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مسند أحمد
الإمام أحمد بن حنبل (ت ٢٤١ هـ)

Musnad Ahmad 21992

حديث معاذ بن جبل
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Musnad AhmadHadith 21992Ungradedمسند أحمدرقم ٢١٩٩٢حديث معاذ بن جبل

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حدثنا وكيع، عن النهاس بن قهم، حدثني شداد أبو عمار، عن معاذ بن جبل، قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: " ست من أشراط الساعة: موتي، وفتح بيت المقدس، وموت يأخذ في الناس كقعاص الغنم، وفتنة يدخل حربها بيت كل مسلم، وأن يعطى الرجل ألف دينار فيتسخطها، وأن تغدر الروم فيسيرون في ثمانين بندا ، تحت كل بند اثنا عشر ألفا "

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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 #21992 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-Rum, the Romans, were the Byzantine Empire in the Prophet's time. Many narrations about the end speak of the Muslims' relations with them: a truce, a joint war, then the great battle.

[Described Characteristics]: Amr ibn al-As heard that the Hour will come when the Romans are the most numerous of people, and he listed their good qualities: they are the most forbearing in trial, the quickest to recover after a disaster, the best to the poor, orphans and the weak, and they resist the oppression of kings.

[Timeline & Context]: Their part runs through the whole time before the Dajjal: first the truce, then the war, then the conquest of Constantinople.

[Prophetic Practice]: Amr's words teach fairness: name the good in others even when speaking of conflict.

[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.

[Core Subject]: A sudden, widespread mortality that takes people quickly 'like the murrain of sheep' - the third of the six signs the Prophet ﷺ named to Awf ibn Malik.

[Described Characteristics]: Awf ibn Malik narrated that the Prophet ﷺ said during the expedition of Tabuk: 'Count six signs before the Hour: my death; then the conquest of Jerusalem; then a mass death that will take you like the qu'as (murrain) of sheep; then abundance of wealth...; then a tribulation that enters every Arab house; then a truce with the Romans which they will betray...' (Sahih al-Bukhari 3176).

[Timeline & Context]: Named third in Awf's six, after the conquest of Jerusalem and before the overflowing of wealth; its instances recur rather than occurring once.

[Prophetic Practice]: Keep your heart ready for death, observe the prophetic guidance on plague (neither entering nor fleeing an afflicted land), and care for the sick and the bereaved.

[Geographical Locations]: Mentioned in narration : Baitul Maqdis (Jerusalem).

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