English Translation

Rawh told us, Zuhayr ibn Muhammad told us, Zayd ibn Aslam told us, from Ata' ibn Yasar, from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "You will surely follow the ways of those before you, span by span and cubit by cubit, until if they entered a lizard's hole, you would follow them in." We said: "O Messenger of Allah, the Jews and the Christians?" He said: "Who else?" Abu al-Nadr told us, Abd al-Hamid told us, Shahr told me, who said: Abu Sa'id al-Khudri told us: "While a man from Aslam was among some small livestock of his, driving them along in the desert of Dhu al-Hulayfa, a wolf suddenly attacked him and snatched a sheep from his flock. The man shouted at it and threw stones at it, until he rescued his sheep from it. Then the wolf came forward and sat back, resting on its tail, facing the man" - and he related it like the hadith of Shu'ayb ibn Abi Hamza.