Sunan Ibn Majah 4094

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

‘Ali ibn Maymun al-Raqqi narrated to us; Abu Ya‘qub al-Hunayni narrated to us, from Kathir ibn ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Amr ibn ‘Awf, from his father, from his grandfather, who said that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “The Hour will not come until the nearest Muslim outpost is at Bawla’.” Then he said: “‘Ali, ‘Ali, ‘Ali!” ‘Ali said: “May my father and mother be ransomed for you.” He said: “You will fight the Banu al-Asfar, and those after you will fight them, until the finest people of Islam—the people of the Hijaz, who fear no one’s reproach for Allah’s sake—go out to fight them. They will conquer Constantinople by declaring Allah’s perfection and greatness, and they will obtain spoils such as they have never obtained before, dividing them by the shieldful. Then someone will come and say, ‘The Messiah has appeared in your lands!’ But that is a lie. The one who takes from the spoils will regret it, and the one who leaves them will regret it.”