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Sahih Muslim 4970صحيح مسلم 4970
وَحَدَّثَنِيهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، بِهَذَا الإِسْنَادِ قَالَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ قَالَ سُفْيَانُ لاَ أَدْرِي هَذَا فِي الْحَدِيثِ أَمْ لاَ . يَعْنِي أَنْ يَتَخَوَّنَهُمْ أَوْ يَلْتَمِسَ عَثَرَاتِهِمْ .
This tradition has been reported through anothee chain. 'Abdurahman, one of the sub-narrators, said "I do not know if it in the hadith or not", meaning (the words) "doubting their fidelity and spying into their lapses."
Grading
Sahih (authentic by the consensus of hadith scholars)
Chain of narrators
عبد الرحمن بن بشر ← سفيان بن عيينة ← عبد الرحمن بن القاسم
Abd al-Rahman ibn Bishr → Sufyan ibn Uyayna → Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Qasim