The Earth Vomits Forth Its Treasures Like Columns of Gold and Silver
In brief
Near the Hour, the earth will vomit forth the buried treasures of its interior ('pieces of its liver') like great columns of gold and silver, yet no one will take anything from them.
In Sahih Muslim 1013 and Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2208, Abu Hurayrah narrated that the Prophet ﷺ said: 'The earth will vomit forth the pieces of its liver, like columns of gold and silver. The murderer will come and say: For this I killed. The severer of family ties will say: For this I severed my ties of kinship. The thief will say: For this my hand was cut off. Then they will leave it and take nothing from it.'
Connected with the era when wealth overflows so abundantly (in the time of the Mahdi and Isa AS) and the signs of the Hour loom so close that worldly gold loses all value.
Never spill blood, sever kinship, or betray trust for worldly wealth that will soon be left behind untouched.
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Where it sits in the sequence
Phase 3 · Before the Dajjal
Mu'adh ibn Jabal's narration gives this order: Jerusalem flourishes, Yathrib is in ruins, the great battle, the conquest of Constantinople, then the Dajjal (Sunan Abi Dawud 4294, graded hasan by al-Albani). Sahih Muslim 2897 places the battle at al-A'maq or Dabiq, then Constantinople, then the Dajjal. Sunan Abi Dawud 4292 puts a truce with the Romans before the battle. The narrations on the Mahdi do not state his place in this order.
What scholars have said
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al-Nawawi & al-Qurtubi
Explain that near the Hour, the earth will cast out its buried mineral deposits and treasures like great pillars of gold and silver, yet people will be so overwhelmed by the proximity of the Hour and the abundance of wealth that no one will take anything from them.
Sharh Sahih Muslim, on Hadith 1013; al-Tadhkirah
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