Bk 41 Pertaining to the Turmoil and Portents of
the Last Hour
(Kitab Al−Fitan wa Ashrat As−Sa`ah)
Chapter 1:...
Book, Number 6881:
Zainab bint Jahsh reported that Allah's Apostle (may peace be
upon him) got up from sleep saying: There is no god but Allah;
there is a destruction in store for Arabia because of turmoil
which is at hand, the barrier of Gog and Magog has opened so
much. And Sufyan made a sign of ten with the help of his hand
(in order to indicate the width of the gap) and I said:
Allah's Messenger, would we be perished in spite of the fact
that there would be good people amongst us? Thereupon he said:
Of course, but only when the evil predominates.
Bk 41, Number 6882:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Zainab bint
Jahsh with a slight variation in the chain of transmitters.
Bk 41, Number 6883:
Zainab bint Jahsh, the wife of Allah's Apostle (may peace be
upon him), reported that one day Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) came out in a state of excitement with his face
quite red. And he was saying: There is no god but Allah; there
is a destruction in store for Arabia beciuse of the turmoil
which is near at hand as the barrier of Gog and Magog has been
opened like it, and he (in order to explain it) made a ring
with the help o his thumb and forefinger. I said: Allah's
Messenger, would we be destroyed despite the fact that there
would be pious people amongst us? He said: Yes, when the evil
would predominate.
Bk 41, Number 6884:
This hadith has been narrated oil the authority of Zuhri with
a different chain of transmitters.
Bk 41, Number 6885:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him)
as saying: Today the wall (barrier) of Gog and Magog has been
opened so much, and WUhaib (in order to explain it) made the
figure of ninety with the help of his hand.
Chapter 2: THE SINKING OF AN ARMY IN THE EARTH WHICH WOULD
ATTACK THE HOUSE
Bk 41, Number 6886:
Harith b Abi Rabi'a and 'Abdullah b. Safwan both went to Umm
Salama, the Mother of the Faithful, and they asked her about
the army which would be sunk in the earth, and this relates to
the time when Ibn Zubair (was the governor of Mecca). She
reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) had
said that a seeker of refuge would seek refuge in the Sacred
House and an army would be sent to him (in order to kill him)
and when it would enter a plain ground, it would be made to
sink. I said: Allah's Messenger, what about him who would be
made to accompany this army willy nilly? Thereupon he said: He
would be made to sink along with them buf he would be raised
on the Day of Resurrection on the basis of his intention. Abu
Ja'far said. ' This plain, ground means the plain ground of
Medina.
Bk 41, Number 6887:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of 'Abdullah b.
Rufai, with the same chain of transmitters (but with the
addition of these words):" When I met Abu Ja'far I told him
that she (simply) meant the plain ground. Thereupon Abu Ja'far
said: No, by God, she meant the plain ground of Medina.
Bk 41, Number 6888:
Abdullah b. Safwan reported that Hafsa told him that she had
heard Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) as saying: An
army would attack this House in order to fight against the
inhabitants of this House and when it would be at the plain
ground the ranks in the centre of the army would be sunk and
the vanguard would call the rear flanks of the army and they
would also be sunk and no flank would be left except some
people who would go to inform them (their kith and kin). A
person (who had been listening to this badith from Abdullah b.
Safwan) said: I bear testimony in regard to you that you are
not imputing a lie to Hafsa. And I bear testimony to the fact
that Hafsa is not telling a lie about Allah's Apostle (may
peace be upon him).
Bk 41, Number 6889:
Abdullah b. Safwan reported the Mother of the Faithful as
saying that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said:
They would soon seek protection in this House, viz. Ka'ba (the
defenceless), people who would have nothing to protect
themselves in the shape of weapons or the strength of the
people. An army would be sent to fight (and kill) them and
when they would enter a plain ground the army would be sunk in
it. Yiisuf (one of the narrators) said: It was a people of
Syria (hordes of Hajjaj) who had been on that day comin.
towards Mecca for an attack (on 'Abdulllah b. Zubair) and
Abdullah b. Safwan said: By God, it does not imply this army.
Bk 41, Number 6890:
'A'isha reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) was startled in the state of sleep. We said: Allah's
Messenger, you have done something in the state of your sleep
which you never did before, Thereupon he said: Strange it is
that some, people of my Ummah would attack the House (Ka'ba)
(for killing) a person who would belong to the tribe of the
Quraish and he would try to seek protection in the House. And
when they would reach the plain ground they would be sunk. We
said: Allah's Messenger, all sorts of people throng the path.
Thereupon he said: Yes, there would be amongst them people who
would come with definite designs and those who would come
under duress and there would be travellers also, but they
would all be destroyed through one (stroke) of destruction.
though they would be raised in different states (on the Day of
Resurrection). Allah would, however, raise them according to
their intention.
Chapter 3: THE TURMOIL WOULD COME LIKE RAINFALL
Bk 41, Number 6891:
Usama reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
climbed up a battlement amongst the battlements of Medina and
then said: You do not see what I am seeing and I am seeing the
places of turmoil between your houses as tile places of
rainfall.
Bk 41, Number 6892:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Zuhri with
the same chain of transmitters.
Bk 41, Number 6893:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: There will be soon a period of turmoil in which the
one who sits will be better than one who stands and the one
who stands will be better than one who walks and the one who
walks will be better than one who runs. He who would watch
them will be drawn by them. So he who finds a refuge or
shelter against it should make it as his resort.
Bk 41, Number 6894:
This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Abu
Huraira but with this variation of wording that in the hadith
transmitted on the authority of Abu Bakr, there is an addition
of these words:" There is a prayer among prayers ('Asr) and
one who misses it is as if his family and property have been
ruined."
Bk 41, Number 6895:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him)
as saying: There would be turmoil and the one who would sleep
would be better than who would be awake and the one who would
be awake would be better than one who would stand and one who
would stand would be better than one who would run. So he who
finds refuge or shelter should take that refuge or shelter.
Bk 41, Number 6896:
Abu Bakra reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: There would soon be turmoil. Behold! there would be
turmoil in which the one who would be seated would be better
than one who would stand and the one who would stand would be
better than one who would run. Behold! when the turmoil comes
or it appears, the one who has camel should stick to his camel
and he who has sheep or goat should stick to his sheep and
goat and he who has land should stick to the land. A person
said: 'Allah's Messenger, what is your opinion about one who
has neither camel nor sheep nor land? Thereupon, he said: He
should take hold of his sword and beat its edge with the help
of stone and then try to find a way of escape. O Allah, I have
conveyed (Thy Message) ; O Allah, I have conveyed (Thy
Message) ; O Allah, I have conveyed (Thy Message). A person
said: Allah's Messenger, what is your opinion it I am drawn to
a rank in spite of myself, or in one of the groups and made to
march and a man strikes with his sword or there comes an arrow
and kills me? Thereupon he said: He will bear the punishment
of his sin and that of yours and he would be one amongst the
denizens of Hell.
Bk 41, Number 6897:
This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Waki'
with a slight variation of wording.
Chapter 4: WHEN TWO MUSLIMS CONFRONT EACH OTHER WITH SWORDS
Bk 41, Number 6898:
Ahnaf b. Qais reported: I set out with the intention of
helping this person (Hadrat 'Ali) that Abu Bakra met me. He
said: Ahnaf, where do you intend to go? I said: I intend to
help the cousin of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him),
viz. 'Ali. Thereupon he said to me: Ahnaf, go back, for I
heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying:
When two Muslims confront one another with swords (in hands)
both the slayer and the slain would be in Fire. He (Ahnaf)
said: I said, or it was said: Allah's Messenger, it may be the
case of one who kills. but what about the slain (why he would
be put in Hell−Fire)? Thereupon he said: He also intended to
kill his companion.
Bk 41, Number 6899:
Ahnaf b. Qais reported on the authority of Abu Bakra that
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: When two
Muslims confront each other with their swords, both the slayer
and the slain are doomed to Hell−Fire.
Bk 41, Number 6900:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Hammad
through another chain of transmitters.
Bk 41, Number 6901:
Abu Bakra reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: When two Muslims (confront each other) and the one
amongst them attacks his brother with a weapon, both of them
are at the brink of Hell−Fire. And when one of them kills his
companion, both of them get into Hell−Fire.
Bk 41, Number 6902:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
many ahadith and one of them was this: The last Hour will not
come until the two parties (of Muslims) confront each other
and there is a large−scale massacre amongst them and the claim
of both of them is the same.
Bk 41, Number 6903:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: The last Hour will not come unless there is much
bloodshed. They said: What is harj? Thereupon he said:
Bloodshed. bloodshed.
Chapter 5: THIS UMMAH WOULD BE DESTROYED BY KILLING ONE
ANOTHER
Bk 41, Number 6904:
Thauban reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) said: Allah drew the ends of the world near one another
for my sake. And I have seen its eastern and western ends. And
the dominion of my Unimah would reach those ends which have
been drawn near me and I have been granted the red and the
white trea− sure and I begged my Lord for my Ummah that it
should not be destroyed because of famine, nor be dominated by
an enemy who is not amongst them to take their lives and
destroy them root and branch, and my Lord said: Muhammad,
whenever I make a decision, there is none to change it. Well,
I grant you for your Ummah that it would not be destroyed by
famine and it would not be dominated by an enemy who would not
be amongst it and would take their lives and destroy them root
and branch even if all the people from the different parts of
the world join hands together (for this purpose), but it would
be from amongst them, viz. your Ummah, that some people would
kill the others or imprison the others.
Bk 41, Number 6905:
Thauban reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) said. Verily, Allah drew the ends of the world near me
until I saw its cast and west an He bestowed upon me two
treasures, the red and the white. The rest of the hadith is
the same.
