Musnad Ahmad
Musnad Ahmad 326
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو سَعِيدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا دُجَيْنٌ أَبُو الْغُصْنِ، بَصْرِيٌّ قَالَ قَدِمْتُ الْمَدِينَةَ فَلَقِيتُ أَسْلَمَ مَوْلَى عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ فَقُلْتُ حَدِّثْنِي عَنْ عُمَرَ فَقَالَ لَا أَسْتَطِيعُ أَخَافُ أَنْ أَزِيدَ أَوْ أَنْقُصَ كُنَّا إِذَا قُلْنَا لِعُمَرَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ حَدِّثْنَا عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ أَخَافُ أَنْ أَزِيدَ حَرْفًا أَوْ أَنْقُصَ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ مَنْ كَذَبَ عَلَيَّ فَهُوَ فِي النَّارِ.
Abu Sa‘id narrated to us; Dujayn—Abu al-Ghusn, a man from Basra—narrated to us. He said: I came to Medina and met Aslam, the freedman of ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him. I said, ‘Tell me something about ‘Umar.’ He said, ‘I cannot; I am afraid of adding or omitting.’ When we would say to ‘Umar, “Tell us something from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him,” he would say, “I fear that I may add or omit even a letter. The Messenger of Allah said: Whoever tells a lie about me will be in the Fire.”’