Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

صلى بنا رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم صلاة العصر نهارا، ثم خطب إلى أن غابت الشمس، فلم يدع شيئا هو كائن إلى يوم القيامة إلا حدثنا به، حفظه من حفظه، ونسيه من نسيه

The Messenger of Allah, ﷺ, led the Asr prayer with us during the day, then he delivered a sermon until the sun went down. He did not leave anything that would happen until the Day of Resurrection without narrating it to us. He who memorized it memorized it, and he who forgot it forgot it.

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إن الله رفع لي الدنيا فأنا أنظر إليها وإلى ما هو كائن فيها إلى يوم القيامة كما أنظر إلى كفي هذه، جيلان من الله جلاه لنبيه كما جلا للنبيين قبله

Allah has raised this world for me, so I look at it and what will be in it until the Day of Resurrection as I look at these palms of my own: two generations from Allah that He revealed to His Prophet as He revealed to the prophets before him.

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أنا أعلم الناس بكل فتنة هي كائنة إلى يوم القيامة، وما بي أن يكون رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم أسر إلي في ذلك شيئا لم يحدث به غيري، ولكن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم حدث مجلسا أنا فيه عن الفتن التي تكون منها صغار، ومنها كبار، فذهب أولئك الرهط كلهم غيري

I am the most knowledgeable of people about every temptation that will occur until the Day of Resurrection, and what is wrong with me is that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him, confided to me something that no one else told me about, but the Messenger of Allah, may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him, told a gathering I was in about temptations, some of which were minor and some of which were major, so all of those groups went away except me.

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ما من صاحب فتنة يبلغون ثلاثمائة إنسان إلا ولو شئت أن أسميه باسمه واسم أبيه ومسكنه إلى يوم القيامة ، كل ذلك مما علمنيه رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ، قالوا: بأعيانها؟ قال: أو أشباهها، يعرفها الفقهاء، أو قال: العلماء، إنكم كنتم تسألون رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم عن الخير وأسأله عن الشر، وتسألونه عما كان، وأسأله عما يكون

There is no one who is involved in a temptation that reaches the size of three hundred people, but if I wanted to call him by his name, his father’s name, and his residence until the Day of Resurrection, all of that is what the Messenger of Allah ﷺ taught me. They said: With its specific meanings? He said: Or something like it, known to the jurists, or he said: The scholars. You used to ask the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about goodness, and I would ask him about evil, and you would ask him about what was, and I would ask him about what would be.

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ما أنا إلى طريق من طرقكم بأهدى مني بكل فتنة هي كائنة وبناعقها وقائدها إلى يوم القيامة

I am not better guided by any of your paths than I am by every temptation that exists and by its crowing and its leader until the Day of Resurrection.

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ما من ثلاثمائة تخرج إلا ولو شئت سميت سائقها وناعقها إلى يوم القيامة

There are not three hundred that come out unless you wish to name their driver and caller until the Day of Resurrection

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إي والذي نفسي بيده إلى يوم القيامة

By the One in whose hand is my soul until the Day of Resurrection

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فتنة الرجل في أهله، وماله، وجاره، يكفر ذلك الصوم، والصلاة، والصدقة ، فقال عمر: ليس هذا أريد، ولكن قوله في الفتنة التي تموج كموج البحر يتبع بعضها بعضا، قال: قلت: فلا تخفها يا أمير المؤمنين، فإن بينك وبينها بابا مغلقا، فقال: كيف بالباب، أيفتح أو يكسر؟ قال: بل يكسر، ثم لا يغلق إلى يوم القيامة

A man's temptation in his family, his money, and his neighbour, is expiated by fasting, prayer, and charity. Omar said: This is not what I want, but what he said about the temptation that ripples like the waves of the sea following one another. He said: I said: Do not fear it, O Commander of the Faithful, for there is a closed door between you and it. So he said: How about the door? Will it be opened or broken? He said: Rather, it will be broken, then it will not be closed until the Day of Resurrection

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