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ahmad:8481Yūnus > Layth > Muḥammad > Saʿīd b. Abū Saʿīd > Abū Hurayrah

[Machine] "On the authority of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ , he said: I only speak the truth. Some of his companions said: O Messenger of Allah, you jest with us. He replied: I only speak the truth."  

أحمد:٨٤٨١حَدَّثَنَا يُونُسُ حَدَّثَنَا لَيْثٌ عَنْ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

عَنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ أَنَّهُ قَالَ إِنِّي لَا أَقُولُ إِلَّا حَقًّا قَالَ بَعْضُ أَصْحَابِهِ فَإِنَّكَ تُدَاعِبُنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ فَقَالَ إِنِّي لَا أَقُولُ إِلَّا حَقًّا  


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bayhaqi:21173Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ And ʾAbū Muḥammad b. Abū Ḥāmid al-Muqriʾ > Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb > al-ʿAbbās b. Muḥammad al-Dūrī > ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan > ʿAbdullāh b. al-Mubārak > Usāmah b. Zayd > Saʿīd al-Maqburī > Abū Hurayrah

"They said: 'O Messenger of Allah! You joke with us?' He said: 'Indeed I do not say except what is true.'" (Hasan)' (Using translation from Tirmidhī 1990)   

البيهقي:٢١١٧٣أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ وَأَبُو مُحَمَّدِ بْنُ أَبِي حَامِدٍ الْمُقْرِئُ قَالَا ثنا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ ثنا الْعَبَّاسُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الدُّورِيُّ ثنا عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ ثنا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ عَنْ أُسَامَةَ بْنِ زَيْدٍ عَنْ سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ قَالَ

قِيلَ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ إِنَّكَ تُدَاعِبُنَا فَقَالَ إِنِّي لَا أَقُولُ إِلَّا حَقًّا