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كتاب الفتن
نعيم بن حماد المروزي (ت ٢٢٨ هـ)

Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad) 1273

الأعماق وفتح القسطنطينية
1274
Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad)vol. 2, p. 425Ungradedكتاب الفتن لنعيم بن حمادج ٢ ص ٤٢٥ · عن فرج بن محمدالأعماق وفتح القسطنطينية

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 نعيم قال: ثنا الوليد، وبقية، عن صفوان بن عمرو، عن فرج بن محمد، عن كعب، في قوله تعالى: {ستدعون إلى قوم أولي بأس شديد} [الفتح: 16] ، قال: «الروم يوم الملحمة» قال كعب: " قد استفز الله الأعراب في بدء الإسلام، فقالت: {شغلتنا أموالنا وأهلونا} [الفتح: 11] فقال: {ستدعون إلى قوم أولي بأس شديد} [الفتح: 16] يوم الملحمة، فيقولون كما قالوا في بدء الإسلام: {شغلتنا أموالنا وأهلونا} [الفتح: 11] فتحل بهم الآية: {يعذبكم عذابا أليما} [التوبة: 39] فحدثت به عبد الرحمن بن يزيد يومئذ " فقال: صدق ، قال بقية في حديثه: «ولولا أن أشهد فتح مدينة الكفر ما أحببت أن أحيا، فإن الله تعالى محرم يومئذ على كل حديدة أن تجبن» قال: وقال صفوان: حدثنا مشيختنا أن من الأعراب من يرتد يومئذ كافرا، ومنهم من يول على نصرة الإسلام وعسكرهم شاكا، فإذا فتح للمسلمين يومئذ بعثوها غارة على ما ترك الفئة الكافرة المرتدة، والفئة الشاكة الخاذلة، فالخائب من خاب من غنيمتهم يومئذ

The Romans on the day of the epic. Ka’b said: “Allah provoked the Bedouins at the beginning of Islam, so they said: {Our wealth and our families occupied us} [Al-Fath: 11] and He said: {You will be summoned against a people endowed with great might} [Al-Fath: 16] on the day of the epic, and they will say, as they said at the beginning of Islam: {Our wealth and our families have occupied us} [Al-Fath: 11], so the verse will befall them: {He will punish you with a painful punishment} [Al-Tawbah: 39] So I spoke to Abd al-Rahman bin Yazid that day, and he said: He spoke the truth. The remainder of his hadith said: Had I not witnessed the conquest of the city of infidelity, I would not have loved to live, for Allah Almighty forbids that day any iron-clad person to be cowardly. He said: And Safwan said: Our sheikh told us that among the Bedouins there would be those who would apostatize on that day as infidels, and among them would be those who would turn to supporting Islam and their army in doubt, so if it was opened for the Muslims on that day, they would send it as a raid on what left the apostate infidel group. And the doubting and disappointed group, the one who is disappointed is the one who is disappointed of their spoils on that day

نعيمصفوبن عمروفرج بن محمدautomatic reading, unverified

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Scholarly Commentary & Context

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[Collection & Reference]: Narration #1273 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]: Al-Malhamah al-Kubra is the great battle between the Muslims and the Romans (al-Rum) near the end of time. The narrations describe it as one of the fiercest wars in history.

[Described Characteristics]: The Romans land at al-A'maq or Dabiq in northern Syria. An army from Madinah, the best people on earth in that day, goes out to meet them. A third flees and Allah never accepts their repentance, a third are killed and are the best martyrs, and a third win and are never tried again. Sahih Muslim describes a battle so long that men pledge to fight to the death three days running, and so deadly that a bird flying past the bodies falls dead before reaching their end.

[Timeline & Context]: It comes after a truce with the Romans breaks down, and before the conquest of Constantinople and the Dajjal.

[Prophetic Practice]: The Prophet ﷺ said: 'Do not wish to meet the enemy; ask Allah for well-being. But if you meet them, be steadfast.'

[Core Subject]: Al-Rum, the Romans, were the Byzantine Empire in the Prophet's time. Many narrations about the end speak of the Muslims' relations with them: a truce, a joint war, then the great battle.

[Described Characteristics]: Amr ibn al-As heard that the Hour will come when the Romans are the most numerous of people, and he listed their good qualities: they are the most forbearing in trial, the quickest to recover after a disaster, the best to the poor, orphans and the weak, and they resist the oppression of kings.

[Timeline & Context]: Their part runs through the whole time before the Dajjal: first the truce, then the war, then the conquest of Constantinople.

[Prophetic Practice]: Amr's words teach fairness: name the good in others even when speaking of conflict.

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