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Sahih Muslim 147

Clarifying that Islam started as something strange, and will revert to being something strange, and it will retreat between the two Masajid

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ نُمَيْرٍ وَأَبُو أُسَامَةَ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ نُمَيْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ عَنْ خُبَيْبِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ حَفْصِ بْنِ عَاصِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ

إِنَّ الإِيمَانَ لَيَأْرِزُ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ كَمَا تَأْرِزُ الْحَيَّةُ إِلَى جُحْرِهَا

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. [Chain 1] Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah
  2. ʿAbdullāh b. Numayr and ʾAbū Usāmah
  3. ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿUmar [Chain 2] Ibn Numayr
  4. my father
  5. ʿUbaydullāh
  6. Khubayb b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman
  7. Ḥafṣ b. ʿĀṣim
  8. Abū Hurayrah
  9. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

Verily the faith would recede to Medina just as the serpent crawls back into its hole.

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Misykatul Mashabih 160وَعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّ الْإِيمَانَ لَيَأْرِزُ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ كَمَا تأرز الحيية إِلَى جحرها»
  • Shahih al-Bukhari 1876إِنَّ الإِيمَانَ لَيَأْرِزُ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ كَمَا تَأْرِزُ الْحَيَّةُ إِلَى جُحْرِهَا
  • Sunan Ibnu Majah 3111إِنَّ الإِيمَانَ لَيَأْرِزُ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ كَمَا تَأْرِزُ الْحَيَّةُ إِلَى جُحْرِهَا

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
    أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
    عن
  2. حَفْصِ بْنِ عَاصِمٍثقة
    عن
  3. trustworthy (thiqah)d. 132 AH
    خُبَيْبِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقة
    عن
  4. trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 144 AH or 145 AH or 146 AH or 147 AH
    عُبَيْدُ اللهِثقة ثبت
    حدثنا
  5. Trustworthy (thiqah), a man of hadith, from the people of the Sunnah (ahl al-sunnah)d. 199 AH
    أَبِيثقة ، صاحب حديث من أهل السنة
    حدثنا
  6. trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), virtuous (fāḍil)d. 234 AH
    ابْنُ نُمَيْرٍثقة حافظ فاضل
    حدثنا
  7. 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

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Commentaries

al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)

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