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nasai:5711Muḥammad b. Abān > ʿAbdullāh b. Idrīs > Shuʿbah > Burayd b. Abū Maryam > Abū al-Ḥawrāʾ al-Saʿdī

"I said to Al-Hasan bin 'Ali, may Allah be pleased with him: 'What did you memorize from the Messenger of Allah [SAW]?' He said: I memorized from him: 'Leave that which makes you doubt for that which does not make you doubt.'"  

النسائي:٥٧١١أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ قَالَ أَنْبَأَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ بُرَيْدِ بْنِ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَوْرَاءِ السَّعْدِيِّ قَالَ

قُلْتُ لِلْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ ؓ مَا حَفِظْتَ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ حَفِظْتُ مِنْهُ دَعْ مَا يَرِيبُكَ إِلَى مَا لاَ يَرِيبُكَ  


See similar narrations below:

Collected by Tirmidhī, Dārimī, Nasāʾī's Kubrá

Hold on to what brings certainty and leave that which makes you doubt

tirmidhi:2518Abū Mūsá al-Anṣārī > ʿAbdullāh b. Idrīs > Shuʿbah > Burayd b. Abū Maryam > Abū al-Ḥawrāʾ al-Saʿdī

I said to al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī: What did you memorize from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ? He said: I memorized from him: "Leave what makes you doubt for what does not make you doubt. The truth brings tranquility while falsehood sows doubt."  

Another chain reports a similar narration.
الترمذي:٢٥١٨حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُوسَى الأَنْصَارِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ بُرَيْدِ بْنِ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَوْرَاءِ السَّعْدِيِّ قَالَ

قُلْتُ لِلْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ: مَا حَفِظْتَ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ؟ قَالَ: حَفِظْتُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ: «دَعْ مَا يَرِيبُكَ إِلَى مَا لاَ يَرِيبُكَ، فَإِنَّ الصِّدْقَ طُمَأْنِينَةٌ وَإِنَّ الْكَذِبَ رِيبَةٌ۔»  

وَفِي الْحَدِيثِ قِصَّةٌ قَالَ وَأَبُو الْحَوْرَاءِ السَّعْدِيُّ اسْمُهُ رَبِيعَةُ بْنُ شَيْبَانَ قَالَ وَهَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ حَدَّثَنَا بُنْدَارٌ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ بُرَيْدٍ فَذَكَرَ نَحْوَهُ
darimi:2574Saʿīd b. ʿĀmir > Shuʿbah > Burayd b. Abū Maryam > Abū al-Ḥawrāʾ al-Saʿdī

[Machine] I asked Al-Hasan ibn Ali, "What do you retain from the Messenger of Allah?" He replied, "A man asked him about a matter that I do not know what it was. So, he said, 'Leave what makes you doubtful for what does not make you doubtful.'"  

الدارمي:٢٥٧٤أَخْبَرَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ عَامِرٍ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ بُرَيْدِ بْنِ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَوْرَاءِ السَّعْدِيِّ قَالَ

قُلْتُ لِلْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ مَا تَحْفَظُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ؟ قَالَ سَأَلَهُ رَجُلٌ عَنْ مَسْأَلَةٍ لَا أَدْرِي مَا هِيَ؟ فَقَالَ «دَعْ مَا يَرِيبُكَ إِلَى مَا لَا يَرِيبُكَ»  

nasai-kubra:5201Muḥammad b. Abān > ʿAbdullāh b. Idrīs > Shuʿbah > Burayd b. Abū Maryam > Abū al-Ḥawrāʾ al-Saʿdī

I said to al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī: What did you memorize from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ? He said: I memorized from him: "Leave what makes you doubt for what does not make you doubt."  

الكبرى للنسائي:٥٢٠١أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبَانَ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ بُرَيْدِ بْنِ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ، عَنْ أَبِي الْحَوْرَاءِ السَّعْدِيِّ، قَالَ

قُلْتُ لِلْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ مَا حَفِظْتَ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ؟ قَالَ: حَفِظْتُ مِنْهُ «دَعْ مَا يَرِيبُكَ إِلَى مَا لَا يَرِيبُكَ۔»