The Sufficient (Vol 8) · Hadith 139 (#Ḥadīth #1)

مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ سَالِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (عليه السلام) قَالَ مَا الْتَقَتْ فِئَتَانِ قَطُّ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْبَاطِلِ إِلَّا كَانَ النَّصْرُ مَعَ أَحْسَنِهِمَا بَقِيَّةً عَلَى أَهْلِ الْإِسْلَامِ.

139. Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ali Bin Al-Hakam, from Hisham Bin Salim, who has narrated the following: Abu Abdullah said: ‘No two groups of the people of falsehood ever confronted each other at all except that the victory was with the better one of them, while the other way round (opposite) being for the people of Al-Islam’.

Gradings are classical jarḥ-wa-taʿdīl, name-matched to a rijāl index (not individually re-verified).