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كتاب الفتن
نعيم بن حماد المروزي (ت ٢٢٨ هـ)

Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad) 1421

ما بقي من الأعماق، وفتح القسطنطينية
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Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad)vol. 2, p. 504Ungradedكتاب الفتن لنعيم بن حمادج ٢ ص ٥٠٤ · 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 أبو معاوية، عن الأعمش، عن خيثمة، عن عبد الله بن عمرو، قال: «يجيش الروم، فيستمد أهل الشام ويستغيثون، فلا يتخلف عنهم مؤمن،» قال: " فيهزمون الروم حتى ينتهوا بهم إلى أسطوانة قد عرف مكانها، فبينا هم عندها إذ جاءهم الصريخ: إن الدجال قد خلفكم في عيالكم، فيرفضون ما في أيديهم ويقبلون نحوه "

The Romans are army, and the people of the Sham (Greater Syria) are calling for help, and not a believer will be left behind. He said: “So they will defeat the Romans until they end up at a cylinder whose location is known. Then, while they were there, a screamer came to them: The Dajjal has succeeded you among your family, so they reject what is in their hands and move towards him.”

أبو معاويةالأعمشخيثمةعبد الله بن عمروautomatic reading, unverified

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[Collection & Reference]: Narration #1421 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 Dajjal (al-Masih al-Dajjal, the false messiah) is a single man who will appear near the end and claim to be God. Every prophet warned his people about him, and the Prophet ﷺ called his trial the greatest from the creation of Adam until the Hour.

[Described Characteristics]: He is a young man, stocky, with thick curly hair, blind in his right eye, which looks like a floating grape. Between his eyes is written ka-fa-ra (kafir), which every believer can read, literate or not. He brings what looks like paradise and hell, but his paradise is fire and his fire is cool water. He orders the sky to rain and it rains. He stays forty days: one like a year, one like a month, one like a week, the rest like ordinary days. He cannot enter Makkah or Madinah.

[Timeline & Context]: In the narrated order he is the first of the great signs. He comes after the great battle with the Romans and the conquest of Constantinople, and Isa (AS) kills him at the gate of Lud.

[Prophetic Practice]: Memorise the first ten verses of Surah al-Kahf, read al-Kahf on Fridays, and in every prayer before the salam ask Allah's refuge from the trial of the Dajjal. Whoever hears of him should keep away from him.

[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.

[Geographical Locations]: Mentioned in narration : Sham (Greater Syria).

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