کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

Beware of temptations, for the tongue in them is like the impact of a sword

Abu Muawiyah told us, on the authority of Al-A’mash, on the authority of Zaid bin Wahb, on the authority of Hudhayfah, he said: “The sedition was attributed to three things: against the hard-headed man, who does not want any of it to come to him except to suppress him with the sword, and with the orator who calls for matters to be taken care of, and with the honorable mentioned above.

Beware of two groups fighting over this world, for they will drag you into Hell

Narrated Hudhaifa bin Al-Yaman:The people used to ask Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) about the good but I used to ask him about the evil lest I should be overtaken by them. So I said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! We were living in ignorance and in an (extremely) worst atmosphere, then Allah brought to us this good (i.e., Islam); will there be any evil after this good?" He said, "Yes." I said, 'Will there be any good after that evil?" He replied, "Yes, but it will be tainted (not pure.)'' I asked, "What will be its taint?" He replied, "(There will be) some people who will guide others not according to my tradition? You will approve of some of their deeds and disapprove of some others." I asked, "Will there be any evil after that good?" He replied, "Yes, (there will be) some people calling at the gates of the (Hell) Fire, and whoever will respond to their call, will be thrown by them into the (Hell) Fire." I said, "O Allah's Apostle! Will you describe them to us?" He said, "They will be from our own people and will speak our language." I said, "What do you order me to do if such a state should take place in my life?" He said, "Stick to the group of Muslims and their Imam (ruler)." I said, "If there is neither a group of Muslims nor an Imam (ruler)?" He said, "Then turn away from all those sects even if you were to bite (eat) the roots of a tree till death overtakes you while you are in that state

Al-Walid told us, he said: Al-Awza’i said, and Ibn Attiya told us, on the authority of Hudhayfah bin Al-Yaman, on the authority of the Prophet, ﷺ, similar to that.

You must adhere to the group and the imam of the group, so flee from all of these groups, even if death overtakes you while you are biting a tree trunk

If you find a successor for Allah on earth that day, adhere to him, even if he strikes your back and takes your money. Otherwise, flee on earth until death comes to you while you are biting on the root of a tree.

My friend and your cousin advised me that there will be strife, division, and disagreement, so if that happens, break your sword, stay in your house, and take a wooden sword.

I witnessed the skulls, but I was not stabbed with a spear or struck with a sword. I wished that they had been cut off from here, meaning his hands, but I had not witnessed them.

Do not give them power over us until they tempt us and tempt us

Praise be to Allah who saved me from this temptation. By Allah, I was not shot with an arrow in it, nor stabbed with a spear, nor hit with a sword. By Allah, no Muslim rises to this position without seeing that it is right for him, and he is killed or killed.

Ibn al-Mubarak told us, on the authority of Hammad ibn Salamah, on the authority of Ali ibn Zaid, on the authority of al-Hasan, on the authority of Jundub ibn Abdullah al-Bajli, (may Allah be pleased with him), “A man from the Levant carried a burden on a man of Ali’s companions on the day of Siffin, and he went down to him to slaughter him. He said: So I tightened my spear towards him to abort it from him, so I aborted it from him, and I do not remember it except that I grabbed it by the throat.”

Do not be deceived by what you see, for these people are about to renounce their religion just as a woman renounces her love, so if they do that, then you should do what you are today.

I see you standing, Abu Dharr. How will you be, Abu Dharr, if they expel you from Medina? What if they take you out of it? If they take you out of it? No, but listen and obey, even if it is a black slave

Damrah told us, on the authority of Ibn Shawdhab, on the authority of Abu al-Tayyah, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Abu al-Awwam, on the authority of Ka’b, who said: “The Arab mill will turn twenty-five after the death of its Prophet, ﷺ, and then there will be a strife in which there will be killing and fighting, so I will hold your hand and your weapon against you. Then there will be another after reassurance, in which I will hold your hand and your weapon against you, for I find it in the Book of Allah: Darkness twists with all that is arrogant.”

Abu Omar Al-Saffar told us, on the authority of Abu Al-Tayyah, on the authority of Abu Al-Awwam, on the authority of Ka’b, who said: “The millstone of the Arabs will turn after the death of its Prophet after twenty-five years, and then a strife will break out in which there will be killing and fighting, so hold yourself and your weapon against you, until you are saved, neither for you nor for you. Escape, and if you find nothing but a scorpion’s hole to enter, then enter it.”

No one is saved from its evil except the one who prays, such as the supplication of drowning. The happiest of its people is every secret pious person, who if he appears is not known, and if he sits down he is not missed, and the most miserable of its people is every preacher who is praying, or who is riding in a place.

It will be a trial from which only those who are not afflicted by her wealth will be saved, and whoever is afflicted by her wealth is like one who is afflicted by her blood

The happiest people in it are everything that is hidden. If it appears, it is not known, and if it sits, it is not missed

You will turn to disbelief, for the believer on that day is the one who sits in his house, and the unbeliever is the one who draws his sword and sheds the blood of his brother and the blood of his neighbor.

Whoever dies and does not associate anything with Allah, and does not shed any forbidden blood, will enter through any gates of Paradise he wishes

Ibn Al-Mubarak told us, on the authority of Hisham, on the authority of Al-Hasan, who said: Abu Musa Al-Ash’ari, (may Allah be pleased with him), said: “There is no opponent more hateful to me when I meet him on the Day of Resurrection than a man who comes with his veins dripping with blood, and detains me at the scales of justice, and says: O Lord, ask your servant why he killed me, and I say: he lied, so I cannot say: he was an infidel, and he says: you know my servant more than me.”

Ibn Al-Mubarak told us, on the authority of Suleiman bin Al-Mughirah, on the authority of Humaid bin Hilal, on the authority of Jundub bin Abdullah, who said: “None of you shall meet Allah on the Day of Resurrection with a palm full of the blood of a man who says: There is no god but Allah, for whoever prays the dawn prayer is under Allah’s protection. So let none of you dig Allah with his hoof, lest Allah Almighty cast him down when he gathers the first and the last into Hell.”

Yes yes

Let any one of you fear Allah, and let nothing come between him and Paradise after he looks at its gates with a handful of Muslim blood spilled by him.