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Musnad Ahmad 9172

مسند أبي هريرة رضي الله عنه
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Musnad AhmadHadith 9172Ungradedمسند أحمدرقم ٩١٧٢مسند أبي هريرة رضي الله عنه

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حدثنا معاوية، قال: حدثنا زائدة، حدثنا عبد الله بن ذكوان، عن عبد الرحمن الأعرج، عن أبي هريرة، عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال: " لا تقوم الساعة حتى تطلع الشمس من مغربها، فيؤمن الناس أجمعون، فيومئذ لا ينفع نفسا إيمانها لم تكن آمنت من قبل، أو كسبت في إيمانها خيرا، ولا تقوم الساعة حتى تقاتلوا اليهود، فيفر اليهودي وراء الحجر، فيقول الحجر: يا عبد الله، يا مسلم، هذا يهودي ورائي، ولا تقوم الساعة حتى تقاتلوا قوما نعالهم الشعر "

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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 #9172 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 Prophet ﷺ foretold that the Muslims would fight a people with small eyes, red faces, flat noses and faces like hammered shields, who wear shoes of hair.

[Described Characteristics]: The narrations in Bukhari and Muslim give only this description and say the fighting is among the signs before the Hour.

[Timeline & Context]: Scholars place it among the events foretold for the early centuries.

[Prophetic Practice]: Baghdad fell after years of internal division. Unity is a protection.

[Core Subject]: One morning the sun will rise from the west. When people see it, everyone will believe, but faith that was not there before will no longer help, and the door of repentance closes.

[Described Characteristics]: The Quran says: 'On the day some of your Lord's signs come, no soul will benefit from its faith if it had not believed before.' The Prophet ﷺ explained that this is the rising of the sun from its place of setting.

[Timeline & Context]: The first of the last signs to appear is either the sun rising from the west or the Beast coming out in the forenoon; whichever comes first, the other follows soon after.

[Prophetic Practice]: Allah stretches out His hand by night for the one who sinned by day, and by day for the one who sinned by night, until the sun rises from the west. Repent today.

[Core Subject]: A hadith says that in a final battle even stones and trees will speak and point out those hiding behind them, except the gharqad, a thorny desert shrub (boxthorn).

[Described Characteristics]: This is a miracle described for one specific battle at the end of time, when nature itself takes part. It is not a description of any ordinary conflict.

[Timeline & Context]: Scholars such as Ibn Hajar and al-Nawawi place it in the time of Isa (AS), in the fight against the Dajjal's army after the Dajjal is killed, when Isa leads the believers. It belongs to that moment, not to any present conflict.

[Prophetic Practice]: 'Let not hatred of a people lead you to injustice. Be just: that is nearer to piety' (al-Ma'idah 5:8).

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