamā wahima)d. 181 AHأَبُو عُمَرَ الصَّنْعَانِيُّثقة ، ربما وهمحدثنا
- Truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes, and he had expertised. between 211 and 220 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِصدوق يهم وكانت له معرفةحدثنا
- 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 AHالْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث
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Commentaries
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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