Bk 41, Number 6906:
'Amir b. Sa'd reported on the authority of his father that one
day Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) came from a
high, land. He passed by the mosque of Banu Mu'awiya, went in
and observed two rak'ahs there and we also observed prayer
along with him and he made a long supplication to his Lord. He
then came to us and said: I asked my Lord three things and He
has granted me two but has withheld one. I begged my Lord that
my Ummah should not be destroyed because of famine and He
granted me this. And I begged my Lord that my Ummah should not
be destroyed by drowning (by deluge) and He granted me this.
And I begged my Lord that there should be no bloodshed among
the people of my Ummah. but He did not grant it.
Bk 41, Number 6907:
Amir b. Sa'd reported on the authority of his father that
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) came with a group of
his Companions and he passed by the mosque of Banu Mu'awiya.
The rest of the hadith is the same.
Chapter 6: THE EVENTS FORETOLD BY THE HOLY PROPHET (MAY PEACE
BE UPON HIM) ABOUT THE LAST HOUR
Bk 41, Number 6908:
Hudhaifa b. al−Yaman reported: By Allah, I have the best
knowledge amongst people about every turmoil which is going to
appear in the period intervening me and the Last Hour; and it
is not for the fact that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) told me something confidentially pertaining to it and he
did not tell anybody else about it, but it is because of the
fact that I was present in the assembly in which he had been
describing the turmoil. and he especially made a mention of
three turmoils which would not spare anything and amongst
these there would be turmoils like storms in the hot season.
Some of them would be violent and some of them would be
comparatively mild. Hudhaifa said: All (who were present)
except I have gone (to the next world).
Bk 41, Number 6909:
Hudhaifa reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) stood before us one day and he did not leave anything
unsaid (that he had to say) at that very spot which would
happen (in the shape of turmoil) up to the Last Hour. Those
who had to remember them preserved them in their minds and
those who could not remember them forgot them. My friends knew
them and there are certain things which slip out of my mind,
but I recapitulate them when anyone makes a mention of them
just as a person is lost from one's mind but is recalled to
him on seeing his face.
Bk 41, Number 6910:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of A'mash with
the same chain of transmitters up to the words: And he forgot
who had to forget that and. he did not make a mention of what
follows after this.
Bk 41, Number 6911:
Hudhaifa reported: Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
informed me of what is going to happen before the approach of
the Last Hour. And there is nothing that I did not ask him in
this connection except this that I did not ask him as to what
would turn the people of Medina out from Medina.
Bk 41, Number 6912:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Shu'ba with
the same chain of transmitters.
Bk 41, Number 6913:
Abu Zaid (viz. Amr b. Akhtab) reported: Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) led us in the dawn prayer and then mounted
the pulpit and addressed us until it was (time for the) noon
prayer. He then came down the pulpit and observed prayer and
then again mounted the pulpit and again addressed us until it
was time for the 'Asr prayer. He then again came down and
observed the prayer and again mointed the pulpit and addressed
us until the sun was set and he informed (about) everything
(pertaining to turmoil) that lay hidden in the past and what
lies in (the womb) of) the future and the most learned amongst
us is one who remembers them well
Chapter 7: THE TURMOIL WOULD GO LIKE THE MOUNTING WAVES OF THE
OCEAN
Bk 41, Number 6914:
Hudhaifa repotted: We were one day in the company of 'Umar
that he said: Who amongst you has preserved in his mind most
perfectly the hadith of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) in regard to the turmoil as he told about it? I said: It
is I. Thereupon he said: You are bold (enough to make this
claim). And he further said: How? I said: I heard Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: There would
(first) be turmoil for a person in regard to his family, his
property, his own self, his children, his neighbours (and the
sins comnaitted in their connection) would be expiated by
fasting, prayer, charity, enjoining good and prohibiting evil.
Thereupon 'Umar said: I do not mean (that turmoil on a small
scale) but that one which would eme−ge like the mounting waves
of the ocean. I said: Commander of the Faithful, you have
nothing to do with it, for the door is closed between you and
that. He said: Would that door be broken or opened? I said:
No, it would be broken. Thereupon he said: Then it would not
be closed despite best efforts. We said to Hudhaifa: Did Umar
know the door? Thereupon he said: Yes, he knew it (for
certain) just as one knows that night precede the next day.
And I narrated to him something in which there was nothing
fabricated. Shaqiq (one of the narrators) said: We dared not
ask Hudhaifa about that door. So we requested Masrdq to ask
him. So he asked him and he said: (By that door, he meant)
'Umar.
Bk 41, Number 6915:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Hudhaifa
through other chains of transmitters also.
Bk 41, Number 6916:
Hudhaifa reported that Umar said: Who would narrate to us (the
ahadith pertaining to turmoil) and he reported a badith
similar to these ahadith.
Bk 41, Number 6917:
Jundub reported: I came on the day of Jara'a that a person was
(found) sitting. I said: They would shed their blood today.
That person said: By Allah. not at all. I said: By Allah, of
course, they would do it. He said: By Allah, they would not do
it. I said: By Allah, of course, they would do it. He said: By
Allah, they would not do it, and I have heard a hadith of
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) which I am narrating
to you in this connection. I said: You are a bad seat fellow.
I have been opposing you since morning and you are listening
to me in spite of the fact that you have heard a hadith from
Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) (contrary to ray
statement). I myself felt that there was no use of this
annoyance. (He could tell me earlier that it was a hadith of
the Holy Prophet (may peace be upon him], and I would not have
opposed him at all.) I turned my face toward him and asked him
and he was Hadrat Hudhaifa.
Chapter 8: THE LAST HOUR WOULD NOT COME UNTIL THE EUPIIRATES
UNCOVERS A TREASURE OF GOLD
Bk 41, Number 6918:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: The Last Hour would not come before the Euphrates
uncovers a mountain of gold, for which people would fight.
Ninety−nine out of each one hundred would die but every man
amongst them would say that perhaps he would be the one who
would be saved (and thus possess this gold).
Bk 41, Number 6919:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Suhail with
the same chain of transmitters but with this addition:" My
father said: If you see that, do not even go near it."
Bk 41, Number 6920:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: The Last Hour would not come unless the Euphrates
would uncover a treasure of gold, so he who finds it should
not take anything out of that.
Bk 41, Number 6921:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: The Euphrates would soon uncover a mountain of gold
but he who is present there should not take anything from
that.
Bk 41, Number 6922:
'Abdullah b. Harith b. Naufal reported: I was standing along
with Ubayy b. Ka, b and he said: The opinions of the people
differ in regard to the achievement of worldly ends. I said:
Yes, of course. Thereupon he said: I heard Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) as saying: The Euphrates would soon
uncover a mountain of gold and when the people would bear of
it they would flock towards it but the people who would
possess that (treasure) (would say): If we allow these persons
to take out of it they would take away the whole of it. So
they would fight and ninety−nine out of one hundred would be
killed. Abu Kamil in his narration said: I and Abu Ka'b stood
under the shade of the battlement of Hassan.
Bk 41, Number 6923:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: Iraq would withhold its dirhams and qafiz; Syria
would withhold its mudd and dinar and Egypt would withhold its
irdab and dinar and you would recoil to that position from
where you started and you would recoil to that position from
where you started and you would recoil to that position from
where you started, the bones and the flesh of Abu Huraira
would bear testimony to it.
Chapter 9: PERTAINING TO THE CONQUEST OF CONSTANTINOPLE AND
THE APPEARANCE OF THE DAJJAL AND DESCENT OF JESUS SON OF MARY
(JESUS CHRIST)
Bk 41, Number 6924:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: The Last Hour would not come until the Romans would
land at al−A'maq or in Dabiq. An army consisting of the best
(soldiers) of the people of the earth at that time will come
from Medina (to counteract them). When they will arrange
themselves in ranks, the Romans would say: Do not stand
between us and those (Muslims) who took prisoners from amongst
us. Let us fight with them; and the Muslims would say: Nay, by
Allah, we would never get aside from you and from our brethren
that you may fight them. They will then fight and a third
(part) of the army would run away, whom Allah will never
forgive. A third (part of the army). which would be
constituted of excellent martyrs in Allah's eye, would be
killed ani the third who would never be put to trial would win
and they would be conquerors of Constantinople. And as they
would be busy in distributing the spoils of war (amongst
themselves) after hanging their swords by the olive trees, the
Satan would cry: The Dajjal has taken your place among your
family. They would then come out, but it would be of no avail.
And when they would come to Syria, he would come out while
they would be still preparing themselves for battle drawing up
the ranks. Certainly, the time of prayer shall come and then
Jesus (peace be upon him) son of Mary would descend and would
lead them in prayer. When the enemy of Allah would see him, it
would (disappear) just as the salt dissolves itself in water
and if he (Jesus) were not to confront them at all, even then
it would dissolve completely, but Allah would kill them by his
hand and he would show them their blood on his lance (the
lance of Jesus Christ).
Chapter 10: THE LAST HOUR WOULD COME WHEN THE ROMANS WOULD
HAVE THE MAXIMUM POPULATION
Bk 41, Number 6925:
Mustaurid al−Qurashi reported: I heard Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) as saying: The Last Hour would come (when)
the Romans would form a majority amongst people. 'Amr said to
him (Mustaurid Qurashi): See what you are saying? He said: I
say what I heard from Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him). Thereupon he said: If you say that, it is a fact for
they have four qualities. They have the patience to undergo a
trial and immediately restore themselves to sanity after
trouble and attack again after flight. They (have the quality)
of being good to the destitute and the orphans, to the weak
and, fifthly, the good quality in them is that they put
resistance against the oppression of kings.
Bk 41, Number 6926:
Mustaurid Qurashi reported: I heard Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) as saying: The Last Hour would come when
the Romans would form a majority amongst people. This reached
'Amr b. al−'As and he said: What are these ahadith which are
being transmitted from you and which you claim to have heard
from Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)? Mustaurid said
to him: I stated only that which I heard from Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him). Thereupon 'Amr said: If you
state this (it is true), for they have the power of tolerance
amongst people at the time of turmoil and restore themselves
to sanity after trouble, and are good amongst people so far as
the destitute and the weak are concerned.
