The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Allah will raise
for this community at the end of every hundred years the
one who will renovate its religion for it.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: The flourishing
state of Jerusalem will be when Yathrib is in ruins, the
ruined state of Yathrib will be when the great war comes,
the outbreak of the great war will be at the conquest of
Constantinople and the conquest of Constantinople when the
Dajjal (Antichrist) comes forth. He (the Prophet) struck
his thigh or his shoulder with his hand and said: This is
as true as you are here or as you are sitting (meaning
Mu'adh ibn Jabal).
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: The greatest war,
the conquest of Constantinople and the coming forth of the
Dajjal (Antichrist) will take place within a period of
seven months.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: The time between
the great war and the conquest of the city
(Constantinople) will be six years, and the Dajjal
(Antichrist) will come forth in the seventh.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: The people will
soon summon one another to attack you as people when
eating invite others to share their dish. Someone asked:
Will that be because of our small numbers at that time? He
replied: No, you will be numerous at that time: but you
will be scum and rubbish like that carried down by a
torrent, and Allah will take fear of you from the breasts
of your enemy and last enervation into your hearts.
Someone asked: What is wahn (enervation). Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him): He replied: Love of the world and
dislike of death.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: The place of
assembly of the Muslims at the time of the war will be in
al-Ghutah near a city called Damascus, one of the best
cities in Syria.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Let the
Abyssinians alone as long as they let you alone, and let
the Turks alone as long as they leave you alone.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said: Some of
my people will alight on low-lying ground, which they will
call al-Basrah, beside a river called Dajjal (the Tigris)
over which there is a bridge. Its people will be numerous
and it will be one of the capital cities of immigrants (or
one of the capital cities of Muslims, according to the
version of Ibn Yahya who reported from AbuMa'mar).
At the end of time the descendants of Qantura' will
come with broad faces and small eyes and alight on the
bank of the river. The town's inhabitants will then
separate into three sections, one of which will follow
cattle and (live in) the desert and perish, another of
which will seek security for themselves and perish, but a
third will put their children behind their backs and fight
the invaders, and they will be the martyrs.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: The people will
establish cities, Anas, and one of them will be called al-Basrah
or al-Busayrah. If you should pass by it or enter it,
avoid its salt-marshes, its Kall, its market, and the gate
of its commanders, and keep to its environs, for the earth
will swallow some people up, pelting rain will fall and
earthquakes will take place in it, and there will be
people who will spend the night in it and become apes and
swine in the morning.
Salih ibn Dirham said: We went on the pilgrimage and
met a man who asked us: Is there a town near you called
al-Ubullah? We said: Yes. He said: Is there any of you who
will undertake to pray two or four rak'ahs on my behalf in
the mosque of al-Ashshar, stating "they are on behalf of
AbuHurayrah"?
He (AbuHurayrah) said: I heard my friend AbulQasim (peace_be_upon_him)
say: On the Day of Resurrection Allah will raise martyrs
from the mosque of al-Ashshar, who will be the only ones
to rise with the martyrs of Badr.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Leave the
Abyssinians alone as long as they leave you alone, for it
is only the Abyssinian with short legs who will seek to
take out the treasure of the Ka'bah.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Let him who hears
of the Dajjal (Antichrist) go far from him for I swear by
Allah that a man will come to him thinking he is a
believer and follow him because of confused ideas roused
in him by him.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: I have told you
so much about the Dajjal (Antichrist) that I am afraid you
may not understand. The Antichrist is short, hen-toed,
woolly-haired, one-eyed, an eye-sightless, and neither
protruding nor deep-seated. If you are confused about him,
know that your Lord is not one-eyed.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: There is no
prophet between me and him, that is, Jesus (peace_be_upon_him).
He will descent (to the earth). When you see him,
recognise him: a man of medium height, reddish fair,
wearing two light yellow garments, looking as if drops
were falling down from his head though it will not be wet.
He will fight the people for the cause of Islam. He will
break the cross, kill swine, and abolish jizyah. Allah
will perish all religions except Islam. He will destroy
the Antichrist and will live on the earth for forty years
and then he will die. The Muslims will pray over him.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) once delayed
the congregational night prayer.
He came out and said: The talk of Tamim ad-Dari
detained me. He transmitted it to me from a man who was on
of of the islands of the sea. All of a sudden he found a
woman who was trailing her hair. He asked: Who are you?
She said: I am the Jassasah. Go to that castle. So I
came to it and found a man who was trailing his hair,
chained in iron collars, and leaping between Heaven and
Earth.
