I came to the day of al-Jara'a, and there was a man sitting there. I said, "Blood will surely be shed here today."The man said, "No, by Allah."I said, "Yes, by Allah."He said, "No, by Allah."I said, "Yes, by Allah."He said, "No, by Allah. It is a hadith of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ which he narrated to me."I said, "What a bad companion you have been to me today. You hear me contradicting you, yet you had heard it from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and did not stop me?"Then I said, "Why this anger?" I turned toward him to ask him, and behold, the man was Hudhayfah.
جئت يوم الجرعة، فإذا رجل جالس، فقلت: ليهراقن اليوم ههنا دماء، فقال ذاك الرجل: كلا والله، قلت: بلى والله، قال: كلا والله، قلت: بلى والله، قال: كلا والله، إنه لحديث رسول الله ﷺ حدثنيه، قلت: بئس الجليس لي أنت منذ اليوم تسمعني أخالفك وقد سمعته من رسول الله ﷺ فلا تنهاني؟ ثم قلت: ما هذا الغضب؟ فأقبلت عليه، أسأله فإذا الرجل حذيفة.
Muslim narrated it in the Book of Tribulations and Signs of the Hour (2893) through several routes from Muaz bin Muaz, who said, Ibn Awn narrated to us, from Muhammad, that is, Ibn Sirin, who said, Jundab said, and then he related it.His saying, "al-Jaraah," refers to a place near Kufa, and "the Day of Jaraah" was the day the people of Kufa went out to meet a governor whom Uthman had appointed over them. They turned him back and asked Uthman to appoint Abu Musa Ashari as their governor, so he did.His saying, "akhalifuka" ("I will oppose you" or "I will swear with you"), Nawawi said, in all the reliable manuscripts of our region it appears as "akhalifuka" with the dotted kha (meaning "I will oppose you"). Qadi Iyad said, the narration of all our teachers has it with the plain ha (from halaf, meaning "oath," so "I will swear with you"). He said, some narrated it with the dotted letter, and both readings are sahih. He said, but the reading with the plain letter is more evident, because of the repeated swearing of oaths between the two of them.