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ahmad:3248 – Yaḥyá And ʾIsmāʿīl al-Maʿná > ʿAwf > Ziyād b. Ḥuṣayn > Abū al-ʿĀliyah al-Riyāḥī > Ibn ʿAbbās > Yaḥyá Lā Yadrī ʿAwf ʿAbdullāh or al-Faḍl

[Machine] Yahya does not know if 'Awf is a servant of Allah or virtuous. He said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me in the morning of Al-Aqaba while he was standing on his camel, 'Bring me the pebbles.' So I picked up some pebbles that were like the projectiles used during Al-Khath' (a type of stoning). He took them in his hand and said, 'With such pebbles, I have stoned twice.' Then he raised his hand and signaled to Yahya to give them to him. He said, 'Beware of extremism, for those before you were destroyed by extremism in religion."  

أحمد:٣٢٤٨ – حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى وَإِسْمَاعِيلُ الْمَعْنَى قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا عَوْفٌ حَدَّثَنِي زِيَادُ بْنُ حُصَيْنٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْعَالِيَةِ الرِّيَاحِيِّ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

يَحْيَى لَا يَدْرِي عَوْفٌ عَبْدُ اللهِ أَوِ الْفَضْلُ؟ قَالَ قَالَ لِي رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ غَدَاةَ الْعَقَبَةِ وَهُوَ وَاقِفٌ عَلَى رَاحِلَتِهِ هَاتِ الْقُطْ لِي فَلَقَطْتُ لَهُ حَصَيَاتٍ هُنَّ حَصَى الْخَذْفِ فَوَضَعَهُنَّ فِي يَدِهِ فَقَالَ بِأَمْثَالِ هَؤُلَاءِ مَرَّتَيْنِ وَقَالَ بِيَدِهِ فَأَشَارَ يَحْيَى أَنَّهُ رَفَعَهَا وَقَالَ إِيَّاكُمْ وَالْغُلُوَّ؛ فَإِنَّمَا هَلَكَ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ بِالْغُلُوِّ فِي الدِّينِ  

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Collected by Nasāʾī, Aḥmad, Ḥākim, Ibn Ḥibbān, Nasāʾī's Kubrá, Bayhaqī
nasai:3057 – Yaʿqūb b. Ibrāhīm al-Dawraqī > Ibn ʿUlayyah > ʿAwf > Ziyād b. Ḥuṣayn > Abū al-ʿĀliyah > Ibn ʿAbbās

"Ibn Abbas said: "On the morning of Al-Aqabah, while he was on his mount, the Messenger of Allah said to me: "Pick up (some pebbles) for me." So I picked up some pebbles for him that were the size of date stones or fingertips, and when I placed them in his hand he said: "Like these. And beware of going to extremes in religious matters, for those who came before you were destroyed because of going to extremes in religious matters."  

النسائي:٣٠٥٧ – أَخْبَرَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الدَّوْرَقِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ عُلَيَّةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَوْفٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا زِيَادُ بْنُ حُصَيْنٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْعَالِيَةِ قَالَ قَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

لِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ غَدَاةَ الْعَقَبَةِ وَهُوَ عَلَى رَاحِلَتِهِ هَاتِ الْقُطْ لِي فَلَقَطْتُ لَهُ حَصَيَاتٍ هُنَّ حَصَى الْخَذْفِ فَلَمَّا وَضَعْتُهُنَّ فِي يَدِهِ قَالَ بِأَمْثَالِ هَؤُلاَءِ وَإِيَّاكُمْ وَالْغُلُوَّ فِي الدِّينِ فَإِنَّمَا أَهْلَكَ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمُ الْغُلُوُّ فِي الدِّينِ  

ahmad:1851 – Hushaym > ʿAwf > Ziyād b. Ḥuṣayn > Abū al-ʿĀliyah > Ibn ʿAbbās

"Ibn Abbas said: "On the morning of Al-Aqabah, while he was on his mount, the Messenger of Allah said to me: "Pick up (some pebbles) for me." So I picked up some pebbles for him that were the size of date stones or fingertips, and when I placed them in his hand he said: "Like these. And beware of going to extremes in religious matters, for those who came before you were destroyed because of going to extremes in religious matters." (Using translation from Nasāʾī 3057)   

