Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

إياكم والفتن، فإن للسان فيها مثل وقع السيف

Beware of temptations, for the tongue in them is like the impact of a sword

وكلت الفتنة بثلاث: بالجاد النحرير الذي لا يريد أن يرتفع له منها شيء إلا قمعه بالسيف، وبالخطيب الذي يدعو إليه الأمور، وبالشريف المذكور، فأما الجاد النحرير فتصرعه، وأما هذان الخطيب والشريف فتحثهما حتى تبلو ما عندهما

The temptation was caused by three people: against Al-Jad Al-Nahrir, who does not want anything to happen to him except to suppress him with the sword, on the orator who calls for matters to him, and on the mentioned noble.

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اتقوا فرقتين تقتتلان على الدنيا، فإنهما تجران إلى النار جرا

Beware of two groups fighting over this world, for they will drag you into Hell

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تلزم جماعة المسلمين وإمامهم قال: قلت: فإن لم يكن لهم إمام ولا جماعة؟ قال: فاعتزل تلك الفرق كلها، ولو أن تعض بأصل شجرة حتى يدركك الموت وأنت على ذلك

Narrated Hudhaifa bin Al-Yaman:The people used to ask Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) about the good but I used to ask him about the evil lest I should be overtaken by them. So I said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! We were living in ignorance and in an (extremely) worst atmosphere, then Allah brought to us this good (i.e., Islam); will there be any evil after this good?" He said, "Yes." I said, 'Will there be any good after that evil?" He replied, "Yes, but it will be tainted (not pure.)'' I asked, "What will be its taint?" He replied, "(There will be) some people who will guide others not according to my tradition? You will approve of some of their deeds and disapprove of some others." I asked, "Will there be any evil after that good?" He replied, "Yes, (there will be) some people calling at the gates of the (Hell) Fire, and whoever will respond to their call, will be thrown by them into the (Hell) Fire." I said, "O Allah's Apostle! Will you describe them to us?" He said, "They will be from our own people and will speak our language." I said, "What do you order me to do if such a state should take place in my life?" He said, "Stick to the group of Muslims and their Imam (ruler)." I said, "If there is neither a group of Muslims nor an Imam (ruler)?" He said, "Then turn away from all those sects even if you were to bite (eat) the roots of a tree till death overtakes you while you are in that state

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قال الأوزاعي، وأخبرنا ابن عطية، عن حذيفة بن اليمان، عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم مثل ذلك

Al-Awza’i said, and Ibn Atiya told us, on the authority of Hudhayfah bin Al-Yaman, on the authority of the Prophet (may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him) similar to that.

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تلزم الجماعة وإمام الجماعة قال: قلت: فإن لم تكن جماعة ولا إمام جماعة؟ قال: فاهرب من تلك الفرق كلها، ولو يدركك الموت وأنت عاض بساق شجرة

You must adhere to the group and the imam of the group, so flee from all of these groups, even if death overtakes you while you are biting a tree trunk

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إن لقيت لله يومئذ خليفة في الأرض فالزمه، وإن ضرب ظهرك، وأخذ مالك، وإلا فاهرب في الأرض حتى يأتيك الموت وأنت عاض على أصل شجرة

If you find a successor for Allah on earth that day, adhere to him, even if he strikes your back and takes your money. Otherwise, flee on earth until death comes to you while you are biting on the root of a tree.

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أوصاني خليلي وابن عمك أنه سيكون فتنة وفرقة واختلاف، فإذا كان ذلك فاكسر سيفك، واقعد في بيتك، واتخذ سيفا من خشب

My friend and your cousin advised me that there will be strife, division, and disagreement, so if that happens, break your sword, stay in your house, and take a wooden sword.

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شهدت الجماجم فما طعنت برمح، ولا ضربت بسيف، ولوددت أنهما قطعتا من هاهنا، يعني يديه، ولم أكن شهدته

I witnessed the skulls, but I was not stabbed with a spear or struck with a sword. I wished that they had been cut off from here, meaning his hands, but I had not witnessed them.

