It is reported on the authority of Abu Dharr that he heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saying:
No person who claimed knowingly anyone else as his father besides (his own) committed nothing but infidelity, and he who made a claim of anything, which (in fact) did not belong to him, is not amongst us; he should make his abode in Fire, and he who labeled anyone with unbelief or called him the enemy of Allah, and he was in fact not so, it rebounded on him.
وَحَدَّثَنِي زُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الصَّمَدِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْوَارِثِ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، حَدَّثَنَا حُسَيْنٌ الْمُعَلِّمُ، عَنِ ابْنِ بُرَيْدَةَ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ يَعْمَرَ، أَنَّ أَبَا الأَسْوَدِ، حَدَّثَهُ عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَقُولُ
لَيْسَ مِنْ رَجُلٍ ادَّعَى لِغَيْرِ أَبِيهِ وَهُوَ يَعْلَمُهُ إِلاَّ كَفَرَ وَمَنِ ادَّعَى مَا لَيْسَ لَهُ فَلَيْسَ مِنَّا وَلْيَتَبَوَّأْ مَقْعَدَهُ مِنَ النَّارِ وَمَنْ دَعَا رَجُلاً بِالْكُفْرِ أَوْ قَالَ عَدُوَّ اللَّهِ . وَلَيْسَ كَذَلِكَ إِلاَّ حَارَ عَلَيْهِ
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Isnad
8 transmitters- 1Zuhayr bin HarbNisa'/Baghdad · d. 234 AH/848 CE
- 2'Abdul Samad bin 'Abdul Warith bin Sa'idal-Basra · d. 207 AH
- 3'Abdul Warith bin Sa'id bin Dhakwanal-Basra · d. 180 AH
- 4al-Husain bin Dhakwan al-Mua'lamal-Basra · d. 145 AH
- 5'Abdullah bin Burayda bin al-HusaybMerv · d. 105 AH or 115 AH
- 6Yahya bin Y'amaral-Basra,Merv · d. ~100 AH
- 7Abu al-Aswad al-Du'aliKufa, Basra · d. 69 AH/688 CE
- 8Abu Dharr al-GhaffariHijaz/Medina/Syria/Al-Rabathah · d. 32 AH/652 CE
References2 variants
- In-Book Reference
- Book 1, Hadith 123
- USC-MSA web (English) reference
- Book 1, Hadith 118 (deprecated numbering scheme)