Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

ويل للعرب من شر قد اقترب، من فتنة عمياء صماء بكماء، القاعد فيها خير من القائم، والقائم فيها خير من الماشي، والماشي فيها خير من الساعي، ويل للساعي فيها من الله تعالى يوم القيامة

It was narrated from Abu Musa Al-Ash’ari that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:“Before the Hour comes, there will be tribulation like pieces of black night, when a man will wake up as a believer but be a disbeliever by evening, or he will be a believer in the evening but will be a disbeliever by morning. And the one who is sitting will be better than the one who is standing, and the one who is standing will be better than the one who is walking, and the one who is walking will be better than the one who is running. So break your bows, cut their strings and strike your swords against rocks, and if anyone enters upon anyone of you, let him be like the better of the two sons of Adam. (i.e. the one killed, not the killer).”

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من صلى صلاة الصبح كان في جوار الله حتى يمسي، ومن صلى العصر كان في جوار الله حتى يصبح، فلا تخفروا الله في جواره، فإنه من خفر الله في جواره طلبه الله، ثم أدركه، ثم كبه على منخره في جهنم

Whoever prays the morning prayer will be in the vicinity of Allah until the evening, and whoever prays the afternoon prayer will be in the vicinity of Allah until the morning, so do not fear Allah in his vicinity, for whoever Allah fears in his vicinity, Allah will seek him out, then he will catch him, then he will put him on his nostrils in Hell.

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ابن الزبير ونجدة والحجاج يتهافتون في النار تهافت الذباب في المرق، فإذا سمع المنادي أسرع إليه

Ibn al-Zubayr, Najda, and al-Hajjaj were swarming in the fire, like flies swarming in the broth. If he heard the caller, he would rush to him.

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اللهم إني أعوذ بك من شر ما تسوط به قريش

Oh Allah, I seek refuge in You from the evil that Quraysh has done

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نعم ، قال: فأرسل إلى فلان وفلان فاضرب أعناقهم، قال ابن عباس: أصلوا الغداة اليوم؟ قال: نعم، قال: فلا سبيل إليهم، أراهم في ذمة الله ، فلما بلغ ابن عباس ما صنع زياد بعد قال: ما أراه إلا قد كان أشار علينا بالذي هو رآه

Yes, he said: So send to so-and-so and so-and-so and behead them. Ibn Abbas said: Did they pray the morning prayer today? He said: Yes. He said: There is no way for them. I see them under the protection of Allah. When Ibn Abbas heard what Ziyad had done yet, he said: I do not see him except that he indicated to us what he saw.

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إياكم والفتن، لا يشخص لها أحد، فوالله ما شخص لها أحد إلا نسفته كما ينسف السيل، إنها تشبه مقبلة حتى يقول الجاهل: هذا يشبه، وتبين مدبرة أخبرنا أبو بكر محمد بن أحمد بن ريذة أنا أبو القاسم سليمان بن أحمد الطبراني ثنا أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن حاتم المرادي، ثنا نعيم بن حماد

Beware of temptation, no one identifies it, for by Allah, no one is diagnosed with it except that it blows him up just as a torrent blows him up. It resembles an approaching one until the ignorant person says: This is similar, and it appears as a plotter. Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Raydha told us, I am Abu al-Qasim Sulayman ibn Ahmad al-Tabarani. Abu Zayd Abd al-Rahman ibn Hatim al-Muradi told us. Nu’aym ibn Hammad told us.

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فتنة ابن الزبير حيصة من حيصات الفتن، وبقيت الرداح المطبقة، من أشرف لها أشرفت له، ومن ماج فيها ماجت به

The temptation of Ibn al-Zubayr is one of the few tribulations of temptation, and the applied retaliation remains. Whoever is most honorable to it, it will be honorable to him, and whoever is virtuous in it, it will be honourable.

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إني لأعلم فتنة يوشك أن تكون التي قبلها معها كنفجة أرنب، وإني لأعلم المخرج منها ، قالوا: وما المخرج منها؟ قال: أن أمسك بيدي حتى يجيء من يقتلني

I know of a trial that is about to be like the one before it, like a rabbit’s burrow, and I know the way out of it is to hold my hand until someone comes to kill me.

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إليك إليك، فلم أزل به حتى انصرف ، قال: فوالله إني لأذكر عدوتي تلك بعدما أنام نومة فيمتنع مني نومي بقية ليلتي، وإني لأذكرها بعدما يوضع طعامي بين يدي فيمتنع مني حتى ما أصل إليه

To you, to you. I did not stay with him until he left. By Allah, I remember that enemy of mine after I have slept, and it prevents me from sleeping for the rest of my night, and I remember her after my food is placed in my hands, and it is prevented from me until I reach it.

