Musnad Ahmad 294

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حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ، أَنْبَأَنَا دَيْلَمُ بْنُ غَزْوَانَ الْعَبْدِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا مَيْمُونٌ الْكُرْدِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي عُثْمَانَ النَّهْدِيِّ

قَالَ إِنِّي لَجَالِسٌ تَحْتَ مِنْبَرِ عُمَرَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ وَهُوَ يَخْطُبُ النَّاسَ فَقَالَ فِي خُطْبَتِهِ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: «إِنَّ أَخْوَفَ مَا أَخَافُ عَلَى هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ كُلُّ مُنَافِقٍ عَلِيمِ اللِّسَانِ»

l was sitting beneath the minbar of Umar (رضي الله عنه) when he was addressing the people, and he said in his khutbah: I heard the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) say: “What I fear the most for this ummah is every knowledgeable hypocrite with a smooth tongue.”

Musnad Ahmad 294, Book 2, Musnad `Umar b. al-Khattab (ra), Hadith 217. 1 min readCopy the reference

What it means

What it teaches

• Good deeds must be devoted to Allah Almighty with full sincerity and warning of ostentation must be avoided.
• The Prophet's great compassion towards his Ummah and his keenness to guide and advise them.
• If this is the Prophet's fear for his Companions, who are the most noble in terms of righteousness, then, the fear for those who succeed them is far greater.

From the Encyclopedia of Translated Prophetic Hadiths, hadeethenc.com.

The chain

Who passed it on, from Imam Ahmad back to the one who was there.

1. 1Imam AhmadCompiler, died 241 AH
2. 2Yazid ibn HarunTold us, Third generation, died 206 AH
3. 3Daylam ibn GhazwanReported to us, Third generation, died 171 AH
4. 4MaymunTold us, Successor
5. 5Abu Uthman an-NahdiFrom, Successor, died 75 AH