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3927. Salmān narrated: "The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said to me: 'O Salmān! Do not detest me and thereby leave your religion.' I said: 'O Messenger of Allāh! How could I detest you while Allāh guided us by you.' He said: 'You will detest the 'Arabs and thereby detest me.'" (Da'if)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Ḥadīth is
Hasan Gharīb, we do not know of it except as a narration of Abū Badr Shujā' bin Al-Walīd. [And I heard Muḥammad bin Ismā'īl say: "Abū Zabyān did not meet Salmān, Salmān died before 'Alī" ].
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Commentary
The Prophet ﷺ is basically an Arab and detesting the Arabs is like detesting every individual of the Arab nation. The Prophet ﷺ is also an individual of the Arab nation, so having a grudge against the Arab nation is having a grudge against the Prophet ﷺ and this is a sure cause of expulsion from Islam.
