Sahih Muslim 146

Translation

Verily Islam started as something strange and it would again revert (to its old position) of being strange just as it started, and it would recede between the two mosques just as the serpent crawls back into its hole.

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Other narrations of this report

Sunan Ibn Majah 3987al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 5876al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 8724Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 35509

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثر
   عن
2. 2
   his father

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 101 AH and 110 AH
   أَبِيهِثقة
   عن
3. 3
   ʿĀṣim b. Muḥammad

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. after: 160 AH
   عَاصِمٌ ، وَهُوَ ابْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْعُمَرِيُّثقة
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Shabābah

   trustworthy (thiqah), ḥāfiẓ, accused of Irjāʾd. Ibn Ḥibbān said in al-Thiqāt: 204 AH, al-Ṭarsūsī said: 206 AH
   شَبَابَةُ بْنُ سَوَّارٍثقة حافظ , رمي بالإرجاء
   حدثنا
5. 5
   al-Faḍl b. Sahl

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 255 AH
   وَالْفَضْلُ بْنُ سَهْلٍ الْأَعْرَجُصدوق
   حدثني
6. 6
   Muslim

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AH
   مُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه

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

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