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Sahih Muslim, 1065 c
sahih

Abu Sa'id al-Khudri reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:

There would be two groups in my Ummah, and there would emerge another group (seceding itself from both of them), and the party nearer to the truth among the two would kill them (the group of the Khawarij).

حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الرَّبِيعِ الزَّهْرَانِيُّ، وَقُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، قَالَ قُتَيْبَةُ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي نَضْرَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏

‏ تَكُونُ فِي أُمَّتِي فِرْقَتَانِ فَتَخْرُجُ مِنْ بَيْنِهِمَا مَارِقَةٌ يَلِي قَتْلَهُمْ أَوْلاَهُمْ بِالْحَقِّ ‏

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Isnad

7 transmitters
  1. 1Sulaiman bin Da'ud al-'Atki al-Zahranial-Basra,Baghdad · d. 234 AH
  2. 2Qutayba bin Sa'id bin JamilBulkh,Bakhalan, Baghdad · d. ~240 AH
  3. 3Qutayba bin Sa'id bin JamilBulkh,Bakhalan, Baghdad · d. ~240 AH
  4. 4Wadah bin 'Abdullah al-YashkariBasra,al-Wasit · d. 176 AH
  5. 5QatadaBasra/Medina · d. ~117 AH
  6. 6al-Mandhar bin Malik bin Qata'al-Basra · d. 109 AH
  7. 7Abu Sa'id al-KhudriMedina · d. 74 AH
References2 variants
In-Book Reference
Book 12, Hadith 196
USC-MSA web (English) reference
Book 5, Hadith 2326 (deprecated numbering scheme)
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