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كتاب الفتن
نعيم بن حماد المروزي (ت ٢٢٨ هـ)

Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad) 1325

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Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad)vol. 2, p. 471Ungradedكتاب الفتن لنعيم بن حمادج ٢ ص ٤٧١ · عن عبد الله بن عمروما بقي من الأعماق، وفتح القسطنطينية

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

حدثنا نعيم ثنا مسلمة بن علي الدمشقي، عن عبد الله بن السائب، عن أبي مدلج، عن عبد الله بن عمرو، رضي الله عنهما قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: " خير قتلى قتلت تحت ظل السماء مذ خلق الله تعالى خلقه، أولهم هابيل الذي قتله قابيل اللعين ظلما، ثم قتلى الأنبياء الذين قتلهم أممهم المبعوثة إليهم حين قالوا: ربنا الله ودعوا إليه، ثم مؤمن آل فرعون، ثم صاحب ياسين، ثم حمزة بن عبد المطلب، ثم قتلى بدر، ثم قتلى أحد، ثم قتلى الحديبية، ثم قتلى الأحزاب، ثم قتلى حنين، ثم قتلى تكون من بعدي يقتلهم خوارج مارقة فاجرة، ثم ارجع يدك إلى ما شاء الله من المجاهدين في سبيله، حتى تكون ملحمة الروم، قتلاهم كقتلى بدر، ثم تكون ملحمة الترك، فقتلاهم كقتلى يوم الأحزاب، ثم ملحمة الملاحم قتلاهم كقتلى يوم حنين، ثم لا يكون بعد ذلك ملحمة في الإسلام لأهلها فيها إلى يوم ينفخ في الصور "

The best dead killed under the shade of the sky since Allah Almighty created His creation, the first of them was Abel, who was unjustly killed by the cursed Cain, then the dead of the prophets who were killed by their nations sent to them when they said: Our Lord is Allah and they called to Him, then the believer of the family of Pharaoh, then the companion of Yasin, then Hamza bin Abdul Muttalib, then the dead of Badr, then the dead of Uhud, then the dead of Al-Hudaybiyyah, then the dead of Al-Ahzab, then the dead of Hunayn, then the dead who will be after me. They are killed by immoral, rogue Kharijites, then return your hand to whatever Allah wills of the mujahideen in His cause, until the battle of the Romans, their slain, is like those killed at Badr, then there is the battle of the Turks, with their slain like those killed on the day of the Ahzab, then the battle of the epics, their slain like those killed on the day of Hunayn, and after that there will be no battle in Islam for its people until the day the trumpet is blown.

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[Collection & Reference]: Narration #1325 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.

[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]: The angel Israfil will blow into the Trumpet (al-Sur). At the first blow everyone in the heavens and earth falls dead, except whom Allah wills. At the second they all stand up, looking on.

[Described Characteristics]: A man hears it while fixing his camel's trough and falls. Between the two blows is 'forty'; Abu Hurayrah would not say forty of what, days, months or years.

[Timeline & Context]: The first blow is the Hour itself, and the second begins the resurrection.

[Prophetic Practice]: Say 'Hasbunallahu wa ni'mal wakil, ala Allahi tawakkalna' (Allah is enough for us, the best guardian; in Allah we trust).

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