Abu Salama and Ata bin Yasar came to Abu Said al-Khudri and asked him about Haruriya, saying: Did you hear the Messenger of Allah ﷺ making a mention of them? He (Abu Said al-Khudri) said: I dont know who the Haruriya are, but I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ as saying: There would arise in this nation (and he did not say "out of them") a people and you would hold insignificant your prayers as compared with their prayers. And they would recite the Quran which would not go beyond their throats and would swerve through the religion (as blank) just as a (swift) arrow passes through the prey. The archer looks at his arrow, at its iron head and glances at its end (which he held) in the tip of his fingers to see whether it had any stain of blood.