Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

{إن زلزلة الساعة شيء عظيم} [الحج: 1] قال: قبل الساعة

{The earthquake of the Hour is a great thing} [Al-Hajj: 1] He said: Before the Hour

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لقي جبريل عيسى عليهما السلام ، فقال له عيسى: يا جبريل، متى الساعة؟ فانتفض في أجنحته ثم قال: ما المسئول عنها بأعلم من السائل {ثقلت في السموات والأرض لا تأتيكم إلا بغتة} ، وقال: {لا يجليها لوقتها إلا هو} [الأعراف: 187]

Gabriel met Jesus, peace be upon them, and Jesus said to him: O Gabriel, when is the hour? Then he twitched his wings and said: The one being asked about it does not know more than the questioner. {It is heavy in the heavens and the earth. It will not come to you except suddenly}, and he said: {No one will clear it at its appointed time except Him} [Al-A’raf: 187].

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ما المسئول عنها بأعلم من السائل قال: فما أمارتها؟ قال: أن تلد الأمة ربتها، أو ربها، وأن ترى الحفاة العراة العالة رعاء الشاء يتطاولون في البنيان

It is narrated on the authority of Yahya b. Ya'mur that the first man who discussed qadr (Divine Decree) in Basra was Ma'bad al-Juhani. I along with Humaid b. 'Abdur-Rahman Himyari set out for pilgrimage or for 'Umrah and said:Should it so happen that we come into contact with one of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) we shall ask him about what is talked about taqdir (Divine Decree). Accidentally we came across Abdullah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab, while he was entering the mosque. My companion and I surrounded him. One of us (stood) on his right and the other stood on his left. I expected that my companion would authorize me to speak. I therefore said: Abu Abdur Rahman! There have appeared some people in our land who recite the Qur'an and pursue knowledge. And then after talking about their affairs, added: They (such people) claim that there is no such thing as Divine Decree and events are not predestined. He (Abdullah ibn Umar) said: When you happen to meet such people tell them that I have nothing to do with them and they have nothing to do with me. And verily they are in no way responsible for my (belief). Abdullah ibn Umar swore by Him (the Lord) (and said): If any one of them (who does not believe in the Divine Decree) had with him gold equal to the bulk of (the mountain) Uhud and spent it (in the way of Allah), Allah would not accept it unless he affirmed his faith in Divine Decree. He further said: My father, Umar ibn al-Khattab, told me: One day we were sitting in the company of Allah's Apostle (peace be upon him) when there appeared before us a man dressed in pure white clothes, his hair extraordinarily black. There were no signs of travel on him. None amongst us recognized him. At last he sat with the Apostle (peace be upon him) He knelt before him placed his palms on his thighs and said: Muhammad, inform me about al-Islam. The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said: Al-Islam implies that you testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah, and you establish prayer, pay Zakat, observe the fast of Ramadan, and perform pilgrimage to the (House) if you are solvent enough (to bear the expense of) the journey. He (the inquirer) said: You have told the truth. He (Umar ibn al-Khattab) said: It amazed us that he would put the question and then he would himself verify the truth. He (the inquirer) said: Inform me about Iman (faith). He (the Holy Prophet) replied: That you affirm your faith in Allah, in His angels, in His Books, in His Apostles, in the Day of Judgment, and you affirm your faith in the Divine Decree about good and evil. He (the inquirer) said: You have told the truth. He (the inquirer) again said: Inform me about al-Ihsan (performance of good deeds). He (the Holy Prophet) said: That you worship Allah as if you are seeing Him, for though you don't see Him, He, verily, sees you. He (the enquirer) again said: Inform me about the hour (of the Doom). He (the Holy Prophet) remarked: One who is asked knows no more than the one who is inquiring (about it). He (the inquirer) said: Tell me some of its indications. He (the Holy Prophet) said: That the slave-girl will give birth to her mistress and master, that you will find barefooted, destitute goat-herds vying with one another in the construction of magnificent buildings. He (the narrator, Umar ibn al-Khattab) said: Then he (the inquirer) went on his way but I stayed with him (the Holy Prophet) for a long while. He then, said to me: Umar, do you know who this inquirer was? I replied: Allah and His Apostle knows best. He (the Holy Prophet) remarked: He was Gabriel (the angel). He came to you in order to instruct you in matters of religion

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لم يزل النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم يسأل عن الساعة حتى نزلت {فيم أنت من ذكراها إلى ربك منتهاها} [النازعات: 44] ، فانتهى

The Prophet (may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him) continued asking about the Hour until “What do you have to do regarding its remembrance is to your Lord? Its end” was revealed [Al-Nazi’at: 44], so he ended.

