Sunan Ibn Majah 3979

Translation

“There will be callers at the gates of Hell; whoever responds to them they throw them into it.” I said: “O Messenger of Allah, describe them to us.” He said: “They will be from our people, speaking our language.” I said: “What do you command me to do, if I live to see that?” He said: “Adhere to the main body of the Muslims and their leader. If there is no such body and no leader, then withdraw from all their groups, even if you bite onto the trunk of a tree until death finds you in that state.”

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Same hadith, other wordings

• Shahih al-Bukhari 3606كَانَ النَّاسُ يَسْأَلُونَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ عَنِ الْخَيْرِ وَكُنْتُ أَسْأَلُهُ عَنِ الشَّرِّ مَخَافَةَ أَنْ يُدْرِكَنِي فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّا كُنَّا فِي جَاهِلِيَّةٍ وَشَرٍّ فَجَاءَنَا اللَّهُ بِهَذَا الْخَيْرِ فَهَلْ بَعْدَ
• Misykatul Mashabih 5382وَعَنْهُ قَالَ: كَانَ النَّاسُ يَسْأَلُونَ رَسُول الله صلى الله عَلَيْهِ وَسلم عَن الْخَيْرِ وَكُنْتُ أَسْأَلُهُ عَنِ الشَّرِّ مَخَافَةَ أَنْ يُدْرِكَنِي قَالَ: قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّا كُنَّا فِي جَاهِلِيَّةٍ وَشَرٍّ فَجَاءَنَا ا
• Shahih Muslim 1847aكَانَ النَّاسُ يَسْأَلُونَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ عَنِ الْخَيْرِ وَكُنْتُ أَسْأَلُهُ عَنِ الشَّرِّ مَخَافَةَ أَنْ يُدْرِكَنِي فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّا كُنَّا فِي جَاهِلِيَّةٍ وَشَرٍّ فَجَاءَنَا اللَّهُ بِهَذَا الْخَيْرِ فَهَلْ بَعْدَ
• Shahih al-Bukhari 7084كَانَ النَّاسُ يَسْأَلُونَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ عَنِ الْخَيْرِ وَكُنْتُ أَسْأَلُهُ عَنِ الشَّرِّ مَخَافَةَ أَنْ يُدْرِكَنِي فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّا كُنَّا فِي جَاهِلِيَّةٍ وَشَرٍّ فَجَاءَنَا اللَّهُ بِهَذَا الْخَيْرِ فَهَلْ بَعْدَ

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
   سمع
2. 2
   ʿĀʾidhullāh b. ʿAbdullāh al-Khawlānī

   Saʿīd b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz said: "He was the scholar of the Levant after Abū al-Dardāʾ."d. 80 AH
   أَبُو إِدْرِيسَ الْخَوْلَانِيُّقال سعيد بن عبد العزيز : كان عالم الشام بعد أبى الدرداء
   حدثني
3. 3
   Busr b. ʿUbaydullāh al-Ḥaḍramī

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. between 101 and 110 AH
   بُسْرُ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ اللهِثقة حافظ
   حدثني
4. 4
   ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Yazīd b. Jābir

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 153 AH, or 154 AH, or 155 AH, or 156 AH
   عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ بْنِ جَابِرٍثقة
   حدثني
5. 5
   al-Walīd b. Muslim

   Trustworthy (thiqah), but he very often practiced concealment (tadlīs) and levelling (taswiyah).d. 194, or 195 AH, or 196 AH
   الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍثقة ، لكنه كثير التدليس والتسوية
   حدثنا
6. 6
   ʿAlī b. Muḥammad

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 233 AH, or shortly before or shortly after it, also said: 235 AH
   عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍثقة عابد
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Ibn Mājah

   one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
   ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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