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ذِكْرُ ابْتِغَاءِ الْفَضْلِ وَالصَّلَاحِ لِمُسْتَوْطِنِ الشَّامِ

ibnhibban:7302Abū Yaʿlá > al-Muqaddamī > Yaḥyá > Shuʿbah > Muʿāwiyah b. Qurrah from his father

[Machine] The Prophet ﷺ said: "If the people of Sham become corrupt, there is no good in all of you."  

ابن حبّان:٧٣٠٢أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو يَعْلَى حَدَّثَنَا الْمُقَدَّمِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى عَنْ شُعْبَةَ عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ قُرَّةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ «إِذَا فَسَدَ أَهْلُ الشَّامِ فَلَا خَيْرَ فِيكُمْ»  


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Collected by Ibn Ḥibbān, Ṭabarānī, Suyūṭī

ذِكْرُ الْإِخْبَارِ عَلَى أَنَّ الْفَسَادَ إِذَا عَمَّ فِي الشَّامِ يَعُمُّ ذَلِكَ فِي سَائِرِ الْمُدُنِ

ibnhibban:7303al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān > Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > Yazīd b. Hārūn > Shuʿbah > Muʿāwiyah b. Qurrah from his father

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "When the people of Sham (a region in present-day Syria) are corrupted, there is no good in you."  

ابن حبّان:٧٣٠٣أَخْبَرَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ قُرَّةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «إِذَا فَسَدَ أَهْلُ الشَّامِ فَلَا خَيْرَ فِيكُمْ»  

tabarani:16167al-Miqdām b. Dāwud > Asad b. Mūsá > Wakīʿ > Shuʿbah > Muʿāwiyah b. Qurrah from his father

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "If the people of Sham (Syria and its surroundings) are corrupt, there is no good in you."  

الطبراني:١٦١٦٧حَدَّثَنَا الْمِقْدَامُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ ثنا أَسَدُ بْنُ مُوسَى ثنا وَكِيعٌ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ قُرَّةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «إِذَا فَسَدَ أَهْلُ الشَّامِ فَلَا خَيْرَ فِيكُمْ»