Narrated to us Abdullah ibn Maslamah ibn Qa'nab: Narrated to us Hammad ibn Salamah, from Suhayl ibn Abi Salih, from his father, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said — and it was also narrated to us by Yahya ibn Yahya, who said: I recited before Malik, from Suhayl ibn Abi Salih, from his father, from Abu Hurayrah, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "When a man says, 'The people have perished,' then he is the most destructive of them." Abu Ishaq said: I do not know whether it is ahlakahum with nasb (accusative) or ahlakuhum with raf' (nominative).