Al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad informed us; al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣabbāḥ informed us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rifāʿah informed us; the judge ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan informed us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar al-Bazzār informed us—this was in the year 413 AH. He said: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-ʿĀmirī narrated to us; Sulaymān ibn Shuʿayb al-Kayysānī narrated to us; Saʿīd al-Ādam narrated to us; Shihāb ibn Khirāsh narrated to us; Yazīd al-Raqāshī, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ declared, “The thing I fear most for my community is that they will put their trust in the stars and deny destiny. A servant does not truly believe in Allah until he believes in destiny—its good and its evil, its sweetness and its bitterness.”
Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ grasped his beard and said, “I believe in the whole of destiny, its good and its evil, its sweetness and its bitterness.”
Anas took hold of his own beard and said, “I believe in the whole of destiny, its good and its evil, its sweetness and its bitterness.”
Yazīd al-Raqāshī likewise seized his beard and said, “I believe in the whole of destiny, its good and its evil, its sweetness and its bitterness.”
This wording has come down successively, and the statement itself is sound; however, the hadith is weak because of al-Raqāshī. (1)
- Hushaym ibn Bashīr ibn Abī Khāzim, Abū Muʿāwiyah al-Salamī * (ʿ)
(The personal name of Abū Khāzim was Qāsim ibn Dīnār), the imām, the shaykh—