Authentic
graded by Al-Albani
Mishkat al-Masabih 274
Narrator:Hudhayfah
وَعَن حُذَيْفَة قَالَ: يَا مَعْشَرَ الْقُرَّاءِ اسْتَقِيمُوا فَقَدْ سَبَقْتُمْ سَبْقًا بَعِيدًا وَإِنْ أُخِذْتُمْ يَمِينًا وَشِمَالًا لَقَدْ ضللتم ضلالا بَعيدا. رَوَاهُ البُخَارِيّ
Hudhaifa said, “ If you Qur'an readers follow a straight course you will have attained great precedence; but if you go right and left you will have fallen into vast error.” Bukhari transmitted it.
Reported by Al-Bukhari (No. 7282). Cited in Mishkat al-Masabih (No. 274).