أحمد:١٨٥١ – حَدَّثَنَا هُشَيْمٌ أَخْبَرَنَا عَوْفٌ عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْعَالِيَةِ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ قَالَ

لِي رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ غَدَاةَ جَمْعٍ هَلُمَّ الْقُطْ لِي فَلَقَطْتُ لَهُ حَصَيَاتٍ هُنَّ حَصَى الْخَذْفِ فَلَمَّا وَضَعَهُنَّ فِي يَدِهِ قَالَ نَعَمْ بِأَمْثَالِ هَؤُلاءِ وَإِيَّاكُمْ وَالْغُلُوَّ فِي الدِّينِ فَإِنَّمَا هَلَكَ مَنْكَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ بِالْغُلُوِّ فِي الدِّينِ  

hakim:1711 – Aḥmad b. Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. Naṣr al-Khawwāṣ > al-Ḥārith b. Muḥammad al-Tamīmī > Abū al-Naḍr Hāshim b. al-Qāsim > ʿAwf b. Abū Jamīlah > Aḥmad b. Jaʿfar al-Qaṭīʿī > ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal from my father > Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar > ʿAwf > Ziyād b. al-Ḥuṣayn > Abū al-ʿĀliyah > Lī Ibn ʿAbbās

"Ibn Abbas said: "On the morning of Al-Aqabah, while he was on his mount, the Messenger of Allah said to me: "Pick up (some pebbles) for me." So I picked up some pebbles for him that were the size of date stones or fingertips, and when I placed them in his hand he said: "Like these. And beware of going to extremes in religious matters, for those who came before you were destroyed because of going to extremes in religious matters." (Using translation from Nasāʾī 3057)   

الحاكم:١٧١١ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ نَصْرٍ الْخَوَّاصُ ثنا الْحَارِثُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ التَّمِيمِيُّ ثنا أَبُو النَّضْرِ هَاشِمُ بْنُ الْقَاسِمِ ثنا عَوْفُ بْنُ أَبِي جَمِيلَةَ وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ الْقَطِيعِيُّ ثنا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ حَنْبَلٍ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ ثنا عَوْفٌ عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ الْحُصَيْنِ ثنا أَبُو الْعَالِيَةِ قَالَ قَالَ لِي ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

لِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ غَدَاةَ الْعَقَبَةِ «هَاتِ الْقُطْ لِي حَصَيَاتٍ مِنْ حَصَى الْخَذْفِ» فَلَمَّا وُضِعْنَ فِي يَدِهِ قَالَ «بِأَمْثَالِ هَؤُلَاءِ بِأَمْثَالِ هَؤُلَاءِ وَإِيَّاكُمْ وَالْغُلُوَّ فِي الدِّينِ فَإِنَّمَا هَلَكَ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ بِالْغُلُوِّ فِي الدِّينِ»  

هَذَا حَدِيثٌ صَحِيحٌ عَلَى شَرْطِ الشَّيْخَيْنِ وَلَمْ يُخَرِّجَاهُ

ذِكْرُ وَصْفِ الْحَصَى الَّتِي تُرْمَى بِهَا الْجِمَارُ

ibnhibban:3871 – al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān > Ḥibbān > ʿAbdullāh > ʿAwf > Ziyād b. Ḥuṣayn > Abū al-ʿĀliyah > Ibn ʿAbbās

"Ibn Abbas said: "On the morning of Al-Aqabah, while he was on his mount, the Messenger of Allah said to me: "Pick up (some pebbles) for me." So I picked up some pebbles for him that were the size of date stones or fingertips, and when I placed them in his hand he said: "Like these. And beware of going to extremes in religious matters, for those who came before you were destroyed because of going to extremes in religious matters." (Using translation from Nasāʾī 3057)  

