Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي عَدِيٍّ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ أَبِي نَضْرَةَ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ذَكَرَ قَوْمًا يَكُونُونَ فِي أُمَّتِهِ يَخْرُجُونَ فِي فِرْقَةٍ مِنْ النَّاسِ سِيمَاهُمْ التَّحْلِيقُ هُمْ شَرُّ الْخَلْقِ أَوْ مِنْ شَرِّ الْخَلْقِ يَقْتُلُهُمْ أَدْنَى الطَّائِفَتَيْنِ مِنْ الْحَقِّ قَالَ فَضَرَبَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لَهُمْ مَثَلًا أَوْ قَالَ قَوْلًا الرَّجُلُ يَرْمِي الرَّمِيَّةَ أَوْ قَالَ الْغَرَضَ فَيَنْظُرُ فِي النَّصْلِ فَلَا يَرَى بَصِيرَةً وَيَنْظُرُ فِي النَّضِيِّ فَلَا يَرَى بَصِيرَةً وَيَنْظُرُ فِي الْفُوقِ فَلَا يَرَى بَصِيرَةً قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو سَعِيدٍ وَأَنْتُمْ قَتَلْتُمُوهُمْ يَا أَهْلَ الْعِرَاقِ.
English Translation
Ibn Abi Adiyy told us, from Sulayman, from Abu Nadrah, from Abu Sa'id: that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, mentioned a people who would be in his community, emerging in a faction among the people, whose mark is shaving of the head; they are the worst of creation, or among the worst of creation; the party nearer to the truth of the two factions will kill them. He said: Then the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, coined for them a parable - or he said a saying: "A man shoots at the game" - or he said "at the target" - "and looks at the arrowhead and sees no trace, then looks at the shaft and sees no trace, then looks at the feathered end and sees no trace." Abu Sa'id said: "And you, O people of Iraq, killed them."