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bayhaqi:2236Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ > Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb > Muḥammad b. Khālid > Aḥmad b. Khālid al-Wahbī > Isrāʾīl > Abū Ḥuṣayn > Yaḥyá b. And Thhāb > Masrūq > ʿAbdullāh / Ibn Masʿūd

[Machine] "He said, 'Do not blindly follow the religion of men, for if you refuse, then follow the deceased, not the living.'"  

البيهقي:٢٢٣٦أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ ثنا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ الْوَهْبِيُّ ثنا إِسْرَائِيلُ عَنْ أَبِي حُصَيْنٍ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ وَثَّابٍ عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ يَعْنِي ابْنَ مَسْعُودٍ

أَنَّهُ قَالَ لَا تُقَلِّدُوا دِينَكُمُ الرِّجَالَ فَإِنْ أَبَيْتُمْ فَبِالْأَمْوَاتِ لَا بِالْأَحْيَاءِ