Chapter 11: THERE WOULD BE MUCH BLOODSHED AMONG ROMANS AT THE
TIME OF THE APPEARANCE OF THE DAJJAL
Bk 41, Number 6927:
Yusair b. Jabir reported: Once there blew a red storm in Kufah
that there came a person who had nothing to say but (these
words): Abdullah b. Mas'ud, the Last Hour has come. He
('Abdullah b. Mas'ud) was sitting reclining against something,
and he said: The Last Hour would not come until the people
divide in− heritance and rejoice over booty, and then said
pointing towards Syria, with the gesture of his hand like
this: The enemy shall muster strength against Muslims and the
Muslims will muster strength against them (Syrians). I said:
You mean Rome? And he said: Yes, and there would be a terrible
fight and the Muslims would prepare a detachment (for fighting
unto death) which would not return but victorious. They will
fight until night will intervene them; both the sides will
return without being victorious and both will be wiped out.
The Muslims will again prepare a detachment for fighting unto
death so that they may not return but victorious. When it
would be the fourth day, a new detachment out of the remnant
of the Muslims would be prepared and Allah will decree that
the enemy should be routed. And they would fight such a fight
the like of which would not be seen, so much so that even if a
bird were to pass their flanks, it would fall down dead before
reaching the end of them. (There would be such a largescale
massacre) that when counting would be done, (only) one out of
a hundred men related to one another would be found alive. So
what can be the joy at the spoils of such war and what
inheritance would be divided! They would be in this very state
that they would hear of a calamity more horrible than this.
And a cry would reach them: The Dajjil has taken your place
among your off− spring. They will, therefore, throw away what
would be in their hands and go forward sending ten horsemen,
as a scouting party. Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
said: I know their names and the names of their forefathers
and the colour of their horses. They will be best horsemen on
the surface of the earth on that day or amongst the best
horsemen on the surface of the earth on that day.
Bk 41, Number 6928:
Jabir reported: I was in the company of Ibn Mas'ud that there
blew a red storm. The rest of the hadith is the same.
Bk 41, Number 6929:
Jabir reported: I was in the house of 'Abdullah b. Mas'ud and
the house was fully packed that a red storm blew in Kufah.
Chapter 12: THE CONQUESTS OF THE MUSLIMS BEFORE THE APPEARANCE
OF THE DAJJAL
Bk 41, Number 6930:
Nafi' b. Utba reported: We were with Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) in an expedition that there came a people
to Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) from the direction
of the west. They were dressed in woollen clothes and they
stood near a hillock and they met him as Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) was sitting. I said to myself: Better
go to them and stand between him and them that they may not
attack him. Then I thought that perhaps there had been going
on secret negotiation amongst them. I however, went to them
and btood between them and him and I remember four of the
words (on that occasion) which I repeat (on the fingers of my
hand) that he (Allah's Messenger) said: You will attack Arabia
and Allah will enable you to conquer it, then you would attack
Persia and He would make you to Conquer it. Then you would
attack Rome and AllgLh will enable you to conquer it, then you
would attack the Dajjal and Allah will enable you to conquer
him. Nafi' said: Jabir, we thought that the Dajjal would
appear after Rome (Syrian territory) would be conquered.
Chapter 13: THE SIGNS BEFORE THE APPROACH OF THE LAST HOUR
Bk 41, Number 6931:
Hudhaifa b. Usaid Ghifari reported: Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) came to us all of a sudden as we were (busy
in a discussion). He said: What do you discuss about? They
(the Companions) said. We are discussing about the Last Hour.
Thereupon he said: It will not cone until you see ten signs
before and (in this connection) he made a mention of the
smoke, Dajjal, the beast, the rising of the sun from the west,
the descent of Jesus son of Mary (Allah be pleased with him),
the Gog and Magog, and land−slidings in three places, one in
the east, one in the west and one in Arabia at the end of
which fire would burn forth from the Yemen, and would drive
people to the place of their assembly.
Bk 41, Number 6932:
Hudhaifa b. Usaid reported: Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) was in an apartment and we were beneath that that he
peeped in and said to us: What are you discussing about? We
said: (We are discussing about the Last) Hour. Thereupon he
said: The Last Hour would not come until the ten signs dppear:
land−sliding in the east, and land−sliding in the west, and
land−sliding in the peninsula of Arabia, the smoke, the
Dajjal, the beast of the earth, Gog and Magog, the rising of
the sun from the west and the fire which would emit from the
lower part of 'Adan. Shu'ba said that 'Abd al−'Aziz b. Rufai'
reported on the authority of Abu Tufail who reported on the
authority of Abu Sariha a hadith like this that Allah's
Apostle (may peace be upon him) did not make a mention of (the
tenth sign) but he said that out of the ten one was the
descent of Jesus Christ, son of Mary (peace be upon him), and
in another version it is theb lowing of the violent gale which
would drive the people to the ocean.
Bk 41, Number 6933:
Abu Sariha reported: Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
was in an (upper) apartment and we were standing lower to him
and discussing (about the Last Hour). The rest of the hadith
is the same, and Shu'ba said: I think he also said these
words: The fire would descend along with them where they would
land and where they would take rest (during midday (it would
also cool down for a while). Shu'ba said: This hadith has been
transmitted to me through Abu Tufail and Abu Sariha and none
could trace it back directly to Allah's Apostle (may peace b..
upon him). However, there is a mention of the descent of Jesus
Christ son of Mary in one version and in the other there is a
mention of the blowing of a violent would drive them to the
ocean.
Bk 41, Number 6934:
Abu Sariha reported: We were discussing the Last Hour) that
Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) looked towards us. The
rest of the hadith is the same and the tenth (sign) was the
descent of Jesus Christ son of Mary, and Shu'ba said: 'Abd
al−'Aziz did not trace it directly to Allah's Apostle (may
peace be upon him).
Chapter 14: THE LAST HOUR WOULD NOT COME UNTIL THE FIRE EMITS
FROM THE EARTH OF HIJAZ
Bk 41, Number 6935:
Abu Huraira reported that Allah's Messenger may peace be upon
him) said: The Last Hour would not come until fire emits from
the earth of Hijaz which would illuminate the necks of the
camels of the Busra.
Bk 41, Number 6936:
Abu Huraira reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) said: (The Last Hour would not come) until the
habitations of Medina would extend to Ihab or Yahab. Zubair
said: I said to Suhail how far these were from Medina. He
said: So and so miles.
Bk 41, Number 6937:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: The famine would not break otit because of drought,
but there would be famine despite heavy rainfall as nothing
would grow from the earth.
Bk 41, Number 6938:
Ibn 'Umar reported that he heard Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) as saying (in a state) that he had turned his
face towards the east: Behold, turmoil would appear from this
side, from where the horns of Satan would appear.
Bk 41, Number 6939:
Ibn 'Umar reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) stood by the door (of the apartment of) gafsa and,
pointing towards the east, he said: The turmoil would appear
from this side, viz. where the horns of Satan would appear,
and he uttered these words twice or thrice and Ubaidullah b.
Sa'ld in his narration said. The Messenger of Allah (may peace
be upon him) had been standing by the door of 'A'isha.
Bk 41, Number 6940:
Salim b. Abdullah reported on the authority of his father that
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him), while turning his
face towards the east, said: The turmoil would appear from
this side; verily, the turmoil would appear from this side;
verily, the turmoil. would appear from this side−the side
where appear the horns of Satan.
Bk 41, Number 6941:
Ibn Umar reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) came out from the house of 'A'isha and said: It would be
from this side that there would appear the height of unbelief,
viz. where appear the horns of Satan. i. e. cast.
Bk 41, Number 6942:
Ibn Umar reported: I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying while pointing his hands towards the east:
The turmoil would appear from this side; verily, the turmoil
would appear from this side (he repeated it thrice) where
appear the horns of Satan.
Bk 41, Number 6943:
Ibn Fudail reported on the authority of his father that he
heard Salim b. 'Abdullah b. 'Umar as saying: O people of Iraq,
how strange it is that you ask about the minor sins but commit
major sins? I heard from my father 'Abdullah b. 'Umar,
narrating that he heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying while pointing his hand towards the east:
Verily. the turmoil would come from this side, from where
appear the horns of Satan and you would strike the necks of
one another; and Moses killed a person from among the people
of Pharaoh unintentionally and Allah, the Exalted and
Glorious, said:" You killed a person but We relieved you from
the grief and tried you with (many a) trial" (xx. 40). Ahmad
b. Umar reported this hadith from Salim, but he did not make a
mention of the words:" I heard".
Chapter 15: THE LAST HOUR WOULD NOT COME UNTIL THE WOMEN OF
THE TRIBE OF DAUS WOULD GO ROUND DHI AL−KHALASA
Bk 41, Number 6944:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: The Last Hour would not come until the women of the
tribe of Daus would be seen going round Dhi al−Khalasa (for
worship) and Dhi al−Khalasa is a place in Tabala, where there
was a temple in which the people of the tribe of Daus used to
worship the idol.
Bk 41, Number 6945:
'A'isha reported: I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying: The (system) of night and day would not end
until the people have taken to the worship of Lat and 'Uzza. I
said: Allah's Messenger, I think when Allah has revealed this
verse:" He it is Who has sent His Messenger with right
guidance, and true religion, so that He may cause it to
prevail upon all religions, though the polytheists are averse
(to it)" (ix. 33), it implies that (this promise) is going to
be fulfilled. Thereupon he (Allah's Apostle) said: It would
happen as Allah would like. Then Allah would send the sweet
fragrant air by which everyone who has even a mustard grain of
faith in Him would die and those only would survive who would
have no goodness in them. And they would revert to the
religion of their forefathers.
Bk 41, Number 6946:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Ibn Ja'far
with the same chain of transmitters.
Chapter 16: THE LAST HOUR WOULD NOT COME UNTIL A PERSON WOULD
PASS BY A GRAVE AND WISH THAT HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE OCCUPANT
OF THAT GRAVE BECAUSE OF THIS CALAMITY
Bk 41, Number 6947:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: The Last Hour would not come until a person would
pass by a grave of another person and he would say: I wish it
had been my abode.
