You would tread the same path as was trodden by those before you inch by inch and step by step so much so that if they had entered into the hole of the lizard, you would follow them in this also. We said: Messenger of Allah, do you mean Jews and Christians (by your words)" those before you"? He said: Who else (than those two religious groups)?  

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لَتَتَّبِعُنَّ سَنَنَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ شِبْرًا بِشِبْرٍ وَذِرَاعًا بِذِرَاعٍ حَتَّى لَوْ دَخَلُوا فِي جُحْرِ ضَبٍّ لاَتَّبَعْتُمُوهُمْ قُلْنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ آلْيَهُودَ وَالنَّصَارَى قَالَ فَمَنْ  

This hadith is reported through Muhammad bin Muttarif from Zayd bin Aslam with the same chain.  

عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ بِهَذَا الإِسْنَادِ نَحْوَهُ  

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of 'Ata' b. Yasir through another chain of transmitters.  

عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ وَذَكَرَ الْحَدِيثَ نَحْوَهُ