کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

Allah has raised this world for me, so I look at it and what will be in it until the Day of Resurrection as I look at these palms of my own: two generations from Allah that He revealed to His Prophet as He revealed to the prophets before him.

There will be temptations like pieces of the dark night, one after the other. They will come to you like the faces of cows, and you will not know which one is from what.

When time draws near, honor will overwhelm you with temptations like pieces of a dark night

Yes, whichever household, whether Arab or non-Arab, for whom Allah intends good, He will enter Islam upon them. Then there will be tribulations as if they were shadows. Indeed, by the One in Whose Hand is my soul, then you will return therein as black as youth, striking the necks of one another.

Al-Walid bin Muslim told us, on the authority of Al-Awza’i, on the authority of Abd al-Wahid bin Qays, on the authority of Urwa bin Al-Zubayr, on the authority of Karz bin Alqamah, on the authority of the Prophet, ﷺ, and something similar.

In the hands of the Hour there is a chaos of killing and lying. It is not your killing of infidels, but a man killing his grandfather, his brother, and his cousin.

At the hands of the Hour there is temptation like pieces of a dark night. A man will be a believer in the evening and become an unbeliever, and he will be a believer in the morning and be a disbeliever in the evening. Someone will sell his religion for a small offer of this world.

Sedition is rampant in Allah's country, it is taking its toll, and it is not permissible for anyone to awaken it. Woe to whoever takes hold of its snare. You will not see in this world anything but calamity and strife, and matters will only increase in severity.

Three hundred men will emerge from my nation, carrying three hundred banners, who know and know their tribes, seeking the face of Allah, and will be killed for misguidance.

Sending temptations on earth, sending rain

There will be tribulations in my nation until a man is separated from his father and brother, until a man is reproached for his calamity just as an adulteress is reproached for her adultery.

Muhammad bin Shapur told us, on the authority of Al-Nu’man bin Al-Mundhir, on the authority of Makhul, on the authority of Hudhayfah, on the authority of the Prophet, ﷺ, and something like that.

My nation will not perish until the differentiation, swaying, and nervous gestures that people after me bring about in Islam appear in Islam. The tribe leans against the tribe, and its sanctity becomes permissible unjustly as the lands move towards one another, so their necks differ in war like this. That is if the common people are corrupted and the private ones are reformed. Blessed is the man who Allah has set right his own.

Abdul Quddus told us, on the authority of Artat bin Al-Mundhir, on the authority of Damrah bin Habib, on the authority of Salamah bin Nufayl, (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah, ﷺ, saying: “You will tarry after me until you say: When? And you will come in ruins, annihilating one another, and before the Hour there will be two severe deaths, and after it will be years of earthquakes.”

But it exists and its interpretation has not yet come

Mu’awiyah said:“I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) say: ‘There is nothing left of this world except trials and tribulations.’”

The first people to perish were Persians, then the Arabs followed them

It was narrated from Abu Musa Al-Ash’ari that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:“Before the Hour comes, there will be tribulation like pieces of black night, when a man will wake up as a believer but be a disbeliever by evening, or he will be a believer in the evening but will be a disbeliever by morning. And the one who is sitting will be better than the one who is standing, and the one who is standing will be better than the one who is walking, and the one who is walking will be better than the one who is running. So break your bows, cut their strings and strike your swords against rocks, and if anyone enters upon anyone of you, let him be like the better of the two sons of Adam. (i.e. the one killed, not the killer).”

Abu Musa narrated that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:“Before the Hour comes there will be Harj.” I said: “O Messenger of Allah, what is Harj?” He said: “Killing.” Some of the Muslims said: “O Messenger of Allah, now we kill such and such a number of idolaters in one year.” The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “That will not be like killing the idolaters, rather you will kill one another, until a man will kill his neighbor and son of the cousin and a relative.” Some of the people said: “O Messenger of Allah, will we be in our right minds that day?” The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “No, reason will be taken away from most of the people at that time, and there will be left the insignificant people who have no reason.”

It was narrated from Hudhaifah bin Yaman that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:“The Hour will not begin until you kill your ruler and fight one another with swords, and your world is inherited by the worst of you.”

Six before the Hour, the first of which is the death of your Prophet, the conquest of Jerusalem, death like a sheep’s sheath, a truce between you and the Banu Asfar, the opening of the city of disbelief, and the man returned a hundred dinars out of anger.

There will be a trial, then there will be a group, then there will be a trial, then there will be a group, then there will be a trial in which the minds of men will be twisted

There will be four trials in my nation, and in the fourth there will be annihilation

It will be a temptation that includes all people, from which only the Western soldiers will be safe

There will be four tribulations: the first is in which blood is permissible, the second is permissible in blood and money, the third is in which blood, money and private parts are permissible, and the fourth is the Dajjal.