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1598
كتاب الفتن
نعيم بن حماد المروزي (ت ٢٢٨ هـ)

Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad) 1599

نزول عيسى ابن مريم عليه السلام وسيرته
1600
Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad)vol. 2, p. 572Ungradedكتاب الفتن لنعيم بن حمادج ٢ ص ٥٧٢ · عن كعبنزول عيسى ابن مريم عليه السلام وسيرته

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 الحكم بن نافع، عن جراح، عمن حدثه عن كعب، قال: «ينزل عيسى ابن مريم عليه السلام عند المنارة التي عند باب دمشق الشرقي، وهو شاب أحمر، معه ملكان، قد لزم مناكبهما، لا يجد نفسه ولا ريحه كافر إلا مات، وذلك أن نفسه يبلغ مد بصره، فيدرك نفسه الدجال فيذوب ذوبان الشمع فيموت، ويسير ابن مريم إلى من في بيت المقدس من المسلمين، فيخبرهم بقتله، ويصلي وراء أميرهم صلاة واحدة، ثم يصلي لهم ابن مريم، وهي الملحمة، ويسلم بقية النصارى، ويقيم عيسى ويبشرهم بدرجاتهم في الجنة»

Jesus, son of Mary (peace be upon him), descends at the minaret at the eastern gate of Damascus. He is a young, red-haired young man, with two angels tied to his shoulders. He does not find himself or smells like an infidel except that he dies, and that is because his soul reaches as far as his sight. He perceives himself as the Dajjal, and he melts like wax and dies. Son of Mary goes to the Muslims in Jerusalem, informs them of his killing, and prays one prayer behind their prince, then the son of Mary prays for them, which is the epic. He greets the rest of the Christians, resurrects Jesus, and gives them good news of their ranks in Paradise

نعيم ثنا الحكم بن نافعجراحكعبautomatic reading, unverified

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[Collection & Reference]: Narration #1599 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]: Isa (Jesus, AS), son of Maryam, was not killed or crucified; Allah raised him up. Near the end of time he descends again, kills the Dajjal, and rules by the law of Muhammad ﷺ as a just ruler.

[Described Characteristics]: He descends at the white minaret east of Damascus, wearing two saffron-dyed garments, his hands on the wings of two angels. When he lowers his head, drops fall like pearls. He finds the Dajjal at the gate of Lud and kills him. He breaks the cross, kills the pig, abolishes the jizyah, and wealth becomes so plentiful no one accepts it. He lives on earth for a time, marries, then dies and the Muslims pray over him.

[Timeline & Context]: He descends during the Dajjal's forty days, just as the Muslims are getting ready for prayer, and Ya'juj and Ma'juj come out in his time.

[Prophetic Practice]: The Prophet ﷺ said: whoever of you meets him, convey my salam to him.

[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]: Jannah, Paradise, is the eternal home of the believers: 'what no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no heart has imagined'.

[Described Characteristics]: Gardens with rivers of water, milk, honey and pure drink; a hundred levels, the highest al-Firdaws under the Throne. No illness, no ageing, no sorrow, no death. Its greatest joy is seeing Allah, and His saying: 'I am pleased with you and will never be displeased with you after this.'

[Timeline & Context]: After the Bridge, the believers enter it forever. Paradise already exists now.

[Prophetic Practice]: 'When you ask Allah, ask for al-Firdaws.'

[Geographical Locations]: Mentioned in narration : Baitul Maqdis (Jerusalem), Damascus.

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