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Sahih Muslim: Hadith 6057

43. The Book of Virtues

صحيح مسلم

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Clarifying that Shirk is the worst of sins, and the worst sins after Shirk

باب كَوْنِ الشِّرْكِ أَقْبَحَ الذُّنُوبِ وَبَيَانِ أَعْظَمِهَا بَعْدَهُ ‏‏

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حَدَّثَنِي حَرْمَلَةُ بْنُ يَحْيَى التُّجِيبِيُّ، أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ، أَخْبَرَنِي يُونُسُ، عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ، أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو سَلَمَةَ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، وَسَعِيدُ بْنُ الْمُسَيَّبِ، قَالاَ كَانَ أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ يُحَدِّثُ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَقُولُ ‏‏ مَا نَهَيْتُكُمْ عَنْهُ فَاجْتَنِبُوهُ وَمَا أَمَرْتُكُمْ بِهِ فَافْعَلُوا مِنْهُ مَا اسْتَطَعْتُمْ فَإِنَّمَا أَهْلَكَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ كَثْرَةُ مَسَائِلِهِمْ وَاخْتِلاَفُهُمْ عَلَى أَنْبِيَائِهِمْ ‏"‏ ‏‏
Abu Huraira reported that he heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:
Avoid that which I forbid you to do and do that which I command you to do to the best of your capacity. Verily the people before you went to their doom because they had put too many questions to their Prophets and then disagreed with their teachings.
Reference: Sahih Muslim 1337 b
In-book : Book 43, Hadith 171
USC-MSA web (English) : Book 30, Hadith 5818  (deprecated)