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لا تسلطهم علينا حتى يفتنونا فيفتتنوا بنا

Do not give them power over us until they tempt us and tempt us

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الحمد لله الذي أنجاني من هذه الفتنة، فوالله ما رميت فيها بسهم، ولا طعنت فيها برمح، ولا ضربت فيها بسيف ، قال أبو قلابة: فقلت له: فما ظنك يا مسلم بجاهل نظر إليك؟ فقال: والله ما قام مسلم هذا المقام إلا وهو يراه عليه حقا، فقتل أو قتل ، قال: فبكى، والذي نفسي بيده حتى تمنيت أن لا أكون قلت له شيئا

Praise be to Allah who saved me from this temptation. By Allah, I was not shot with an arrow, nor stabbed with a spear, nor was I hit with a sword. Abu Qilabah said: So I said to him: O Muslim, what do you think of an ignorant person who looked at you? He said: By Allah, no Muslim rises to this position unless he sees that it is right for him, and he is killed or killed. He said: Then he cried, by the One in whose hand is my soul, until I wished I had not said anything to him.

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أن رجلا من أهل الشام حمل على رجل من أصحاب علي يوم صفين فنزل إليه ليذبحه، قال: فشددت أنا برمحي نحوه لأجهضه عنه، فأجهضته عنه، فما أذكرها إلا أخذت بحلقي

A man from the Sham (Greater Syria) carried a burden on a man of Ali’s companions on the day of Siffin, and he went down to him to slaughter him. He said: So I tightened my spear towards him to abort it from him, so I aborted it from him, and I do not remember her except that she grabbed my throat.

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لا يغرنك من ترى، فإن هؤلاء يوشكوا أن ينفرجوا عن دينهم كما تنفرج المرأة عن قبلها، فإذا فعلوا ذلك فعليك بما أنت عليه اليوم

Do not be deceived by what you see, for these people are about to renounce their religion just as a woman renounces her love, so if they do that, then you should do what you are today.

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أراك يا أبا ذر لقائفا، كيف بك يا أبا ذر إذا أخرجوك من المدينة؟ قال: آتي الأرض المقدسة، قال: فكيف إن أخرجوك منها؟ قال: أرجع إلى المدينة، قال: فإن أخرجوك منها؟ قال: آخذ بسيفي فأضرب به حتى أقتل، قال: لا، ولكن اسمع وأطع، ولو لعبد أسود قال: فلما أتى الربذة وجد بها غلاما أسود لعثمان، فأقيمت الصلاة، فقال: يا أبا ذر تقدم، فقال: إني أمرت أن أسمع وأطيع ولو لعبد أسود، قال: فتقدم العبد فصلى

I see you standing, Abu Dharr. How will you be, Abu Dharr, if they expel you from Medina? He said: I will come to the Holy Land. He said: What if they expel you from it? He said: Go back to Medina. He said: So if they expel you from it? He said: I will take my sword and strike with it until I am killed. He said: No, but listen and obey, even if it is to a black slave. He said: When he came to Al-Rabdha, he found there a black boy belonging to Uthman, and the prayer was established. He said: O Abu Dharr, come forward. He said: I have been commanded to listen and obey, even if it is a black slave. He said: So the servant came forward and prayed.

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

تدور رحى العرب بعد خمس وعشرين بعد وفاة نبيها صلى الله عليه وسلم، ثم تنشأ فتنة فيها قتل وقتال، فأمسك عليك فيها يدك وسلاحك، ثم تكون أخرى بعد الطمأنينة، فأمسك عليك فيها يدك وسلاحك، فإني أجدها في كتاب الله: المظلمة تلوي بكل ذي كبر

The mill of the Arabs will turn twenty-five after the death of its Prophet ﷺ, then a strife will arise in which there will be killing and fighting, so I will hold your hand and your weapon against you. Then there will be another after reassurance, in which I will hold your hand and your weapon against you, for I find it in the Book of Allah: Darkness twists with all arrogance.

