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2676. Al-'Irbāḍ bin Sāriyah narrated: "One day after the morning Ṣalāt, the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ exhorted us to the extent that the eyes wept and the hearts shuddered with fear. A man said: 'Indeed this is a farewell exhortation. [So what] do you order us O Messenger of Allāh?' He said: 'I order you to have Taqwā of Allāh, and to listen and obey, even in the case of a Ethiopian slave. Indeed, whomever among you lives, he will see much differences. Beware of the newly invented matters, for indeed they are astray. Whoever among you sees that, then he must stick to my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the rightly guided Khulafā,' cling to it with the molars.'" (Ṣaḥīḥ)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Ḥadīth is Ḥasan Ṣaḥīḥ. Similar to this was reported by Thawr bin Yazīd, from Khālid bin Ma'dān, from 'Abdur-Raḥmān bin 'Amr As-Sulamī, from Al-'Irbāḍ bin Sāriyah from the Prophet ﷺ. That was narrated to us by Al-Ḥasan bin 'Ali Al-Khallāl and more than one, they said: (And he mentioned the same).
Al-'Irbāḍ bin Sāriyah's Kunyah is
Abū Nājiḥ. Similar to this Hadīth has been related from Hujr bin Hujr, from 'Irbāḍ bin Sāriyah from the Prophet ﷺ.
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When the disputes and disagreements are rife, at that time adhere to my practice which is the Book and the Sunnah; hold fast unto the rightly guided caliph who will follow only my practice and footsteps, and the ground of his way of life will be the texts of the Book and the Sunnah, wherefrom he will get the Shari'ah law.' This also proves that the practice and way of life of the rightly guided caliphs particularly the first four caliphs: Abū Bakr, 'Umar, 'Uthmān and 'Alī ﷺ was according to the good example of the Prophet ﷺ.