Bk 41, Number 6948:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: By Him, in Whose hand is my life, the world would
not come to an end until a person would pass by a grave, would
roll over it and express the desire that he should be in the
place of the occupant of that grave not because of religious
reasons but because of this calamity.
Bk 41, Number 6949:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: By Him in Whose Hand is my life, a time would come
when the murderer would not know why he has committed the
murder, and the victim would not know why he has been killed.
Bk 41, Number 6950:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: The world would not come to an end until a day
would come to the people on which the murderer would not know
as to why he has killed and the slain would not know as to why
he has been murdered. It would be said: Why would It happen?
To which he replied: It would be because of general massacre
and bloodshed. And the slaughterers and the slain would be in
Fire, and in the narration of Ibn Aban, the name of Abu
Isma'il has been mentioned.
Bk 41, Number 6951:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: The Ka'ba would be destroyed by an Abyssinian
having two small shanks.
Bk 41, Number 6952:
(The above mentioned) hadith has been narrated on the
authority of Abu Huraira through another chain of
transmitters.
Bk 41, Number 6953:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: It would be an Abyssinian having two small shanks
who would destroy the House ol Allah, the Exalted and
Glorious.
Bk 41, Number 6954:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messengar (may peace be upon him)
as saying: The Last Hour would not come before a person of
Qahtan comes forth driving people with his stick.
Bk 41, Number 6955:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: The day and the night would not come to an end
before a man called al−Jahjah would occupy the throne.
Bk 41, Number 6956:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: The Last Hour would not come unless you fight with
people whose faces are like hammered shields and the Last Hour
would not come until you would fight against those wearing the
shoes of hair.
Bk 41, Number 6957:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: The Last Hour would not come until a people wearing
shoes of hair fight against you having their faces like
hammered shields.
Bk 41, Number 6958:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: The Last Hour would not come until you fight with a
people wearing shoes of hair and the Last Hour would not come
until you fight with a people having small eyes and broad snub
noses.
Bk 41, Number 6959:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: The Last Hour would not come until the Muslims
fight with the Turks−a people whose faces would be like
hammered shields wearing clothes of hair and walking (with
shoes) of hair.
Bk 41, Number 6960:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: You shall fight in the hours to come against a
nation wearing shoes made of hair and faces like hammered
shields, with red complexion and small eyes.
Bk 41, Number 6961:
Abu Nadra reported:" We were in the company of Jabir b.
'Abdulldh that he said it may happen that the people of Iraq
may not send their qafiz and dirhams (their measures of food
stuff and their money). We said: Who would be respolisible for
it? He said: The non_Arabs would prevt them. He again said:
There is the possibility that the people of Syria may not send
their dinar and mudd. We said: Who would be responsible for
it? He said This prevention would be made by the Romans. He
(Jabir b. Abdullab) kept quiet for a while and then reported
Allah', s Messengdt (may peas be upon him) having said There
would be a caliph in the last (period) of my Ummah who would
freely give handfuls of wealth to thd people wiothout counting
it. I said to Abu Nadra and Abu al−'Ala: DO you mean 'Umarb.
'Abd al−Aziz? They said: No (he would be Imam Mahdi.).
Bk 41, Number 6962:
This hadith hab been narrated by Sa'id with the same chain of
transmitters.
Bk 41, Number 6963:
Abu Sa'id reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace he upon
him) I said: There would be amongest your caliphs a caliph who
would give handfuls of wealth to the, but wbuld not count it.
In. the narration transmitted on the authority of Ibn Hujr,
there is a slight variation of wording.
Bk 41, Number 6964:
Abu Sa'id and Jabir b. Abdullah reported that Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: There would be in the
last phase of the time a caliph who would distribute wealth
but would not count.
Bk 41, Number 6965:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abu Sa'id
through another chain of transmitters.
Bk 41, Number 6966:
Abu Sa'id Khudri reported: One who Is better than I informed
me, that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said to
'Ammar as he was digging the ditch (on the ocasion of the
Battle of the Ditch) wiping over his head: O son of Summayya
you will be involved in trouble and a group of the rebels
would kill you.
Bk 41, Number 6967:
This hadith has been transmitted on the same authority but
with this variation that the hadith trarismitted on the
authority of Nabra (the words are): One Who is better than I
informed me, and he was Abu Qatatda, and in the hadith
transmitted on the authority of Khalid instead of the word
'bu_us' there is 'dys' or 'yadis', i. e.:" how sad it is".
Bk 41, Number 6968:
This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Umm
Salama that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said to
'Ammar: A group of rebels would kill you.
Bk 41, Number 6969:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Umm Salam
through another chain of transmitters.
Bk 41, Number 6970:
Unmm Salama reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) said: A band of rebels would kill 'Ammar.
Bk 41, Number 6971:
Abu Huraira reported that Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) as saying: This tribe of the Quraish would kill (people)
of wy Ummah. They (the Companions) said: What us to do (in
such a situations)? Thereupon he said: Would that the people
remain aside from them (and not besmear their hand with the
blood of the Muslim).
Bk 41, Number 6972:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Shu'ba with
the same chain of transmitters.
Bk 41, Number 6973:
Abu Huraira reported that Allh's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) said: (Khusrau king of Persia) would die and Qaisar
(Ceasar King of Rome) would die; there would be no Qaisar
after him, but, by one in Whose Hand is my life, you would
spend their treasures in the cause of Allah.
Bk 41, Number 6974:
This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Zuhri.
Bk 41, Number 6975:
Hammam b. Munabbih reported: This is what Abu Huraira reported
from Allah's messenger (may peace be upon him) and in this
connection he reported so many hadith (and one of them was
this): Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Kisra
would die and then there would be no Kisra after him. Qaisar
would die and there would be no Qaisar after him, but you will
distribute their threasuers in thecause of Allah.
Bk 41, Number 6976:
Jabir b. Samura reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) said: When Kisra would die there would be no Kisra
after him; the rest of the hadith is the same as Abu Huraira
reported.
Bk 41, Number 6977:
Jabir b. Samura reported: I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) (as sayingt There would lie open for a group of
Muslims, or for a group of believers, the treasures of the
family of Kisra which would be in the whit (palace). In a
version of Qutaiba there is definitely the word" Muslim".
Bk 41, Number 6978:
Jabir b. Samura reported: I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) a hadith like this.
Bk 41, Number 6979:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Apostle (may peace he upon him)
saying: You have heard about a city the one side of which is
in the land and the other is in the sea (Constantinople). They
said: Allall's Messenger, yes. Thererupon he said: The Last
Hour would not cmoe unlesss seventy thousand persons from Bani
lsra'il would attack it. When they would land there, they will
neither fight with weapons nor would shower arrows but would
only say:" There is no god but Allah and Allah is the
Greatest," that one side of it would fall. Thaur (one of the
narrators) said: I think that he said: The part by the side of
the ocean. Then they would say for the second time:" There is
no god but Allah and Allah is the Greatest" that the second
side would also fall, and they would say:" There is no god but
Allah and Allah is the Greatest," that the gates would be
opened for them and they would enter therein and, they would
be collecting spoils of war and distributing them amongst
themselves that a noise would be heard and It would be said:
Verily, Dajjal has come. And thus they would leave everything
there and would turn to him.
Bk 41, Number 6980:
Thaur b. Zaid has narrated this hadith with the same chain of
transmitters.
Bk 41, Number 6981:
Ibn 'Umar reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: You will fight against the Jews and you will kill
them until even a stone would say: Come here, Muslim, there is
a Jew (hiding himself behind me) ; kill him.
Bk 41, Number 6982:
Ubaidullah has reported this hadith with this chain of
transmitters (and the Words are):" There is a Jew behind me."
Bk 41, Number 6983:
Abdullah b. 'Umar reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: You and the Jews would fight against one
another until a stone would say: Muslim, here is a Jew behind
me; come and kill him.
Bk 41, Number 6984:
Abdullah b. 'Umar reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) said: The Jews will fight against you and you
will gain victory over them until the stone would say: Muslim,
here is a Jew behind me; kill him.
Bk 41, Number 6985:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims
will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them
until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree
and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of
Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the
tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.
Bk 41, Number 6986:
Jabir b. Samura reported: I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) as saying: Before the Last Hour there would be
many liars, and there is an addition in the badith transmitted
on the authority of Abu Ahwas of these words:" I said to him:
Did you hear it from Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him)? He said: Yes."
Bk 41, Number 6987:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Simak with
the same chain of transmitters. and Simak said: I heard my
brother say that jabir had stated: Be on your guard against
them.
Bk 41, Number 6988:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: The Last Hour would not come until there would
arise about thirty impostors, liars, and each one of them
would claim that he is a messenger of Allah.
Bk 41, Number 6989:
This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Abu
Huraira with a slight variation of wording.
Chapter 17: STORY OF IBN SAYYAD
Bk 41, Number 6990:
'Abdullah reported: We were along with Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) that we happened to pass by children
amongst whom there was Ibn Sayyad. The children made their way
but Ibn Sayyad kept sitting there (and it seemed) as if
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) did not like it (his
sitting with the children) and said to him: May your nose he
besmeared with dust, don't you bear testimony to the fact that
I am the Messenger of Allah? Thereupon he said: No, but you
should bear testimony that I am the messenger of Allah.
Thereupon 'Umar b. Khattab said: Allah's Messenger, permit me
that I should kill him. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) said: If he is that person who is in your mind
(Dajjal ), you will not be able to kill him.
Bk 41, Number 6991:
'Abdullah reported: We were walking with Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) that Ibn Sayyad happened to pass by
him. Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said to him: I
have concealed for you (something to test you, so tell me
that). He said: It is Dukh. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) said to him: Be off. You cannot get farther
than your rank, whereupon 'Umar said: Allah's Messenger,
permit me to strike his neck. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) said: Leave him; if he is that one (Dajjal)
whom you apprehend, you will not be able to kill him.
