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كتاب الفتن
نعيم بن حماد المروزي (ت ٢٢٨ هـ)

Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad) 714

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715
Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad)vol. 2, p. 241Ungradedكتاب الفتن لنعيم بن حمادج ٢ ص ٢٤١ · عن كعبالمعقل من الفتن

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 عبد القدوس، عن صفوان، عن سعيد بن خالد، عن مطر مولى أم حكيم، عن كعب، قال: «أظلتكم فتنة كقطع الليل المظلم، لا يبقى بيت من بيوت المسلمين بين المشرق والمغرب إلا دخلته» ، قيل: فما يخلص منها أحد؟ قال: «يخلص منها من استظل بظل لبنان فيما بينه وبين البحر، فهو أسلم الناس من تلك الفتنة» ، قال: «فإذا كان مائة واثنتين وعشرين سنة احترقت داري هذه فاحترقت داره حينئذ»

You have been overshadowed by a trial like pieces of a dark night. There is not a Muslim house left between the East and the West without entering it. Those who take shelter in the shade of Lebanon between it and the sea will be saved from it. He is the safest of people from that trial. If one hundred and twenty-two years have passed, this house of mine burned, and his house burned at that time.

عبد القدوسصفوانسعيد بن خالدمطر مولى أم حكيمكعبautomatic reading, unverified

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Scholarly Commentary & Context

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[Collection & Reference]: Narration #714 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 Prophet ﷺ warned of trials (fitan) that will come like pieces of a dark night, one after another, so confusing that a man is a believer in the morning and a disbeliever by evening.

[Described Characteristics]: People sell their religion for a small worldly gain. In such trials, the one sitting is better than the one standing, and the one standing better than the one running toward it.

[Timeline & Context]: They began after the Prophet's ﷺ death and continue in waves.

[Prophetic Practice]: 'Hasten to good deeds before trials like pieces of a dark night.' Seek refuge from the trials, the seen and the unseen.

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