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2194. Busr bin Sa'eed said: During the Fitnah (in the time) of 'Uthmān bin 'Affān, Sa'd bin Abī Waqqāsh said: "I testify that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: 'There will be a Fitnah during which the sitting person is better than the standing, the standing (person) is better than the walking, and the walking (person) is better than the running.'" He said: "What do you see (I should do) if he entered upon me in my home and extended his hand to kill me? He said: 'Be as Ādam's son.'"[1] (Sahīh)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] There are narrations on this topic from Abū Hurairah, Khabbāb bin Al-Aratt, Abū Bakrah, Ibn Mas'ūd, Abū Wāqid, Abū Mūsā, and Kharashah.
This Hadīth is Hasan. Some of them reported this Hadīth from Al-Laith bin Sa'd in which he added a narrator (in the chain).
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth has been reported from Sa'd from the Prophet ﷺ, through routes other than this.
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[1] See Al-Mā'idah 5:28, and Sunan Abū Dāwūd: The Book Of Fitn and Malāhim.
Commentary
The Hadith confirms the fact that if conditions of trial, affliction and conflict in a society become so acute and civil strife appears, then the farther a person remains from all this the better it is for him.
