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مسند الشهاب
Musnad Shihab
Hadiths 1001 to 1200
إِنَّ الدِّينَ بَدَأَ غَرِيبًا وَسَيَعُودُ غَرِيبًا كَمَا بَدَأَThe religion began as something strange and will return to being strange as it began
Hadith 1055
اُردوEn
1055 - أنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ الْأَصْبَهَانِيُّ، نا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ شَهْرَيَارَ، وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ رِيذَةَ، قَالَا: نا الطَّبَرَانِيُّ، نا أُسَامَةُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ التُّجِيبِيُّ الْمِصْرِيُّ، أنا أَبُو الطَّاهِرِ، أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ السَّرْحِ، أنا بَكْرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمٍ الصَّوَّافُ، عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ، عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ السَّاعِدِيِّ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّ الْإِسْلَامَ بَدَأَ غَرِيبًا، وَسَيَعُودُ غَرِيبًا كَمَا بَدَأَ، فَطُوبَى لِلْغُرَبَاءِ» ، قِيلَ: وَمَنِ الْغُرَبَاءُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ؟ قَالَ: «الَّذِينَ يَصْلُحُونَ إِذَا فَسَدَ النَّاسُ»
Sayyiduna Sahl bin Sa’d Sa’idi (may Allah be pleased with him) reports that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “Indeed, Islam began as something strange, and soon it will return to being strange just as it began, so glad tidings are for the strangers.” It was asked: O Messenger of Allah! Who are the strangers? He said: “Those who will rectify (the Sunnahs) when people corrupt them.”
Brief Explanation
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① “Gharib” refers to a stranger and one without a homeland. In the beginning, this was the state of Islam: no one knew it, and society was not ready to accept it. Gradually, people began to understand and accept it, until Islam became dominant everywhere and disbelief and polytheism were eradicated.
② After the era of the Rightly Guided Caliphs (Khulafa-e-Rashideen), innovations (bid‘ah) began to appear in Islam. In later periods, Muslims adopted the customs and ideas of non-Muslims, and thus the true Islam became limited to only a few people, while the majority considered self-invented customs and incorrect beliefs and practices to be the true Islam.
③ The strangers who have been congratulated are those people who, amidst the abundance of innovations (bid‘ah), continue to act upon the Sunnah, who, when incorrect beliefs become widespread, remain steadfast upon correct beliefs, and who, in times of moral decline, adopt true Islamic morals.
④ The criterion for truth and falsehood does not depend on adopting a particular name, but rather on conformity or opposition to the Qur’an and Hadith. [سنن ابن ماجه : 301/5]
① “Gharib” refers to a stranger and one without a homeland. In the beginning, this was the state of Islam: no one knew it, and society was not ready to accept it. Gradually, people began to understand and accept it, until Islam became dominant everywhere and disbelief and polytheism were eradicated.
② After the era of the Rightly Guided Caliphs (Khulafa-e-Rashideen), innovations (bid‘ah) began to appear in Islam. In later periods, Muslims adopted the customs and ideas of non-Muslims, and thus the true Islam became limited to only a few people, while the majority considered self-invented customs and incorrect beliefs and practices to be the true Islam.
③ The strangers who have been congratulated are those people who, amidst the abundance of innovations (bid‘ah), continue to act upon the Sunnah, who, when incorrect beliefs become widespread, remain steadfast upon correct beliefs, and who, in times of moral decline, adopt true Islamic morals.
④ The criterion for truth and falsehood does not depend on adopting a particular name, but rather on conformity or opposition to the Qur’an and Hadith. [سنن ابن ماجه : 301/5]
