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الإمام أحمد بن حنبل (ت ٢٤١ هـ)

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حديث عوف بن مالك الأشجعي الأنصاري
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Musnad AhmadHadith 23985Ungradedمسند أحمدرقم ٢٣٩٨٥حديث عوف بن مالك الأشجعي الأنصاري

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حدثنا أبو المغيرة قال: حدثنا صفوان قال: حدثنا عبد الرحمن بن جبير بن نفير، عن أبيه، عن عوف بن مالك الأشجعي قال: أتيت النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم فسلمت عليه فقال: " عوف؟ ": فقلت: نعم، فقال: " ادخل " قال: قلت: كلي أو بعضي؟ قال: " بل كلك " قال: " اعدد يا عوف، ستا بين يدي الساعة، أولهن موتي " قال: فاستبكيت حتى جعل رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يسكتني، قال: قلت: إحدى، " والثانية: فتح بيت المقدس " قلت: اثنين، " والثالثة: موتان يكون في أمتي يأخذهم مثل قعاص الغنم قال: ثلاثا، والرابعة فتنة تكون في أمتي، وعظمها، قل: أربعا، والخامسة: يفيض المال فيكم حتى إن الرجل ليعطى المائة دينار فيتسخطها، قل: خمسا، والسادسة: هدنة تكون بينكم وبين بني الأصفر، فيسيرون إليكم على ثمانين غاية " قلت: وما الغاية؟ قال: " الراية، تحت كل راية اثنا عشر ألفا، فسطاط المسلمين يومئذ في أرض يقال لها: الغوطة في مدينة يقال لها: دمشق "

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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 #23985 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]: 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.

[Core Subject]: Wealth increases until it overflows, and a man goes out with his charity and finds no one to accept it.

[Described Characteristics]: The owner of wealth worries about who will accept his zakah. When he offers it, the other says, 'I have no need of it.'

[Timeline & Context]: It has come in waves: it was seen in the time of Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, and it will come again in the time of Isa (AS).

[Prophetic Practice]: 'Give charity, for a time will come when a man walks with his charity and finds no one to take it.' Give while it can still be accepted.

[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), Damascus, Ghouta.

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