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Musnad Ahmad 6168

مسند عبد الله بن عمر رضي الله عنهما
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Musnad AhmadHadith 6168Ungradedمسند أحمدرقم ٦١٦٨مسند عبد الله بن عمر رضي الله عنهما

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حدثنا أبو المغيرة، حدثنا عبد الله بن سالم، حدثني العلاء بن عتبة الحمصي أو اليحصبي، عن عمير بن هانئ العنسي، سمعت عبد الله بن عمر يقول: كنا عند رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قعودا، فذكر الفتن، فأكثر في ذكرها حتى ذكر فتنة الأحلاس، فقال قائل: يا رسول الله، وما فتنة الأحلاس؟ قال: " هي فتنة هرب وحرب، ثم فتنة السراء، دخلها أو دخنها من تحت قدمي رجل من أهل بيتي، يزعم أنه مني، وليس مني، إنما وليي المتقون، ثم يصطلح الناس على رجل كورك على ضلع، ثم فتنة الدهيماء لا تدع أحدا من هذه الأمة إلا لطمته لطمة، فإذا قيل: انقطعت تمادت ، يصبح الرجل فيها مؤمنا ويمسي كافرا، حتى يصير الناس إلى فسطاطين، فسطاط إيمان لا نفاق فيه، وفسطاط نفاق لا إيمان فيه، إذا كان ذاكم فانتظروا الدجال من اليوم أو غد "

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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 #6168 in Musnad Ahmad.

[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 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.

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