Abu Sa'id al-Khudri reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying:
Reference | : Sahih Muslim 2669a |
In-book reference | : Book 47, Hadith 7 |
USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Book 34, Hadith 6448 |
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Narrated Abu Sa`id:
The Prophet said, "You will follow the wrong ways, of your predecessors so completely and literally that if they should go into the hole of a mastigure, you too will go there." We said, "O Allah's Apostle! Do you mean the Jews and the Christians?" He replied, "Whom else?" (Meaning, of course, the Jews and the Christians.)
Reference | : Sahih al-Bukhari 3456 |
In-book reference | : Book 60, Hadith 123 |
USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Vol. 4, Book 55, Hadith 662 |
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Narrated Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri:
The Prophet 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 Allah's Apostle! (Do you mean) the Jews and the Christians?" He said, "Whom else?"
Reference | : Sahih al-Bukhari 7320 |
In-book reference | : Book 96, Hadith 50 |
USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Vol. 9, Book 92, Hadith 422 |
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Grade: | Hasan (Darussalam) |
Reference | : Sunan Ibn Majah 3994 |
In-book reference | : Book 36, Hadith 69 |
English translation | : Vol. 5, Book 36, Hadith 3994 |