Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

تكون فتن كقطع الليل المظلم، يتبع بعضها بعضا، تأتيكم مشتبهة كوجوه البقر، لا تدرون أيها من أي

There will be temptations like pieces of the dark night, one after the other. They will come to you like the faces of cows, and you will not know which one is from what.

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إذا تقارب الزمان أناخ بكم الشرف الجون، فتن كقطع الليل المظلم

When time draws near, honor will overwhelm you with temptations like pieces of a dark night

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نعم، أيما أهل بيت من العرب أو العجم أراد الله بهم خيرا أدخل عليهم الإسلام قال: ثم مه؟ قال: ثم تكون فتن كأنها الظلل فقال الرجل: كلا والله، إن شاء الله يا رسول الله، فقال رسول الله: بلى، والذي نفسي بيده، ثم لتعودن فيها أساود صبا، يضرب بعضكم رقاب بعض قال الزهري: الأسود الحية إذا نهشت نزت ثم ترفع رأسها ثم تنصب

Yes, whether the family of a household, whether Arab or non-Arab, Allah wants good for them, He admits Islam to them. He said: Then what? He said: Then there will be tribulations as if they were shadows, and the man said: No, by Allah, Allah willing, O Messenger of Allah. The Messenger of Allah said: Yes, by the One in whose hand is my soul. Then you will return to it black in the morning, striking each other’s necks. Al-Zuhri said: When lions bite, they emerge, then raise their heads and then stand up.

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بين يدي الساعة فتن كقطع الليل المظلم، يمسي الرجل فيها مؤمنا ويصبح كافرا، ويصبح مؤمنا ويمسي كافرا، يبيع أحدهم دينه بعرض من الدنيا قليل

At the hands of the Hour there is temptation like pieces of a dark night. A man will be a believer in the evening and become an unbeliever, and he will be a believer in the morning and be a disbeliever in the evening. Someone will sell his religion for a small offer of this world.

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ستكون فتن في أمتي حتى يفارق الرجل فيها أباه وأخاه، حتى يعير الرجل ببلائه كما تعير الزانية بزناها

There will be tribulations in my nation until a man is separated from his father and brother, until a man is reproached for his calamity just as an adulteress is reproached for her adultery.

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فتنة الأحلاس فيها حرب وهرب، وفتنة السراء يخرج دخنها من تحت قدمي رجل يزعم أنه مني وليس مني، إنما أوليائي المتقون، ثم يصطلح الناس على رجل، ثم يكون فتنة الدهم، كلما قيل: انقطعت تمادت، حتى لا يبقى بيت من العرب إلا دخلته، يقاتل فيها لا يدري على حق يقاتل أم على باطل، فلا يزالون كذلك حتى يصيروا إلى فسطاطين: فسطاط إيمان لا نفاق فيه، وفسطاط نفاق لا إيمان فيه، فإذا هما اجتمعا فأبصر الدجال اليوم أو غدا

The trial of good times includes war and flight, and the trial of good times comes out from under the feet of a man who claims to be from me and is not of me. Rather, my friends are the pious. Then the people will reconcile with a man, and then there will be the trial of dawn. Whenever it is said: It will end, it will continue until not a house of Arabs remains without entering it. They fight in it, not knowing whether they are right or wrong. They continue like this until they become two camps: a camp of faith with no hypocrisy, and a camp of hypocrisy with no faith. In it, when they meet, he will see the Dajjal today or tomorrow

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ستكون بعدي فتن، منها فتنة الأحلاس، يكون فيها حرب وهرب، ثم بعدها فتن أشد منها، ثم تكون فتنة، كلما قيل: انقطعت، تمادت، حتى لا يبقى بيت إلا دخلته، ولا مسلم إلا صكته، حتى يخرج رجل من عترتي

There will be tribulations after me, including the tribulation of Ahlas, in which there will be war and flight, then after that tribulations worse than that, and then there will be tribulations that, whenever it is said: it will end, will continue, until there will remain no house without entering it, and no Muslim without keeping its silence, until a man from my family emerges.

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تكون فتنة النائم فيها خير من المضطجع، والمضطجع فيها خير من القاعد، والقاعد فيها خير من القائم، والقائم خير من الماشي، والماشي خير من الراكب، والراكب خير من المجري، قتلاها كلها في النار قال: قلت: يا رسول الله، ومتى ذلك؟ قال: أيام الهرج قال: قلت: ومتى أيام الهرج؟ قال: حين لا يأمن الرجل جليسه قال: قلت: فبم تأمرني إن أدركت ذلك؟ قال: اكفف نفسك ويدك، وادخل دارك قال: قلت: يا رسول الله، أرأيت إن دخل علي داري؟ قال: فادخل بيتك قال: قلت: إن دخل علي بيتي؟ قال: فادخل مسجدك، ثم اصنع هكذا ثم قبض بيمينه على الكوع، " وقل: ربي الله، حتى تقتل على ذلك

The tribulation of the sleeper will be better than the one who is lying down, and the one who is lying down will be better than the one who is sitting, 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 is better than the one who is riding, and the one who is riding is better than the one who is running. They will all be killed in Hell. He said: I said: O Messenger of Allah, and when will that be? He said: The days of Harj. He said: I said: When are the days of Harj? He said: When a man does not trust his companion. He said: I said: What do you order me to do if I realize that? He said: Restrain yourself and your hand, and enter your house. He said: I said: O Messenger of Allah, what do you think if he enters my house? He said: Then enter your house. He said: I said: If he enters my house? He said: Then enter your mosque, then do like this, then he held the elbow with his right hand, and say: My Lord is Allah, until you are killed for that.

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إنه ستكون فتنة وفرقة، فاضرب بسيفك عرض أحد، وكسر نبلك، وقطع وترك، واقعد في بيتك فقد فعلت ما أمرني به، وإذا سيف معلق بعمود الفسطاط، فأنزله فسله، فإذا سيف من خشب، ثم قال: قد فعلت بسيفي ما أمرني رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم، وهذا أعده أهيب به الناس

There will be strife and disunity, so strike with your sword the honor of someone, and break your arrow, and cut it down, and leave it, and sit in your house, for I have done what he commanded me to do. And lo, there was a sword hanging on the pillar of the camp, so take it down and draw it, and lo, there was a sword made of wood. Then he said: I have done with my sword what the Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanded me to do.

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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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