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abudawud:4761Ibn Bashhār > Muʿādh b. Hishām from my father > Qatādah > al-Ḥasan > Ḍabbah b. Miḥṣan al-ʿAnazī > Um Salamah

He who disapproves is guiltless, and he who disapproves is safe. Qatadah said : it means one who feels its disapproval in his heart, and one who expresses disapproval in his heart.  

أبو داود:٤٧٦١حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ بَشَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاذُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي عَنْ قَتَادَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ عَنْ ضَبَّةَ بْنِ مِحْصَنٍ الْعَنَزِيِّ عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِمَعْنَاهُ قَالَ فَمَنْ كَرِهَ فَقَدْ بَرِئَ وَمَنْ أَنْكَرَ فَقَدْ سَلِمَ قَالَ قَتَادَةُ يَعْنِي مَنْ أَنْكَرَ بِقَلْبِهِ وَمَنْ كَرِهَ بِقَلْبِهِ  


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muslim:1854bAbū Ghassān al-Mismaʿī And Muḥammad b. Bashhār > Muʿādh Wa-al-Lafẓ Lʾabī Ghassān > Muʿādh Wahū Ibn Hishām al-Dastawāʾī from my father > Qatādah > al-Ḥasan > Ḍabbah b. Miḥṣan al-ʿAnazī

Amirs will be appointed over you, and you will find them doing good as well as bad deeds. One who hates their bad deeds is absolved from blame. One who disapproves of their bad deeds is (also) safe (so far as Divine wrath is concerned). But one who approves of their bad deeds and imitates them (is doomed). People asked: Messenger of Allah, shouldn't we fight against them? He replied: No, as long as they say their prayer. (" Hating and disapproving" refers to liking and disliking from the heart.)  

مسلم:١٨٥٤bوَحَدَّثَنِي أَبُو غَسَّانَ الْمِسْمَعِيُّ وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ جَمِيعًا عَنْ مُعَاذٍ وَاللَّفْظُ لأَبِي غَسَّانَ حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاذٌ وَهُوَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ الدَّسْتَوَائِيُّ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي عَنْ قَتَادَةَ حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ عَنْ ضَبَّةَ بْنِ مِحْصَنٍ الْعَنَزِيِّ

عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ زَوْجِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ أَنَّهُ قَالَ إِنَّهُ يُسْتَعْمَلُ عَلَيْكُمْ أُمَرَاءُ فَتَعْرِفُونَ وَتُنْكِرُونَ فَمَنْ كَرِهَ فَقَدْ بَرِئَ وَمَنْ أَنْكَرَ فَقَدْ سَلِمَ وَلَكِنْ مَنْ رَضِيَ وَتَابَعَ قَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَلاَ نُقَاتِلُهُمْ قَالَ لاَ مَا صَلَّوْا أَىْ مَنْ كَرِهَ بِقَلْبِهِ وَأَنْكَرَ بِقَلْبِهِ  

muslim:1854cAbū al-Rabīʿ al-ʿAtakī > Ḥammād / Ibn Zayd > al-Muʿallá b. Ziyād And Hishām > al-Ḥasan > Ḍabbah b. Miḥṣan > Um Salamah

Another version of the tradition narrated on the same authority attributes the same words to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ except that it replaces kariha with ankhara and vice versa.  

مسلم:١٨٥٤cوَحَدَّثَنِي أَبُو الرَّبِيعِ الْعَتَكِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ يَعْنِي ابْنَ زَيْدٍ حَدَّثَنَا الْمُعَلَّى بْنُ زِيَادٍ وَهِشَامٌ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ ضَبَّةَ بْنِ مِحْصَنٍ عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ قَالَتْ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ بِنَحْوِ ذَلِكَ غَيْرَ أَنَّهُ قَالَ فَمَنْ أَنْكَرَ فَقَدْ بَرِئَ وَمَنْ كَرِهَ فَقَدْ سَلِمَ