A Cry in Ramadan
In brief
A 'cry' or voice heard in Ramadan is reported among the tribulations before the Mahdi. The reports are weak, coming mainly through Nu'aym's Kitab al-Fitan.
Reports in Nu'aym's Kitab al-Fitan mention 'a voice in Ramadan, an uproar in Shawwal, and in Dhu al-Qa'da the tribes take sides', among the disturbances preceding the Mahdi (e.g. Kitab al-Fitan, reports 629 and 631). These chains are weak and the collection is ungraded.
Placed in the weak Mahdi-era reports; it is not established by sound narration and carries no date.
Nu'aym ibn Hammad's Kitab al-Fitan is weak overall and ungraded, so its reports are shown here as material under study, never as established signs. A Ramadan cry is mentioned by some scholars of the Mahdi narrations, but the sahih and hasan corpus does not establish it, and it must never be tied to any year or event.
Weigh reports by their authenticity: hold to what the sound narrations teach, and treat weak, unverified reports as neither belief nor a timetable.
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Where it sits in the sequence
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
No scholar here cites it as having appeared
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Note on grading (CONTENT_GUIDELINES rule 2)
A 'cry' or 'voice' in Ramadan, followed by uproar in Shawwal and tribes taking sides in Dhu al-Qa'da, is reported among the tribulations before the Mahdi. These reports come mainly through Nu'aym's Kitab al-Fitan, which is weak overall and ungraded; some scholars mention a Ramadan cry, but it is not established by the sahih or hasan material, and no date or year may be read into it.
Kitab al-Fitan of Nu'aym ibn Hammad - weak, ungraded
Meaning and context
A 'cry' or voice in Ramadan appears among the pre-Mahdi tribulations in Nu'aym's Kitab al-Fitan. These reports are weak and ungraded, shown here as material under study, never as an established sign, and tied to no date.
What the commentators said it means
- 'A voice in Ramadan, uproar in Shawwal, tribes taking sides in Dhu al-Qa'da' - reported among the Mahdi-era disturbances in Nu'aym, whose chains are weak.
Read with care
- Nu'aym's Kitab al-Fitan is weak overall; nothing here is established, and no year or event may be read into it.
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