Hadith "As The Nation Is, So Shall The Rulers Be Imposed Upon It" Authentic?
I am just thinking about this from political perspective and recently been observed that some nations becoming more conservative resulting in very conservative governments after fair and transparent elections. As we say what you vote in ballet box that you will see in your parliament.
This narration is extremely weak and it comes to us via Two primary variants of Chain . And the Hadith is narrated as: “ كما تكونون يولى عليكم أو كما يؤمر عليكم “ “ As you are, so shall you be ruled, or as you are commanded .” OR “ كما تكونوا يولى عليكم “ “ As you are, so will you be governed .” Variant 1 : Al-Daylami (d:509H) narrated it in Musnad al-Firdaws: 3/305 No. 4918 on the authority of Yahya ibn Hashim , on the authority of Yunus ibn Abi Ishaq , on the authority of his father , on the authority of his grandfather , on the authority of Abi Bakra , with a chain of transmission traceable back to the Prophet . Al-Bayhaqi (d:458H) in Shuab al-Iman: 6/22-23 No. 7391 on the authority of Yahya ibn Hashim , on the authority of Yunus ibn Abi Ishaq , on the authority of Abu Ishaq , with a mursal chain . And Bayhaqi wrote afterward: “ This is disconnected and its narrator is Yahya ibn Hashim, who is weak” . Al-Shawkani (d:1250H) wrote in al-Fawaid al-Majmuah: 1/194 No. 624: “ Its chain of transmission is weak and there is a break in it” . Shiekh Albani (d:1420H) wrote: “ Yahya is among those who fabricate” , (See Ad-Daifah: 1/490-491 No. “320”.) __ Variant 2 : It was narrated by Ibn Jamii As-Saydawi (d:402H) in Muajam al-Shuyukh: 1/149. Narrated by Muhammad ibn Yusuf from Abu al-Muthanna from Muhammad ibn Yahya and al-Karmani ibn Amr from Mubarak bin Fazala to whom this report reached from Hassan (Basri) to whom this report reached from Abi Bakra who reported this from Prophet Muhammad . It was also narrated by al-Qudai (d:454H) in Musnad al-Shihab: 1/336-337 No. “577” on the authority of Ahmad ibn Ibrahim ibn Uthman ibn al-Muthanna Abu al-Muthanna al-Bahili , that his father and his uncle Muhammad ibn Yahya told him: Al-Karmani ibn Amr told from Mubarak bin Fazala to whom this report reached from Hassan (Basri) to whom this report reached from Abi Bakra who reported this from Prophet Muhammad . Ibn Hajar (d:852H) wrote in Takhrij Hadith Al-Kashaf (4/25): “ In its chain of transmission to Mubarak there are unknown people “. Shiekh Albani (d:1420H) wrote: “Ibn Tahir said: Even if Mubarak is mentioned with some weakness, the accusation is on the one who narrated it from him, for there are some unknown people among them “. ( See Ad-Daifah: 1/490-491 No. “320”.)