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كتاب الفتن
نعيم بن حماد المروزي (ت ٢٢٨ هـ)

Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad) 1199

ما يكون بعد المهدي
ThemesThe Hour
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Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad)vol. 2, p. 398Ungradedكتاب الفتن لنعيم بن حمادج ٢ ص ٣٩٨ · عن كعبما يكون بعد المهدي

Kitab al-Fitan of Nu'aym ibn Hammad: ungraded, and weak overall. Never established on its own.

Traced to Ka'b al-Ahbar (automatic guess): a report of earlier scriptures, not a hadith of the Prophet ﷺ.

حدثنا ابن وهب، عن موسى بن أيوب، عن سليط بن شعبة الشعباني، عن أبيه، عن كريب بن أبرهة ، عن كعب، قال: «إذا رأيت العرب تهاونت بأمر قريش، ثم رأيت الموالي تهاونت بأمر العرب، ثم رأيت مسلمة الأرضين تهاونت بأمر الموالي، فقد غشيتك أشراط الساعة» ، قال كريب: فقلت له: يا أبا إسحاق، إن حذيفة حدثنا حديثا بالأحمرين، قال: ذاك إذا منعت الأقلام والوسائد. قال أبو عبد الله: الوسائد: العمال والأقلام الكتاب

If you see the Arabs being negligent about the command of the Quraysh, then you see the neighboring ones being negligent about the command of the Arabs, then you see the surrender of the two lands being negligent about the command of the following, then the signs of the Hour have overshadowed you. Kurayb said: So I said to him: O Abu Ishaq, Hudhayfah told us a hadith about the two Ahmars. He said: That is if you withhold the pens and the pillows. Abu Abdullah said: Pillows: workers and writing pens

ابن وهبموسى بن أيوبسليط بن شعبة الشعبانيأبيهكريب بن أبرهةكعبautomatic reading, unverified

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[Collection & Reference]: Narration #1199 in Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad).

[Scholarly Verification Notice]: Recorded in Nu'aym ibn Hammad's Kitab al-Fitan (d. 228 AH). Hadith scholars classify this historical compilation as ungraded and weak overall; its isolated reports are not accepted as established doctrine unless corroborated by standard Sahih works.

[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.

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