Sahih al-Bukhari

Sahih al-Bukhari 7058

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ، حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ سَعِيدٍ، قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي جَدِّي، قَالَ كُنْتُ جَالِسًا مَعَ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ فِي مَسْجِدِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم بِالْمَدِينَةِ وَمَعَنَا مَرْوَانُ قَالَ أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ سَمِعْتُ الصَّادِقَ الْمَصْدُوقَ يَقُولُ ‏"‏ هَلَكَةُ أُمَّتِي عَلَى يَدَىْ غِلْمَةٍ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ ‏" ‏‏.‏ فَقَالَ مَرْوَانُ لَعْنَةُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِمْ غِلْمَةً‏.‏ فَقَالَ أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ لَوْ شِئْتُ أَنْ أَقُولَ بَنِي فُلاَنٍ وَبَنِي فُلاَنٍ لَفَعَلْتُ‏.‏ فَكُنْتُ أَخْرُجُ مَعَ جَدِّي إِلَى بَنِي مَرْوَانَ حِينَ مَلَكُوا بِالشَّأْمِ، فَإِذَا رَآهُمْ غِلْمَانًا أَحْدَاثًا قَالَ لَنَا عَسَى هَؤُلاَءِ أَنْ يَكُونُوا مِنْهُمْ قُلْنَا أَنْتَ أَعْلَمُ‏.‏

Translation

ʿAmr ibn Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd ibn ʿAmr ibn Saʿīd said: “My grandfather told me: ‘I was sitting with Abū Hurayra in the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina, and Marwān was with us. Abū Hurayra said, “I heard the truthful one, whose truth was affirmed, say: ‘The destruction of my community will come at the hands of young men from Quraysh.’” Marwān said, “May God’s curse be upon those young men!” Abū Hurayra said, “If I wished, I could name the sons of so-and-so and the sons of so-and-so.” I used to go with my grandfather to the Banū Marwān when they ruled in Syria. Whenever he saw them as young men, he would say to us, “Perhaps these are among them.” We would say, “You know best.”’”