Musnad Ahmad 11841

Translation

✧ While a bedouin was in one of the outskirts of Madinah with some sheep of his, a wolf attacked and seized a sheep from his flock. The bedouin caught up with it, rescued the sheep, and drove the wolf away. The wolf turned back, walking, then sat back on its haunches with its tail between its legs, and addressed him, saying: 'You have taken a provision that Allah provided for me.' He said: 'How amazing! A wolf sitting on its haunches with its tail between its legs speaking to me!' It said: 'By Allah, you are leaving something even more amazing than that.' He said: 'What is more amazing than that?' It said: 'The Messenger of Allah ﷺ is among the palm trees between the two lava fields, telling the people about the news of what has passed and what will come after that.' He said: So the bedouin drove his sheep until he brought them to a part of Madinah, then walked to the Prophet ﷺ and knocked on his door. When the Prophet ﷺ had prayed, he said: 'Where is the bedouin owner of the sheep?' The bedouin stood up, and the Prophet ﷺ said to him: 'Tell the people what you heard and what you saw.' So the bedouin told the people what he had seen of the wolf and what he had heard from it. The Prophet ﷺ then said: 'He has spoken the truth. There are signs that will occur before the Hour. By Him in whose hand is my soul, the Hour will not come until one of you leaves his family and his sandal, whip, or staff informs him of what his family did after him.'

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• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  ورجال أحد إسنادي أحمد رجال الصحيح

  in مسند أحمد, p. 11964

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī

   He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. 63 AH, or 64 AH, or 65 AH, or 74 AH
   أَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيُّله ولأبيه صحبة
   حدثه
2. 2
   Shahr b. Ḥawshab

   Truthful (ṣadūq), frequently narrated mursal reports (kathīr al-irsāl) and made many errors (awhām)d. 98 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AH, or 111 AH, or 112 AH
   شَهْرٌصدوق , كثير الإرسال والأوهام
   حدثني
3. 3
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī Ḥusayn al-Nawfalī

   trustworthy (thiqah), knowledgeable in the rites of pilgrimage (al-manāsik)d. between 121 and 130 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَبِي حُسَيْنٍثقة ، عالم بالمناسك
   حدثني
4. 4
   Shuʿayb

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 162 AH, or 163 AH
   شُعَيْبٌثقة عابد
   أخبرنا
5. 5
   Abū al-Yamān

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 221 AH, or 222 AH
   أَبُو الْيَمَانِثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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