Abu Hurairah (RA) reported: Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) addressed us and said: O people, Allah has made Hajj obligatory for you; so perform Hajj. Thereupon a person said: Messenger of Allah, (is it to be performed) every year? He (the Holy Prophet) kept quiet, and he repeated (these words) thrice, whereupon Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: If I were to say "Yes," it would become obligatory (for you to perform it every year) and you would not be able to do it. Then he said: Leave me with what I have left to you, for those who were before you were destroyed because of excessive questioning, and their opposition to their apostles. So when I command you to do anything, do it as much as it lies in your power and when I forbid you to do anything, then abandon it.

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported that he heard Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: Avoid that which I forbid you to do and do that which I command you to do to the best of your capacity. Verily the people before you went to their doom because they had put too many questions to their Prophets and then disagreed with their teachings.

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Ibn Shihab with the same chain of transmitters.

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.