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السيوطي:٧٧٠٤a

"إِنَّمَا هَلَكَ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ باخْتِلافِهمْ في الكتاب".  

[م] مسلم عن ابن عمرو، [خ] البخاري عن عبد اللَّه بن مسعود

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ahmad:10705al-Ḍaḥḥāk b. Makhlad > Muḥammad b. ʿAjlān from his father > Abū Hurayrah

that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Leave me with what I left you. When I narrated a Hadith to you, then take it from me. The people before you were only destroyed by their excessive questioning and disagreeing with their Prophets." (Using translation from Tirmidhī 2679)   

أحمد:١٠٧٠٥حَدَّثَنَا الضَّحَّاكُ بْنُ مَخْلَدٍ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَجْلَانَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ ذَرُونِي مَا تَرَكْتُكُمْ فَإِنَّمَا هَلَكَ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ بِسُؤَالِهِمْ وَاخْتِلَافِهِمْ عَلَى أَنْبِيَائِهِمْ