The Book of Tribulations and Portents of the Last Hour

كتاب الفتن وأشراط الساعة

Chapter 25: The Rest Of The Ahadith About Ad-Dajjal

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Qatada through another chain of transmitters.

Chapter 26: The Virtue Of Worship At Times Of Turmoil

Ma'qil b. Yasar reported Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) as saying

Worshiping during the period of widespread turmoil is like emigration towards me.

The previous hadith is narrated through Abu Kamil from Hammad with the same chain.

Chapter 27: The Approach Of The Hour

Abdullah reported Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) as saying

The Last Hour would affect (most terribly) the wicked persons.

This hadith has been reported by Sahl b. Sa'd that he heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

I and the Last Hour are (close to each other) like this (and he, in order to explain it) pointed (by joining his) forefinger, (one) next to the thumb and the middle finger (together).

Anas b. Malik reported that Allah's Messenger (way peace be upon him) said

I and the Last Hour have been sent like this. Shu'ba said: I heard Qatada as saying in his narration: The excellence of one over the other. And I do not know whether he narrated it from Anas or Qatada himself said so.

Shu'ba reported

I heard Qatada and Abu Tayyab narrating that both of them heard Anas as narrating that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: I and the Last Hour have been sent like this, and Shu'ba drew his forefinger and middle finger near each other while narrating it.

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Anas through another chain of transmitters.

Anas reported Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) as saying like this, but he narrated it through another chain of transmitters.

Anas reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

I and the Last Hour have been sent like this and (he while doing it) joined the forefinger with the middle finger.

'A'isha reported that when the desert Arabs came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) they asked about the Last Hour as to when that would come. And he looked towards the youngest amongst them and said

If he lives he would not grow very old that he would find your Last Hour coming to you (he would see you dying).

Anas reported that a person asked Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as to when the Last Hour would come. He had in his presence a young boy of the Ansar who was called Muhammad. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said

If this young boy lives, he may not grow very old till (he would see) the Last Hour coming to you.

Anas b. Malik reported that a person asked Allah's Apostle (ﷺ)

When would the Last Hour come? Thereupon Allah's Messenger (way peace be upon him) kept quiet for a while. Then looked at a young boy in his presence belonging to the tribe of Azd Shanu'a and he said: If this boy lives he would not grow very old till the Last Hour would come to you. Anas said that this young boy was of our age during those days.

Anas reported

A young boy of Mughira b. Shu'ba happened to pass by (the Holy Prophet) and he was of my age. Thereupon Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) said: If he lives long he would not grow very old till the Last Hour would come (to the old people of this generation).

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

The Last Hour would come (so sudden) that a person would be milking the she- camel and the (milk) would not reach the brim of the vessel that the Last Hour would come, and the two persons would be engaged in buying and selling of the clothes and their bargain would not be struck before the Last Hour would come. And someone would be setting his tank in order and he would have hardly set it right when the Last Hour would come.

Chapter 28: Between The Blasts (Of The Trumpet)

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

Between the two blowings of the trumpet (there would be an interval of forty). They said: Abu Huraira, do you mean forty days? He said: I cannot say anything. They said: Do you mean forty months? He said: I cannot say anything. They said: Do you mean forty years? He said: I cannot say anything. Then Allah would cause the water to, descend from the sky and they (people) will sprout like vegetable. The only thing in a man which would not decay would be one bone (the tailbone) from which the whole frame would be reconstituted on the Day of Resurrection.

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

The earth would consume all of the son of Adam except his tailbone. From it he was created, and from it he will be recreated (on the Day of Resurrection).

Abu Huraira reported so many ahadith from Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) and amongst these one was this that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said

There is a bone in the human being which the earth would never consume and it is from this that new bodies would be reconstituted (on the Day of Resurrection). They said: Allah's Messenger, which bone is that? Thereupon he said: It is the spinal bone.