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Sahih Muslim, 1337 b
sahih

Abu Huraira reported that he heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:

Avoid that which I forbid you to do and do that which I command you to do to the best of your capacity. Verily the people before you went to their doom because they had put too many questions to their Prophets and then disagreed with their teachings.

حَدَّثَنِي حَرْمَلَةُ بْنُ يَحْيَى التُّجِيبِيُّ، أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ، أَخْبَرَنِي يُونُسُ، عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ، أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو سَلَمَةَ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، وَسَعِيدُ بْنُ الْمُسَيَّبِ، قَالاَ كَانَ أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ يُحَدِّثُ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَقُولُ ‏

‏ مَا نَهَيْتُكُمْ عَنْهُ فَاجْتَنِبُوهُ وَمَا أَمَرْتُكُمْ بِهِ فَافْعَلُوا مِنْهُ مَا اسْتَطَعْتُمْ فَإِنَّمَا أَهْلَكَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ كَثْرَةُ مَسَائِلِهِمْ وَاخْتِلاَفُهُمْ عَلَى أَنْبِيَائِهِمْ ‏

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Isnad

7 transmitters
  1. 1Hrmlh bin Yahya binEgypt · d. 244 AH
  2. 2'Abdullah bin WahbEgypt · d. 197 AH
  3. 3Yonus bin Yazid bin Abi al-Nijadd. 160 AH
  4. 4al-ZuhriMedinah/Syria · d. 124 AH/741 CE
  5. 5Abu Salama bin 'Abdur RahmanMedina · d. 94 AH or 104 AH
  6. 6Sa'id ibn al-MusayyibMedinah · d. 94 AH/715 CE
  7. 7Abu HurairahMakkah/Medina/Yemen/Bahrain · d. 59 AH/681 CE
References2 variants
In-Book Reference
Book 43, Hadith 171
USC-MSA web (English) reference
Book 30, Hadith 5818 (deprecated numbering scheme)
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