Bk 41, Number 6992:
Abu Sa'id reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) met him (Ibn Sayyad) and so did Abu Bakr and 'Umar on
some of the roads of Medina. Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) said: Do you bear testimony to the fact that I am
the Messenger of Allah? Thereupon he said: Do you bear
testimony to the fact that I am the messenger of Allah?
Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: I
affirm my faith in Allah and in His Angels and in His Books,
and what do you see? He said: I see the throne over water.
Whereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: You
see the throne of Iblis upon the water, and what else do you
see? He said: I see two truthfuls and a liar or two liars and
one truthful. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) said: Leave him He has been confounded.
Bk 41, Number 6993:
Jabir b 'Abdullah reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) met Ibn Sa'id (Sayyad) and there were with him
Abu Bakr and 'Umar and Ibn Sayyad was in the company of
children. The rest of the hadith is the same.
Bk 41, Number 6994:
Abu Sa'id reported: I accompanied Ibn Sayyad to Mecca and he
said to me: What I have gathered from people is that theu
think that I am Dajjal. Have you not hearde Allah's Messenger
(may peace upon him) as saying: He will have no no children, I
said: Yes, of course. Thereupon he said: But I have children.
Have you not heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: He would not enter Mecca and Medina? I said: Yes,
of course. Thereupon he said I have been once in Medina and
now I intend to go to Mecca. And he said to me at the end of
his talk: By Allah: I know his place of birth his abode where
he is just now. He (Abu Sa'id) said: This caused confusion in
my mind (in regard to his identity).
Bk 41, Number 6995:
Abu Sa'id Khudri reported: Ibn Sa'id said to me somethhing for
which I felt ashamed. He said: I can excuse others; but what
has gone wrong with you, O Companions of Muhammad, that you
take me as Dajjal? Has Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him)
not said that he would be a Jew whereas I am a Muslim and he
also said that he would not have children, whereas I have
children, and he also said: veryly, Allah has prohibited him
to enter Mecca whereas I have performed Pilgrimage, atid. he
went on saying this that I was about to be impressed by his
tallk. He (however) said this also: I know where he (Dajjal)
is and I know his father abd I mother, and it was said to him:
Won't you feel pleased if you would be the same person?
Thereupon he said: If this offer is made to me, I would noT
resent that.
Bk 41, Number 6996:
Abu Sa'id Khudri reported: We came back after having
pewrformed Pilgrimage or 'Umra and lbn Sa'id was along with
us. And w, e encamped at a place and the people dispersed and
I and he were left behind. I felt terribly frightend from him
as it was said about him that he was the Dajjal. He brought
his goods and placed them by my luggage and I said: It is
intense heat. Would you not place that under that tree? And he
did that. Then ther appeared before us a flock of sheep. He
went and brought a cup of milk and said: Abu Sa'id, drink
that. I said it is intense heat and the milk is also hot
(whereas the fact was) that I did not like to drink from his
hands or to opr to take it from his hand and he said: Abu
Sa'id, I think that I should take a rope and suspend it by the
tree and then coimmit sucide because of the talks of the
people, and he furtlier said. Abu Sa'id he who is ingnoran of
the saying of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) (he is
to be pardoned), but O people of Ansar, is this hadith of
Allah's Messengern (may peace be upon him) concealed from you
whereas you have the best konowledge of t this hadith of
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) amongst people? Did
Allalt's Messenger (may peace be upon him) not say that he
(Dajjal) would be a non believer whereas I am a believer? did
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) not say he would be
barren and no child would be born to hirn, whereas I have left
my children in Medina? Did Allh's Messenger (may peace upon
him) not say: He would not get into Medina and Mecca whereas I
have been coming from Medina and now I intend to go to Mecca?
Abu Sa'id said: I was about to accept the excuse put forward
by him. that he said: I know the place where he would be born
and where he is now. So I said to him: May your whole dayb be
spent
Bk 41, Number 6997:
This hadith has transmitted on the authority of Abu Sa'id that
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) asked Ibn Sa'id
about the earth of Paradise. Thereupon he said: Abu'l−Qasim,
It is like a fine white musk, whereupon he (the Holy Prophet)
said: 'You have told the the truth.
Bk 41, Number 6998:
Abu Sa'id reported that Ibn Sayyad asked Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) about the earth of Paradise. Whereupon
he said: It is like white shining pure musk.
Bk 41, Number 6999:
'Muhammad b. Munkadir reported: As I saw Jabir b. 'Abdullah
taking an oath in the name of Allah that it was Ibn Sa'id who
was the Dajjal I said: Do you take an oath in the name of
Allah? Thereupon he said: I heard 'Umar taking an oath in the
presence of Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) to this
effect but Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) did not
disapprove of it.
Bk 41, Number 7000:
'Abdullah b. Umar reported: 'Umar b. Khattab went along with
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) in the company of
some persons toIbn Sayyad that he found him playing with
children near the bettlement of Bani Maghala and Ibn Sayyad
was at that time just at the threshold of adolescence and he
did not perceive (the presence of Holy Prophet) until Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) struck his back with his
hands. Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Ibn
Sayyad, don't you bear witness that I am the messenger of
Allah? Ibn Sayyad looked toward him and he said: I bear
witness to the fact that you the messenger of the unlettered.
Ibn Sayyad said to the Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him): Do you bear witness to the fact that I am the messenger
of Allah? Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) rejected
this and said: I affirm my faith in Allah and in His
messengers. Then Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
said to him: What do you see? Ibn Sayyad said: It us a Dukh.
Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: May
you be disgraced and dishonoured, you would not not be able to
go beyond your rank. 'Umar b. Khattab said: Allah's Messenger,
permit me that I should strike his neck. Therupon Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: If he is the same
(Dajjal) who would appear near the Last Hour, you would not be
able to overpower him, and he is not that ther is no good for
you to kill him. 'Abdullah b. 'Umar further narrated that
after some time Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) and
Ubayy b. Ka'b went towards the palm trees where Ibn Sayyad
was. When Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) went near
the tree he hid himself behind a tree with the intention of
hearing something from Ibn sayyad before Ibn Sayyad could see
him, but Allah's Messenger (may pcxce be upon him) saw him on
a bed with a blanket around him from which a murmuring sound
was being heard and Ibn Sayyad's mother saw Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) behind the trunk of the palm tree. She
said to Ibn Sayyad: Saf (that being his name), here is
Muhammad. Thereupon Ibn Sayyad jumped up murmuring and Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: If she had left him
alone he would have made things clear. Abdullah b. Umar told
that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) stood up
amongst the people and lauded Allah as He deserved, then he
made a mention of the Dajjal and said: I warn you of him and
there is no Prophet who has not warned his people against the
Dajjal. Even Noah warned (against him) but I am going to tell
you a thing which no Prophet told his people. You must know
that he (the Dajjal) is one−eyed and Allah, the Exalted and
Glorious, is not one−eyed. Ibn Shihab said: 'Umar b. Thabit
al−Ansari informed me that some of the Companions of Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) informed him that the day
when Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) warned people
against the Dajjal, he also said: There would be written
between his two eyes (the word) Kafir (infidel) and everyone
who would resent his deeds would be able to read or every
Muslim would be about to read, and he also said: Bear this
thing in mind that none amongst you would be able to see
Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, until he dies.
Bk 41, Number 7001:
Abdullah b. Umar reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) went along with him in the company of some persons
and there was Umar b. Khattab also amongst them till they saw
Ibn Sayyad as a young boy just on the threshold of adolescence
playing with children near the battlement of Bani Mu'awiya;
the rest of the hadith is the same but with these concluding
words:" Had his mother left him (to murmur) his matter would
have become clear."
Bk 41, Number 7002:
Ibn 'Umar reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) happened to pass by Ibn Sayyad along with his Companions
including 'Umar b. Khattab as he was playing with children
near the battlement of Bani Maghala and he was also a child by
that time. The rest of the hadith is the same as narrated by
Ibn Umar (in which there is a mention of) setting out of
Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) along with Ubayy b.
Ka'b towards the date−palm trees.
Bk 41, Number 7003:
Nafi' reported that Ibn 'Umar met Ibn Si'id on some of the
paths of Medina and he said to him a word which enraged him
and he was so much swollen with anger that the way was
blocked. Ibn 'Umar went to Hafsa and informed her about this.
Thereupon she said: May Allah have mercy upon you, why did you
incite Ibn Sayyad in spite of the fact that you knew it would
be the extreme anger which would make Dajjal appear in the
world?
Bk 41, Number 7004:
Nafi' reported that Ibn 'Umar said: I met lbn Sayyad twice and
said to some of them (his friends): You state that it was he
(the Dajjal). He said: By Allah, it is not so. I said: You
have not told me the truth; by Allah some of you informed me
that he would not die until he would have the largest number
of offspring and huge wealth and it is he about whom it is
thought so. Then Ibn Sayyad talked to us. I then departed and
met him again for the second time and his eye had been
swollen. I said: What has happened to your eye? He said: I do
not know. I said: This is in your head and you do not know
about it? He said: If Allah so wills He can create it (eye) in
your staff. He then produced a sound like the braying of a
donkey. Some of my companions thought that I had struck him
with the staff as he was with me that the staff broke into
pieces, but, by Allah, I was not conscious of it. He then came
to the Mother of the Faithful (Hafsa) and narrated it to her
and she said: What concern you have with him? Don't you know
that Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) said that the
first thing (by the incitement of which) he would come out
before the public would be his anger?
Chapter 18: ACCOUNT OF THE DAJJAL AND HIS FEATURES AND WHAT
WOULD BE ALONG WITH HIM
Bk 41, Number 7005:
Ibn Umar reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him). made a mention of Dajjil in the presence of the people
and said: Allah is not one−eyed and behold that Dajjal is
blind of the right eye and his eye would be like a floating
grape.
Bk 41, Number 7006:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Ibn 'Umar
through another chain of transmitters.