I asked: Who are you? He replied: I am the Dajjal
(Antichrist). Has the Prophet of the unlettered people
come forth now? I replied: Yes. He said: Have they obeyed
him or disobeyed him? I said: No, they have obeyed him. He
said: That is better for them.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said one day
from the pulpit: When some people were sailing in the sea,
their food was finished. An island appeared to them. They
went out seeking bread. They were met by the Jassasah (the
Antichrist's spy).
I said to AbuSalamah: What is the Jassasah? He replied:
A woman trailing the hair of her skin and of her head. She
said: In this castle. He then narrated the rest of the
(No. 4311) tradition. He asked about the palm-trees of
Baysan and the spring of Zughar. He said: He is the
Antichrist. Ibn Salamah said to me: There is something
more in this tradition, which I could not remember. He
said: Jabir testified that it was he who was Ibn Sayyad.
I said: He died. He said: Let him die. I said: He
accepted Islam. He said: Let him accept Islam. I said: He
entered Medina. He said: Let him enter Medina.
Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir told that he saw Jabir ibn
Abdullah swearing by Allah that Ibn as-Sa'id was the
Dajjal (Antichrist). I expressed my surprise by saying:
You swear by Allah! He said: I heard Umar swearing to that
in the presence of the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him),
but the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) did not make
any objection to it.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: The Last Hour
will not come before there come forth thirty Dajjals (fraudulents),
everyone presuming himself that he is an apostle of Allah.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: The Last Hour
will not come before there come forth thirty liar Dajjals
(fraudulents) lying on Allah and His Apostle.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said: The
first defect that permeated Banu Isra'il was that a man
(of them) met another man and said: O so-and-so, fear
Allah, and abandon what you are doing, for it is not
lawful for you. He then met him the next day and that did
not prevent him from eating with him, drinking with him
and sitting with him. When they did so. Allah mingled
their hearts with each other.
He then recited the verse: "curses were pronounced on
those among the children of Isra'il who rejected Faith, by
the tongue of David and of Jesus the son of Mary"...up to
"wrongdoers".
He then said: By no means, I swear by Allah, you must
enjoin what is good and prohibit what is evil, prevent the
wrongdoer, bend him into conformity with what is right,
and restrict him to what is right.
You people recite this verse "You who believe, care for
yourselves; he who goes astray cannot harm you when you
are rightly-guided," and put it in its improper place.
Khalid's version has: We heard the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him)
say: When the people see a wrongdoer and do not prevent
him, Allah will soon punish them all. Amr ibn Hushaym's
version has: I heard the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him)
say: If acts of disobedience are done among any people and
do not change them though the are able to do so, Allah
will soon punish them all.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If any man is
among a people in whose midst he does acts of
disobedience, and, though they are able to make him change
(his acts), they do not change, Allah will smite them with
punishment before they die.
AbuUmayyah ash-Sha'bani said: I asked AbuTha'labah al-Khushani:
What is your opinion about the verse "Care for
yourselves".
He said: I swear by Allah, I asked the one who was well
informed about it; I asked the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him)
about it.
He said: No, enjoin one another to do what is good and
forbid one another to do what is evil.
But when you see niggardliness being obeyed, passion
being followed, worldly interests being preferred,
everyone being charmed with his opinion, then care for
yourself, and leave alone what people in general are
doing; for ahead of you are days which will require
endurance, in which showing endurance will be like
grasping live coals. The one who acts rightly during that
period will have the reward of fifty men who act as he
does.
Another version has: He said (The hearers asked:)
Apostle of Allah, the reward of fifty of them?
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: How will you do
when that time will come? Or he said: A time will soon
come when the people are sifted and only dregs of mankind
survive and their covenants and guarantees have been
impaired and they have disagreed among themselves and
become thus, interwining his fingers. They asked: What do
you order us to do, Apostle of Allah? He replied: Accept
what you approve, abandon what you disapprove, attend to
your own affairs and leave alone the affairs of the
generality.
When we were around the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him),
he mentioned the period of commotion (fitnah) saying: When
you see the people that their covenants have been
impaired, (the fulfilling of) the guarantees becomes rare,
and they become thus (interwining his fingers). I then got
up and said: What should I do at that time, may Allah make
me ransom for you? He replied: Keep to your house, control
your tongue, accept what you approve, abandon what you
disapprove, attend to your own affairs, and leave alone
the affairs of the generality.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: When sin is done
in the earth, he who sees it and disapproves of it will be
taken like one who was not present, but he who is not
present and approves of it will be like him who sees.
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: I hope my
community will not fail to maintain their position in the
sight of their Lord if He delays them half a day. Sa'd was
asked: How long is half a day? He said: It is five hundred
years.
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