Hadithcore
Sahih Muslim, 147
sahih

It is narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:

Verily the faith would recede to Medina just as the serpent crawls back into its hole.

حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ نُمَيْرٍ، وَأَبُو أُسَامَةَ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ، ح وَحَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ نُمَيْرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ، عَنْ خُبَيْبِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ حَفْصِ بْنِ عَاصِمٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ ‏

‏ إِنَّ الإِيمَانَ لَيَأْرِزُ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ كَمَا تَأْرِزُ الْحَيَّةُ إِلَى جُحْرِهَا ‏

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Isnad

10 transmitters
  1. 1Abu Bakr bin Abi ShaybaKufa · d. ~235 AH
  2. 2'Abdullah bin NumayrHamadan,al-Kufa · d. 199 AH
  3. 3Hammad bin Usamahal-Kufa · d. 201 AH
  4. 4'Ubaidullah bin 'Umar bin HafsMedina · d. >140 AH
  5. 5Muhammad bin 'Abdullah bin NumayrHamadan,al-Kufa · d. 234 AH
  6. 6'Abdullah bin NumayrHamadan,al-Kufa · d. 199 AH
  7. 7'Ubaidullah bin 'Umar bin HafsMedina · d. >140 AH
  8. 8Khbyb bin 'Abdur RahmanMedina · d. 132 AH
  9. 9Hafs bin 'Asim bin 'UmarMedina
  10. 10Abu HurairahMakkah/Medina/Yemen/Bahrain · d. 59 AH/681 CE
References2 variants
In-Book Reference
Book 1, Hadith 281
USC-MSA web (English) reference
Book 1, Hadith 272 (deprecated numbering scheme)
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