Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 759
Arabic hadith text
حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي مَالِكٌ، عَنْ سُهَيْلِ بْنِ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ: إِذَا سَمِعْتَ الرَّجُلَ يَقُولُ: هَلَكَ النَّاسُ، فَهُوَ أَهْلَكُهُمْ.
Translation
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abu Hurayra reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “When you hear a man saying, ‘People are ruined,’ he is the most ruined among them.”
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
فَهُوَ أَهْلَكُهُمْ
The Arabic can mean that he is the most ruined among them; the witness instead says he has destroyed them.
Please check the rendering of ahlakuhum against the Arabic.