There will come to me some people...

There will come to me some people; I know them and they know me, but they will be separated from me. Abu Hazim has said: “While I was narrating this hadith , Nu‘man ibn Abi ‘Ayyash heard it and asked me, ‘Did you hear it from Sahl like that?’ I said, ‘Yes’.

He said: ‘I bear witness that Abu Sa‘id al-Khudri says that the Prophet has also said’: "إنهم منِّي فيقال انك لا تدري ما أحدثوا بعدك: فأقول سحقاً سحقاً لمن بدّل بعدي." “They are from me.” Then someone says, “You do not know what they did after you!” So I shall say, “Damn those who have changed (the truth) after me.”[^15] It is…