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كتاب الفتن
نعيم بن حماد المروزي (ت ٢٢٨ هـ)

Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad) 1299

الأعماق وفتح القسطنطينية
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Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad)vol. 2, p. 457Ungradedكتاب الفتن لنعيم بن حمادج ٢ ص ٤٥٧ · عن كعبالأعماق 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 ثنا أبو المغيرة، وبقية، عن صفوان، عن كعب، قال: «المنصور مهدي يصلي عليه أهل السماء والأرض، وطير السماء، يبتلى بقتال الروم والملاحم عشرين سنة، ثم يقتل شهيدا في الملحمة العظمى، هو وألفان معه، كلهم أمير وصاحب راية، فلم يصب المسلمون بمصيبة بعد رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم أعظم منها»

Al-Mansur is the Mahdi, may the people of heaven and earth, and the birds of the sky, pray for him. He is afflicted with fighting by the Romans and epics for twenty years, then he is killed as a martyr in the great epic, he and two thousand with him, all of them a prince and a standard bearer. No calamity has befallen the Muslims after the Messenger of Allah ﷺ greater than this.

نعيم ثنا أبو المغيرةصفوانكعبautomatic reading, unverified

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Scholarly Commentary & Context

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[Collection & Reference]: Narration #1299 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.