Sunan Ibn Majah 4079

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Abu Kurayb narrated to us; Yunus ibn Bukayr narrated to us, from Muhammad ibn Ishaq, who said: ‘Asim ibn ‘Umar ibn Qatadah narrated to me, from Mahmud ibn Labid, from Abu Sa‘id al-Khudri, that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “Gog and Magog will be released and emerge, as Allah Most High says: ‘They will surge down from every elevation.’ They will overrun the earth, and the Muslims will withdraw from them until the remaining Muslims are in their cities and fortresses, bringing their livestock with them. They will pass by a river and drink from it until they leave nothing in it. The last of them will pass along their tracks, and one of them will say, ‘There was water here once.’ They will gain mastery over the earth, and one of them will say, ‘These are the people of the earth; we have finished with them. Now we will attack the people of heaven!’ One of them will brandish his spear toward the sky; it will come back stained with blood, and they will say, ‘We have killed the people of heaven.’ While they are thus, Allah will send creatures like locust larvae, which will seize them by the necks. They will die like locusts, piled one upon another. In the morning, the Muslims will hear no sound from them. They will say, ‘Who will risk his life and see what has happened to them?’ A man who has prepared himself to be killed by them will go down and find them dead. He will call out, ‘Rejoice! Your enemy has perished.’ The people will then come out and release their livestock. Their only pasture will be the carcasses, yet the animals will thrive on them as well as they ever thrived on vegetation they had found.”