Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

إنما مثلي ومثلكم ومثل الساعة كقوم خافوا عدوا فبعثوا ربيئة لهم، فلما قاربهم إذا هم بنواصي الخيل، فخشي أن يسبقه العدو إلى أصحابه، فلمع بثوبه ونادى: يا صباحاه، وإن الساعة كادت تسبقني إليكم

My likeness and your likeness and the likeness of the Hour are like a people who feared an enemy, so they sent a master for them. When he approached them, they were at the forelocks of their horses. He feared that the enemy would precede him to his companions, so he flashed his garment and called out, “O morning! And the Hour is almost ahead of me to you.”

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إن ما مضى من دنياكم فيما بقي كما مضى من يومكم هذا فيما بقي منه

What has passed in your world is what remains, just as this day of yours has passed in what remains of it

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مثلي ومثلكم ومثل الساعة كقوم خافوا العدو، فبعثوا ربيئة لهم قريب، فلما أبصر الربيئة غارة القوم خاف إن هبط من موضعه يؤذن قومه أن تبدره الغارة إلى قومه، فلوى بثوبه في مكانه ونادى: يا صباحاه

Like me, like you, and like the Hour, like a people who feared the enemy, so they sent a relative to them. When the man saw the raid of the people, he feared that if he descended from his place, calling his people, that the raid would overtake his people. So he twisted his garment in his place and called out: O morning.

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بعثت أنا والساعة هكذا، وألصق بين أصبعيه السبابة والوسطى، في نفس الساعة، أو قال: نسم الساعة

I was sent at the hour like this, and he stuck between his index and middle fingers, at the same hour, or he said: The name of the hour.

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بعثت أنا والساعة كهاتين قال: وكان إذا ذكر الساعة احمرت وجنتاه، وعلا صوته، واشتد غضبه، كأنه نذير جيش: صبحكم ومساكم

I and the Hour were sent like these. He said: And when he mentioned the Hour, his cheeks would turn red, his voice would rise, and his anger would intensify, as if he were the warden of an army: Good morning and evening.

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لتقومن الساعة على رجلين ميزانهما في أيديهما

The Hour will be established by two men with the scales in their hands

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تقوم الساعة والرجلان قد نشرا بينهما الثوب فلا يتبايعانه ولا يطويانه، حتى تقوم الساعة والرجل قد رفع لقمته فلا يضعها في فيه حتى تقوم الساعة، والرجل قد لاط حوضه فلا يكرع فيه حتى تقوم الساعة ، ثم قرأ رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: {وليأتينهم بغتة وهم لا يشعرون} [العنكبوت: 53]

The Hour will come, and the two men will have spread the garment between them, and they will not sell it nor fold it, until the Hour will come, and the man will have raised his piece of food and will not put it in his mouth until the Hour will come, and the man will have touched his pelvis, so he will not kneel in it until the Hour will come.

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إن الساعة لتقوم على رجلين ينشران ثوبا يتبايعانه بينهما، فتقوم الساعة عليهما

The Hour will come upon two men spreading a garment and selling it between them, so the Hour will come upon them

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كيف أنعم وصاحب القرن قد التقم القرن واستمع بالأذن حتى يؤمر بالنفخ فينفخ ، فثقل ذلك على أصحابه، فقال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: قولوا حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل، على الله توكلنا

Abu Sa'eed narrated:"The Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) said: 'How can I be comfortable when the one with the horn is holding it to his lip, his ears listening for when he will be ordered to blow, so he can blow.' It was as if that was very hard upon the Companions of the Prophet (s.a.w), so he said to them: 'Say: "Allah is sufficent for us and what a good protector He is, and upon Allah we rely." [Abu' Eisa said:] This Hadith is Hasan. This Hadith has been reported through other routes from 'Atiyyah, from Abu Sa'eed [AlKhudri] from the Prophet SAW, similarly

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قرن ينفخ فيه

A horn is blown into it

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{إن زلزلة الساعة شيء عظيم} [الحج: 1] قال: قبل الساعة

{The earthquake of the Hour is a great thing} [Al-Hajj: 1] He said: Before the Hour

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لقي جبريل عيسى عليهما السلام ، فقال له عيسى: يا جبريل، متى الساعة؟ فانتفض في أجنحته ثم قال: ما المسئول عنها بأعلم من السائل {ثقلت في السموات والأرض لا تأتيكم إلا بغتة} ، وقال: {لا يجليها لوقتها إلا هو} [الأعراف: 187]

Gabriel met Jesus, peace be upon them, and Jesus said to him: O Gabriel, when is the hour? Then he twitched his wings and said: The one being asked about it does not know more than the questioner. {It is heavy in the heavens and the earth. It will not come to you except suddenly}, and he said: {No one will clear it at its appointed time except Him} [Al-A’raf: 187].

