Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

In the hands of the Hour there is a chaos of killing and lying. It is not your killing of infidels, but a man killing his grandfather, his brother, and his cousin.

They will be among the people of Islam at the hands of the hour of chaos and killing, until a man kills his grandfather, his cousin, his father, and his brother. By Allah, I was afraid that it would catch up with you and me.

At the hands of the Hour there is temptation like pieces of a dark night. A man will be a believer in the evening and become an unbeliever, and he will be a believer in the morning and be a disbeliever in the evening. Someone will sell his religion for a small offer of this world.

The Hour will not come until you see great things that you did not see and that you do not speak to yourselves

Abdul Quddus told us, on the authority of Artat bin Al-Mundhir, on the authority of Damrah bin Habib, on the authority of Salamah bin Nufayl, (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah, ﷺ, saying: “You will tarry after me until you say: When? And you will come in ruins, annihilating one another, and before the Hour there will be two severe deaths, and after it will be years of earthquakes.”

Ask me, for by Allah, do not ask me about a group that went out to fight a hundred, or guide a hundred, unless I inform you of its driver, its leader, and its caller, what is between you and the Day of Judgment.

Narrated `Abdullah and Abu Musa:The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Near the establishment of the Hour there will be days during which Religious ignorance will spread, knowledge will be taken away (vanish) and there will be much Al-Harj, and Al- Harj means killing

It was narrated from Abu Musa Al-Ash’ari that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:“Before the Hour comes, there will be tribulation like pieces of black night, when a man will wake up as a believer but be a disbeliever by evening, or he will be a believer in the evening but will be a disbeliever by morning. And the one who is sitting will be better than the one who is standing, and the one who is standing will be better than the one who is walking, and the one who is walking will be better than the one who is running. So break your bows, cut their strings and strike your swords against rocks, and if anyone enters upon anyone of you, let him be like the better of the two sons of Adam. (i.e. the one killed, not the killer).”

Abu Musa narrated that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:“Before the Hour comes there will be Harj.” I said: “O Messenger of Allah, what is Harj?” He said: “Killing.” Some of the Muslims said: “O Messenger of Allah, now we kill such and such a number of idolaters in one year.” The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “That will not be like killing the idolaters, rather you will kill one another, until a man will kill his neighbor and son of the cousin and a relative.” Some of the people said: “O Messenger of Allah, will we be in our right minds that day?” The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “No, reason will be taken away from most of the people at that time, and there will be left the insignificant people who have no reason.”

It was narrated from Hudhaifah bin Yaman that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:“The Hour will not begin until you kill your ruler and fight one another with swords, and your world is inherited by the worst of you.”

O Auf, count six before the Hour, the first of which is my death

Muhammad ibn Shapur told us, on the authority of Al-Numan ibn Al-Mundhir, on the authority of Makhul, on the authority of Awf ibn Malik, he said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him, said to me: “Six are before the Hour, the first of which is the death of your Prophet, say: one, the second is the conquest of Jerusalem, the third is death that will fall upon you like the shearing of sheep, the fourth is a strife between you, no Arab house will remain without entering it, and the fifth is a truce between you and the Banu Al-Asfar, so they will gather for you the number of a woman’s pregnancy of nine months.”

There are six times before the Hour, the first of which is my death, then the conquest of Jerusalem, then a place that my nation will descend from the Levant, then a trial will fall upon you. No Arab house will remain without entering it, then the Romans will make peace with you.

One of the signs of the Hour is that minds will diminish, relatives will become weak, and anxiety will increase

It takes away the minds of most of the people of that time, and leaves behind a group of people, some of whom think they are on to something but they are not

Among the signs of calamity and signs of the Hour are that minds become alienated, dreams diminish, worries increase, signs of truth are raised, and injustice appears.

You have the Book of Allah and you have your minds

Muhammad ibn al-Harith al-Bahrani told us, on the authority of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Bilmani, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Ibn Umar, (may Allah be pleased with them) both, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him, said: “The Hour will not come until a man passes by the grave and says: I wish I were in his companion’s place when the people face the trials.”

Narrated Abu Huraira:The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "The Hour will not be established till a man passes by a grave of somebody and says, 'Would that I were in his place

The Hour will not come until a man comes to the grave and wallows over it like an animal wallows, wishing to be in the place of its owner

O Amer bin Wathilah, twelve caliphs from Kaab bin Luay, then Al-Naqaf and Al-Naqaf, the affairs of the people will not be united over an imam until the Hour comes.

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ mentioned that there is a trial before the Hour

It was narrated from Anas bin Malik that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:“Islam began as something strange and will go back to being strange, so glad tidings to the strangers.”

Hudhaifah bin Al-Yaman narrated that the Messenger of Allah(s.a.w) said:"The Hour will not be established until the happiest of people in the world is Luka' bin Luka

One of the signs of the Hour is that the good people will be humbled, the bad people will be exalted, and their hypocrites will prevail over every people