Arabic (Original)
قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ أَبُو دَاوُدَ الْحَفَرِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ زَكَرِيَّا بْنِ أَبِي زَائِدَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي سَعْدُ بْنُ طَارِقٍ عَنْ بِلَالِ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ عِمْرَانَ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي أَعْرَابِيٌّ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ مَا أَخَافُ عَلَى قُرَيْشٍ إِلَّا أَنْفُسَهَا قُلْتُ مَا لَهُمْ قَالَ أَشِحَّةٌ بَجَرَةٌ وَإِنْ طَالَ بِكَ عُمْرٌ لَتَنْظُرَنَّ إِلَيْهِمْ يَفْتِنُونَ النَّاسَ حَتَّى تَرَى النَّاسَ بَيْنَهُمْ كَالْغَنَمِ بَيْنَ الْحَوْضَيْنِ إِلَى هَذَا مَرَّةً وَإِلَى هَذَا مَرَّةً.
English Translation
'Umar ibn Sa'd, Abu Dawud al-Hafari, told us: Yahya ibn Zakariyya ibn Abi Za'idah told us: Sa'd ibn Tariq told me, from Bilal ibn Yahya, from 'Imran ibn Husayn, who said: A Bedouin told me that he heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say: "I do not fear for Quraysh except from themselves." I said, "What is wrong with them?" He said: "Miserly and full of grudges; and if you live long, you will surely see them causing tribulation among the people, until you see the people among them like sheep between two watering troughs, going toward this one at times and toward that one at other times."