ابن حبّان:٣٨٧١ – أَخْبَرَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حِبَّانُ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا عَوْفٌ عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو الْعَالِيَةِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «غَدَاةَ الْعَقَبَةِ » وَهُوَ وَاقِفٌ عَلَى رَاحِلَتِهِ هَاتِ الْقُطْ لِي فَلَقَطْتُ لَهُ حَصَيَاتٍ وَهِيَ حَصَى الْخَذْفِ فَلَمَّا وَضَعْتُهُنَّ فِي يَدِهِ قَالَ «نَعَمْ بِأَمْثَالِ هَؤُلَاءِ بِأَمْثَالِ هَؤُلَاءِ وَإِيَّاكُمْ وَالْغُلُوَّ فِي الدِّينِ فَإِنَّمَا أَهْلَكَ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمُ الْغُلُوُّ فِي الدِّينِ»  

nasai-kubra:4049 – Yaʿqūb b. Ibrāhīm al-Dawraqī > Ibn ʿUlayyah > ʿAwf > Ziyād b. Ḥuṣayn > Abū al-ʿĀliyah > Ibn ʿAbbās

"Ibn Abbas said: "On the morning of Al-Aqabah, while he was on his mount, the Messenger of Allah said to me: "Pick up (some pebbles) for me." So I picked up some pebbles for him that were the size of date stones or fingertips, and when I placed them in his hand he said: "Like these. And beware of going to extremes in religious matters, for those who came before you were destroyed because of going to extremes in religious matters." (Using translation from Nasāʾī 3057)  

الكبرى للنسائي:٤٠٤٩ – أَخْبَرَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الدَّوْرَقِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ عُلَيَّةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَوْفٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا زِيَادُ بْنُ حُصَيْنٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْعَالِيَةِ قَالَ قَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

لِي رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ غَدَاةَ الْعَقَبَةِ وَهُوَ عَلَى رَاحِلَتِهِ «هَاتِ الْتَقِطْ لِي» فَلَقَطْتُ لَهُ حَصَيَاتٍ هُنَّ حَصَى الْخَذْفِ فَلَمَّا وَضَعْتُهُنَّ فِي يَدِهِ قَالَ «بِأَمْثَالِ هَؤُلَاءِ بِأَمْثَالِ هَؤُلَاءِ وَإِيَّاكُمْ وَالْغُلُوَّ فِي الدِّينِ فَإِنَّمَا أَهْلَكَ مَنْ قِبْلَكُمُ الْغُلُوُّ فِي الدِّينِ»  

bayhaqi:9534 – Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdullāh b. Yaḥyá b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Sukkarī > Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad al-Ṣaffār > Aḥmad b. Manṣūr al-Ramādī > ʿAbd al-Razzāq > Jaʿfar b. Sulaymān > ʿAwf > Ziyād b. al-Ḥuṣayn > Abū al-ʿĀliyah > Ibn ʿAbbās > al-Faḍl b. ʿAbbās

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah, ﷺ , said to me on the morning of the day of sacrifice, "Bring me pebbles." So, I gathered pebbles for him, as many as the pebbles used in al-Kadhf (stoning the Devil during Hajj rituals). I placed them in his hand, and he said, "With these (pebbles), may the likes of these (people) be destroyed." And he warned against extremism, saying, "Beware of extremism in religion, for indeed, what destroyed those who came before you was extremism in religion."  

البيهقي:٩٥٣٤ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ السُّكَّرِيُّ بِبَغْدَادَ أنبأ إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الصَّفَّارُ ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ الرَّمَادِيُّ ثنا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ أنبأ جَعْفَرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ ثنا عَوْفٌ عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ الْحُصَيْنِ عَنْ أَبِي الْعَالِيَةِ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ يَقُولُ حَدَّثَنِي الْفَضْلُ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

قَالَ لِي رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ غَدَاةَ يَوْمِ النَّحْرِ هَاتِ فَالْقُطْ لِي حَصًى فَلَقَطْتُ لَهُ حَصَيَاتٍ مِثْلَ حَصَى الْخَذْفِ فَوَضَعْتُهُنَّ فِي يَدِهِ فَقَالَ بِأَمْثَالِ هَؤُلَاءِ بِأَمْثَالِ هَؤُلَاءِ وَإِيَّاكُمْ وَالْغُلُوَّ فَإِنَّمَا أَهْلَكَ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمُ الْغُلُوُّ فِي الدِّينِ