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ahmad:1558 – Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd > ʿUmar b. Nubayh > Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Qarrāẓ > Saʿd b. Mālik

[Machine] Narrated by Umar ibn Nubayh, Abu Abdullah al-Qarrazh said: I heard Saad ibn Malik saying that he heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saying, "Whoever intends evil or harm for the people of Medina, Allah will dissolve him like salt dissolves in water."  

أحمد:١٥٥٨ – حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ

عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ نُبَيْهٍ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْقَرَّاظُ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ سَعْدَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ مَنْ أرَادَ أَهْلَ الْمَدِينَةِ بِدَهْمٍ أَوْ بِسُوءٍ أَذَابَهُ اللهُ كَمَا يَذُوبُ الْمِلْحُ فِي الْمَاءِ  

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muslim:1387a – Qutaybah b. Saʿīd > Ḥātim / Ibn Ismāʿīl > ʿUmar b. Nubayh > Dīnār al-Qarrāẓ > Saʿd b. Abū Waqqāṣ

He who intends to do harm to the people of Medina, Allah would efface him just as water dissolves salt.  

مسلم:١٣٨٧a – حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا حَاتِمٌ يَعْنِي ابْنَ إِسْمَاعِيلَ

عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ نُبَيْهٍ أَخْبَرَنِي دِينَارٌ الْقَرَّاظُ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ سَعْدَ بْنَ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ يَقُولُ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ مَنْ أَرَادَ أَهْلَ الْمَدِينَةِ بِسُوءٍ أَذَابَهُ اللَّهُ كَمَا يَذُوبُ الْمِلْحُ فِي الْمَاءِ  

ahmad:8089 – ʿAbd al-Razzāq > Ibn Jurayj > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Yūḥannis > Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Qarrāẓ > Ashhad al-Thalāth > Abū Hurayrah

[Machine] "He said that Abu Al-Qasim said: Whoever intends harm for the people of the town, meaning the people of the city, Allah will dissolve him like salt dissolves in water."  

أحمد:٨٠٨٩ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ أَخْبَرَنِي عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ يُوحَنِّسَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ الْقَرَّاظِ أَنَّهُ قَالَ أَشْهَدُ الثَّلَاثَ عَلَى أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

أَنَّهُ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو الْقَاسِمِ مَنْ أَرَادَ أَهْلَ الْبَلْدَةِ بِسُوءٍ يَعْنِي أَهْلَ الْمَدِينَةِ أَذَابَهُ اللهُ كَمَا يَذُوبُالْمِلْحُ فِي الْمَاءِ  

ahmad:8687 – Sulaymān > Ismāʿīl > Muḥammad

[Machine] "He heard Abu Abdullah Al-Qarraz screaming in the mosque, saying that Abu Hurairah told me that the Prophet ﷺ said: 'Whoever wishes harm upon the people of Medina, Allah will melt him like salt dissolves in water.'"  

أحمد:٨٦٨٧ – حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ أَخْبَرَنِي مُحَمَّدٌ

أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللهِ الْقَرَّاظَ يَصِيحُ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ يَقُولُ أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ مَنْ أَرَادَ أَهْلَ الْمَدِينَةِ بِسُوءٍ أَذَابَهُ اللهُ كَمَا يَذُوبُ الْمِلْحُ فِي الْمَاءِ  

ahmad:7755 – ʿAbd al-Razzāq > Ibn Jurayj > ʿAmr b. Yaḥyá b. ʿUmārah

[Machine] "He heard the Qarraza, and he was one of the companions of Abu Hurayrah who claimed that he heard Abu Hurayrah say that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'Whosoever wishes harm upon its people, meaning the city (referring to Medina), Allah will dissolve him as salt dissolves in water.'"  

أحمد:٧٧٥٥ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ أَخْبَرَنِي عَمْرُو بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ عُمَارَةَ

أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ الْقَرَّاظَ وَكَانَ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ يَزْعُمُ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ يَقُولُ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ مَنْ أَرَادَ أَهْلَهَا بِسُوءٍ يَعْنِي الْمَدِينَةَ أَذَابَهُ اللهُ كَمَا يَذُوبُ الْمِلْحُ فِي الْمَاءِ  

nasai-kubra:4253 – ʿAmr b. ʿAlī > Yaḥyá > ʿUmar b. Nubayh > Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Qarrāẓ > Saʿd b. Mālik

“Whoever wishes bad upon the people of Al-Madinah, Allah will cause him to melt as salt melts in water.” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 3114)  

الكبرى للنسائي:٤٢٥٣ – أَخْبَرَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ نُبَيْهٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْقَرَّاظُ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ سَعْدَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ يَقُولُ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ «مَنْ أَرَادَ أَهْلَ الْمَدِينَةِ بِسُوءٍ أَذَابَهُ اللهُ كَمَا يَذُوبُ الْمِلْحُ فِي الْمَاءِ»