Bk 41, Number 7007:
Anas b. Malik reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) said: There is never a prophet who has not warned
the Ummah of that one−eyed liar; behold he is one−eyed and
your Lord is not one−eyed. On his forehead are the letters k
f. r. (Kafir).
Bk 41, Number 7008:
Anas b. Malik reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) said: There would be written three letters k. f. r.,
i. e. Kafir, between the eyes of the Dajjal.
Bk 41, Number 7009:
Anas b. Malik reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) said: Dajjal is blind of one eye and there is
written between his eyes the word" Kafir". He then spelled the
word as k. f. r., which every Muslim would be able to read.
Bk 41, Number 7010:
Hudhalfa reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) said: Dajjal is blind of left eye with thick hair and
there would be a garden and fire with him and his fire would
be a garden and his garden would be fire.
Bk 41, Number 7011:
Hudhaifa reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as
saying: the Dajjal would have with him water and fire and his
fire would bays the effect of cold water and his water would
have the effect of fire, so don't put yourself to ruin. Abu
Mas'ud reported: I also heard it from Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him).
Bk 41, Number 7012:
'Uqba b. 'Amr Abu Mas'ud al−Ansari reported: I went to
Hudhaifa b. Yaman and said to him: Narrate what you have heard
from Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) pertaining to
the Dajjal. He said that the Dajjal would appear and there
would be along with him water ant fire and what the people
would see as water that would be fire and that would burn and
what would appear as fire that would be water and any one of
you who would see that should plunge in that which he sees as
fire for it would be sweet, pure water, and 'Uqba said: I also
heard it, testifying Hudhaifa.
Bk 41, Number 7013:
Hudhaifa and Ibn Mas'ud met together. Hudhaifa said: I know
more than you as to what there would be along with the Dajjal.
There would be along with him two canals (one flowing with
water) and the other one (having) fire (within it), and what
you would see as fire would be water and what you would see as
water would be fire. So he who amongst you is able to see that
and is desirous of water should drink out of that which he
sees as fire.
Bk 41, Number 7014:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: May I not inform you about the Dajjal what no
Apostle of Allah narrated to his people? He would be blind and
he would bring along with him an Image of Paradise and
Hell−Fire and what he would call as Paradise that would be
Hell−Fire and I warn you as Noah warned his people.
Bk 41, Number 7015:
An−Nawwas b. Sam'an reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) made a mention of the Dajjal one day in the
morning. He sometimes described him to be insignificant and
sometimes described (his turmoil) as very significant rand we
felt) as if he were in the cluster of the date−palm trees.
When we went to him (to the Holy Prophet) in the evening and
he read (the signs of fear) in our faces, he said: What is the
matter with you? We said: Allah's Messenger, you made a
mention of the Dajjal in the morning (sometimes describing
him) to be insignificant and sometimes very important, until
we began to think as if he were present in some (near) part of
the cluster of the datpalm trees. Thereupon he said: I harbour
fear in regard to you in so many other things besides the
Dajjal. If he comes forth while I am among on, I shall contend
with him on your behalf, but if he comes forth while I am not
amongst you, a man must contend on his own behalf and Allah
would take care of every Muslim on my behalf (and safeguard
him against his evil). He (Dajjal) would be a young man with
twisted, contracted hair, and a blind eye. I compare him to
'Abd−ul−'Uzza b. Qatan. He who amongst you would survive to
see him should recite over him the opening verses of Sura Kahf
(xviii.). He would appear on the way between Syria and Iraq
and would spread mischief right and left. O servant of Allah!
adhere (to the path of Truth). We said: Allah's Messenger, how
long would he stay on the earth? He said.. For forty days, one
day like a year and one day like a month and one day like a
week and the rest of the days would be like your days. We
said: Allah's Messenger, would one day's prayer suffice for
the prayers of day equal to one year? Thereupon he said: No,
but you must make an estimate of time (and then observe
prayer). We said: Allah's Messenger, how quickly would he walk
upon the earth? Thereupon he said: Like cloud driven by the
wind. He would come to the people and invite them (to a wrong
religion) and they would affirm their faith in him and respond
to him. He would then give command to the sky and there would
be rainfall upon the earth and it would grow crops. Then in
the evening, their posturing animals would come to them with
their humps very high and their udders full of milk and their
flanks stretched. He would then come to another people and
invite them. But they would reject him and he would go away
from them and there would be drought for them and nothing
would be lef t with them in the form of wealth. He would then
walk through the waste, land and say to it: Bring forth your
treasures, and the treasures would come out and collect
(themselves) before him like the swarm of bees. He would then
call a person brimming with youth and strike him with the
sword and cut him into two pieces and (make these pieces lie
at a distance which is generally) between the archer and his
target. He would then call (that young man) and he will come
forward laughing with his face gleaming (with happiness) and
it would at this very time that Allah would send Christ, son
of Mary, and he will descend at the white minaret in the
eastern side of Damscus wearing two garments lightly dyed with
saffron and placing his hands on the wings of two Angels. When
he would lower his head, there would fall beads of
perspiration from his head, and when he would raise it up,
beads like pearls would scatter from it. Every non−believer
who would smell the odour of his self would die and his breath
would reach as far as he would be able to see. He would then
search for him (Dajjal) until he would catch hold of him at
the gate of Ludd and would kill him. Then a people whom Allah
had protected would come to Jesus, son of Mary, and he would
wipe their faces and would inform them of their ranks in
Paradise and it would be under such conditions that Allah
would reveal to Jesus these words: I have brought forth from
amongst My servants such people against whom none would be
able to fight; you take these people safely to Tur, and then
Allah would send Gog and Magog and they would swarm down from
every slope. The first of them would pass the lake of Tibering
and drink out of it. And when the last of them would pass, he
would say: There was once water there. Jesus and his
companions would then be besieged here (at Tur, and they would
be so much hard pressed) that the head of the ox would be
dearer to them than one hundred dinirs and Allah's Apostle,
Jesus, and his companions would supplicate Allah, Who would
send to them insects (which would attack their necks) and in
the morning they would perish like one single person. Allah's
Apostle, Jesus, and his companions would then come down to the
earth and they would not find in the earth as much space as a
single span which is not filled with their putrefaction and
stench. Allah's Apostle, Jesus, and his companions would then
again beseech Allah, Who would send birds whose necks would be
like those of bactrin camels and they would carry them and
throw them where God would will. Then Allah would send rain
which no house of clay or (the tent of) camels' hairs would
keep out and it would wash away the earth until it could
appear to be a mirror. Then the earth would be told to bring
forth its fruit and restore its blessing and, as a result
thereof, there would grow (such a big) pomegranate that a
group of persons would be able to eat that, and seek shelter
under its skin and milch cow would give so much milk that a
whole party would be able to drink it. And the milch camel
would give such (a large quantity of) milk that the whole
tribe would be able to drink out of that and the milch sheep
would give so much milk that the whole family would be able to
drink out of that and at that time Allah would send a pleasant
wind which would soothe (people) even under their armpits, and
would take the life of every Muslim and only the wicked would
survive who would commit adultery like asses and the Last Hour
would come to them.
Bk 41, Number 7016:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Jabir with
the same chain of transmitters but with this addition that Gog
and Magog would walk until they would reach the mountain of
al−Khamar and it is a mountain of Bait−ul−Maqdis and they
would say: We have killed those who are upon the earth. Let us
now kill those who are In the sky and they would throw their
arrows towards the sky and the arrows would return to them
besmeared with blood. And in the narration of Ibn Hujr (the
words are):" I have sent such persons (Gog and Magog) that
none would dare fight against them.
Chapter 19: THE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE DAJJAL AND A BAN ON HIS
ENTRY TO MEDINA AND HIS KILLING OF A BELIEVER AND THEN
RESTORING HIM TO LIFE
Bk 41, Number 7017:
Abu Sa'id al−Khudri reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) one day gave a detailed account of the Dajjal and
in that it was also included: He would come but would not be
allowed to ether the mountain passes to Medina. So he will
alight at some of the barren tracts near Medina, and a person
who would be the best of men or one from amongst the best of
men would say to him: I bear testimony to the fact that you
are Dajjal about whom Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) had informed us. The Dajjal would say: What is your
opinion if I kill this (person), then I bring him back to
life; even then will you harbour doubt in this matter? They
would say: No. He would then kill (the man) and then bring him
back to life. When he would bring that person to life, he
would say: By Allah, I had no better proof of the fact (that
you are a Dajjal) than at the present time (that you are
actually so). The Dajjal would then make an attempt to kill
him (again) but he would not be able to do that. Abu Ishaq
reported that it was said: That person would be Khadir (Allah
be pleased with him).
Bk 41, Number 7018:
This hadith has been narrated by Zuhri with the same chain of
transmitters.
Bk 41, Number 7019:
Abu Sa'id al−Khudri reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: The Dajjal would come forth and a person
from amongst the believers would go towards him and the armed
men of the Dajjal would meet him and they would say to him:
Where do you intend to go? He would say: I intend to go to
this one who is coming forth. They would say to him: Don't you
believe in our Lord? He would say: There is nothing hidden
about our Lord. They would say: Kill him. Then some amongst
them would say: Has your master (Dajjal) not forbidden you to
kill anyone without (his consent)? And so they would take him
to the Dajjal and when the believer would see him, he would
say: O people. he is the Dajjil about whom Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) has informed (us). The Dajjal would
then order for breaking his head and utter (these words):
Catch hold of him and break his head. He would be struck even
on his back and on his stomach. Then the Dajjal would ask him:
Don't you believe in me? He would say: You are a false Masih.
He would then order him to be torn (into pieces) with a saw
from the parting of his hair up to his legs. After that the
Dajjal would walk between the two pieces. He would then say to
him: Stand, and he would stand erect. He would then say to
him: Don't you believe in me? And the person would say: It has
only added to my insight concerning you (that you are really
the Dajjal). He would then say: O people, he would not behave
with anyone amongst people (in such a manner) after me. The
Dajjal would try to catch hold of him so that he should kill
him (again). The space between his neck and collar bone would
be turned into copper and he would find no means to kill him.
