Hadith 280

Sahih Muslim

Book 1: The Book of Faith

Chapter 65

Clarifying that Islam started as something strange, and will revert to being something strange, and it will retreat between the two Masajid

باب بَيَانِ أَنَّ الْإِسْلَامَ بَدَأَ غَرِيبًا وَسَيَعُودُ غَرِيبًا وَأَنَّهُ يَأْرِزُ بَيْنَ الْمَسْجِدَيْنِ

Sahih Muslim 146
وَحَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ رَافِعٍ، وَالْفَضْلُ بْنُ سَهْلٍ الأَعْرَجُ، قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا شَبَابَةُ بْنُ سَوَّارٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عَاصِمٌ، - وَهُوَ ابْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْعُمَرِيُّ - عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ ‏ ‏ ‏.‏
"‏ إِنَّ الإِسْلاَمَ بَدَأَ غَرِيبًا وَسَيَعُودُ غَرِيبًا كَمَا بَدَأَ وَهُوَ يَأْرِزُ بَيْنَ الْمَسْجِدَيْنِ كَمَا تَأْرِزُ الْحَيَّةُ فِي جُحْرِهَا ‏"
Ibn 'Umar ('Abdullah b. 'Umar) that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) observed:

Verily Islam started as something strange and it would again revert (to its old position) of being strange just as it started, and it would recede between the two mosques just as the serpent crawls back into its hole.

Chain of Narrators

companion
1

ibn Umar

عبد الله بن عمر بن الخطاب

2,679 narrations

follower
2

Muhammad bin Zayd bin 'Abdullah

محمد بن زيد بن عبد الله بن عمر

48 narrations

successor
3

'Asim bin Muhammad bin Zayd

عاصم بن محمد بن زيد العمري

18 narrations

successor
4

Shababa bin Sawar

شبابة بن سوار الفزاري

92 narrations

3rd Generation
5

al-Fadl bin Sahl bin Ibrahim

الفضل بن سهل بن إبراهيم الأعرج

12 narrations

3rd Generation
6

Muhammad bin Rafa'i

محمد بن رافع

373 narrations