Mishkat al-Masabih
Mishkat al-Masabih 170
وَعَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ عَوْفٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «إِنَّ الدِّينَ لَيَأْرِزُ إِلَى الْحِجَازِ كَمَا تَأْرِزُ الْحَيَّةُ إِلَى جُحْرِهَا وَلَيَعْقِلَنَّ الدِّينُ مِنَ الْحِجَازِ مِعْقَلَ الْأُرْوِيَّةِ مِنْ رَأْسِ الْجَبَلِ إِنَّ الدِّينَ بَدَأَ غَرِيبًا وَسَيَعُودُ كَمَا بَدَأَ فَطُوبَى لِلْغُرَبَاءِ وَهُمُ الَّذِينَ يُصْلِحُونَ مَا أَفْسَدَ النَّاسُ مِنْ بَعْدِي من سنتي» . رَوَاهُ التِّرْمِذِيّ
ʿAmr ibn ʿAwf reported that the Messenger of God said: ‘The religion will retreat to the Ḥijāz as a snake retreats to its hole, and the religion will take refuge in the Ḥijāz as a mountain goat takes refuge on a mountain peak. The religion began as something strange and will return as it began; so glad tidings to the strangers. They are those who will set right, after me, what people have corrupted of my Sunnah.’ Al-Tirmidhi transmitted it.