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DajjalSigns before the HourEuphrates and the mountain of goldDescent of Isa (AS)Ghazwat al-HindYa'juj and Ma'jujWhat protects from the Dajjal?
998
كتاب الفتن
نعيم بن حماد المروزي (ت ٢٢٨ هـ)

Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad) 999

اجتماع الناس بمكة، وبيعتهم للمهدي فيها وما يكون تلك السنة بمكة من الاختلاط والقتال، وطلبهم المهدي بعد القتال، واجتماعهم عليه
ThemesMahdiBlack bannersConquest of Constantinople
1000
Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad)vol. 2, p. 344Ungradedكتاب الفتن لنعيم بن حمادج ٢ ص ٣٤٤ · عن تحافظوا علي طاعته وطاعه رسوله، واجتماع الناس بمكة، وبيعتهم للمهدي فيها وما يكون تلك السنة بمكة من الاختلاط والقتال، وطلبهم المهدي بعد القتال، واجتماعهم عليه

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

حدثنا سعيد أبو عثمان، عن جابر، عن أبي جعفر، قال: " ثم يظهر المهدي بمكة عند العشاء ومعه راية رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وقميصه وسيفه، وعلامات ونور وبيان، فإذا صلى العشاء نادى بأعلى صوته يقول: أذكركم الله أيها الناس، ومقامكم بين يدي ربكم، فقد اتخذ الحجة، وبعث الأنبياء، وأنزل الكتاب، وأمركم أن لا تشركوا به شيئا، وأن تحافظوا على طاعته وطاعة رسوله، وأن تحيوا ما أحيا القرآن، وتميتوا ما أمات، وتكونوا أعوانا على الهدى، ووزرا على التقوى، فإن الدنيا قد دنا فناؤها وزوالها، وأذنت بالوداع، فإني أدعوكم إلى الله، وإلى رسوله، والعمل بكتابه، وإماتة الباطل، وإحياء سنته، فيظهر في ثلاثمائة وثلاثة عشر رجلا، عدة أهل بدر، على غير ميعاد قرعا كقرع الخريف، رهبان بالليل، أسد بالنهار، فيفتح الله للمهدي أرض الحجاز، ويستخرج من كان في السجن من بني هاشم، وتنزل الرايات السود الكوفة، فيبعث بالبيعة إلى المهدي، ويبعث المهدي جنوده في الآفاق، ويميت الجور وأهله، وتستقيم له البلدان، ويفتح الله على يديه القسطنطينية "

Then the Mahdi will appear in Mecca at the evening prayer, carrying the banner of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, his shirt, his sword, and signs, light, and a statement. When he prays the evening prayer, he calls out at the top of his voice, saying: I remind you of Allah, O people, and your position is in the hands of your Lord. He has taken the proof, sent the prophets, and revealed the Book, and commanded you not to associate anything with it, and to maintain obedience to Him and obedience to His Messenger, and to live what the Qur’an has enlivened, and to die. What has died, and be a helper to guidance and a burden to piety, for the world has approached its end and its extinction, and it has called for farewell. I call you to Allah, and to His Messenger, and to act according to His Book, and to kill falsehood, and to revive its Sunnah. Then three hundred and thirteen men, the number of the people of Badr, will appear without appointment, with a lottery like the autumn lottery, monks by night, a lion by day, so Allah will open for the Mahdi the land of Hijaz, and he will be extracted from He was in prison from Bani Hashim, and the black flags descended on Kufa, and he sent the pledge of allegiance to the Mahdi, and the Mahdi would send his soldiers in the horizons, and he would kill oppression and its people, and countries would straighten up for him, and Allah would conquer Constantinople at his hands.

سعيد أبو عثمانجابرأبي جعفرلا تشركوا به شيئاتحافظوا علي طاعته وطاعه رسولهautomatic reading, unverified

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[Collection & Reference]: Narration #999 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 Mahdi ('the rightly guided one') is a man from the Prophet's family, through Fatimah, who will lead the Muslims near the end of time and fill the earth with justice as it had been filled with oppression.

[Described Characteristics]: His name will match the Prophet's name and his father's name the Prophet's father's name (Muhammad ibn Abdullah). He has a broad forehead and a fine, high nose. He rules for seven years, wealth is plentiful in his time, and he gives it out by the handful without counting. Isa (AS) descends while he is about to lead the prayer.

[Timeline & Context]: He comes before the Dajjal, in the time of the great wars with the Romans, around the conquest of Constantinople and the descent of Isa (AS).

[Prophetic Practice]: Waiting for a rescuer is not the Sunnah. Work for justice where you are, and do not follow anyone who claims the title.

[Core Subject]: Black banners coming from the east, from Khurasan, appear in several reports as an army that comes before or with the Mahdi.

[Described Characteristics]: The best-known reports say: 'Black banners will come from Khurasan and nothing will turn them back until they are planted in Iliya (Jerusalem)', and 'If you see them, go to them even crawling over snow'. Hadith scholars graded these reports weak.

[Timeline & Context]: No sahih narration fixes their time.

[Prophetic Practice]: A flag's colour proves nothing. Judge any group by the Quran and Sunnah, not by its claims about prophecy.

[Core Subject]: Constantinople, today's Istanbul, was the capital of the Romans. The Prophet ﷺ foretold that the Muslims would conquer it.

[Described Characteristics]: In Sahih Muslim, after the great battle the Muslims reach the city and conquer it without weapons: at the first 'La ilaha illallah wallahu akbar' one side of its wall falls, at the second the other side, at the third the way opens. While they are dividing the spoils, a cry goes up that the Dajjal has come among their families.

[Timeline & Context]: The conquest comes right after the great battle and just before the Dajjal.

[Prophetic Practice]: The city falls to dhikr, not weapons. La ilaha illallah wallahu akbar is worth more than we think.

[Geographical Locations]: Mentioned in narration : Makkah, Kufa, Constantinople (Istanbul).

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

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MakkahKufaConstantinople (Istanbul)