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تسألونني عن الساعة وإنما علمها عند الله

You ask me about the Hour, but knowledge of it is with Allah

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فينفخ النفخة الأخرى من عند باب مدين الغربي، فإذا هم قيام ينظرون، يبعثون في دخن وظلمة قال: وقال أبو الدرداء: فمن كان له عمل صالح يفرح عند الدخن والظلمة، حتى يصير في رخاء، ويقسم النور بين الناس على قدر الأعمال

Then the second blast will be blown from the western gate of Midian, and when they stand looking, they will be resurrected in smoke and darkness. Whoever has done good deeds will rejoice in the smoke and darkness, until he becomes prosperous, and the light will be divided among the people according to the deeds.

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إذا كان عند قيام الساعة خرجت جبال البحر إلى البر، ووقعت جبال البر في البحر، وخرج البحر ففاض على الأرض، ولم يبق على وجه الأرض بنيان ولا جبل إلا انهدم وخر، وانتثرت النجوم، وتغيرت السماء، وتشققت الأرض خوفا من قيام الساعة، ثم تقوم الساعة

If, when the Hour comes, the mountains of the sea will come out to the land, and the mountains of the land will fall into the sea, and the sea will come out and overflow on the earth, and not a structure or mountain will remain on the face of the earth except that it collapses and collapses, and the stars are scattered, and the sky changes, and the earth splits in fear of the coming of the Hour, then the Hour will come.

أقسم بالله ما على الأرض نفس منفوسة اليوم يأتي عليها مائة سنة

I swear to Allah that there is not a single soul on earth today who will die for a hundred years

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لأرجو أن لا تعجز أمتي عند ربي أن يؤخرهم نصف يوم فقيل لسعد: كم نصف يوم؟ قال: خمسمائة سنة

I hope that my nation will not be unable before my Lord to delay them by half a day. It was said to Saad: How many half a day? He said: Five hundred years

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يا جبريل، قد أكثر علي اليهود وغيرهم في السؤال عن الساعة؟ ، فقال: ما المسئول عنها بأعلم من السائل

O Gabriel, have the Jews and others asked more about the Hour? He said: The one asked about it has no knowledge of the questioner

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ليبيتن أهل هذه المدينة، ثم ليصبحن، يعني حمص، فيخرج خارج من باب الشرقي فلا يرى سنيرا، فيكذب نفسه، فيؤذن أهلها، فيخرجون فينظرون إلى ما نظر إليه، فإذا هم بلبنان مكانه، وإذا سنير قد زال عن مكانه، فيمكثون ما شاء الله يومهم ذلك حتى يأتيهم آت من قبل حوارين فيقول: مر بنا سنير أمس سائرا منطلقا به، ما ندري أين سلك به، ويقال: إنه وتد من أوتاد جهنم

Let the people of this city spend the night, and then in the morning, meaning Homs, and he comes out of the eastern gate and does not see Sunair, so he deceives himself, so he gives the call to its people, and they go out and look at what he looked at, and they are in Lebanon where he is, and behold, Sunir has gone from his place, and they stay for as long as Allah wills that day until a person comes to them from two dialogues and says: Sunir passed us yesterday, walking with it, and we do not know where he took it, and it is said: It is one of the stakes. Hell

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بعد الآية السابعة أن يبعث الله ملائكة على خيل بلق تطير بين السماء والأرض، تنعي الأرض ومن عليها ومن فيها، والآية الثامنة أنه لا يبقى على الأرض شجرة إلا بكت دما، والتاسعة أنه لا يبقى على الأرض صخرة إلا رنت رنين النساء، والعاشرة طلوع الشمس من مغربها

After the seventh verse, Allah sends angels on camel horses to fly between heaven and earth, mourning the earth and those on it and those in it. The eighth verse is that not a tree remains on the earth that does not weep blood. The ninth is that not a rock remains on the earth that does not ring with the sound of women. And the tenth verse is that the sun rises from the west.

