Tribulations

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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us; Ahmad ibn ‘Abd al-Malik narrated to us; Abu al-Malih al-Raqqi narrated to us, from Ziyad ibn Bayan, from ‘Ali ibn Nufayl, from Sa‘id ibn al-Musayyab, who said: We were with Umm Salamah discussing the Mahdi, and she said: “I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: ‘The Mahdi will be among the descendants of Fatimah.’”

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Hadiyyah ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab narrated to us; Sa‘d ibn ‘Abd al-Hamid ibn Ja‘far narrated to us, from ‘Ali ibn Ziyad al-Yamami, from ‘Ikrimah ibn ‘Ammar, from Ishaq ibn ‘Abdullah ibn Abi Talhah, from Anas ibn Malik, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: “We, the descendants of ‘Abd al-Muttalib, are the leaders of the people of Paradise: I, Hamzah, ‘Ali, Ja‘far, al-Hasan, al-Husayn, and the Mahdi.”

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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.

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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us; ‘Isa ibn Yunus narrated to us, from al-Awza‘i, from Hassan ibn ‘Atiyyah, who said: Makhul and Ibn Abi Zakariyya went to Khalid ibn Ma‘dan, and I went with them. He narrated to us from Jubayr ibn Nufayr, who said: Jubayr told me, “Come with us to Dhu Mikhmar”—a man who was one of the Prophet’s Companions. I went with them, and he asked him about the truce. Dhu Mikhmar said: I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) say: “You will make a secure truce with the Romans. Then you and they will fight an enemy and be victorious; you will take spoils and remain safe. Then you will depart until you camp in a meadow of many hillocks. A man from among the people of the Cross will raise the cross and say, ‘The cross has prevailed.’ A Muslim man will become angry, rise, and smash it. At that point the Romans will betray the treaty and gather for the great battle.”

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‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Ibrahim al-Dimashqi narrated to us; al-Walid ibn Muslim narrated to us; al-Awza‘i narrated to us, from Hassan ibn ‘Atiyyah, with his chain, a report similar to the preceding one. He added: “They will gather for the great battle, and at that time they will come under eighty banners, with twelve thousand men beneath each banner.”

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Hisham ibn ‘Ammar narrated to us; al-Walid ibn Muslim narrated to us; ‘Uthman ibn Abi al-‘Atikah narrated to us, from Sulayman ibn Habib al-Muharibi, from Abu Hurayrah, who said that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “When the great battles occur, Allah will send a force from among the freedmen. They will be the finest of the Arabs in horsemanship and the best equipped with weapons; through them Allah will strengthen the religion.”

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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us; al-Husayn ibn ‘Ali narrated to us, from Za’idah, from ‘Abd al-Malik ibn ‘Umayr, from Jabir ibn Samurah, from Nafi‘ ibn ‘Utbah ibn Abi Waqqas, from the Prophet (ﷺ), who said: “You will fight the Arabian Peninsula, and Allah will grant you its conquest. Then you will fight the Romans, and Allah will grant you their conquest. Then you will fight the Dajjal, and Allah will grant you victory over him.” Jabir said: “The Dajjal will not emerge until the Romans have been conquered.”

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Hisham ibn ‘Ammar narrated to us; al-Walid ibn Muslim and Isma‘il ibn ‘Ayyash narrated to us; they said: Abu Bakr ibn Abi Maryam narrated to us, from al-Walid ibn Sufyan ibn Abi Maryam, from Yazid ibn Qutaybah al-Sakuni—al-Walid said: Yazid ibn Qutbah—from Abu Bahriyyah, from Mu‘adh ibn Jabal, from the Prophet (ﷺ), who said: “The great battle, the conquest of Constantinople, and the emergence of the Dajjal will occur within seven months.”

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Suwayd ibn Sa‘id narrated to us; Baqiyyah narrated to us, from Buhayr ibn Sa‘d, from Khalid ibn Abi Bilal, from ‘Abdullah ibn Busr, who said that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “There will be six years between the great battle and the conquest of the city, and the Dajjal will emerge in the seventh year.”

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‘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.”

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‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Ibrahim narrated to us; al-Walid ibn Muslim narrated to us; ‘Abdullah ibn al-‘Ala’ narrated to us; Busr ibn ‘Ubaydullah narrated to me; Abu Idris al-Khawlani narrated to me; ‘Awf ibn Malik al-Ashja‘i narrated to me, who said that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “There will be a truce between you and the Banu al-Asfar, but they will betray you and march against you under eighty banners, with twelve thousand men beneath each banner.”

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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us; Sufyan ibn ‘Uyaynah narrated to us, from al-Zuhri, from Sa‘id ibn al-Musayyab, from Abu Hurayrah, attributing it to the Prophet (ﷺ), who said: “The Hour will not come until you fight a people who wear footwear made of hair, and the Hour will not come until you fight a people with small eyes.”

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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us; Sufyan ibn ‘Uyaynah narrated to us, from Abu al-Zinad, from al-A‘raj, from Abu Hurayrah, who said that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “The Hour will not come until you fight a people with small eyes and flattened noses, whose faces are like hammered shields. And the Hour will not come until you fight a people whose footwear is made of hair.”

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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us; Aswad ibn ‘Amir narrated to us; Jarir ibn Hazim narrated to us; al-Hasan narrated to us, from ‘Amr ibn Taghlib, who said: I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) say: “Among the signs of the Hour is that you will fight a people with broad faces, as though their faces were hammered shields. And among the signs of the Hour is that you will fight a people who wear footwear made of hair.”

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Al-Hasan ibn ‘Arafah narrated to us; ‘Ammar ibn Muhammad narrated to us, from al-A‘mash, from Abu Salih, from Abu Sa‘id al-Khudri, who said that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “The Hour will not come until you fight a people with small eyes and broad faces, whose eyes are like locusts’ pupils and whose faces are like hammered shields. They wear footwear made of hair, use shields, and tether their horses to palm trees.”