So he would catch hold of him by his hand and feet and throw
him (into the air) and the people would think as if he had
been thrown in the Hell−Fire whereas he would be thrown in
Paradise. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
said: He would be the most eminent amongst persons in regard
to martyrdom in the eye of the Lord of the world.
Chapter 20: THE DAJJAL WOULD BE VERY INSIGNIFICANT IN THE EYE
OF ALLAH, THE MAJESTIC AND GLORIOUS
Bk 41, Number 7020:
Mughira b. Shu'ba reported: No one asked Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) more about Dajjil than I asked him. He
said: He should not be a source of worry to you for he would
not be able to do any harm to you. I said: Allah's Messenger,
it is alleged that he would have along with him (abundance of)
food and water. Thereupon he said: He would be very
insignificant in the eye of Allah (even) with all this.
Bk 41, Number 7021:
Mughira b. Shu'ba reported that none asked Allah's Apostle
(may peace be upon him) about Dajjal more than I asked him. I
(one of the narrators other than Mughlra b. Shu'ba) said:
What'did you ask? Mughira replied: I said that the people
alleged that he would have a mountain load of bread and mutton
and rivers of water. Thereupon he said: He would be more
insignificant in the eye of Allah compared with all this.
Bk 41, Number 7022:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Isma'il
through other chains of transmitters with a slight variation
of wording.
Chapter 21: THE APPEARANCE OF THE DAJJAL AND HIS STAY UPON THE
EARTH AND THE DESCENT OF JESUS AND HIS KILLING HIM (DAJJAL)
AND THE DEPARTURE OF GOOD PEOPLE OF STRONG CONVICTION AND THE
SURVIVAL OF THE WICKED PEOPLE AND THE WORSHIP OF IDOLS AND THE
BLOWING OF THE TRUMPET AND THE RAISING UP FROM THE GRAVES
Bk 41, Number 7023:
'Abdullah b. 'Amr reported that a person came to him and said:
What is this hadith that you narrate that the Last Hour would
come at such and such time? Thereupon he said: Hallowed be
Allah, there is no god but Allah (or the words to the same
effect). I have decided that I would not narrate anything to
anyone now. I had only said that you would see after some time
an important event that the (sacred) House (Ka'ba) would be
burnt and it would happen and definitely happen. He then
reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said:
The Dajjal would appear in my Ummah and he would stay (in the
world) for forty−I cannot say whether he meant forty days,
forty months or forty years. And Allah would then send Jesus
son of Mary who would resemble 'Urwa b Mas'ud. He (Jesus
Christ) would chase him and kill him. Then people would live
for seven years that there would be no ran. cour between two
persons. Then Allah would send cold wind from the side of
Syria that none would survive upon the earth having a speck of
good in him or faith in him but he would die, so much so that
even if some amongst you were to enter the innermost part of
the mountain, this wind would reach that place also and that
would cause his heath. I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: Only the wicked people would survive and
they would be as careless as birds with the charactertistics
of beasts. They would never appreciate the good nor condemn
evil. Then the Satan would come to them in human form and
would say: Don't you respond? And they would say: What do you
order us? And he would command them to worship the idols but,
in spite of this, they would have abundance of sustenance and
lead comfortable lives. Then the trumpet would be blown and no
one would hear that but he would bend hfs neck to one side and
raise it from the other side and the first one to hear that
trumpet would be the person who would be busy in setting right
the tank meant for providing water to the camels. He would
swoon and the other people would also swoon, then Allah would
send or He would cause to send rain which would be like dew
and there would grow out of it the bodies of the people. Then
the second trumpet would be blown and they would stand up and
begin to look (around). Then it would be said: O people, go to
your Lord, and make them stand there. And they would be
questioned. Then it would be said: Bring out a group (out of
them) for the Hell−Fire. And then it would be asked: How much?
It would be said: Nine hundred and ninty−nine out of one
thousand for the Hell−Fire and that would be the day which
would make the children old because of its terror and that
would be the day about which it has been said:" On the day
when the shank would be uncovered" (lxviii. 42).
Bk 41, Number 7024:
Ya'qub b. 'Asim b. Urwa b. Mas'ud reported: I heard a person
saying to 'Abdullah b. Amr: You say that the Last Hour would
come at such and such time, whereupon he said: I had made up
my mind that I would not narrate anything to you. I only said:
But you would soon see after some time a very significant
affair, for example the burning of the House (Ka'ba). Shu'ba
said like this and 'Abdullah b Amr reported Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) having said: The Dajjal would appear
in my Ummah. And in another hadith (the words are): None would
survive who would have even a speck of faith in his heart, but
he would be dead. Muhammad b. ja'far reported that Shu'ba
narrated to him this hadith many a time and I also read it out
to him many a time.
Bk 41, Number 7025:
Abdullah b. 'Amr reported: I committed to memory a hadith from
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) and I did not forget
it after I had heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: The first sign (nut of the signs of the appearance
of the Dajjal) would be the appearance of the sun from the
west, the appearance of the beast before the people in the
forenoon and whkch of the two hap− pens first, the second one
would follow immediately after that.
Bk 41, Number 7026:
Abu Zur'a reported that three persons amongst Muslims had been
sitting in Medina in the presence of Marwan b. Hakam and they
heard him narrate these signs from him and the first amongst
them was the appearance of the Dajjal. 'Abdullah b. 'Amr
reported that Marwin said nothing (particular in this
connection). I, however, heard a hadith from Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) and I did not forget that after I had
heard that from Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) and he
reported a hadith like the foregoing.
Bk 41, Number 7027:
Abu Zur'a reported that there was a discussion in the presence
of Marwan about the Last Hour, and Abdullah b. 'Amr said: I
heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying. The
rest of the hadith is the same, but there is no mention of
forenoon.
Chapter 22: THE HADITH PERTAINING TO THE SPY OF THE DAJJAL
Bk 41, Number 7028:
Amir b. Sharahil Sha'bi Sha'b Hamdan reported that he asked
Fatima, daughter of Qais and sister of ad−Dahhak b. Qais and
she was the first amongst the emigrant women: Narrate to me a
hadith which you had heard directly from Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) and there is no extra link in between
them. She said: Very well, if you like, I am prepared to do
that, and he said to her: Well, do It and narrate that to me.
She said: I married the son of Mughira and he was a chosen
young man of Quraish at that time, but he fell as a martyr in
the first Jihad (fighting) on the side of Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him). When I became a widow, 'Abd al−Rahman
b. Auf, one amongst the group of the Companions of Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him), sent me the proposal of
marriage. Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) also sent
me such a message for his freed slave Usama b. Zaid. And it
had been conveyed to me that Allah's Messenger (way peace be
upon him) had said (about Usama): He who loves me should also
love Usima. When Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
talked to me (about this matter), I said: My affairs are in
your hand. You may marry me to anyone whom you like. He said:
You better shift now to the house of Umm Sharik, and Umm
Sharik was a rich lady from amongst the Anqir. She spent
generously for the cause of Allah and entertained guests very
hospitably. I said: Well, I will do as you like. He said: Do
not do that for Umm Sharik is a woman who is very frequently
vizited by guests and I do not like that your head may be
uncovered or the cloth may be removed from your shank and the
strangers may catch sight of them which you abhor. You better
shift to the house of your cousin 'Abdullah b. 'Amr b. Umm
Maktum and he is a person of the Bani Fihr branch of the
Quraish, and he belonged to that tribe (to which Fatima)
belonged. So I shifted to that house, and when my period of
waiting was over, I heard the voice of an announcer making an
announcement that the prayer would be observed in the mosque
(where) congregational prayer (is observed). So I set out
towards that mosque and observed prayer along with Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) and I was in the row of the
women which was near the row of men. When Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) had finished his prayer, he sat on the
pulpit smiling and said: Every worshipper should keep sitting
at his place. He then said: Do you know why I had asked you to
assemble? They said: Allah and His Messenger know best. He
said: By Allah. I have not made you assemble for exhortation
or for a warning, but I have detained you here, for Tamim
Dari, a Christian, who came and accepted Islam, told me
something, which agrees with what I was−telling, yuu about the
Dajjal. He narrated to me that he had sailed in a ship along
with thirty men of Bani Lakhm and Bani Judham and had been
tossed by waves in the ocean for a month. Then these (waves)
took them (near) the land within the ocean (island) at the
time of sunset. They sat in a small side−boat and entered that
Island. There was a beast with long thick hair (and because of
these) they could not distinguish his face from his back. They
said: Woe to you, who can you be? Thereupon it said: I am
al−Jassasa. They said: What is al−Jassasa? And it said: O
people, go to this person in the monastery as he is very much
eager to know about you. He (the narrator) said: When it named
a person for us we were afraid of it lest it should be a
Devil. Then we hurriedly went on till we came to that
monastery and found a well−built person there with his hands
tied to his neck and having iron shackles between his two legs
up to the ankles. We said: Woe be upon thee, who are you? And
he said: You would soon come to know about me. but tell me who
are you. We said: We are people from Arabia and we embarked
upon a boat but the sea−waves had been driving us for one
month and they brought as near this island. We got Into the
side−boats and entered this island and here a beast met us
with profusely thick hair and because of the thickness of his
hair his face could not be distinguished from his back. We
said: Woe be to thee, who are you? It said: I am al− Jassasa.
