al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 20896
✧ al-Hakam b. Aban, on the authority of Shahri bin Hawshab
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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو الْخَلَّالُ الْمَكِّيُّ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي عُمَرَ الْعَدَنِيُّ ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ سُلَيْمٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ خُثَيْمٍ عَنْ شَهْرِ بْنِ حَوْشَبٍ عَنْ أَسْمَاءَ بِنْتِ يَزِيدَ
أَنَّهَا سَمِعَتْ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ وَهُوَ بَيْنَ ظَهْرَانَيْ أَصْحَابِهِ يَقُولُ أُحَذِّرُكُمُ الْمَسِيحَ وَأُنْذِرُكُمُوهُ وَكُلُّ نَبِيٍّ قَدْ حَذَّرَ قَوْمَهُ وَهُوَ فِيكُمْ أَيَّتُهَا الْأُمَّةُ وسَأَحْكِي لَكُمْ مِنْ نَعْتِهِ مَا لَمْ يَحْكِ الْأَنْبِيَاءُ قَبْلِي لِقَوْمِهِمْ يَكُونُ قَبْلَ خُرُوجِهِ سِنُونَ خَمْسٌ جَدَبٌ حَتَّى يَهْلِكَ كُلُّ ذِي حَافِرٍ فَنَادَاهُ رَجُلٌ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ فَبِمَ يَعِيشُ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ؟ قَالَ بِمَا يَعِيشُ بِهِ الْمَلَائِكَةُ ثُمَّ يَخْرُجُ وَهُوَ أَعْوَرٌ وَلَيْسَ اللهُ بِأَعْوَرَ وَبَيْنَ عَيْنَيْهِ كَافِرٌ يَقْرَؤُهُ كُلُّ مُؤْمِنٍ كَاتَبٍ وَغَيْرِ كَاتَبٍ أَكْثَرُ مِنْ يَتْبَعُهُ الْيَهُودُ وَالنِّسَاءُ وَالْأَعْرَابُ يَرَوْنَ السَّمَاءَ تُمْطِرُ وَهِيَ لَا تُمْطِرُ وَالْأَرْضَ تُنْبِتُ وَهِيَ لَا تُنْبِتُ وَيَقُولُ لِلْأَعْرَابِ مَا تَبْغُونَ مِنِّي؟ أَلَمْ أُرْسِلِ السَّمَاءَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِدْرَارًا؟ وَأُحْيِي لَكُمْ أَنْعَامَكُمْ شَاخِصَةً دُرَاهَا خَارِجَةً خَوَاصِرُهَا دَارَةً أَلْبَانِهَا؟ وَتُبْعَثُ مَعَهُ الشَّيَاطِينُ عَلَى صُورَةِ مَنْ قَدْ مَاتَ مِنَ الْآبَاءِ وَالْإِخْوَانِ وَالْمَعَارِفِ فَيَأْتِي أَحَدُهُمْ إِلَى أَبِيهِ أَوْ أَخِيهِ أَوْ ذَوِي رَحِمِهِ فَيَقُولُ أَلَسْتَ فُلَانًا؟ أَلَسْتَ تَعْرِفُنِي؟ هُوَ رَبُّكَ فَاتَّبِعْهُ يَعْمُرُ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً السَّنَةَ الْأُولَى كَالشَّهْرِ وَالشَّهْرِ كَالْجُمُعَةِ وَالْجُمُعَةِ كَالْيَوْمِ وَالْيَوْمِ كَالسَّاعَةِ وَالسَّاعَةِ كَاحْتِرَاقِ السَّعَفَةِ فِي النَّارِ يَرِدُ كُلَّ مَنْهَلٍ إِلَّا الْمَسْجِدَيْنِ ثُمَّ قَامَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يَتَوَضَّأُ فَسَمِعَ بُكَاءَ النَّاسِ وَشَهِيقَهُمْ فَرَجَعَ إِلَيْهِمْ فَقَامَ بَيْنَ أَظْهُرِهِمْ فَقَالَ «أَبْشِرُوا فَإِنْ يَخْرُجْ وَأَنَا بَيْنَ أَظْهُرِكُمْ فَاللهُ كَافِيَكُمْ وَرَسُولُهُ وَإِنْ يَخْرُجْ بَعْدِي فَاللهُ خَلِيفَتِي عَلَى كُلِّ مُسْلِمٍ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. ʿAmr al-Khallāl al-Makkī
- Muḥammad b. Abū ʿUmar al-ʿAdanī
- Yaḥyá b. Sulaym
- ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUthmān b. Khuthaym
- Shahr b. Ḥawshab
- Asmāʾ b. Yazīd
✧ That she heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ while he was among his companions saying: “I warn you against the Masih and caution you about him. Every prophet warned his people, and he is among you, O Ummah. I will describe to you from his characteristics what the prophets before me did not describe to their peoples. Before his emergence there will be five years of drought until every hoofed animal perishes.” A man called out to him and said, “O Messenger of Allah, how will the believers live?” He said, “By what the angels live on.” Then he will emerge and he is one-eyed, and Allah is not one-eyed. Between his eyes is written ‘kafir’ that every believer, literate or illiterate, will read. Most of his followers will be Jews, women, and Bedouins. They will see the sky raining while it does not rain, and the earth producing vegetation while it does not produce. He will say to the Bedouins, “What do you want from me? Have I not sent the sky upon you abundantly, and brought your livestock to life with raised udders, protruding flanks, and flowing milk?” Devils will be sent with him in the form of fathers, brothers, and acquaintances who have died. One of them will come to his father, brother, or relative and say, “Are you not so-and-so? Do you not know me? He is your Lord, so follow him.” He will remain forty years: a year like a month, a month like a week, a week like a day, a day like an hour, and an hour like the burning of a palm branch in the fire. He will reach every watering place except the two mosques. Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ stood to perform ablution and heard the people’s crying and sobbing, so he returned to them and stood among them and said, “Rejoice, for if he emerges while I am among you, Allah and His Messenger will suffice you, and if he emerges after me, Allah is my successor over every Muslim.”
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