Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 4088
حَدَّثَنَا حَرْمَلَةُ بْنُ يَحْيَى الْمِصْرِيُّ، وَإِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْجَوْهَرِيُّ، قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو صَالِحٍ عَبْدُ الْغَفَّارِ بْنُ دَاوُدَ الْحَرَّانِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي زُرْعَةَ، عَمْرِو بْنِ جَابِرٍ الْحَضْرَمِيِّ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ جَزْءٍ الزُّبَيْدِيِّ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " يَخْرُجُ نَاسٌ مِنَ الْمَشْرِقِ فَيُوَطِّئُونَ لِلْمَهْدِيِّ " . يَعْنِي سُلْطَانَهُ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Harmalah ibn Yahya al-Misri and Ibrahim ibn Sa‘id al-Jawhari narrated to us; they said: Abu Salih ‘Abd al-Ghaffar ibn Dawud al-Harrani narrated to us; Ibn Lahi‘ah narrated to us, from Abu Zur‘ah ‘Amr ibn Jabir al-Hadrami, from ‘Abdullah ibn al-Harith ibn Jaz’ al-Zubaydi, who said that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “People will emerge from the east and prepare the way for the Mahdi”—meaning, for his rule.