Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا بَهْزٌ وَأَبُو النَّضْرِ وَعَفَّانُ قَالُوا حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ الْمُغِيرَةِ عَنْ حُمَيْدٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِنَّ مِنْ بَعْدِي مِنْ أُمَّتِي قَوْمًا يَقْرَءُونَ الْقُرْآنَ لَا يُجَاوِزُ حَلَاقِيمَهُمْ يَخْرُجُونَ مِنْ الدِّينِ كَمَا يَخْرُجُ السَّهْمُ مِنْ الرَّمِيَّةِ ثُمَّ لَا يَعُودُونَ فِيهِ شَرُّ الْخَلْقِ وَالْخَلِيقَةِ قَالَ ابْنُ الصَّامِتِ فَلَقِيتُ رَافِعًا قَالَ بَهْزٌ أَخَا الْحَكَمِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو فَحَدَّثْتُهُ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ قَالَ وَأَنَا أَيْضًا قَدْ سَمِعْتُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ.
English Translation
Bahz, Abu al-Nadr, and Affan told us, they said: Sulayman ibn al-Mughirah told us, from Humayd, from Abdullah ibn al-Samit, from Abu Dharr, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, after me, among my nation, there will be people who recite the Qur'an, but it will not pass beyond their throats; they will exit from the religion just as an arrow exits from its target, never to return to it - the worst of creation and creatures." Ibn al-Samit said: So I met Rafi' - Bahz said: "the brother of al-Hakam ibn Amr" - and related this hadith to him, and he said: "I too have heard it from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)."