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إليك إليك ، قال: فأبى الشامي إلا أن يواقعه، فلما رأى ذلك أبو سعيد ألقى السيف وقال: " {لئن بسطت إلي يدك لتقتلني ما أنا بباسط يدي إليك لأقتلك إني أخاف الله رب العالمين} [المائدة: 28] "، قال: فأخذ الشامي بيده فأنزله من الجبل، قال أبو سعيد: لقد رأيتني أقاتل مع رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم في هذا المكان المشركين ، قال: فقال له الشامي: من أنت؟ قال: أنا أبو سعيد الخدري، قال: فقال له: اذهب بارك الله فيك

To you, to you. He said: The Shami refused except to make peace with him. When Abu Saeed saw that, he threw down the sword and said: {If you extend your hand to me to kill me, I will not extend my hand to you to kill you. Indeed, I fear Allah, Lord of the Worlds} [Al-Ma’idah: 28]. He said: So the Shami took his hand and took him down from the mountain. Abu Saeed said: You saw me fighting with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in this place the polytheists. He said: So he said to him. Al-Shami: Who are you? He said: I am Abu Saeed Al-Khudri. He said: So he said to him: Go, may Allah bless you

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والله ما قتلت ولا أمرت، ولكني غلبت

By Allah, I did not kill or command, but I was victorious

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لا تضرب عنقه ، قال: فإن الأمير يأمرني؟ قال: وإن أمرك الأمير فلا تطعه ، قال: إذا يضرب عنقي، قال: فكن أنت المضروب عنقه

Do not strike his neck. He said: The prince orders me? He said: If the prince orders you, do not obey him. He said: If he strikes my neck, he said: Then be the one whose neck was struck.

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لا ترجعن بعدي كفارا يضرب بعضكم رقاب بعض

Narrated Ibn `Abbas:The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Beware! Do not renegade as (disbelievers) after me by striking (cutting) the necks of one another

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كفر الناس بعدك، هذا ابن الزبير وأهل الشام يقتل بعضهم بعضا

People became disbelievers after you. This is Ibn al-Zubayr and the people of the Sham (Greater Syria) are killing each other

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تبا لكم سائر اليوم

Woe to you this whole day

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ما أحب أني رميت عثمان بسهم قال مسعر: أراه قال: أريد قتله، ولا أن لي مثل أحد ذهبا

I do not like that I shot Othman with an arrow, wanting to kill him, nor that I had as much gold as Uhud

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Traced to Ka'b al-Ahbar (automatic guess): a report of earlier scriptures, not a hadith of the Prophet ﷺ.

ما أثار الفتنة قوم إلا كانوا لها جزرا

No people stirred up sedition except that they were its islands

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من أعان على قتل مسلم بشطر كلمة جاء يوم القيامة مكتوبا بين عينيه: آيس من رحمة الله

Whoever helps in killing a Muslim with half a word will come on the Day of Resurrection with written between his eyes: Deprived of Allah’s mercy

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مثل الناس في الفتنة كمثل قوم كانوا في سفر فغشيتهم ظلمة، فقام بعضهم وتعسف بعضهم، فانجلت وقد حادوا عن الطريق

The example of people in strife is like a people who were on a journey and darkness enveloped them, so some of them rose up and some of them behaved arrogantly, and they became evacuated and they strayed from the path.

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ألا أنبئكم بدواء الفتنة، إن الله لا يحل فيها شيئا حرمه قبل ذلك، فما بال أحدكم يستأذن بباب أخيه ثم يأتيه الغد فيقتله

Shall I not inform you of the cure for strife? Indeed, Allah does not permit during it anything that He had prohibited before. So what about one of you asking permission to go to his brother’s door, then the next day comes and kills him?

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في نزعي وتأميري يقتتلون؟ فرجع فدخل الدار، فما أعلمه خرج بعد ذلك حتى قتل قال محمد: وقعت الفتنة حين وقعت وأصحاب رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم لعشرة آلاف أو أكثر، فلو أذن لهم لضربوهم حتى يخرجوهم من أقطار المدينة، قال محمد: فأتاه ابن الزبير، وابن عمر والحسن بن علي ، قال ابن عون، وقال نافع، لبس ابن عمر الدرع مرتين، ونبئت أن أبا هريرة كان يطيف بالدار فيقول: أم طاب أم ضربا

Why do I and my leadership fight? So he returned and entered the house, and what I know is that he left after that until he was killed. Muhammad said: The strife occurred when it occurred and the companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ numbered ten thousand or more. If he had given them permission, they would have beaten them until they expelled them from the parts of Medina. Muhammad said: Ibn al-Zubayr, Ibn Umar and al-Hasan ibn Ali came to him. Ibn Aoun said, and Nafi’ said: Ibn Umar wore armor twice, and I was informed that Abu Hurairah used to go around the house and say: Umm Good or bad

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بم يستحلون قتلي، وإنما يحل القتل على ثلاثة: من كفر بعد إيمان، وزنا بعد إحصان، أو قتل نفسا بغير نفس، ولم آت من ذلك شيئا، والله لئن قتلتموني لا تصلوا جميعا، ولا تجاهدوا عدوا جميعا، إلا عن أهواء متفرقة

Why do they make killing me lawful? Killing is only lawful for three: whoever disbelieves after believing, who commits adultery after chastity, or who kills a soul for other than a soul, and I have done nothing of that. By Allah, if you kill me, you will not pray together, nor fight an enemy all together, except for separate desires.

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والله ليقتلن في عثمان قوم هم اليوم في أصلاب آبائهم ما ولدوا بعد

By Allah, people will be killed in Othman who are today in the loins of their fathers who have not yet been born

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لما قتل قابيل أخاه هابيل مسخ الله عقله، وخلع فؤاده، فلم يزل تائها حتى مات

When Cain killed his brother Abel, Allah distorted his mind and deprived him of his heart, so he remained lost until he died.

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لا ما صلى أو قال: ما صلوا الصلاة فلا

No, they did not pray, they did not pray

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