Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-2065b
"عن جابر بن عبد اللَّه قال: قَلَّ الجرادُ في سنةٍ من سنى عمر التى وَلِى فيها، فسأل عنه فلم يُخْبَرْ بِشَئ؛ فاغْتَمَّ لذلك، فأرسلَ راكبًا إلى اليمن، وراكبًا إلى الشام، وراكبًا إلى العراقِ يسألُ: هل رُؤىَ شئ من الجراد أم لا؟ فأتاه الراكب الذى من من قبل اليمن بِقُبْضَةٍ من جراد فألقاها بين يديه، فلما رأها كبَّرَ ثلاثا ثم قال: سمعتُ رسول اللَّه ﷺ يقول: (خلق اللَّه ألْفَ أُمَّةٍ مِنْهَا سِتُّمائَةٍ في البحر وأربعُمِائَةٍ في البر، فَأَولُ شئٍ يهلِكُ، من هذه الأُممِ الجرادُ، فإذا هَلَكَ تتابعت مِثْلَ النِّظَامِ إذا انْقَطَعَ سِلْكُهُ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Jābr b. ʿBd Allāh
- Qal al-Jrād Fy
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"Jabir ibn 'Abdullah said: Locusts became scarce in one of the years of 'Umar's rule. He asked about them but was not informed of anything, so he was saddened by that. He sent a rider to Yemen, a rider to Syria, and a rider to Iraq, asking: Has any locust been seen or not? The rider who came from Yemen brought a handful of locusts and threw them before him. When he saw them, he said Allahu akbar three times, then said: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: "Allah created a thousand nations, six hundred of them in the sea and four hundred on the land. The first of these nations to perish will be the locust, and when it perishes, the rest will follow in succession like a necklace whose string has broken.""
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Notes
نعيم بن حماد في الفتن، والحكم، [ع] أبو يعلى [عد] ابن عدى في الكامل وأَبو الشيخ في العظمة، [هب] البيهقى في شعب الإيمان
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