Al Fitan

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Minor signs

A Mass Death Like the Murrain of Sheep

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In brief

During the Tabuk expedition, the Prophet ﷺ told Awf ibn Malik to count six things before the Hour: his own death, the conquest of Jerusalem, then a mass death that would take people quickly 'like the murrain of sheep', then plenty of wealth, then a trial entering every Arab home, then a truce with the Romans that they would break.

Al-Nawawi and Ibn Hajar explain that 'murrain of sheep' is a disease that strikes a flock and kills it fast. So the sign is a sudden, sweeping death among people. They name the plague of Amwas in 18 AH, which took many Companions in Sham, as an early example, without limiting the hadith to any one epidemic. Such waves can come more than once.

What to do

Keep your heart ready for death, observe the prophetic guidance on plague (neither entering nor fleeing an afflicted land), and care for the sick and the bereaved.

Where it sits in the sequence

Phase 2 / 7Signs that spread among people

The narrations do not put these in order, and many of them overlap. Sahih al-Bukhari 7121 lists several together.