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ما المسئول عنها بأعلم من السائل قال: فما أمارتها؟ قال: أن تلد الأمة ربتها، أو ربها، وأن ترى الحفاة العراة العالة رعاء الشاء يتطاولون في البنيان

It is narrated on the authority of Yahya b. Ya'mur that the first man who discussed qadr (Divine Decree) in Basra was Ma'bad al-Juhani. I along with Humaid b. 'Abdur-Rahman Himyari set out for pilgrimage or for 'Umrah and said:Should it so happen that we come into contact with one of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) we shall ask him about what is talked about taqdir (Divine Decree). Accidentally we came across Abdullah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab, while he was entering the mosque. My companion and I surrounded him. One of us (stood) on his right and the other stood on his left. I expected that my companion would authorize me to speak. I therefore said: Abu Abdur Rahman! There have appeared some people in our land who recite the Qur'an and pursue knowledge. And then after talking about their affairs, added: They (such people) claim that there is no such thing as Divine Decree and events are not predestined. He (Abdullah ibn Umar) said: When you happen to meet such people tell them that I have nothing to do with them and they have nothing to do with me. And verily they are in no way responsible for my (belief). Abdullah ibn Umar swore by Him (the Lord) (and said): If any one of them (who does not believe in the Divine Decree) had with him gold equal to the bulk of (the mountain) Uhud and spent it (in the way of Allah), Allah would not accept it unless he affirmed his faith in Divine Decree. He further said: My father, Umar ibn al-Khattab, told me: One day we were sitting in the company of Allah's Apostle (peace be upon him) when there appeared before us a man dressed in pure white clothes, his hair extraordinarily black. There were no signs of travel on him. None amongst us recognized him. At last he sat with the Apostle (peace be upon him) He knelt before him placed his palms on his thighs and said: Muhammad, inform me about al-Islam. The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said: Al-Islam implies that you testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah, and you establish prayer, pay Zakat, observe the fast of Ramadan, and perform pilgrimage to the (House) if you are solvent enough (to bear the expense of) the journey. He (the inquirer) said: You have told the truth. He (Umar ibn al-Khattab) said: It amazed us that he would put the question and then he would himself verify the truth. He (the inquirer) said: Inform me about Iman (faith). He (the Holy Prophet) replied: That you affirm your faith in Allah, in His angels, in His Books, in His Apostles, in the Day of Judgment, and you affirm your faith in the Divine Decree about good and evil. He (the inquirer) said: You have told the truth. He (the inquirer) again said: Inform me about al-Ihsan (performance of good deeds). He (the Holy Prophet) said: That you worship Allah as if you are seeing Him, for though you don't see Him, He, verily, sees you. He (the enquirer) again said: Inform me about the hour (of the Doom). He (the Holy Prophet) remarked: One who is asked knows no more than the one who is inquiring (about it). He (the inquirer) said: Tell me some of its indications. He (the Holy Prophet) said: That the slave-girl will give birth to her mistress and master, that you will find barefooted, destitute goat-herds vying with one another in the construction of magnificent buildings. He (the narrator, Umar ibn al-Khattab) said: Then he (the inquirer) went on his way but I stayed with him (the Holy Prophet) for a long while. He then, said to me: Umar, do you know who this inquirer was? I replied: Allah and His Apostle knows best. He (the Holy Prophet) remarked: He was Gabriel (the angel). He came to you in order to instruct you in matters of religion

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لم يزل النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم يسأل عن الساعة حتى نزلت {فيم أنت من ذكراها إلى ربك منتهاها} [النازعات: 44] ، فانتهى

The Prophet (may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him) continued asking about the Hour until “What do you have to do regarding its remembrance is to your Lord? Its end” was revealed [Al-Nazi’at: 44], so he ended.

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