Volume 9, Book 92, Number 422:
Narrated Abu Sa’id Al-Khudri:
The Prophet said, “You will follow the ways of those nations who were before you, span by span
and cubit by cubit (i.e., inch by inch) so much so that even if they entered a hole of a mastigure, you
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would follow them.” We said, “O Allah’s Apostle! (Do you mean) the Jews and the Christians?” He
said, “Whom else?”