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مسند أحمد
الإمام أحمد بن حنبل (ت ٢٤١ هـ)

Musnad Ahmad 18957

حديث بشر الخثعمى
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Musnad AhmadHadith 18957Ungradedمسند أحمدرقم ١٨٩٥٧حديث بشر الخثعمى

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حدثنا عبد الله بن محمد بن أبي شيبة، قال عبد الله بن أحمد: وسمعته أنا من عبد الله بن محمد بن أبي شيبة، قال: حدثنا زيد بن الحباب، قال: حدثني الوليد بن المغيرة المعافري، قال: حدثني عبد الله بن بشر الخثعمي، عن أبيه أنه سمع النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول: " لتفتحن القسطنطينية، فلنعم الأمير أميرها، ولنعم الجيش ذلك الجيش ". قال: فدعاني مسلمة بن عبد الملك فسألني، فحدثته، فغزا القسطنطينية

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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 #18957 in Musnad Ahmad.

[Core Subject]: Constantinople, today's Istanbul, was the capital of the Romans. The Prophet ﷺ foretold that the Muslims would conquer it.

[Described Characteristics]: In Sahih Muslim, after the great battle the Muslims reach the city and conquer it without weapons: at the first 'La ilaha illallah wallahu akbar' one side of its wall falls, at the second the other side, at the third the way opens. While they are dividing the spoils, a cry goes up that the Dajjal has come among their families.

[Timeline & Context]: The conquest comes right after the great battle and just before the Dajjal.

[Prophetic Practice]: The city falls to dhikr, not weapons. La ilaha illallah wallahu akbar is worth more than we think.

[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 : Constantinople (Istanbul).

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