- “This religion will prevail until it crosses the seas, and until the seas are crossed on horseback in the cause of Allah. Then there will come people who recite the Quran, and when they have recited it, they will say: ‘We have read the Quran; who is a better reciter than we are? Who is more knowledgeable than we are?’”
He then turned to his Companions and said, “Do you see any good in such people?”
They replied, “No.” He said, “Those people are from among you, and from this ummah; they are the fuel of the Fire.”
Ibn al-Mubārak recorded it in al-Zuhd (152/450), saying: Mūsā ibn ʿUbaydah informed us, from Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥārith al-Taymī, from Ibn al-Hād, from al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: … and he mentioned it.
Abū Yaʿlā (12/56/6698) and al-Bazzār (1/99/174) also recorded it through two other routes from Mūsā ibn ʿUbaydah, with the same wording (1).
I say: This is a weak chain of transmission, due to the weakness of this Mūsā, despite his devout worship.
Ibn al-Hād’s name was Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Usāmah ibn al-Hād. He did not live to meet al-ʿAbbās, as is indicated by the dates of their deaths.
It has also been reported from him through a connected chain: through ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Ḥāzim, from Yazīd ibn al-Hād, who said: Hind bint al-Ḥārith al-Khathʿamiyyah, the wife of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shaddād, narrated to me from Umm al-Faḍl, the mother of