Sahih Muslim 5777
صحيح مسلم#5777SahihUsama b. Zaid reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) having said this:This calamity or illness was a punishment with which were punished some of the nations before you. Then it was left upon the earth. It goes away once and comes back again. He who heard of its presence in a land should not go towards it, and he who happened to be in a land where it had broken out should not fly from it
Scholarly Authentication
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Every narration in Sahih Muslim is accepted as Sahih (authentic) by the established status of the book.
In-book reference: 39:129