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Sunan Abi Dawud 4765 (Book 42, Hadith 170) #25056
Beware of False Religion

SUMMARY: This hadith warns against people who appear to be religious but are not, and encourages those who fight against them.

Narrated AbuSa'id al-Khudri ; Anas ibn Malik: The Prophet said: Soon there will appear disagreement and dissension in my people; there will be people who will be good in speech and bad in work. They recite the Qur'an, but it does not pass their collar-bones. They will swerve from the religion as an animal goes through the animal shot at. They will not return to it till the arrow comes back to its notch. They are worst of the people and animals. Happy is the one who kills them and they kill him. They call to the book of Allah, but they have nothing to do with it. He who fights against them will be nearer to Allah than them (the rest of the people). The people asked: What is their sign? He replied: They shave the head.
حَدَّثَنَا نَصْرُ بْنُ عَاصِمٍ الأَنْطَاكِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ، وَمُبَشِّرٌ، - يَعْنِي ابْنَ إِسْمَاعِيلَ الْحَلَبِيَّ عَنْ أَبِي عَمْرٍو، قَالَ - يَعْنِي الْوَلِيدَ - حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَمْرٍو، قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي قَتَادَةُ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ، وَأَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ قَالَ ‏:‏ ‏"‏ سَيَكُونُ فِي أُمَّتِي اخْتِلاَفٌ وَفُرْقَةٌ، قَوْمٌ يُحْسِنُونَ الْقِيلَ وَيُسِيئُونَ الْفِعْلَ وَيَقْرَءُونَ الْقُرْآنَ لاَ يُجَاوِزُ تَرَاقِيَهُمْ، يَمْرُقُونَ مِنَ الدِّينِ مُرُوقَ السَّهْمِ مِنَ الرَّمِيَّةِ لاَ يَرْجِعُونَ حَتَّى يَرْتَدَّ عَلَى فُوقِهِ هُمْ شَرُّ الْخَلْقِ وَالْخَلِيقَةِ طُوبَى لِمَنْ قَتَلَهُمْ وَقَتَلُوهُ، يَدْعُونَ إِلَى كِتَابِ اللَّهِ وَلَيْسُوا مِنْهُ فِي شَىْءٍ، مَنْ قَاتَلَهُمْ كَانَ أَوْلَى بِاللَّهِ مِنْهُمْ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ قَالُوا ‏:‏ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا سِيمَاهُمْ قَالَ ‏:‏ ‏"‏ التَّحْلِيقُ

TOPICS
disagreement  *  dissension  *  recite  *  swerve  *  arrow  *  worst  *  head  *  ikhtilaf  *  fitnah  *  tilawah  *  yataharraku  *  quzah  *  raas

QUICK LESSONS:
Fight against false beliefs and practices; stay true to your faith; practice what you preach; stay away from falsehoods .

EXPLANATIONS:
This hadith warns us about people who may appear to be religious but are not. They recite the Quran, but it does not pass their collarbones, meaning that they do not understand or practice what they read. These people will swerve from the religion as an animal goes through a shot at animal trap; they will never return to it until an arrow comes back to its notch. The Prophet Muhammad said that these people are worst of all humans and animals, so much so that whoever kills them is blessed by Allah and whoever is killed by them is also blessed by Allah. He also said that these people call out to the book of Allah but have nothing to do with it; thus those who fight against them will be closer to Allah than anyone else in this world. The sign for recognizing such false believers is that they shave their heads completely bald.

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