کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

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 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.

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]”