“Even if the one appointed over you is a mutilated Ethiopian slave whose nose and ears have been cut off, listen to him and obey, so long as he leads you according to the Book of Allah.”  

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ إِنْ أُمِّرَ عَلَيْكُمْ عَبْدٌ حَبَشِيٌّ مُجَدَّعٌ فَاسْمَعُوا لَهُ وَأَطِيعُوا مَا قَادَكُمْ بِكِتَابِ اللَّهِ  

[Machine] I heard the Prophet ﷺ deliver a sermon during the Farewell Pilgrimage, saying, "O people, fear Allah and listen and obey. Even if an Abyssinian slave is appointed as your leader and his head is like a raisin, he should be obeyed as long as he upholds the Book of Allah among you."  

سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ يَخْطُبُ فِي حَجَّةِ الْوَدَاعِ يَقُولُ يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ اتَّقُوا اللهَ وَاسْمَعُوا وَأَطِيعُوا وَإِنْ أُمِّرَ عَلَيْكُمْ عَبْدٌ حَبَشِيٌّ مُجَدَّعٌ مَا أَقَامَ فِيكُمْ كِتَابَ اللهِ  

[Machine] I heard the Prophet ﷺ giving a sermon at Arafat during the Farewell Pilgrimage, saying, "O people, fear Allah and listen and obey, even if an Abyssinian slave is appointed as your leader, for indeed whoever among you lives [after me] will see much strife. So hold fast to my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the rightly guided caliphs after me. Adhere to it and cling to it tightly. And beware of newly invented matters [in religion], for every innovation is misguidance."  

سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ بِعَرَفَاتٍ يَخْطُبُ فِي حَجَّةِ الْوَدَاعِ يَقُولُ يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ اتَّقُوا اللهَ وَاسْمَعُوا وَأَطِيعُوا وَإِنْ أُمِّرَ عَلَيْكُمْ عَبْدٌ حَبَشِيٌّ مُجَدَّعٌ مَا أَقَامَ فِيكُمْ كِتَابَ اللهِ ﷻ  

“Even if the one appointed over you is a mutilated Ethiopian slave whose nose and ears have been cut off, listen to him and obey, so long as he leads you according to the Book of Allah.” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 2861)   

سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ يَقُولُ وَهُوَ وَاقِفٌ بِعَرَفَةَ إِنْ أُمِّرَ عَلَيْكُمْ عَبْدٌ حَبَشِيٌّ فَاسْمَعُوا لَهُ وَأَطِيعُوا مَا قَادَكُمْ بِكِتَابِ اللهِ تَعَالَى  

[Machine] I saw the Messenger of Allah, ﷺ , on the evening of Arafat, standing on a camel and wrapped in his cloak, with his right hand raised. I heard him saying, "O people, listen and obey! Even if a slave Abyssinian with a maimed or crooked nose is appointed over you and he leads you according to the Book of Allah."  

رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ عَشِيَّةَ عَرَفَةَ عَلَى بَعِيرٍ وَاقِفًا قَائِلًا بِرِدَائِهِ هَكَذَا وَأَخْرَجَ عَضُدَهُ الْأَيْمَنَ قَالَتْ فَسَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ «اسْمَعُوا وَأَطِيعُوا وَإِنْ أُمِّرَ عَلَيْكُمْ عَبْدٌ حَبَشِيٌّ مُجَدَّعٌ فَأَقَامَ فِيكُمْ كِتَابَ اللهِ»  

[Machine] I heard the Prophet, ﷺ , while he was wearing a cloak and he said, "There has been appointed upon you a servant from Abyssinia who is a caller (to prayer), so listen to him and obey him with regards to the Book of Allah, the Most High."  

سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ وَعَلَيْهِ بُرْدَهُ مُتَلَفِّعٌ بِهَا وَهُوَ يَقُولُ إِنْ «أُمِّرَ عَلَيْكُمْ عَبْدٌ حَبَشِيٌّ مُجَدَّعٌ فَاسْمَعُوا لَهُ مَا أَقَامَ فِيكُمْ كِتَابَ اللهِ تَعَالَى»