al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 8582

Translation

✧ I was being told a report about ʿAdī ibn Ḥātim, and I said: “This is ʿAdī in the region of Kūfah—if only I would go to him so that I might be the one to hear it from him.” So I went to him and said: “I was being told a report about you, and I wanted to be the one to hear it from you.” He said: “When Allah, Exalted and Glorified, sent the Prophet ﷺ, I fled from him, until I was in the farthest land of the Muslims toward the Romans. Then I came to dislike the place where I was, until it became more hateful to me than the place I had left. So I said: ‘I will surely go to this man. By Allah, if he is truthful, I will surely listen to him; and if he is lying, it will not harm me.’” He said: “So I came to him, and the people craned their necks to look at me and said: ‘ʿAdī ibn Ḥātim, ʿAdī ibn Ḥātim,’” and I think he said it three times. “He said to me: ‘O ʿAdī ibn Ḥātim, accept Islam and you will be safe.’ I said: ‘I follow a religion.’ He said: ‘O ʿAdī ibn Ḥātim, accept Islam and you will be safe.’ I said: ‘I follow a religion.’ He said it three times, then he said: ‘I know your religion better than you do.’ I said: ‘You know my religion better than I do?’ He said: ‘Yes. Are you not the leader of your people?’ I said: ‘Yes.’ Then he mentioned the Rukūsiyyah and said: ‘In your religion, the mirbāʿ is not lawful.’ When he said that, my soul humbled somewhat. Then he said: ‘I think that what keeps you from Islam is the poverty you see among those around me, and that the people are all united against us. Do you know where al-Ḥīrah is?’ I said: ‘I have heard of it, but I have not been there.’ He said: ‘Soon a woman in a litter will set out from it without needing anyone’s protection until she circumambulates the Kaʿbah. And soon the treasures of Kisrā ibn Hurmuz will be opened.’ I said: ‘Kisrā ibn Hurmuz?’ He said: ‘Kisrā ibn Hurmuz,’ three times. ‘And soon a man will seek someone to accept his wealth as charity, but he will not find anyone.’” ʿAdī said: “I have indeed seen two of them: I saw the woman in a litter set out from al-Ḥīrah without protection until she circumambulated the Kaʿbah, and I was among the cavalry that raided al-Madāʾin. And by Allah, the third will surely come to pass, for it is a report the Messenger of Allah ﷺ told me.”

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