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حديث حذيفة بن اليمان (1) عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم
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حدثنا محمد بن جعفر، حدثنا شعبة، عن أبي التياح قال: سمعت صخرا يحدث، عن سبيع قال: أرسلوني من ماه إلى الكوفة أشتري الدواب، فأتينا الكناسة فإذا رجل عليه جمع، قال: فأما صاحبي فانطلق إلى الدواب وأما أنا فأتيته، فإذا هو حذيفة، فسمعته يقول: كان أصحاب رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يسألونه عن الخير وأسأله عن الشر، فقلت: يا رسول الله، هل بعد هذا الخير شر كما كان قبله شر؟ قال: " نعم "، قلت: فما العصمة منه؟ قال: " السيف " أحسب أبو التياح يقول: السيف، أحسب قال: قلت: ثم ماذا؟ قال: " ثم تكون هدنة على دخن "، قال: قلت: ثم ماذا؟ قال: " ثم تكون دعاة الضلالة، فإن رأيت يومئذ خليفة الله في الأرض فالزمه، وإن نهك جسمك وأخذ مالك، فإن لم تره فاهرب في الأرض، ولو أن تموت وأنت عاض بجذل شجرة "، قال: قلت: ثم ماذا؟ قال: " ثم يخرج الدجال "، قال: قلت: فبم يجيء به معه؟ قال: " بنهر أو قال: ماء ونار، فمن دخل نهره حط أجره، ووجب وزره، ومن دخل ناره وجب أجره وحط وزره "، قال: قلت: ثم ماذا؟ قال: " لو أنتجت فرسا لم تركب، فلوها حتى تقوم الساعة "،

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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 #23425 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 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 said the Muslims will make a secure peace with the Romans, and together they will fight a common enemy.

[Described Characteristics]: They win and take spoils, and camp in a green meadow. A man from the Christians raises the cross and says 'The cross has won', a Muslim gets angry and breaks it, and the Romans betray the truce and gather for the great battle. In the hadith of Awf ibn Malik, there will be a truce with the Banu al-Asfar, who then come under eighty banners with twelve thousand men under each.

[Timeline & Context]: This truce opens the time before the Dajjal, and the great battle follows it.

[Prophetic Practice]: Keeping one's word is part of faith. Treaties are kept until the other side breaks them.

[Geographical Locations]: Mentioned in narration : Kufa.

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