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muslim:157gAbū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > ʿAbd al-Aʿlá > Maʿmar > al-Zuhrī > Saʿīd > Abū Hurayrah

The time would draw close to the Last Hour and knowledge would decrease. The rest of the hadith is the same.  

مسلم:١٥٧gحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الأَعْلَى عَنْ مَعْمَرٍ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ يَتَقَارَبُ الزَّمَانُ وَيَنْقُصُ الْعِلْمُ ثُمَّ ذَكَرَ مِثْلَ حَدِيثِهِمَا  


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muslim:157fʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Dārimī > Abū al-Yamān > Shuʿayb > al-Zuhrī > Ḥumayd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Zuhrī > Abū Hurayrah

This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Abu Huraira with a slight variation of wording.  

مسلم:١٥٧fحَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الدَّارِمِيُّ أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْيَمَانِ أَخْبَرَنَا شُعَيْبٌ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ حَدَّثَنِي حُمَيْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الزُّهْرِيُّ أَنَّ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَتَقَارَبُ الزَّمَانُ وَيُقْبَضُ الْعِلْمُ ثُمَّ ذَكَرَ مِثْلَهُ  

muslim:2203cMuḥammad b. Rāfiʿ > ʿAbd al-Razzāq > Sufyān > Saʿīd al-Jurayrī > Yazīd b. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Shikhhīr

This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of 'Uthman b. Abu al-'As with a slight variation of wording.  

مسلم:٢٢٠٣cوَحَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ رَافِعٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ سَعِيدٍ الْجُرَيْرِيِّ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الشِّخِّيرِ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ أَبِي الْعَاصِ الثَّقَفِيِّ قَالَ

قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ثُمَّ ذَكَرَ بِمِثْلِ حَدِيثِهِمْ