Sunan ad-Darimi 494

Translation

✧ And he said, "Verily, those before you perished by following their books and neglecting their own book." Husayn said, "Indeed, if it was from the Quran or the Sunnah, he would not have erased it, but it was from the books of the People of the Book."

Notes

• قَالَ حُصَيْنٌ فَقَالَ مُرَّةُ أَمَا إِنَّهُ لَوْ كَانَ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ أَوِ السُّنَّةِ لَمْ يَمْحُهُ وَلَكِنْ كَانَ مِنْ كُتُبِ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ

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Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

   One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمة
   في حكم العنعنة
2. 2
   Murrah b. Sharāḥīl

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said: died in the time of al-Ḥajjāj, after al-Jamājim, Ibn Ḥibbān said: 76 AH
   مُرَّةَ الْهَمْدَانِيِّثقة عابد
   عن
3. 3
   Ḥuṣayn

   trustworthy (thiqah), his memory changed at the endd. 136 AH, or 139 AH
   حُصَيْنٌثقة ، تغير حفظه في الآخر
   حدثنا
4. 4
   ʿAbthar

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 178 AH, also said: 179 AH
   أَبُو زُبَيْدٍثقة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Aḥmad b. Yūnus

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 227 AH
   أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ يُونُسَثقة حافظ
   أخبرنا
6. 6
   al-Dārimī

   trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), meticulous (mutqin)d. 254 AH, or 255 AH, also said: 250 AH
   الدارميثقة ، فاضل ، متقن

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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.