the condition of this community will remain well-aligned—or at least close to it—so long as they do not discuss the fate of infants or the question of predestination.⦗1⦘”
This is an authentic hadith and it is not recorded in any of the Six Canonical Collections.
Yahya ibn Abi Mansur informed us; the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Qadir informed us; Masʿud ibn al-Hasan informed us; Abu ʿAmr ibn Manda informed us; my father informed us; Abu Hatim ibn Ḥibbān informed us; ʿUmar ibn Muhammad ibn Bujayr narrated to us; Ibn al-Sarḥ narrated to us; Ibn Wahb narrated to us; Bakr ibn Mudhar narrated to us, from al-Awzaʿi, who said: “It has reached me that when Allah intends evil for a people, He saddles them with argumentation and withholds from them right action.”
Al-Hasan ibn ʿAli informed us; Ibn al-Latti informed us; Abu al-Waqt informed us; Abu Ismaʿil al-Ansari informed us; ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ṣalih informed us; my father informed us; Muhammad ibn Ḥibbān informed us; I heard Usamah ibn Ahmad in Egypt; I heard Ibn al-Sarḥ; I heard ʿAbd al-Raḥman ibn al-Qasim; I heard Malik say: “There was not a single person from whom I acquired knowledge except that, in the end, he came to me and asked me about some matter of his religion.”
71 – Abu ʿUmar ibn Ḥazm, Ahmad ibn Saʿid al-Ṣadafi
The shaykh, scholar, eminent ḥāfiẓ and historian: Abu ʿUmar Ahmad ibn Saʿid ibn Ḥazm ibn Yunus al-Ṣadafi, the Andalusian, author of “The Great History of the Names of Men” in several volumes. He was one of the leading authorities on hadith and devoted himself completely to the preservation of traditions.