أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ يُونُسَ ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو زُبَيْدٍ ، حَدَّثَنَا حُصَيْنٌ ، عَنْ مُرَّةَ الْهَمْدَانِيِّ ، قَالَ : جَاءَ أَبُو قُرَّةَ الْكِنْدِيُّ بِكِتَابٍ مِنْ الشَّامِ ، فَحَمَلَهُ، فَدَفَعَهُ إِلَى عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُ، فَنَظَرَ فِيهِ، فَدَعَا بِطَسْتٍ، ثُمَّ دَعَا بِمَاءٍ، فَمَرَسَهُ فِيهِ، وَقَالَ :" إِنَّمَا هَلَكَ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ بِاتِّبَاعِهِمْ الْكُتُبَ وَتَرْكِهِمْ كِتَابَهُمْ "، قَالَ حُصَيْنٌ : فَقَالَ مُرَّةُ : " أَمَا إِنَّهُ لَوْ كَانَ مِنْ الْقُرْآنِ، أَوْ السُّنَّةِ لَمْ يَمْحُهُ، وَلَكِنْ كَانَ مِنْ كُتُبِ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ "

Ahmad bin Abdullah bin Yunus told us, Abu Zubayd told us, Husayn told us, on the authority of Murrat al-Hamdani, he said: Abu Qurrah came Al-Kindi received a letter from the Levant. He carried it and gave it to Abdullah bin Masoud, may God be pleased with him. He looked at it, called for a basin, then called for water. So he anchored him in it, and said: “Those who were before you perished only because they followed the Book and abandoned their Book.” Husayn said: Then he once said: “But it is If it had been from the Qur’an or the Sunnah, he would not have erased it, but rather it had been from the writings of the People of the Book.”