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مسند أحمد
الإمام أحمد بن حنبل (ت ٢٤١ هـ)

Musnad Ahmad 20805

حديث جابر بن سمرة السوائي
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Musnad AhmadHadith 20805Ungradedمسند أحمدرقم ٢٠٨٠٥حديث جابر بن سمرة السوائي

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حدثنا حماد بن خالد، حدثنا ابن أبي ذئب، عن المهاجر بن مسمار، عن عامر بن سعد قال: سألت جابر بن سمرة عن حديث رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم، فقال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: " لا يزال الدين قائما، حتى يكون اثنا عشر خليفة من قريش، ثم يخرج كذابون بين يدي الساعة، ثم تخرج عصابة من المسلمين، فيستخرجون كنز الأبيض، كسرى، وآل كسرى، وإذا أعطى الله أحدكم خيرا، فليبدأ بنفسه، وأهله، وأنا فرطكم على الحوض "

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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 #20805 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]: The Prophet ﷺ foretold that the caliphate after him would last thirty years and then become kingship, and that the religion would stay strong under twelve rulers, all from Quraysh.

[Described Characteristics]: Safinah counted the thirty years: Abu Bakr two, Umar ten, Uthman twelve, Ali six. The thirtieth year was completed by al-Hasan's months, after which Mu'awiyah ruled.

[Timeline & Context]: The thirty years ran from 11 to 41 AH, and kingship followed; this has passed.

[Prophetic Practice]: 'Hold to my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the rightly guided caliphs after me; bite onto it with your molar teeth.'

[Core Subject]: Al-Hawd is the Prophet's Pool (al-Kawthar), where his ummah drink before crossing. Al-Sirat is the Bridge laid over Hell that everyone must cross to reach Paradise.

[Described Characteristics]: The Pool's water is whiter than milk and sweeter than honey, its cups as many as the stars; whoever drinks from it never thirsts again. The Bridge is thinner than a hair and sharper than a sword, with hooks on its sides. People cross according to their deeds: like lightning, like the wind, like fast horses, running, walking, crawling, and some are snatched into the Fire.

[Timeline & Context]: They come after the reckoning, before entering Paradise.

[Prophetic Practice]: Follow the Sunnah without changing it, so you are not turned away from the Pool.

Commentaries by classical hadith scholars. The Arabic texts are shown as published.