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tabarani:14850 – [Chain 1] al-Ḥusayn b. Isḥāq al-Tustarī > ʿUthmān b. Abū Shaybah [Chain 2] Muḥammad b. ʿUthmān from my father > al-Walīd b. ʿUqbah al-Shaybānī > Ḥamzah al-Zayyāt > Ḥabīb b. Abū Thābit > al-Qāsim b. al-Ḥārith > ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh > Abū Masʿūd al-Anṣārī

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to the Quraysh, "This matter will always remain among you and you will not lose control over it."  

الطبراني:١٤٨٥٠ – حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ التُّسْتَرِيُّ ثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ ثَنَا أَبِي ثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ عُقْبَةَ الشَّيْبَانِيُّ ثَنَا حَمْزَةُ الزَّيَّاتُ عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ ثَنَا أَبُو مَسْعُودٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لِقُرَيْشٍ «لَا يَزَالُ هَذَا الْأَمْرُ فِيكُمْ وَأَنْتُمْ وُلَاتُهُ»  

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ذِكْرُ الْإِخْبَارِ بِأَنَّ الَّذِي يَلِي أَمْرَ النَّاسِ إِلَى أَنْ تَقُومَ السَّاعَةُ يَكُونُ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ لَا مِنْ غَيْرِهَا

ibnhibban:6655 – Abū Khalīfah > Musaddad b. Musarhad > Bishr b. al-Mufaḍḍal > ʿĀṣim b. Muḥammad b. Zayd from his father > Ibn ʿUmar

The Caliphate will remain among the Quraish even if only two persons are left (on the earth), (Using translation from Muslim 1820)   

ابن حبّان:٦٦٥٥ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو خَلِيفَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدُ بْنُ مُسَرْهَدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ الْمُفَضَّلِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَاصِمُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «لَا يَزَالُ هَذَا الْأَمْرُ فِي قُرَيْشٍ مَا بَقِيَ فِي النَّاسِ اثْنَانِ»  

ذِكْرُ الْبَيَانِ بِأَنَّ وِلَايَةَ أَمْرِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ يَكُونَ فِي قُرَيْشٍ إِلَى قِيَامِ السَّاعَةِ

ibnhibban:6266 – al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān > Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > Muʿādh b. Muʿādh > ʿĀṣim b. Muḥammad b. Zayd from my father > Ibn ʿUmar

The Caliphate will remain among the Quraish even if only two persons are left (on the earth), (Using translation from Muslim 1820)  

ابن حبّان:٦٢٦٦ – أَخْبَرَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاذُ بْنُ مُعَاذٍ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبِي يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ ابْنَ عُمَرَ يَقُولُ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «لَا يَزَالُ هَذَا الْأَمْرُ فِي قُرَيْشٍ مَا بَقِيَ فِي النَّاسِ اثْنَانِ»