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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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).
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.
'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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
'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.
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
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).
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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).
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."
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.
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.
'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.
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)
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
'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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.).
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
'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.
'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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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
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.
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.
'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.
'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.
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."
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.
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?
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
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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).
'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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 tha@ 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).
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
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.
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.
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
'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).
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.
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.
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.
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
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).
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."
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
'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).
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.
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.
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).
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
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.
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).
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.