'Amir bin Sa'd bin Abu Waqqas reported on the authority of his father that he asked Usama bin Zaid: What have you heard from Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) about plague? Thereupon Usama said: Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: Plague is a calamity which was sent to Bani Isra'il or upon those who were before you. So when you hear that it has broken out in a land, don't go to it, and when it has broken out in the land where you are, don't run out of it. In the narration transmitted on the authority of Abu Nadr there is a slight variation of wording.

Usama bin Zaid reported that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) had said: Plague is the sign of a calamity with which Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, affects people from His servants. So when you hear about it, don't enter there (where it has broken out), and when it has broken out in a land and you are there, then don't run away from it.

Usama reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: Plague is a calamity which was inflicted on those who were before you, or upon Bani Isra'il. So when it has broken out in a land, don't run out of it, and when it has spread in a land, then don't enter it.

'Amir bin Sa'd reported that a person asked Sa'd bin Abu Waqqas about the plague, whereupon Usama bin Zaid said: I would inform you about it. The Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: It is a calamity or a disease which Allah sent to a group of Bani Isra'il, or to the people who were before you; so when you hear of it in land, don't enter it and when it has broken out in your land, don't run away from it.

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Ibn Juraij through another chain of transmitters.

Usama bin Zaid reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) having said this: This calamity or illness was a punishment with which were punished some of the nations before you. Then it was left upon the earth. It goes away once and comes back again. He who heard of its presence in a land should not go towards it, and he who happened to be in a land where it had broken out should not fly from it.

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Zuhri with a different chain of transmitters.

Shu'bah reported from Habib: While we were in Madinah we heard of plague having broken out in Kufa. 'Ata bin Yasir and others said to me that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) had said. If you are in a land where it (this scourge) has broken out, don't get out of it, and if you were to know that it had broken (in another land, then don't enter it. I said to him: From whom (did you hear it)? They said: 'Amir bin Sa'd has narrated it. So I came to him. They said that he was not present there. So I met his brother Ibrahim bin Sa'd and asked him. He said: I bear testimony to the fact that Usama narrated it to Sa'd saying: I heard Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying that it is a God-sent punishment from the calamity or from the remnant of the calamity with which people were afflicted before you. So when it is in a land and you are there, don't get out of it, and if (this news reaches you) that it has broken out in a land, then don't enter therein. Habib said: I said to Ibrahim: Did you hear Usama narrating it to Sa'd and he was not denying it. He said: Yes.

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Shu'bah with the same chain of transmitters except for the fact that no mention has been made of the account of 'Ata bin Yasir as in the previous hadith.

This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Sa'd bin Malik, Khuzaima bin Thabit and Usama bin Zaid.