Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2000
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ، عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ رَاشِدٍ، عَنْ إِيَاسِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ الأَكْوَعِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " لاَ يَزَالُ الرَّجُلُ يَذْهَبُ بِنَفْسِهِ حَتَّى يُكْتَبَ فِي الْجَبَّارِينَ فَيُصِيبُهُ مَا أَصَابَهُمْ " . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abu Kurayb narrated to us: Abu Mu‘awiyah narrated to us, from ‘Umar ibn Rashid, from Iyas ibn Salamah ibn al-Akwa‘, from his father, who said that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “A man will keep exalting himself until he is recorded among the tyrants, and then what befell them will befall him.” Abu ‘Isa said: This hadith is hasan gharib.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The expression يذهب بنفسه is rendered as continuing to exalt oneself; the source does not specify the precise form of what befell the tyrants.
قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " لاَ يَزَالُ الرَّجُلُ يَذْهَبُ بِنَفْسِهِ حَتَّى يُكْتَبَ فِي الْجَبَّارِينَ فَيُصِيبُهُ مَا أَصَابَهُمْ " .
The idiom لا يزال الرجل يذهب بنفسه describes persistent self-exaltation, while the final consequence is stated generally as what befell the tyrants.
Does “keep exalting himself” preserve the conduct without adding a specific consequence?