We said: What is al−Jassasa? And it said: You go to this very
person in the monastery for he is eagerly waiting for you to
know about you. So we came to you in hot haste fearing that
that might be the Devil. He (that chained person) said: Tell
me about the date−palm trees of Baisan. We &aid: About what
aspect of theirs do you seek information? He said: I ask you
whether these trees bear fruit or not. We said: Yes Thereupon
he said: I think these would not bear fruits. He said: Inform
me about the lake of Tabariyya? We said: Which aspect of it do
you want to know? He said: Is there water in it? They said:
There is abundance of water in it. Thereupon he said: I think
it would soon become dry. He again said: Inform me about the
spring of Zughar. They said: Which aspect of it you want to
know? He (the chained person) said: Is there water in it and
does it irrigate (the land)? We said to him: Yes, there is
abundance of water in it and the inhabitants (of Medina)
irrigate (land) with the help of it, He said: Inform me about
the unlettered Prophet; what has he done? We said: He has come
out from Mecca and has settled In Yathrib (Medina). He said:
Do the Arabs fight against him? We said: Yes. He said: How did
he deal with him? We informed him that he had overcome those
in his neighbourhood and they had submitted themselves before
him. Thereupon he said to us: Had it actually happened? We
said: Yes. Thereupon he said: If it is so that is better for
them that they should show obedience to him. I am going to
tell you about. myself and I am Dajjal and would be soon
permitted to get out and so I shall get out and travel in the
land, and will not spare any town where I would not stay for
forty nights except Mecca and Medina as these two (places) are
prohibited (areas) for me and I would not make an attempt to
enter any one of these two. An angel with a sword in his hand
would confront me and would bar my way and there would be
angels to guard every passage leading to it; then Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) striking the pulpit with the
help of the end of his staff said: This implies Taiba meaning
Medina. Have I not, told you an account (of the Dajjal) like
this? 'The people said: Yes, and this account narrated by
Tamim Dari was liked by me for it corroborates the account
which I gave to you in regard to him (Dajjal) at Medina and
Mecca. Behold he (Dajjal) is in the Syrian sea (Mediterranian)
or the Yemen sea (Arabian sea). Nay, on the contrary, he As In
the east, he is in the east, he is in the east, and he pointed
with his hand towards the east. I (Fatima bint Qais) said: I
preserved It In my mind (this narration from Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him).
Bk 41, Number 7029:
Al−Sha'bi reported: We visited Fatima b. Qais and she served
us fresh dates which are called rutab and she also served us
barley. I asked her about that woman in whose case three
divorces had been pronounced as to how much time she should
count as the waiting period. She said: My husband pronounced
three divorces in my case and Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) permitted me to spend any waiting period in my
family. (It was during this period) that announcement was made
for the people to observe prayer in the bigger Mosque. I went
there along with people and I was in the front row meant for
women and it was adjacent to the last row of men and I heard
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) deliver sermon
sitting on the pulpit. He said: The cousin of Tamim (Dari)
sailed in the ocean. The rest of the hadith is the same but
with this addition:" (I see) as if I am looking to Allah's
Apostle (may peace be upon him) pointing his rod towards the
land (and saying): It is Taiba, i. e. Medina."
Bk 41, Number 7030:
Tamim Dari came to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
and informed Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) that he
sailed in an ocean and his ship lost direction and thus landed
at an island. They moved about in that land in search of
water. There they saw a person who had been pulling his hair.
The rest of the hadith is the same. And he (Dajjal) said: If I
were to be permitted to set out I would have covered all the
lands except Taiba. Then Allah's Messerger (may peace be upon
him) brought (Tamim Dari) before the public and he narrated to
them and said: That is Taiba and that is the Dajjal.
Bk 41, Number 7031:
Fatima b. Qais reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) sat on the pulpit and said: O people, Tamim Dari has
reported to me that some persons of his tribe sailed in the
ocean in a boat and it capsised and then some of them
travelled on one of the planks of the boat and they went to an
island in the ocean. The rest of the hadith is the same.
Bk 41, Number 7032:
Anas b. Malik reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) said: There will be no land which would not be
covered by the Dajjal but Mecca and Medina, and there would no
passage out of the passages leading to them which would not be
guarded by angels arranged in rows. Then he (the Dajjal) would
appear in a barren place adjacent to Medina and it would rock
three times that every unbeliever and hypocrite would get out
of it towards him.
Bk 41, Number 7033:
This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Anas that
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said this but with
this addition that (the Dajjal would come) and pitch his tent
in the waste−land of Juruf and thus there would come out of
(the city) every hypocrite, man and woman.
Chapter 23: THE REMAINING AHADITH PERTAINING TO THE DAJJAL
Bk 41, Number 7034:
Anas b. Malik reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) said: The Dajjal would be followed by seventy
thousand Jews of Isfahan wearing Persian shawls.
Bk 41, Number 7035:
Umm Sharik reported: I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: The people would run away from the Dajjal
seeking shelter in the mountains. She said: Where would be the
Arabs then in that day? He said: They would be small in
number.
Bk 41, Number 7036:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Ibn Juraij
with the same chain of transmitters.
Bk 41, Number 7037:
Abu Qatada reported: We used to go to Imran b. Husain passing
in front of Hisham b. 'Amir. He, one day, said: You pass by me
(in order) to go to some per− sons but (amongst ttie living
persons) none remained in the company of Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) more than I and none knows more
ahadith than I. I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying: There would be no creation (creating more
trouble) than the Dajjal right from the creation of Adam to
the Last Hour.
Bk 41, Number 7038:
This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of 'Imran b.
Husain with a slight variation of wording.
Bk 41, Number 7039:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
having said: Hasten to do good deeds before six things happen:
the rising of the sun from the west, the smoke, the Dajjal,
the beast and (the death) of one of you or the general
turmoil.
Bk 41, Number 7040:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: Hasten in performing these good deeds (before
these) six things (happen): (the appearance) of tribe Dijjal,
the smoke, the beast of the earth, the rising of the sun from
the west, the general turmoil (leadina to large−scale
massacre) and death of masses and individuals.
Bk 41, Number 7041:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Qatada
through another chain of transmitters.
Chapter 24: THE EXCELLENCE OF WORSHIP IN THE PERIOD OF GENERAL
TURMOIL
Bk 41, Number 7042:
Ma'qil b. Yasar reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) as saying: Worshiping during the period of widespread
turmoil is like emigration towards me.
Chapter 25: APPROACH OF THE LAST HOUR
Bk 41, Number 7043:
Abdullah reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) as
saying: The Last Hour would affect (most terribly) the wicked
persons.
Bk 41, Number 7044:
This hadith has been reported by Sahl b. Sa'd that he heard
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: I and the
Last Hour are (close to each other) like this (and he, in
order to explain it) pointed (by joining his) forefinger,
(one) next to the thumb and the middle finger (together).
Bk 41, Number 7045:
Anas b. Malik reported that Allah's Messenger (way peace be
upon him) said: I and the Last Hour have been sent like this.
Shu'ba said: I heard Qatada as saying in his narration: The
excellence of one over the other. And I do not know whether he
narrated it from Anas or Qatada himself said so.
Bk 41, Number 7046:
Shu'ba reported: I heard Qatada and Abu Tayyab narrating that
both of them heard Anas as narrating that Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) said: I and the Last Hour have been
sent like this, and Shu'ba drew his forefinger and middle
finger near each other while narrating it.
Bk 41, Number 7047:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Anas through
another chain of transmitters.
Bk 41, Number 7048:
Anas reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) as
saying like this, but he narrated it through another chain of
transmitters.
Bk 41, Number 7049:
Anas reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as
saying: I and the Last Hour have been sent like this and (he
while doing it) joined the forefinger with the middle finger.
Bk 41, Number 7050:
'A'isha reported that when the desert Arabs came to Allable
Messenger (may peace be upon him) they asked about the Last
Hour as to when that would come. And he looked towards the
youngest amongst them and said: If he lives he would not grow
very old that he would find your Last Hour coming to you the
would see you dying).
Bk 41, Number 7051:
Anas reported that a person asked Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) as to when the Last Hour would come. He had in
his presence a young boy of the Ansar who was called Mabammad.
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon bion) said: If this young
boy lives. he may not grow very old till (he would see) the
Last Hour coming to you.
Bk 41, Number 7052:
Anas b. Malik reported that a person asked Allah's Apostle
(may peace be upon him): When would the Last Hour come?
Thereupon Allah's Messenger (way peace be upon him) kept quiet
for a while. then looked at a young boy in his presence
belonging to the tribe of Azd Shanilwa and he said: If this
boy lives he would not grow very old till the Last Hour would
come to you. Anas said that this young boy was of our age
daring those days.
Bk 41, Number 7053:
Anas reported: A young boy of Mughira b. Shu'ba happened to
pass by (the Holy Prophet) and he was of my age Thereupon
Allah's Apostle (may peace be apon him) said: If he lives long
he would not grow very old till the Last Hour would come (to
the old People of this generation).
Bk 41, Number 7054:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: The Last Hour would come (so sudden) that a person
would be milking the she− camel and the (milk) would not reach
the brim of the vessel that the Last Hour would come, and the
two persons would be engaged in buying and selling of the
clothes and their bargain would not be struck before the Last
Hour would come. And someone would be setting his tank in
order and he would have hardly set it right when the Last Hour
would come.
Chapter 26: THE INTERVAL BETWEEN TWO BLOWINGS OF THE TRUMPET
Bk 41, Number 7055:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: Between the two blowiings of the trumpet (there
would be an interval of forty). They said: Abu Huraira, do you
mean forty days? He said: I cannot say anything. They said: Do
you mean fortv months? He said: I cannot say anything They
said: Do you mean forty years? He said: I cannot say anything.
Then Allah would cause the water to, descend from the sky and
they (people) will sprout like vegetable The only thing in a
man which would not decay would be one bone (spinal chord)
from which the whole frame would be reconstituted on the Day
of Resurrection.
Bk 41, Number 7056:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as say− ing: The earth would consume every son of Adam except
his spinal chord from which his body would be reconstituted
(on the Day of Resurrection).
Bk 41, Number 7057:
Abu Huraira reported so many ahadith from Allah's Apostle (may
peace be upon him) and amongst these one was this that Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: There is a bone in the
human being which the earth would never consume and it is from
this that new bodies would be reconstituted (on the Day of
Resurrection). They said: Allah's Messenger, which bone is
that? Thereupon he said: It is the spinal bone.