- "When people see an oppressor and do not take him by the hand, it is likely that Allāh will encompass them all with a punishment from Him." It was recorded by Aḥmad (numbers 1, 16, 29, and 53), Abū Dāwūd (2/217), al-Tirmidhī (2/25 and 177), Ibn Mājah (2/484), al-Ṭaḥāwī in "Mushkil al-Āthār" (2/62-64), and al-Ḍiyāʾ in "al-Aḥādīth al-Mukhtārah" (numbers 54-58, as verified by me), and others through numerous chains from Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid from Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim from Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq who said: O people! You recite this verse *"O you who have believed, upon you is [responsibility for] yourselves. Those who have gone astray will not harm you when you have been guided."* And I heard the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) say: and he mentioned it. Al-Tirmidhī said, and the wording is his: "This is a ḥadīth that is ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ," and he mentioned that the narrators differed regarding whether it was raised [to the Prophet] or stopped [at Abū Bakr], meaning on Ismāʿīl, and the preferred opinion according to me is that it is raised, as will be explained, and therefore Imām al-Nawawī authenticated it in "Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn" (number 202, as verified by me) and refer to the second benefit in my introduction to it (p. Y and L). Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Kathīr said in "al-Tafsīr" (2/109): "This ḥadīth has been narrated by the authors of the four Sunan and Ibn Ḥibbān in his "Ṣaḥīḥ" and others through many chains from numerous groups from Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid with it connected and raised, and some have narrated it from him stopped at al-Ṣiddīq, and al-Dāraqutnī and others have preferred it being stopped." I said: And in this statement, there are two observations: The first: attributing the ḥadīth to al-Nasāʾī by the general statement: the four, and al-Mundhirī explicitly attributed it to him in "al-Targhīb" (3/170) and al-Nawawī and others, and I did not see it in "al-Sunan al-Ṣughrā" of al-Nasāʾī, nor did Shaykh al-Nābulusī attribute it to him in "Dhakhāʾir al-Mawārīth" nor al-Suyūṭī in "al-Jāmiʿ."