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Wars and battles

Truce with the Romans

In brief

The Prophet ﷺ said that the Muslims will make a secure peace with the Romans, and that together they will fight a common enemy.

They win that war, take the spoils, and camp in a green meadow. Then a man from the Christians raises the cross and says, 'The cross has won.' A Muslim gets angry and breaks it, the Romans betray the truce, and they gather for the great battle. Another hadith, from Awf ibn Malik, says there will be a truce with the Banu al-Asfar, who then come under eighty banners with twelve thousand men under each.

This truce opens the time before the Dajjal, and the great battle follows it. Awf ibn Malik's hadith lists six things before the Hour: the Prophet's death, the conquest of Jerusalem, a plague, wealth overflowing, a trial that enters every Arab home, and then this truce. Scholars note that the first five of these have already happened.

What to do

Keeping one's word is part of faith. Treaties are kept until the other side breaks them.

Where it sits in the sequence

Phase 3 / 7Before the Dajjal

Mu'adh ibn Jabal's narration gives this order: Jerusalem flourishes, Yathrib is in ruins, the great battle, the conquest of Constantinople, then the Dajjal (Sunan Abi Dawud 4294, graded hasan by al-Albani). Sahih Muslim 2897 places the battle at al-A'maq or Dabiq, then Constantinople, then the Dajjal. Sunan Abi Dawud 4292 puts a truce with the Romans before the battle. The narrations on the Mahdi do not state his place in this order.