حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَعِيلُ بْنُ بِشْرِ بْنِ مَنْصُورٍ وَإِسْحَقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ السَّوَّاقُ قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ صَالِحٍ عَنْ ضَمْرَةَ بْنِ حَبِيبٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو السُّلَمِيِّ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ الْعِرْبَاضَ بْنَ سَارِيَةَ يَقُولُ وَعَظَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مَوْعِظَةً ذَرَفَتْ مِنْهَا الْعُيُونُ وَوَجِلَتْ مِنْهَا الْقُلُوبُ فَقُلْنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ هَذِهِ لَمَوْعِظَةُ مُوَدِّعٍ فَمَاذَا تَعْهَدُ إِلَيْنَا قَالَ قَدْ تَرَکْتُکُمْ عَلَی الْبَيْضَائِ لَيْلُهَا کَنَهَارِهَا لَا يَزِيغُ عَنْهَا بَعْدِي إِلَّا هَالِکٌ مَنْ يَعِشْ مِنْکُمْ فَسَيَرَی اخْتِلَافًا کَثِيرًا فَعَلَيْکُمْ بِمَا عَرَفْتُمْ مِنْ سُنَّتِي وَسُنَّةِ الْخُلَفَائِ الرَّاشِدِينَ الْمَهْدِيِّينَ عَضُّوا عَلَيْهَا بِالنَّوَاجِذِ وَعَلَيْکُمْ بِالطَّاعَةِ وَإِنْ عَبْدًا حَبَشِيًّا فَإِنَّمَا الْمُؤْمِنُ کَالْجَمَلِ الْأَنِفِ حَيْثُمَا قِيدَ انْقَادَ
ابن ماجہ · Hadith 43
It was narrated from ‘Abdur-Rehumân bin ‘Amr As-Sulami that he heard Al-’Irbâd bin Sâriyah say: “The Messenger of Allah s.a.w.w delivered a moving speech to us which made our eyes flow with tears and made our hearts melt. We said: ‘0 Messenger of Allah, this is a speech of farewell. What do you enjoin upon us?’ He said: ‘I am leaving you upon a (path of) brightness whose night is like its day. No one wlll deviate from it after I am gone but one who is doomed. Whoever among you lives will see great conflict. I urge you to adhere to what you know of my Sunnah and the path of the Rightly-Guided Caliphs, and cling stubbornly to it. And you must obey, even if (your leader is) an Abyssinian slave. For the true believer is like a camel with a ring in its nose; wherever it is driven, it complies.” (Sahih)
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020