ابن ماجہ · Hadith 3955

It was narrated that Hudhaifah said: "We were sitting with 'Umar and he said: 'Which of you has remembered a Hadith from the Messenger of Allah concerning Fitnah?" Hudhaifah said: "I said: 'I have.' He said: :You are very bold.' He said: How?'He said: 'I heard him say: The Fltnah of a man with regard to.hisfamily, his children and his neighbors are expiated by his prayers, fasts, charity and enjoining what is good and forbidding what is evil.'' Umar said: This is not what I meant, rather I meant that which moves like the waves of the sea.'' Hudaifah said: ''Don`t worry about it, O Commander of the Believers! For there is a closed door between you and them.'' Umar said: ''Will the door be brokened or opened?'' I said: No, It will be broken.'' `Umar said: “Then it will never be closed.” We asked Hudhaifah: “Did ‘Umar know what that door meant?” He said: “Yes, just as he knows that there will be night before morning, because I narrated to him a Hadith in which there are no errors.” We were afraid to ask him who the door was, so we said to Masruq: “Ask him.” He said:“Umar.” (Sahih)

Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020