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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إن بعدكم فتنا كقطع الليل المظلم، يصبح الرجل فيها مؤمنا ويمسي كافرا، ويمسي مؤمنا ويصبح كافرا

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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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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هذه فتن قد أظلت كقطع الليل المظلم، كلما ذهب منها رسل بدا رسل آخر، يصبح الرجل فيها مؤمنا ويمسي كافرا، ويمسي مؤمنا ويصبح كافرا، يبيع فيها أقوام دينهم بعرض من الدنيا قليل

Anas bin Malik narrated that the Messenger of Allah(s.a.w) said:"Before the Hour there shall be Fitan like a portion of the dark night. Morning will come upon a man as a believer, who will be a disbeliever in the evening, and evening will come upon a believer, who will be a disbeliever in the morning, people will sell their religion for goods of the 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 الرجل في أهله، وماله، وولده، وجاره، تكفرها الصلاة، والصدقة، والأمر بالمعروف، والنهي عن المنكر فقال: ليس عن هذا أسألك، ولكن عن التي تموج كموج البحر، فقلت: لا تخف يا أمير المؤمنين، فإن بينك وبينها بابا مغلقا، قال: فيكسر الباب أو يفتح؟ قال: قلت: بل يكسر، فقال عمر: إذا لا يغلق أبدا، قلت: أجل، قال: قلنا: فهل يعلم عمر من الباب؟ قال: نعم، كما يعلم أن دون غد ليلة، وذلك أني حدثته حديثا ليس بالأغاليط ، قال شقيق: فهبنا أن نسأله: من الباب؟ فأمرنا مسروقا فسأله، فقال: الباب عمر

The temptation of a man regarding his family, his wealth, his children, and his neighbour, is expiated by prayer, charity, enjoining good, and forbidding evil. He said: I am not asking you about this, but about the one that waves like the waves of the sea. I said: Do not be afraid, O Commander of the Faithful, for there is a closed door between you and it. He said: Will the door be broken or opened? He said: I said: Rather, it will be broken. Omar said: Then it will never close. I said: Yes. He said: We said: Does Omar know from the door? He said: Yes, just as he knows that there is a night before tomorrow, and that is because I told him a hadith that is not full of errors. Shaqiq said: So we decided to ask him: From the door? So we ordered Masruq and asked him, and he said: The door is Omar

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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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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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الفتن أربع: فتنة السراء، وفتنة الضراء، وفتنة كذا، فذكر معدن الذهب، ثم يخرج رجل من عترة النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم يصلح الله على يديه أمرهم

There are four temptations: the temptation of good times, the temptation of adversity, and the temptation of such-and-such, so he mentioned the metal of gold, then a man from the family of the Prophet ﷺ emerges and Allah will set their affairs right at his hands.

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

تكون فتن ثلاث كأمسكم الذاهب، فتنة تكون بالشام، ثم الشرقية هلاك الملوك، ثم تتبعها الغربية، وذكر الرايات الصفر، قال: والغربية هي العمياء

There will be three tribulations like yours departing: a tribulation that will take place in the Sham (Greater Syria), then the eastern one, the destruction of kings, then the western one will follow, and he mentioned the yellow flags. He said: and the western ones are the blind ones.

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ما هذه إلا حيصة من حيصات الفتن، وبقيت الرداح المطبقة، من أشرف لها أشرفت له، القاعد فيها خير من القائم، والقائم خير من الماشي، والماشي خير من الساعي، والصامت خير من المتكلم، والنائم خير من المستيقظ

Busr bin Sa'eed said:During the Fitnah(in the time) of 'Uthman bin 'Affan, Sa'd bin Abi Waqqas said: "I testify that the Messenger of Allah(s.a.w) said: 'There will be a Fitnah during which the sitting person is better than the standing(person) is better than the walking, and the walking(person) is better than the running."' He said: "What do you see(I should do) if he entered upon me in my homeand extended hos hand to kill me? He said: 'Be as Adam's son

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هذه فتن قد أطلت كقطع الليل المظلم، كلما ذهب منها رسل جاء رسل، يموت فيها قلب الرجل كما يموت بدنه

These are temptations that have spread like pieces of a dark night. Whenever messengers go away, messengers come in them. A man’s heart dies as his body dies.

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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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ستكون فتن ، قلنا: يا أبا عبد الله، فما تأمرنا؟ قال: الأرض الأرض، ليكن أحدكم حلس بيته، فإنه لا ينبجس لها أحد إلا أذرته

There will be temptations on earth, so let one of you protect his house, for no one will be exposed to it except his offspring

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إن من ورائكم فتنا كقطع الليل المظلم، يصبح الرجل فيها مؤمنا ويمسي كافرا، ويمسي مؤمنا ويصبح كافرا، القاعد فيها خير من القائم، والقائم خير من الماشي، والماشي خير من الراكب ، قالوا: فما تأمرنا؟ قال: كونوا أحلاس البيوت

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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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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إن بعدكم فتنا، القاعد فيها خير من القائم، والقائم خير من الساعي، حتى ذكر الراكب، فكونوا فيها أحلاس بيوتكم

Narrated Abu Huraira:Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "There will be afflictions (in the near future) during which a sitting person will be better than a standing one, and the standing one will be better than a walking one, and the walking one will be better than a running one, and whoever will expose himself to these afflictions, they will destroy him. So whoever can find a place of protection or refuge from them, should take shelter in it

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ستكون فتن، فعليكم بالأرض، وليكن أحدكم حلس بيته، فإنه لا ينبجس لها أحد إلا أردته

There will be tribulations, so stay on the ground, and let one of you guard his house, for no one will be exposed to it unless you want him to.

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

أظلتكم فتنة كقطع الليل المظلم، لا يبقى بيت من بيوت المسلمين بين المشرق والمغرب إلا دخلته ، قيل: فما يخلص منها أحد؟ قال: يخلص منها من استظل بظل لبنان فيما بينه وبين البحر، فهو أسلم الناس من تلك الفتنة ، قال: فإذا كان مائة واثنتين وعشرين سنة احترقت داري هذه فاحترقت داره حينئذ

You have been overshadowed by a trial like pieces of a dark night. There is not a Muslim house left between the East and the West without entering it. Those who take shelter in the shade of Lebanon between it and the sea will be saved from it. He is the safest of people from that trial. If one hundred and twenty-two years have passed, this house of mine burned, and his house burned at that time.

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تكون فتن، ثم تكون جماعة على رأس رجل من أهل بيتي، ليس له عند الله خلاق، فيقتل أو يموت فيقوم المهدي

There will be temptations, then there will be a group headed by a man from my family, who has no share with Allah, and he will be killed or die, and then the Mahdi will arise.

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أما إنها ستكون فتنة، والناس يصلون معا، ويحجون معا، ويعرفون معا، ويضحون معا، ثم تهيج كالكلب، فيقتتلون حتى تسيل العقبة دما، وحتى يرى البريء أن براءته لن تنجيه، ويرى المعتزل أن اعتزاله لن ينفعه، ثم يستكرهون رجلا شابا مسندا ظهره بالركن، ترعد فرائصه، يقال له المهدي في الأرض، وهو المهدي في السماء، فمن أدركه فليتبعه

However, it will be a strife, and people will pray together, perform Hajj together, worship together, and sacrifice together, then they will rage like a dog, fighting until the obstacle is dripping with blood, and until the innocent person sees that his innocence will not save him, and the retreatant sees that his isolation will not benefit him, then they hate a young man with his back against the corner, his horses thundering, he will be called the Mahdi on earth, and he is the Mahdi in heaven, so whoever realizes him Let him follow him

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