Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah and Abu Kurayb narrated to us, they said: Abu Mu'awiyah narrated to us. (H) And Ibn Numayr narrated to us, my father narrated to us, both of them from Al-A'mash, from Abu Salih, from Abu Hurayrah. (H) And Qutaybah ibn Sa'id narrated to us, Al-Mughira—meaning Al-Hizami—narrated to us. (H) And Ibn Abi 'Umar narrated to us, Sufyan narrated to us, both of them from Abu Al-Zinad, from Al-A'raj, from Abu Hurayrah. (H) And Ubaydullah ibn Mu'adh narrated to us, my father narrated to us, Shu'bah narrated to us, from Muhammad ibn Ziyad, he heard Abu Hurayrah. (H) And Muhammad ibn Rafi' narrated to us, 'Abd al-Razzaq narrated to us, Ma'mar informed us, from Hammam ibn Munabbih, from Abu Hurayrah—all of them said, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him:

"Leave me as long as I leave you; and in the narration of Hammam: as long as you are left. Indeed, those before you were destroyed only because of their excessive questioning and their disagreement with their prophets." Then they mentioned something similar to the hadith of Az-Zuhri, from Sa'id and Abu Salamah, from Abu Hurayrah.