Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2231
حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْجَبَّارِ بْنُ الْعَلاَءِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ الْعَطَّارُ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ عَاصِمٍ، عَنْ زِرٍّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " يَلِي رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ بَيْتِي يُوَاطِئُ اسْمُهُ اسْمِي " . قَالَ عَاصِمٌ وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو صَالِحٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ لَوْ لَمْ يَبْقَ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا إِلاَّ يَوْمٌ لَطَوَّلَ اللَّهُ ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمَ حَتَّى يَلِيَ . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
‘Abd al-Jabbār ibn al-‘Alā’ ibn ‘Abd al-Jabbār al-‘Aṭṭār narrated to us; Sufyān ibn ‘Uyaynah narrated to us, from ‘Āṣim, from Zirr, from ‘Abd Allāh, from the Prophet, who said: “A man from my family will rule; his name will correspond to my name.”
‘Āṣim said: Abū Ṣāliḥ also informed us, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: “If only one day remained of the world, Allah would prolong that day until he ruled.”
Abū ‘Īsā said: This is a ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ hadith.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The English witness renders يَلِي as “is coming”; the Arabic verb here means that the man will take charge or rule.