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مسند أحمد
الإمام أحمد بن حنبل (ت ٢٤١ هـ)

Musnad Ahmad 19717

حديث أبي موسى الأشعري
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Musnad AhmadHadith 19717Ungradedمسند أحمدرقم ١٩٧١٧حديث أبي موسى الأشعري

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حدثنا عفان قال: حدثنا حماد بن سلمة قال: أخبرنا علي بن زيد، عن حطان بن عبد الله الرقاشي، عن أبي موسى، عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال: " إن بين يدي الساعة الهرج ". فقالوا: وما الهرج؟ قال: " القتل ". قالوا : أكثر مما نقتل إنا لنقتل في العام الواحد أكثر من سبعين ألفا. قال: " إنه ليس بقتلكم المشركين، ولكن قتل بعضكم بعضا ". قالوا: ومعنا عقولنا يومئذ؟ قال: " إنه ينزع عقول أكثر أهل ذلك الزمان، ويخلف له هباء من الناس يحسب أكثرهم أنه على شيء وليسوا على شيء " قال أبو موسى: والذي نفسي بيده، ما أجد لي ولكم منها مخرجا إن أدركتني وإياكم إلا أن نخرج منها كما دخلناها، لم نصب فيها دما ولا مالا

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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 #19717 in Musnad Ahmad.

[Core Subject]: The Hour (al-Sa'ah) is the moment this world ends. Everything alive dies, the universe is undone, and then comes the resurrection. The Quran mentions it again and again, and the Prophet ﷺ spoke of the signs that come before it.

[Described Characteristics]: It comes suddenly, while people are busy with their lives: one man is selling cloth, another is fixing his water trough, another is lifting food to his mouth, and none of them finishes. Before it come signs, small ones that spread slowly and ten great ones that come close together.

[Timeline & Context]: Only Allah knows. The Quran says its knowledge is with Him alone, and when Jibril asked the Prophet ﷺ, he answered: the one asked knows no more than the one asking. Any date or countdown contradicts this.

[Prophetic Practice]: A man asked, 'When is the Hour?' The Prophet ﷺ asked back, 'What have you prepared for it?' The real question is our own preparation, not the date.

[Core Subject]: Al-harj means much killing. The Prophet ﷺ said it will increase before the Hour.

[Described Characteristics]: Killing becomes so common that the killer does not know why he killed and the victim does not know why he was killed.

[Timeline & Context]: It spreads among people over time, alongside other signs.

[Prophetic Practice]: In times of fitnah the Prophet ﷺ advised: be like the better of Adam's two sons, the one who is killed rather than the one who kills.

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