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malik:56-2Mālik > Suhayl b. Abū Ṣāliḥ from his father > Abū Hurayrah

Malik related to me from Suhayl ibn Abu Salih from his father from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "When you hear a man say, 'The people are ruined,' he himself is the most ruined of them all."  

مالك:٥٦-٢وَحَدَّثَنِي مَالِكٌ عَنْ سُهَيْلِ بْنِ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ إِذَا سَمِعْتَ الرَّجُلَ يَقُولُ هَلَكَ النَّاسُ فَهُوَ أَهْلَكُهُمْ  


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Collected by Abū Dāwūd, Aḥmad, Ibn Ḥibbān, Suyūṭī
abudawud:4983[Chain 1] al-Qaʿnabī > Mālik [Chain 2] Mūsá b. Ismāʿīl > Ḥammād > Suhayl b. Abū Ṣāliḥ from his father > Abū Hurayrah > Rasūl

The Prophet ﷺ said: When you hear....(Musa's version has): When a man says people have perished, he is the one who has suffered that fate most. Abu Dawud said: Malik said: If he says that out of sadness for the decadence of religion which he sees among the people, I do not think there is any harm in that. If he says that out of self-conceit and servility of the people, it is an abominable act which has been prohibited.  

أبو داود:٤٩٨٣حَدَّثَنَا الْقَعْنَبِيُّ عَنْ مَالِكٍ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ عَنْ سُهَيْلِ بْنِ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ إِذَا سَمِعْتَ وَقَالَ مُوسَى إِذَا قَالَ الرَّجُلُ هَلَكَ النَّاسُ فَهُوَ أَهْلَكُهُمْ  

قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ قَالَ مَالِكٌ إِذَا قَالَ ذَلِكَ تَحَزُّنًا لِمَا يَرَى فِي النَّاسِ يَعْنِي فِي أَمْرِ دِينِهِمْ فَلاَ أَرَى بِهِ بَأْسًا وَإِذَا قَالَ ذَلِكَ عُجْبًا بِنَفْسِهِ وَتَصَاغُرًا لِلنَّاسِ فَهُوَ الْمَكْرُوهُ الَّذِي نُهِيَ عَنْهُ
ahmad:10005Isḥāq > Mālik > Suhayl b. Abū Ṣāliḥ from his father > Abū Hurayrah

[Machine] The messenger of Allah ﷺ said: When you hear a man saying "the people are ruined," he is the one who ruined them.  

أحمد:١٠٠٠٥حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي مَالِكٌ عَنْ سُهَيْلِ بْنِ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنِ أَبِيهِ عَنِ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ إِذَا سَمِعْتَ الرَّجُلَ يَقُولُ هَلَكَ النَّاسُ فَهُوَ أَهْلَكُهُمْ  

ahmad:7685ʿAbd al-Razzāq > Maʿmar > Suhayl from his father > Abū Hurayrah

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "When you hear a person saying that people have been destroyed, he is the one who has destroyed them. He says that he is the destroyer."  

أحمد:٧٦٨٥حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ عَنْ سُهَيْلٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ إِذَا سَمِعْتُمْ رَجُلًا يَقُولُ قَدْ هَلَكَ النَّاسُ فَهُوَ أَهْلَكُهُمْ يَقُولُ إِنَّهُ هُوَ هَالِكٌ  

ahmad:8514ʿAffān > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Suhayl b. Abū Ṣāliḥ from his father > Abū Hurayrah

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "When a man says that the people are destroyed, then he is the one who has destroyed them."  

أحمد:٨٥١٤حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ سُهَيْلِ بْنِ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ إِذَا قَالَ الرَّجُلُ قَدْ هَلَكَ النَّاسُ فَهُوَ أَهْلَكُهُمْ  

ahmad:10697Rawḥ > Mālik > Suhayl b. Abū Ṣāliḥ from his father > Abū Hurayrah

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "When you hear a man saying 'the people are ruined', he is the most ruined among them."  

أحمد:١٠٦٩٧حَدَّثَنَا رَوْحٌ حَدَّثَنَا مَالِكٌ عَنْ سُهَيْلِ بْنِ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ إِذَا سَمِعْتَ الرَّجُلَ يَقُولُ هَلَكَ النَّاسُ فَهُوَ أَهْلَكُهُمْ  

ذِكْرُ الْبَيَانِ بِأَنَّ الْمُزْدَرِي غَيْرَهُ مِنَ النَّاسِ كَانَ هُوَ الْهَالِكَ دُونَهُمْ

ibnhibban:5762ʿUmar b. Saʿīd b. Sinān al-Ṭāʾī > Aḥmad b. Abū Bakr > Mālik > Suhayl from his father > Abū Hurayrah

[Machine] The translation of "أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ «إِذَا سَمِعْتَ الرَّجُلَ يَقُولُ هَلَكَ النَّاسُ فَهُوَ أَهْلَكُهُمْ»" in English is: "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'If you hear a man saying 'people are ruined', he is the one who has ruined them.'"  

ابن حبّان:٥٧٦٢أَخْبَرَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ سَعِيدِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ الطَّائِيُّ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ سُهَيْلٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ «إِذَا سَمِعْتَ الرَّجُلَ يَقُولُ هَلَكَ النَّاسُ فَهُوَ أَهْلَكُهُمْ»