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مسند أحمد
الإمام أحمد بن حنبل (ت ٢٤١ هـ)

Musnad Ahmad 9128

مسند أبي هريرة رضي الله عنه
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Musnad AhmadHadith 9128Ungradedمسند أحمدرقم ٩١٢٨مسند أبي هريرة رضي الله عنه

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حدثنا هوذة، حدثنا عوف، عن شهر بن حوشب، عن أبي هريرة، عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال: " إن من أشراط الساعة أن يرى رعاة الشاء رءوس الناس، وأن يرى الحفاة العراة الجوع يتبارون في البناء، وأن تلد الأمة ربها، وربتها "

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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 #9128 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]: In the famous hadith of Jibril, one of the signs of the Hour is that barefoot, naked, poor shepherds will compete in building tall buildings.

[Described Characteristics]: People who were poor desert herders become wealthy and boast with ever higher buildings.

[Timeline & Context]: It spreads over time and has no fixed place in the order of the signs.

[Prophetic Practice]: Wealth is a test. Build, but without pride or competition for show.

[Core Subject]: Also in the hadith of Jibril: 'the slave woman will give birth to her mistress (or master)'.

[Described Characteristics]: A child comes to treat its own mother the way a master treats a servant.

[Timeline & Context]: It spreads over time and has no fixed place in the order of the signs.

[Prophetic Practice]: 'Your mother, then your mother, then your mother, then your father.' Honour her.

Commentaries by classical hadith scholars. The Arabic texts are shown as published.