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كتاب الفتن
نعيم بن حماد المروزي (ت ٢٢٨ هـ)

Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad) 1488

العلامات قبل خروج الدجال
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Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad)vol. 2, p. 527Ungradedكتاب الفتن لنعيم بن حمادج ٢ ص ٥٢٧ · عن ابي هريرهالعلامات قبل خروج الدجال

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

حدثنا عيسى بن يونس، عن إسماعيل بن أبي خالد، عن أبيه، عن أبي هريرة، قال: " لا تقوم الساعة حتى تفتح مدينة قيصر أو هرقل، ويؤذن فيها المؤذنون، ويقتسمون الأموال فيها والأترسة، فيقبلون بأكثر مال على الأرض، فيتلقاهم الصريخ: إن الدجال قد خلفكم في أهليكم، فيلقون ما معهم، فيجيئون فيقاتلونه "

The Hour will not come until the city of Caesar or Heraclius is conquered, and the muezzins call in it, and they divide the money there and the shields, so they accept the most wealth on earth, and they are greeted by someone screaming: The Dajjal has succeeded you among your families, and they throw what they have, and they come and fight him.

عيسى بن يونسإسماعيل بن أبي خالدأبيهأبي هريرةautomatic reading, unverified

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[Collection & Reference]: Narration #1488 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.

[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.

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