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tabarani:18530 – al-Ḥusayn b. Isḥāq al-Tustarī > Maḥmūd b. Khālid al-Dimashqī > Khuṣaylah b. Wāthilah b. al-Asqaʿ from her father

I asked: Messenger of Allah! what is party spirit? He replied: That you should help your people in wrongdoing. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 5119)

الطبراني:١٨٥٣٠ – حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ التُّسْتَرِيُّ ثنا مَحْمُودُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ الدِّمَشْقِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَتْنَا خُصَيْلَةُ بِنْتُ وَاثِلَةَ بْنِ الْأَسْقَعِ

أَنَّهَا سَمِعَتْ أَبَاهَا يَقُولُ قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ مَا الْعَصَبِيَّةُ؟ قَالَ «أَنْ تُعِينَ قَوْمَكَ عَلَى الظُّلْمِ»

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abudawud:5119 – Maḥmūd b. Khālid al-Dimashqī > al-Firyābī > Salamah b. Bishr al-Dimashqī > b. Wāthilah b. al-Asqaʿ from her father

I asked: Messenger of Allah! what is party spirit? He replied: That you should help your people in wrongdoing.

أبو داود:٥١١٩ – حَدَّثَنَا مَحْمُودُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ الدِّمَشْقِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا الْفِرْيَابِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا سَلَمَةُ بْنُ بِشْرٍ الدِّمَشْقِيُّ عَنْ بِنْتِ وَاثِلَةَ بْنِ الأَسْقَعِ

أَنَّهَا سَمِعَتْ أَبَاهَا يَقُولُ قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا الْعَصَبِيَّةُ قَالَ أَنْ تُعِينَ قَوْمَكَ عَلَى الظُّلْمِ

bayhaqi:21076 – Abū ʿAlī al-Rūdhbārī > Muḥammad b. Bakr > Abū Dāwud > Maḥmūd b. Khālid al-Dimashqī > al-Firyābī > Salamah b. Bishr al-Dimashqī > Āb.ah Wāthilah b. al-Asqaʿ from her father

I asked: Messenger of Allah! what is party spirit? He replied: That you should help your people in wrongdoing. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 5119)

البيهقي:٢١٠٧٦ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الرُّوذْبَارِيُّ أنبأ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَكْرٍ ثنا أَبُو دَاوُدَ ثنا مَحْمُودُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ الدِّمَشْقِيُّ ثنا الْفِرْيَابِيُّ ثنا سَلَمَةُ بْنُ بِشْرٍ الدِّمَشْقِيُّ عَنِ ابْنَةِ وَاثِلَةَ بْنِ الْأَسْقَعِ

أَنَّهَا سَمِعَتْ أَبَاهَا يَقُولُ قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ مَا الْعَصَبِيَّةُ؟ قَالَ أَنْ تُعِينَ قَوْمَكَ عَلَى الظُّلْمِ