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مسند أحمد
الإمام أحمد بن حنبل (ت ٢٤١ هـ)

Musnad Ahmad 24520

مسند الصديقة عائشة بنت الصديق رضي الله عنها
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Musnad AhmadHadith 24520Ungradedمسند أحمدرقم ٢٤٥٢٠مسند الصديقة عائشة بنت الصديق رضي الله عنها

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حدثنا هاشم، قال: حدثنا إسحاق بن سعيد، قال: حدثنا سعيد، عن عائشة، أن يهودية كانت تخدمها، فلا تصنع عائشة إليها شيئا من المعروف، إلا قالت لها اليهودية: وقاك الله عذاب القبر، قالت: فدخل رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم علي، فقلت: يا رسول الله، هل للقبر عذاب قبل يوم القيامة؟ قال: " لا، وعم ذاك؟ " قالت: هذه اليهودية لا نصنع إليها من المعروف شيئا، إلا قالت: وقاك الله عذاب القبر، قال: " كذبت يهود ، وهم على الله عز وجل أكذب ، لا عذاب دون يوم القيامة "، قالت: ثم مكث بعد ذاك ما شاء الله أن يمكث، فخرج ذات يوم نصف النهار مشتملا بثوبه، محمرة عيناه، وهو ينادي بأعلى صوته: " أيها الناس، أظلتكم الفتن كقطع الليل المظلم، أيها الناس، لو تعلمون ما أعلم بكيتم كثيرا وضحكتم قليلا، أيها الناس، استعيذوا بالله من عذاب القبر، فإن عذاب القبر حق "

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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 #24520 in Musnad Ahmad.

[Core Subject]: The Prophet ﷺ warned of trials (fitan) that will come like pieces of a dark night, one after another, so confusing that a man is a believer in the morning and a disbeliever by evening.

[Described Characteristics]: People sell their religion for a small worldly gain. In such trials, the one sitting is better than the one standing, and the one standing better than the one running toward it.

[Timeline & Context]: They began after the Prophet's ﷺ death and continue in waves.

[Prophetic Practice]: 'Hasten to good deeds before trials like pieces of a dark night.' Seek refuge from the trials, the seen and the unseen.

[Core Subject]: Yawm al-Qiyamah, the Day of Resurrection, is the Day when all people stand before Allah to be judged. It has many names in the Quran: the Day of Recompense, the Day of Reckoning, the Overwhelming, the Inevitable.

[Described Characteristics]: A nursing mother forgets her baby, a pregnant woman miscarries, and people look drunk though they are not. A person flees from his brother, mother, father, wife and children; each has enough worry of his own. Allah speaks to each person directly with no interpreter between them.

[Timeline & Context]: It begins with the second blow of the Trumpet and moves through its stages: resurrection, gathering, intercession, reckoning and the scales, the Pool and the Bridge, and then Paradise or Hell.

[Prophetic Practice]: 'A person's feet will not move on that Day until he is asked about four things: his life and how he spent it, his knowledge and what he did with it, his wealth, where he earned it and how he spent it, and his body and how he used it.'

[Core Subject]: Death is the first stage of the hereafter. Between death and resurrection every soul is in al-barzakh, 'the barrier', and the grave is either a garden of Paradise or a pit of the Fire.

[Described Characteristics]: In the grave two angels ask three questions: Who is your Lord? What is your religion? Who is this man who was sent among you? The believer answers and his grave is widened and lit, and he is shown his place in Paradise. The one who doubted says 'I don't know, I heard people saying something so I said it', and is punished.

[Timeline & Context]: It begins for each person at their own death and lasts until the Trumpet.

[Prophetic Practice]: Seek refuge from the punishment of the grave in every prayer, and remember death often: 'the destroyer of pleasures'.

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