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مسند أحمد
الإمام أحمد بن حنبل (ت ٢٤١ هـ)

Musnad Ahmad 17470

حديث رجل من أصحاب النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم
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Musnad AhmadHadith 17470Ungradedمسند أحمدرقم ١٧٤٧٠حديث رجل من أصحاب النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم

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حدثنا أبو اليمان، حدثنا أبو بكر يعني ابن أبي مريم، عن عبد الرحمن بن جبير بن نفير، عن أبيه، قال: حدثنا أصحاب محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم، أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال: " ستفتح عليكم الشام، فإذا خيرتم المنازل فيها، فعليكم بمدينة يقال لها: دمشق، فإنها معقل المسلمين من الملاحم، وفسطاطها منها بأرض يقال لها: الغوطة " . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Edition Musnad al-Imam Ahmad, ed. Shu'ayb al-Arna'ut et al., Mu'assasat al-Risala, 1995-2001 (OpenITI Shamela0025794); numbering of that edition. Al-Arna'ut's grading footnotes are not in the digital text.

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[Collection & Reference]: Narration #17470 in Musnad Ahmad.

[Core Subject]: Al-Malhamah al-Kubra is the great battle between the Muslims and the Romans (al-Rum) near the end of time. The narrations describe it as one of the fiercest wars in history.

[Described Characteristics]: The Romans land at al-A'maq or Dabiq in northern Syria. An army from Madinah, the best people on earth in that day, goes out to meet them. A third flees and Allah never accepts their repentance, a third are killed and are the best martyrs, and a third win and are never tried again. Sahih Muslim describes a battle so long that men pledge to fight to the death three days running, and so deadly that a bird flying past the bodies falls dead before reaching their end.

[Timeline & Context]: It comes after a truce with the Romans breaks down, and before the conquest of Constantinople and the Dajjal.

[Prophetic Practice]: The Prophet ﷺ said: 'Do not wish to meet the enemy; ask Allah for well-being. But if you meet them, be steadfast.'

[Core Subject]: In the hardest days, when the Muslims were few and besieged, the Prophet ﷺ foretold that they would conquer Persia, Rome, Yemen, Sham, Iraq, Egypt and Jerusalem.

[Described Characteristics]: While digging the trench around Madinah, he struck a rock and said he had been given the keys of Sham, Persia and Yemen. He told Adi ibn Hatim that a woman would travel alone from al-Hirah to the Ka'bah fearing no one but Allah, and that the treasures of Kisra would be spent in the path of Allah. Adi lived to see both. He told Suraqah he would wear Kisra's bracelets; Umar put them on him.

[Timeline & Context]: They came in the first decades after the Prophet ﷺ: Jerusalem in 15-16 AH, Egypt in 20-21 AH, and Persia by about 31 AH.

[Prophetic Practice]: Hope in Allah's promise even in the narrowest times, as the Companions did at the trench.

[Geographical Locations]: Mentioned in narration : Damascus, Sham (Greater Syria), Ghouta.

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