Sahih Muslim 64a

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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَكَّارِ بْنِ الرَّيَّانِ، وَعَوْنُ بْنُ سَلاَّمٍ، قَالَا: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ طَلْحَةَ، ح وَحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، ح وَحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، كُلُّهُمْ عَنْ زُبَيْدٍ، عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ

قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «سِبَابُ الْمُسْلِمِ فُسُوقٌ وَقِتَالُهُ كُفْرٌ». قَالَ زُبَيْدٌ فَقُلْتُ لأَبِي وَائِلٍ أَنْتَ سَمِعْتَهُ مِنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ يَرْوِيهِ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: نَعَمْ. وَلَيْسَ فِي حَدِيثِ شُعْبَةَ قَوْلُ زُبَيْدٍ لأَبِي وَائِلٍ

The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) observed: Abusing a Muslim is an outrage and fighting against him is unbelief. Zubaid said: I asked Abu Wail: Did you hear it from Abdullah narrating if from the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam)? He replied: Yes. But there is mention of the talk between Zubaid and Abu Wail in the hadith narrated by Shuba.

Sahih Muslim 64a, Book 1, The Book of Faith, Hadith 127. 1 min readCopy the reference

What it means

What it teaches

• It is obligatory to respect the Muslim's honor and life.
• The grave outcome of one who reviles a Muslim unjustly, for such a person is Fāsiq (defiant sinner).
• Reviling and fighting a Muslim weakens and diminishes faith.
• Some acts are called "Kufr" although they do not reach the major Kufr that results in apostasy.
• "Kufr" here refers to minor Kufr that does not result in apostasy according to the unanimous agreement of Ahl-us-Sunnah, since Allah Almighty has established the brotherhood of faith for the believers in case of fighting and disputing, as He says: {If two groups of the believers fight one another, make peace between them} until: {The believers are but brothers.}

From the Encyclopedia of Translated Prophetic Hadiths, hadeethenc.com.

The chain

Who passed it on, from Imam Muslim back to the one who was there.

1. 1Imam MuslimCompiler, died 261 AH
2. 2Muhammad ibn BakkarTold us, Fourth generation, died 238 AH
3. 3Awn ibn SalamWith, Fourth generation, died 230 AH
4. 4Muhammad ibn TalhahTold us, Third generation, died 167 AH
5. 5Sufyan ath-ThawriTold us, Third generation, died 159 AH
6. 6Zubayd ibn al-HarithFrom, Successor, died 120 AH
7. 7Abu Wail Shaqiq ibn SalamahFrom, Successor, died 82 AH
8. 8Abdullah ibn MasudFrom, Companion, died 28 AH