Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2215
حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْمَخْزُومِيُّ، وَعَبْدُ الْجَبَّارِ بْنُ الْعَلاَءِ، قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " لاَ تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ حَتَّى تُقَاتِلُوا قَوْمًا نِعَالُهُمُ الشَّعَرُ وَلاَ تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ حَتَّى تُقَاتِلُوا قَوْمًا كَأَنَّ وُجُوهَهُمُ الْمَجَانُّ الْمُطْرَقَةُ " . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِ وَبُرَيْدَةَ وَأَبِي سَعِيدٍ وَعَمْرِو بْنِ تَغْلِبَ وَمُعَاوِيَةَ . وَهَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Sa‘īd ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Makhzūmī and ‘Abd al-Jabbār ibn al-‘Alā’ narrated to us; they both said: Sufyān narrated to us, from al-Zuhrī, from Sa‘īd ibn al-Musayyab, from Abū Hurayrah, that the Prophet said: “The Hour will not be established until you fight a people whose sandals are made of hair. And the Hour will not be established until you fight a people whose faces are like hammered shields.”
Abū ‘Īsā said: Reports on this topic are also related from Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq, Buraydah, Abū Sa‘īd, ‘Amr ibn Taghlib, and Mu‘āwiyah. This is a ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ hadith.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The English witness describes the shields as coated with leather; the Arabic adjective المطرقة is rendered here as “hammered,” though the precise material image merits review.
كَأَنَّ وُجُوهَهُمُ الْمَجَانُّ الْمُطْرَقَةُ
The adjective المطرقة can suggest hammered or beaten shields; the English witness interprets the image as shields coated with leather.
Which rendering best preserves the Arabic image without importing an uncertain material?