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

تدور رحى العرب بعد وفاة نبيها بعد خمس وعشرين سنة، ثم تفشو فتنة يكون فيها قتل وقتال، فأمسك عليك فيها نفسك وسلاحك، حتى تنجلي، لا لك ولا عليك، ثم يستوي الناس كالدوامة، ثم تنشأ فتنة إني لأجدها في كتاب الله المنزل: المظلمة لا تنجلي حتى تلوي بكل ذي كبر، فأمسك عليك فيها نفسك وسلاحك، واهرب منها أشد الهرب، وإن لم تجد إلا جحر عقرب تدخل فيه فادخل فيه

The mill of the Arabs will turn after the death of its Prophet after twenty-five years, and then a strife will spread in which there will be killing and fighting, so I hold on to you in it yourself and your weapons, until you are saved, neither for you nor against you. Then the people will level out like a whirlpool, and then a strife will arise that I find in the revealed Book of Allah: Darkness will not be cleared until it has engulfed all the greatest, so hold yourself and your weapons against you in it, and flee from it with the greatest possible escape, and if you find nothing but a scorpion’s hole to enter, then enter into it.

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لا ينجو من شرها إلا من دعا كدعاء الغرق، أسعد أهلها كل تقي خفي، إذا ظهر لم يعرف، وإن جلس لم يفتقد، وأشقى أهلها كل خطيب مسقع، أو راكب موضع

No one is saved from its evil except the one who prays, such as the supplication of drowning. The happiest of its people is every secret pious person, who if he appears is not known, and if he sits down he is not missed, and the most miserable of its people is every preacher who is praying, or who is riding in a place.

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تكون فتنة لا ينجو منها إلا من لم يصب من مالها، ومن أصاب من مالها كمن أصاب من دمها

It will be a trial from which only those who are not afflicted by her wealth will be saved, and whoever is afflicted by her wealth is like one who is afflicted by her blood

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أسعد الناس فيها كل خفي، إن ظهر لم يعرف، وإن جلس لم يفتقد

The happiest people in it are everything that is hidden. If it appears, it is not known, and if it sits, it is not missed

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تصيرون فيها إلى الكفر، فالمؤمن يومئذ من يجلس في بيته، والكافر من سل سيفه، وأهراق دم أخيه ودم جاره

You will turn to disbelief, for the believer on that day is the one who sits in his house, and the unbeliever is the one who draws his sword and sheds the blood of his brother and the blood of his neighbor.

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من مات ولم يشرك بالله شيئا، ولم يتند من الدماء الحرام بشيء، دخل من أي أبواب الجنة شاء

Whoever dies and does not associate anything with Allah, and does not shed any forbidden blood, will enter through any gates of Paradise he wishes

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ما خصم أبغض إلي لقاء يوم القيامة من رجل يجيء تشخب أوداجه دما، يحبسني عند ميزان القسط، فيقول: يا رب سل عبدك بم قتلني، فأقول: كذب، فلا أستطيع أن أقول: كان كافرا، فيقول: أنت أعلم بعبدي مني

There is no opponent more hateful to me to meet on the Day of Resurrection than a man who comes with his veins dripping with blood, detains me at the scales of justice, and says: O Lord, ask your servant why he killed me, and I say: he lied, so I cannot say: he was an unbeliever, and he says: you know my servant more than me.

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لا يلقين أحد منكم الله يوم القيامة بملء كف من دم رجل يقول: لا إله إلا الله، فإنه من صلى الصبح فهو في ذمة الله، فلا يحفرن الله أحد منكم في حافره فيكبه الله تعالى إذا جمع الأولين والآخرين في جهنم

Let none of you meet Allah on the Day of Resurrection with a palm full of the blood of a man who says: There is no god but Allah. For whoever prays the dawn prayer is under Allah’s protection, so let none of you dig Allah with his hoof, lest Allah Almighty cast him down when he gathers the first and the last into Hell.

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أجل ، قال: ولو كان ابن عثمان حجبتني له؟ قال: أجل ، قال: " إني لأرجو أن أكون أنا وعثمان ممن قال الله تعالى: {ونزعنا ما في صدورهم من غل إخوانا على سرر متقابلين} [الحجر: 47]

Yes, he said: Even if he was Ibn Uthman, would you block me for him? He said: Yes, he said: “I hope that I and Othman will be among those whom Allah Almighty said: {And We will remove from their breasts any rancor that is in their breasts as brothers on beds facing each other} [Al-Hijr: 47]

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ليتق الله أحدكم، ولا يحولن بينه وبين الجنة بعدما ينظر إلى أبوابها ملء كف من دم مسلم أهراقه

Let any one of you fear Allah, and let nothing come between him and Paradise after he looks at its gates with a handful of Muslim blood spilled by him.

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