Musnad Ahmad

Musnad Ahmad 310

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ، أَنْبَأَنَا دَيْلَمُ بْنُ غَزْوَانَ الْعَبْدِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا مَيْمُونٌ الْكُرْدِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي عُثْمَانَ النَّهْدِيِّ، قَالَ إِنِّي لَجَالِسٌ تَحْتَ مِنْبَرِ عُمَرَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ وَهُوَ يَخْطُبُ النَّاسَ فَقَالَ فِي خُطْبَتِهِ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ إِنَّ أَخْوَفَ مَا أَخَافُ عَلَى هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ كُلُّ مُنَافِقٍ عَلِيمِ اللِّسَانِ‏.‏

Translation

Yazid narrated to us; Daylam ibn Ghazwan al-‘Abdi narrated to us; Maymun al-Kurdi narrated to us, from Abu ‘Uthman al-Nahdi, who said: I was sitting beneath ‘Umar’s pulpit while he was addressing the people. In his sermon he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say: ‘The thing I fear most for this community is every hypocrite who is eloquent in speech.’