کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

Nu'aym told us, on the authority of Ibn al-Mubarak, on the authority of Hisham, on the authority of Al-Hasan, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “My likeness and your likeness and the likeness of the Hour are like a people who feared an enemy, so they sent a groom for them. When he approached them, they were with the forelocks of their horses, and he feared that the enemy would precede him to his companions, so he flashed his garment and called out, ‘O morning, and the Hour is almost ahead of me to you.’”

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Ibn al-Mubarak told us, on the authority of Awf, on the authority of Qasamah bin Zuhair, he said: I was informed that the Messenger of Allah (may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him) said: “Like me and you and the likeness of the Hour is a people who feared the enemy, so they sent a rabbi to them close by. When the rabbi saw the raid of the people, he feared that if he descended from his place giving the call to his people that the raid would come to his people, so he twisted his garment in place and called out: O morning.”

Ibn al-Mubarak told us, on the authority of Ibn Abi Khalid, on the authority of Shubayl ibn Awf, he said: Abu Jubayrah told me, on the authority of the sheikhs of the Ansar, they said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “I was sent at the hour like this, and he stuck between his index and middle fingers, at the same hour, or he said: the name of the hour.”

I and the Hour were sent like these two

The Hour will be established by two men with the scales in their hands

The Hour will come, and the two men will have spread the garment between them, and they will not sell it nor fold it, until the Hour will come, and the man will have raised his piece of food and will not put it in his mouth until the Hour will come, and the man will have touched his pelvis, so he will not kneel in it until the Hour will come.

The Hour will come upon two men spreading a garment and selling it between them, so the Hour will come upon them

Abu Sa'eed narrated:"The Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) said: 'How can I be comfortable when the one with the horn is holding it to his lip, his ears listening for when he will be ordered to blow, so he can blow.' It was as if that was very hard upon the Companions of the Prophet (s.a.w), so he said to them: 'Say: "Allah is sufficent for us and what a good protector He is, and upon Allah we rely." [Abu' Eisa said:] This Hadith is Hasan. This Hadith has been reported through other routes from 'Atiyyah, from Abu Sa'eed [AlKhudri] from the Prophet SAW, similarly

A horn is blown into it

Narrated 'Imran bin Husain:"We were with the Prophet (ﷺ) on a journey when some of his Companions fell behind. So the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) raised his voice reciting these two Ayat: "O mankind! Have Taqwa of your Lord! Verily the earthquake of the hour is a terrible thing..." up to His saying: but Allah's torment is severe (21:1 & 2)." When his Companions heard that, they hastened to catch up with him, since they knew that he had something to say. He (ﷺ) said: 'Do you know what Day this is? That is the Day when Adam will be called. His Lord will call him and say: O Adam, send forth those who are to be sent to the Fire. He will say: O Lord! How many are to be sent to the Fire? He will say: From every one-thousand there are nine-hundred and ninety-nine for the Fire and one for Paradise. So the people despaired as if they would not smile again. When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saw the state of his Companions, he said: 'Strive hard and receive the good news. By the One in Whose Hand is the soul of Muhammad, you will be counted with two creations who are immense in numbers; Ya'juj and Ma'juj, and those who have died among the progeny of Adam and the progeny of Iblis.'" He said: "So some of the people's grief went away, and he (ﷺ) said: 'Strive hard and receive the good news. By the One in Whose Hand is the soul of Muhammad! Among mankind, you are but like the mole on the flank of a camel, or a mark on the foreleg of a beast

Ibn al-Mubarak told us, on the authority of Malik ibn Mughul, he said: I heard Ismail ibn Raja’, speaking, on the authority of al-Sha’bi, who said: “Gabriel met Jesus, peace be upon them both, and Jesus said to him: O Gabriel, when is the Hour? He fluttered in his wings and then said: Who is asked about it with knowledge of it 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 time except Him} [Al-A’raf: 187]”

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

Ibn Uyaynah told us, on the authority of Al-Zuhri, on the authority of Urwa, who said: “The Prophet (may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him) kept asking about the Hour until {What do you have to do with its remembrance to your Lord is its end} [Al-Nazi’at: 44] was revealed, and he ended.”