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لا تكون السبعون إلا كان عندها شدائد وأمور عظام

She will not be seventy except that she will have hardships and great matters

لا تقوم الساعة حتى تكون السنة كالشهر، والشهر كالجمعة، والجمعة كاليوم، واليوم كاضطرام النار

The Hour will not come until a year is like a month, a month is like a Friday, a Friday is like a day, and a day is like the burning of fire

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لا تقوم الساعة حتى يتسافد الناس في الطرق كما يتسافد الدواب، يستغني الرجال بالرجال، والنساء بالنساء، أتدرون ما التساحق؟ قالوا: لا، قال: تركب المرأة المرأة ثم تسحقها

The Hour will not come until people flock together on the roads like animals flock together, men seeking relief from men, and women from women. Do you know what crowding is? They said: No. He said: A woman rides another woman and then crushes her

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تغور المياه كلها، وترجع إلى أماكنها إلا نهر الأردن، ونيل مصر

All waters sink and return to their places except the Jordan River and the Nile of Egypt

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ما المسئول عنها بأعلم من السائل، ولكن أشراطها تقارب الأسواق، ومطر ولا نبات، وظهور الغيبة، وظهور أولاد الغية، والتعظيم لرب المال، وعلو أصوات الفساق في المساجد، وظهور أهل المنكر على أهل المعروف، فمن أدرك ذلك الزمان فليرغ بدينه، وليكن حلسا من أحلاس بيته

Whoever is asked about it knows no better than the questioner, but its signs are the approaching of the markets, rain and no vegetation, the appearance of backbiting, the appearance of the children of unrighteousness, glorification of the owner of money, the loudness of the voices of the immoral in the mosques, and the rise of the people of evil over the people of good.

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إذا رأيت الناس قد أماتوا الصلاة، وأضاعوا الأمانة، واستحلوا الكذب، وأكثروا الحلف، وأكلوا الربا، وأخذوا الرشى، وشيدوا البناء، واتبعوا الهوى، وباعوا الدين بالدنيا، فالنجا ثم النجا، ثكلتك أمك

If you see people who have neglected prayer, lost trustworthiness, deemed it permissible to lie, swore excessively, consumed usury, taken bribes, built buildings, followed desires, and sold religion for the world, then be saved, and then be saved. May your mother be bereaved of you.

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إذا خرجت أول الآيات طرحت الأقلام، وحبست الحفظة، وشهدت الأجساد على الأعمال

When the first verses are revealed, the pens will be cast down, the memorizers will be imprisoned, and the bodies will bear witness to the deeds

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لا تقوم الساعة حتى يتسافد الناس في الطرق تسافد الحمير

The Hour will not come until people flock to the roads like donkeys

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إني لأجدهم يعيشون بعد ذلك زمانا طويلا، ولكن عامة المعيشة تكون بالشام ، قيل: الكوفة والبصرة؟ قال: هي محدثة

I found them living after that for a long time, but the general standard of living in the Sham (Greater Syria) is modern

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يوشك أن يخرج الرجل من بيته فتخبره عصاه وسوطه بما أحدث أهله في بيته

The man is about to leave his house, and his stick and whip will tell him what his family has done in his house

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إن الأشرار بعد الأخيار عشرين ومائة سنة، لا يدري أحد من الناس متى أولها

The bad guys follow the good guys for twenty and a hundred years, and none of the people know when it started

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لا تقوم الساعة على من يقول: لا إله إلا الله، وإن الملك يريد أن ينفخ في الصور فإذا سمع أحدا يقول: لا إله إلا الله، أخرها سبعين خريفا

The Hour will not come upon anyone who says: There is no god but Allah, and the king wants to blow the trumpet, so if he hears someone say: There is no god but Allah, he will delay it for seventy years.

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لا تقوم الساعة على أحد يقول: الله الله

It is narrated on the authority of Anas that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:"The Hour (Resurrection) will not occur as long as anyone says: 'Allah, Allah

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