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مسند أحمد
الإمام أحمد بن حنبل (ت ٢٤١ هـ)

Musnad Ahmad 19808

حديث أبي برزة الأسلمي
19809
Musnad AhmadHadith 19808Ungradedمسند أحمدرقم ١٩٨٠٨حديث أبي برزة الأسلمي

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حدثنا عبد الصمد، ويونس قالا: حدثنا حماد يعني ابن سلمة، عن الأزرق بن قيس، أن شريك بن شهاب - قال: يونس: - الحارثي وهذا حديث عبد الصمد قال: ليت أني رأيت رجلا من أصحاب محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم يحدثني عن الخوارج قال: فلقيت أبا برزة في نفر من أصحاب محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم، فقلت: حدثني شيئا سمعته من رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم في الخوارج قال: أحدثكم بشيء قد سمعته أذناي، ورأته عيناي، أتي رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم بدنانير فقسمها، وثم رجل مطموم الشعر آدم، أو أسود بين عينيه أثر السجود عليه ثوبان أبيضان، فجعل يأتيه من قبل يمينه ويتعرض له، فلم يعطه شيئا. قال: يا محمد ما عدلت اليوم في القسمة فغضب غضبا شديدا، ثم قال: " والله لا تجدون بعدي أحدا، أعدل عليكم مني ". ثلاث مرار، ثم قال: " يخرج من قبل المشرق رجال كأن هذا منهم هديهم، هكذا يقرءون القرآن لا يجاوز تراقيهم، يمرقون من الدين، كما يمرق السهم من الرمية، ثم لا يرجعون فيه سيماهم التحليق، لا يزالون يخرجون حتى يخرج آخرهم مع الدجال، فإذا لقيتموهم فاقتلوهم هم شر الخلق والخليقة "

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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 #19808 in Musnad Ahmad.

[Core Subject]: The Dajjal (al-Masih al-Dajjal, the false messiah) is a single man who will appear near the end and claim to be God. Every prophet warned his people about him, and the Prophet ﷺ called his trial the greatest from the creation of Adam until the Hour.

[Described Characteristics]: He is a young man, stocky, with thick curly hair, blind in his right eye, which looks like a floating grape. Between his eyes is written ka-fa-ra (kafir), which every believer can read, literate or not. He brings what looks like paradise and hell, but his paradise is fire and his fire is cool water. He orders the sky to rain and it rains. He stays forty days: one like a year, one like a month, one like a week, the rest like ordinary days. He cannot enter Makkah or Madinah.

[Timeline & Context]: In the narrated order he is the first of the great signs. He comes after the great battle with the Romans and the conquest of Constantinople, and Isa (AS) kills him at the gate of Lud.

[Prophetic Practice]: Memorise the first ten verses of Surah al-Kahf, read al-Kahf on Fridays, and in every prayer before the salam ask Allah's refuge from the trial of the Dajjal. Whoever hears of him should keep away from him.

[Core Subject]: The Prophet ﷺ foretold a group who would recite the Quran but it would not go past their throats, and who would leave the religion as an arrow leaves its target. They appeared as the Khawarij.

[Described Characteristics]: Their prayer and fasting would make the Companions' look small, yet they would kill the people of Islam and leave the idol-worshippers alone. Among them would be a man with a deformed arm like a woman's breast.

[Timeline & Context]: They broke away from Ali (RA) after Siffin in 37 AH. Ali fought them at Nahrawan in 38 AH, and the man with the deformed arm was found among the dead, as described.

[Prophetic Practice]: Worship without understanding and mercy can go badly wrong. Be slow to judge other Muslims.

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