Arabic (Original)
Ḥadīth | Ṭabarānī (الطبراني) tabarani:1699 حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ زُهَيْرٍ التُّسْتَرِيُّ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ كَرَامَةَ ثنا عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُوسَى ثنا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ كُهَيْلٍ عَنْ جُنْدُبٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ «مَنْ رَاءَى رَاءَى اللهُ بِهِ وَمَنْ سَمَّعَ سَمَّعَ اللهُ بِهِ»
English Translation
Jundub said: The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said: "I am absolved before Allah of having any intimate friend among you. Indeed, Allah has taken me as an intimate friend, just as He took Ibrahim as an intimate friend. Were I to take any intimate friend, I would have taken Abu Bakr as an intimate friend. Indeed, those before you used to take the graves of their righteous ones as places of worship — do not take graves as places of worship, for I forbid you from that."