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muslim:1735dḤarmalah b. Yaḥyá > Ibn Wahb > Yūnus > Ibn Shihāb > Ḥamzah Wasālim Āb.a ʿAbdullāh > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar

There will be a flag for every perfidious person on the Day of Judgment.  

مسلم:١٧٣٥dحَدَّثَنِي حَرْمَلَةُ بْنُ يَحْيَى أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ أَخْبَرَنِي يُونُسُ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ عَنْ حَمْزَةَ وَسَالِمٍ ابْنَىْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ أَنَّ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عُمَرَ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ لِكُلِّ غَادِرٍ لِوَاءٌ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ  


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Collected by Bukhārī, Muslim, Aḥmad, Dārimī, Nasāʾī's Kubrá
bukhari:3188Sulaymān b. Ḥarb > Ḥammād > Ayyūb > Nāfiʿ > Ibn ʿUmar

The Prophet ﷺ said, "Every betrayer will have a flag which will be fixed on the Day of Resurrection, and the flag's prominence will be made in order to show the betrayal he committed."  

البخاري:٣١٨٨حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ عَنْ أَيُّوبَ عَنْ نَافِعٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ ؓ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ يَقُولُ لِكُلِّ غَادِرٍ لِوَاءٌ يُنْصَبُ لِغَدْرَتِهِ  

muslim:1736a[Chain 1] Muḥammad b. al-Muthanná And Ibn Bashhār > Ibn Abū ʿAdī [Chain 2] Bishr b. Khālid > Muḥammad / Ibn Jaʿfar > Shuʿbah > Sulaymān > Abū Wāʾil > ʿAbdullāh

There will be a flag for every perfidious person on the Day of Judgment, and it would be said: Here is the perfidy of so and so.  

مسلم:١٧٣٦aوَحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى وَابْنُ بَشَّارٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي عَدِيٍّ ح وَحَدَّثَنِي بِشْرُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدٌ يَعْنِي ابْنَ جَعْفَرٍ كِلاَهُمَا عَنْ شُعْبَةَ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ لِكُلِّ غَادِرٍ لِوَاءٌ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ يُقَالُ هَذِهِ غَدْرَةُ فُلاَنٍ  

muslim:1737Muḥammad b. al-Muthanná And ʿUbayd Allāh b. Saʿīd > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Mahdī > Shuʿbah > Thābit > Anas

There would be a flag for every perfidious person on the Day of Judgment by which he will be recognised.  

مسلم:١٧٣٧حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى وَعُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ عَنْ ثَابِتٍ عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لِكُلِّ غَادِرٍ لِوَاءٌ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ يُعْرَفُ بِهِ  

ahmad:13857ʿAffān > Shuʿbah > Thābit > Anas

There would be a flag for every perfidious person on the Day of Judgment by which he will be recognised. (Using translation from Muslim 1737)  

أحمد:١٣٨٥٧حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ ثَابِتٍ عَنْ أَنَسٍ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ لِكُلِّ غَادِرٍ لِوَاءٌ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ يُعْرَفُ بِهِ  

ahmad:13612ʿAffān > Shuʿbah > Thābit > Anas

The Prophet ﷺ said, ''Every betrayer will have a flag on the Day of Resurrection" One of the two subnarrators said that the flag would be fixed, and the other said that it would be shown on the Day of Resurrection, so that the betrayer might be recognized by it. (Using translation from Bukhārī 3186)  

أحمد:١٣٦١٢حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ ثَابِتٍ عَنْ أَنَسٍ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ لِكُلِّ غَادِرٍ لِوَاءٌ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ  

ahmad:5968al-Faḍl > Sufyān > ʿAbdullāh b. Dīnār > Ibn ʿUmar

There would be a flag for every perfidious person on the Day of Judgment by which he will be recognised. (Using translation from Muslim 1737)  

أحمد:٥٩٦٨حَدَّثَنَا الْفَضْلُ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ دِينَارٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لِكُلِّ غَادِرٍ لِوَاءٌ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ يُعْرَفُ بِهِ  

ahmad:5457Ḥasan > Shaybān > Yaḥyá > a man > Ibn ʿUmar

There will be a flag for every perfidious person on the Day of Judgment, and it would be said: Here is the perfidy of so and so. (Using translation from Muslim 1736a)  

