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"حُجُّوا قَبْلَ أنْ لَا تَحُجُّوا، فَكَأَنِّى أَنْظُرُ إِلَى حَبَشِىٍّ أَصْمَعَ أفْدَع بيَدِهِ مِعْوَلٌ يَهْدِمُهَا حَجَرًا حَجَرًا".  

[حل] أبى نعيم في الحلية [ك] الحاكم في المستدرك [ق] البيهقى في السنن عن على

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bayhaqi:8698 – Abū Saʿd ʿAbd al-Malik b. Abū ʿUthmān al-Zāhid > Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Muzanī > Aḥmad b. Najdah b. al-ʿUryān > Yaḥyá b. ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ḥimmānī > Ḥuṣayn b. ʿUmar al-Aḥmasī > al-Aʿmash > Ibrāhīm al-Taymī > al-Ḥārith b. Sūwayd > ʿAlī > Ḥujjūā Qabl

[Machine] I heard Ali saying: "Perform Hajj before you are unable to do so." It is as if I am looking at an Abyssinian with thick legs, demolishing a wall brick by brick with a pickaxe in his hand. I said to him, "What do you say according to your opinion or did you hear it from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ ?" He said, "No, but I heard it from your Prophet ﷺ ."  

البيهقي:٨٦٩٨ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو سَعْدٍ عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ أَبِي عُثْمَانَ الزَّاهِدُ أنبأ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْمُزَنِيُّ ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ نَجْدَةَ بْنِ الْعُرْيَانِ ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ الْحِمَّانِيُّ ثنا حُصَيْنُ بْنُ عُمَرَ الْأَحْمَسِيُّ ثنا الْأَعْمَشُ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ التَّيْمِيُّ عَنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ سُوَيْدٍ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ عَلِيًّا ؓ يَقُولُ حُجُّوا قَبْلَ أَنْ لَا تَحُجُّوا فَكَأَنِّي أَنْظُرُ إِلَى حَبَشِيٍّ أَصْمَعَ أَفْدَعَ بِيَدِهِ مِعْوَلٌ يَهْدِمُهَا حَجَرًا حَجَرًا فَقُلْتُ لَهُ شَيْءٌ بِرَأْيِكَ تَقُولُ أَوْ سَمِعْتَهُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ لَا وَالَّذِي فَلَقَ الْحَبَّةَ وَبَرَأَ النَّسَمَةَ وَلَكِنْ سَمِعْتُهُ مِنْ نَبِيِّكُمْ ﷺ