Ḥadīth about misguided scholars
حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ، أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ هُبَيْرَةَ، أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو تَمِيمٍ الْجَيْشَانِيُّ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو ذَرٍّ، قَالَ: كُنْتُ أَمْشِي مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَقَالَ: “لَغَيْرُ الدَّجَّالِ أَخْوَفُنِي عَلَى أُمَّتِي ” قَالَهَا ثَلَاثًا. قَالَ: قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، مَا هَذَا الَّذِي غَيْرُ الدَّجَّالِ أَخْوَفُكَ عَلَى أُمَّتِكَ؟ قَالَ: “أَئِمَّةً مُضِلِّينَ ”
Yaḥyā Ibn Isḥāq narrated to us: Ibn Lahīʿah informed us: On the authority of ʿAbdillāh Ibn Hubayrah: Abū Tamīm Al-Jayshānī informed me, he said:
Abū Dharr informed me, he said:
I was walking with the Messenger of Allāh صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ and he said : “There is [something] other than the Dajjaal that I fear more for my ummah“. He said it three times.
[Abū Dharr] said : I said : “O Messenger of Allāh, what is it other than the Dajjāl that you fear more for your Ummah ?”
[The Messenger of Allāh] said : “The Misguided Scholars.“
[Musnad Aḥmad Ibn Ḥanbal 21296]
Imām Al-Albānī in Kitāb Silsilah al-Aḥādīth al-Ṣaḥīḥah wa Shay’un min Faqhihā wa Fawā’idihā : Ṣaḥīḥ li-Ghayrihi
Translated by Abū Ḥamzah Sulaymān and checked by Shaykh Abū Isḥāq Nadīm Aḥsan Shah.
