The Messenger of Allah ﷺ came out to his companions while they were arguing about divine decree. His face flushed with anger, as if pomegranate seeds had burst across it, and he said, "Is this what you were commanded to do? Is this what you were created for? You strike parts of the Quran against other parts. It was by this that the nations before you were destroyed."Abdullah bin Amr said, "I have never envied myself for missing any gathering of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ as much as I envied myself for missing that gathering by being absent from it."
خرج رسول الله ﷺ على أصحابه وهم يختصمون في القدر، فكأنما يفقأ في وجهه حب الرمان من الغضب، فقال: بهذا أمرتم؟ أو لهذا خلقتم؟ تضربون القرآن بعضه ببعض، بهذا هلكت الأمم قبلكم. قال: فقال عبد الله بن عمرو: ما غبطت نفسي بمجلس تخلفت فيه عن رسول الله ﷺ ما غبطت نفسي بذلك المجلس، وتخلفي عنه.
Ibn Majah (85) narrated it from Ali bin Muhammad, who said, Abu Muawiya told us, who said, Dawud bin Abu Hind told us, from Amr bin Shuayb, from his father, from his grandfather, and he mentioned it. Its isnad is hasan because of Amr bin Shuayb.Busiri said in Zawaid bin Majah, "This isnad is sahih, its narrators are trustworthy. Imam Ahmad narrated it in his Musnad by this same route with an addition at the end."I say, it is as he said. Imam Ahmad (6668) narrated it from Abu Muawiya with his isnad, similarly, and he said in it, "I congratulated myself for a gathering in which the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was present that I did not attend, more than I congratulated myself for that gathering that I did not attend."Bayhaqi narrated it in Qadar wal-Qadar (2/708) through another route from Humayd Tawil, from Matar Warraq and Dawud bin Abu Hind with his isnad, similarly, and he added at the end, "Look at what you have been commanded and follow it, and what you have been forbidden and avoid it."It has other chains of transmission besides this, but what I have mentioned is the most sahih of them.