My brother and I once sat in a gathering that I would not exchange for red camels. My brother and I came forward, and there were some elders from the Companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ seated at one of his doors. We disliked the idea of separating them, so we sat off to the side. They began discussing a verse of the Quran and disputed over it until their voices grew loud.The Messenger of Allah ﷺ came out angry, his face flushed red, throwing dust at them and saying, "Stop, my people. By this very thing the nations before you were destroyed, through their disagreement with their prophets and their striking parts of the scriptures against other parts. The Quran was not sent down for one part to contradict another. Rather, parts of it confirm other parts. So whatever of it you understand, act upon it, and whatever of it you do not understand, refer it back to one who knows."
حدثنا أنس بن عياض حدثنا أبو حازم
لقد جلست أنا وأخي مجلسا ما أحب أن لي به حمر النعم أقبلت أنا وأخي وإذا مشيخة من صحابة رسول الله ﷺ جلوس عند باب من أبوابه فكرهنا أن نفرق بينهم فجلسنا حجرة إذ ذكروا آية من القرآن فتماروا فيها حتى ارتفعت أصواتهم فخرج رسول الله ﷺ مغضبا قد احمر وجهه يرميهم بالتراب ويقول مهلا يا قوم بهذا أهلكت الأمم من قبلكم باختلافهم على أنبيائهم وضربهم الكتب بعضها ببعض إن القرآن لم ينزل يكذب بعضه بعضا بل يصدق بعضه بعضا فما عرفتم منه فاعملوا به وما جهلتم منه فردوه إلى عالمه
Its isnad is sahih. Abu Hazim is Salama bin Dinar, the lame one, from Madinah. His reliability was already established at 1604, and here we add that he was among the junior Tabiin, and was a trustworthy narrator with many hadiths. Ibn Khuzayma said, "Trustworthy, there was none like him in his time." Ibn Hibban said, "He was the judge of the people of Madinah, and among their worshippers and ascetics." Bukhari gave his biography in his Tarikh al-Kabir, 79/2/2.This hadith has already passed in similar meaning, abridged, at 6668, through the narration of Dawud bin Abu Hind from Amr bin Shuayb. We noted this there. Ibn Kathir quoted this hadith in his tafsir (2:521–522) from this place, then referred to the abridged narration mentioned earlier at 6668.Bukhari related in Khalq Afal Abbad (page 78), "Ishaq narrated to us, Abdul-Razzaq informed us, from Mamar, from Zuhri, from Amr bin Shuayb, from his father, from his grandfather, who said, 'The Prophet heard some people disputing, so he said, "Those before you were destroyed by this very thing. They set parts of the Book of Allah against other parts, while the Book of Allah was revealed confirming one part with another. So do not set its parts against each other. Say what you know of it, and refer what you do not know to the one who knows it."'"This is a sahih isnad. It will come with this isnad from Abdul-Razzaq at 6741.Muslim related in his Sahih (2:304) a similar meaning, abridged, through the narration of Abdullah bin Rabah from Abdullah bin Amr, and it will come by this route in the Musnad at 6801. The brother of Abdullah bin Amr is apparently Muhammad bin Amr bin As, who was among the junior companions, and has a biography in Istiab (pages 241–242) and Isabah (5:61). I did not find any other brother of Abdullah bin Amr besides him.As for his saying "red camels" (humr al-naam), al-naam, with fatha on the nun and ayn, means camels, and humr is the plural of ahmar, meaning red. The red camel is one whose color resembles the color of saffron when a garment is dyed with it. It is also said that a camel is called red when nothing mixes with its redness. Red camels are the most enduring of camels in the heat of midday. It is said in Lisan (5:288), "The Arabs say, the best camels are the red ones and the tawny ones," and from this comes the saying of some of them, "I would not want red camels in exchange for ambiguous speech."As for his saying "so we sat apart" (hujratan), it is with fatha on the ha and sukun on the jim, meaning to one side, separated.