أحمد:٥٤٥٧حَدَّثَنَا حَسَنٌ حَدَّثَنَا شَيْبَانُ عَنْ يَحْيَى حَدَّثَنِي رَجُلٌ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ ابْنَ عُمَرَ يَقُولُ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لِكُلِّ غَادِرٍ لِوَاءٌ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ يُقَالُ هَذِهِ غَدْرَةُ فُلَانٍ  

ahmad:5915Muʾammal > Ḥammād / Ibn Zayd > Ayyūb > Nāfiʿ > Ibn ʿUmar

When the people of Medina dethroned Yazid bin Muawiya, Ibn ʿUmar gathered his special friends and children and said, "I heard the Prophet ﷺ saying, 'A flag will be fixed for every betrayer on the Day of Resurrection,' and we have given the oath of allegiance to this person (Yazid) in accordance with the conditions enjoined by Allah and His Apostle and I do not know of anything more faithless than fighting a person who has been given the oath of allegiance in accordance with the conditions enjoined by Allah and His Apostle , and if ever I learn that any person among you has agreed to dethrone Yazid, by giving the oath of allegiance (to somebody else) then there will be separation between him and me." (Using translation from Bukhārī 7111)  

أحمد:٥٩١٥حَدَّثَنَا مُؤَمَّلٌ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ يَعْنِي ابْنَ زَيْدٍ عَنْ أَيُّوبَ عَنْ نَافِعٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ النِّبِيَّ ﷺ يَقُولُ يُنْصَبُ لِكُلِّ غَادِرٍ لِوَاءٌ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ  

ahmad:11616ʿAffān > Shuʿbah > Khulayd b. Jaʿfar > Abū Naḍrah > Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī

On the Day of Judgment there will be a flag fixed behind the buttocks of every person guilty of the breach of faith. (Using translation from Muslim 1738a)  

أحمد:١١٦١٦حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ خُلَيْدِ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ أَبِي نَضْرَةَ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ لِكُلِّ غَادِرٍ لِوَاءٌ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ عِنْدَ اسْتِهِ  

ahmad:12518Sulaymān b. Dāwud > Abū And ʾAmlāh ʿAlaynā / Abū Dāwud Maʿ ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī > Shuʿbah > Thābit > Anas

[Machine] On the authority of the Prophet ﷺ , he said: "For every traitor, there will be a flag that I consider on the Day of Resurrection."  

أحمد:١٢٥١٨حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ قَالَ أَبِي وَأَمْلَاهُ عَلَيْنَا يَعْنِي أَبَا دَاوُدَ مَعَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْمَدِينِيِّ فَقَالَ قَالَ شُعْبَةُ أَخْبَرَنِي ثَابِتٌ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَنَسًا

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ لِكُلِّ غَادِرٍ لِوَاءٌ أَحْسَبُهُ قَالَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ  

ahmad:12443Abū al-Walīd > Shuʿbah > Thābit > Anas

There would be a flag for every perfidious person on the Day of Judgment by which he will be recognised. (Using translation from Muslim 1737)  

أحمد:١٢٤٤٣حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْوَلِيدِ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ ثَابِتٍ عَنْ أَنَسٍ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ لِكُلِّ غَادِرٍ لِوَاءٌ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ يُعْرَفُ بِهِ  

ahmad:3900ʿAffān > Shuʿbah > Sulaymān al-Aʿmash > Abū Wāʾil > ʿAbdullāh

The Prophet ﷺ said, ''Every betrayer will have a flag on the Day of Resurrection" One of the two subnarrators said that the flag would be fixed, and the other said that it would be shown on the Day of Resurrection, so that the betrayer might be recognized by it. (Using translation from Bukhārī 3186)  

أحمد:٣٩٠٠حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ لِكُلِّ غَادِرٍ لِوَاءٌ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ  

darimi:2584Saʿīd b. al-Rabīʿ > Shuʿbah > Sulaymān > Abū Wāʾil > ʿAbdullāh

There will be a flag for every perfidious person on the Day of Judgment, and it would be said: Here is the perfidy of so and so. (Using translation from Muslim 1736a)  

الدارمي:٢٥٨٤حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ الرَّبِيعِ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا وَائِلٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ لِكُلِّ غَادِرٍ لِوَاءٌ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ يُقَالُ هَذِهِ غَدْرَةُ فُلَانٍ  

nasai-kubra:8685Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm > al-Naḍr b. Shumayl > Shuʿbah > Sulaymān > Abū Wāʾil > ʿAbdullāh

There will be a flag for every perfidious person on the Day of Judgment, and it would be said: Here is the perfidy of so and so. (Using translation from Muslim 1736a)  

الكبرى للنسائي:٨٦٨٥أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا النَّضْرُ بْنُ شُمَيْلٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا وَائِلٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ

عَنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ «لِكُلِّ غَادِرٍ لِوَاءٌ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ» يُقَالُ «هَذِهِ غَدْرَةُ فُلَانٍ»