While we’re nearing the tenth year of Islam, I wanted to narrate some of the hadith regarding the end of times and doomsday, after which we shall continue from where we left off…

Here are some of the things our Master said about the end of times:

 

Narrated Abu Huraira:

The Rasul of Allah (saw) said, “By Him in Whose Hand my soul is, the world will not come to an end until a man passes by a grave and lies over it saying, “If only it were I in this grave, dead!”. He will not say so because of religious reasons but because of widespread mischief and severe trials of the world.”[1]

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Narrated Abu Huraira:

“The time is near when the River Euphrates will dry up to unveil a treasure of gold. Whosoever may be alive at that time, should not take anything of it.”

“The Hour will not come to pass before the River Euphrates dries up to unveil the mountain of gold, for which people will fight. Ninety-nine out of one hundred will die in this fight and every man amongst them will say: ‘Perhaps I may be the only one to remain alive.’”[2]

 

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Yusair b. Jabir reported:

Once there blew a red storm in Kufah and there came a person who had nothing to say but: 

“Abdullah b. Masud, the Last Hour has come!” 

Abdullah b. Masud was sitting reclining against something, and he said: “The Last Hour would not come until shares of inheritance are not distributed and there is no rejoicing over spoils of war.”

Then he said pointing towards Syria, with the gesture of his hand like this: “The enemy shall muster strength against Muslims and the Muslims will muster strength against them (Syrians)”. 

I said, “You mean Rome?” And he said: “Yes, and there would be a terrible fight and the Muslims would prepare a detachment to fight unto death, which would not return but victorious. They will fight until night will intervene them; both the sides will return without being victorious and both will be wiped out. The Muslims will again prepare a detachment for fighting unto death so that they may not return but victorious. When it would be the fourth day, a new detachment out of the remnant of the Muslims would be prepared and Allah will decree that the enemy should be routed. And they would fight such a fight the like of which would not be seen, so much so that even if a bird were to pass their flanks, it would fall down dead before reaching the end of them. There would be such a large-scale massacre that when counting would be done, only one out of a hundred men related to one another would be found alive. So, what can be the joy at the spoils of such war and what inheritance would be divided!”[3] 

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Abu Huraira reported the Rasul of Allah (saw) as saying:

The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and the stone or the tree would say: “O Muslim, O servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him” but the tree Gharqad would not say it, for it is the tree of the Jews.[4]

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Amr ibn Al-As reported: 

The Quraish importer said to him that he heard the Rasul of Allah (saw) say, “The Hour will be established and the Romans will be a majority of the people.” Amr said, “Be careful what you say.” The man said, “I have said what I heard from the Rasul of Allah.” 

Amr said, “If the Rasul said that, indeed, there are four qualities in them: they are the most judicious of people during a tribulation, they are the quickest to recover after a calamity, they are the quickest to return to battle after a retreat, and they behave well with the poor and weak. Their fifth quality is good and beautiful: they are best at preventing the oppression of their kings.”[5]

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Umm Salama, the Mother of the Faithful reported;

Allah’s Rasul (saw) said that the defenseless would seek protection in the Sacred House (Kaaba), people who would have nothing to protect themselves in the shape of weapons or the strength of the people. An army would be sent to fight and kill them but when they would enter a plain ground the army would be sunk in it.[6]

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Aisha reported that the Rasul of Allah (saw) said: 

“Strange it is that some people of my Ummah would attack the House (Ka’ba) to kill a person who would belong to the tribe of the Quraish and he would try to seek protection in the House. And when they would reach the plain ground, they would be sunk.” I said, “Allah’s Rasul, all sorts of people throng the path.” Thereupon he said: “Yes, there would be amongst them people who would come with definite designs and those who would come under duress and there would be travellers also, but they would all be destroyed through one stroke of destruction, though they would be raised in different states on the Day of Resurrection. Allah would, however, raise them according to their intention.”[7]

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Abu Bakrah reported: 

The Rasul (saw) said, “If two Muslims confront each other with swords, both the killer and the killed will be in Hellfire.” It was said, “O Rasul of Allah, we understand for the killer, but why for the one killed?” The Rasul said, “Verily, he intended to kill his companion.”[8]

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It was narrated from Thawban, the freed slave of the Rasul of Allah (saw), that the Rasul of Allah (saw) said:

“The earth was brought together for me so that I could see the east and the west, and I was given two treasures, the yellow and the white – meaning gold and silver. And it was said to me: ‘Your dominion will extend as far as has been shown to you.’ I asked Allah for three things: That my nation would not be overwhelmed by famine that would destroy them all, and that they would not be rent by schism and fight one another. But it was said to me: ‘When I (Allah) issue My decree it cannot be revoked. But I will never cause your nation to be overwhelmed by famine that would destroy them all, and I will not gather their enemies against them and destroy them until they annihilate one another and kill one another.’”[9] 

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Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Rasul (saw) saying:

Have you heard about a city, one side of which is on land and the other is in the sea (Constantinople). They said: Allah’s Rasul, yes. Thereupon he said: The Last Hour would not come unless seventy thousand persons from Bani lshaq would attack it. When they would land there, they will neither fight with weapons nor would shower arrows but would only say: “There is no god but Allah and Allah is the Greatest,” and one side of it would fall. Thaur (one of the narrators) said: I think that he said: The part by the side of the ocean. Then they would say for the second time: “There is no god but Allah and Allah is the Greatest” and the second side would also fall, and they would say: “There is no god but Allah and Allah is the Greatest,” and the gates would be opened for them and they would enter therein and, they would be collecting spoils of war and distributing them amongst themselves when a noise would be heard saying: Verily, Dajjal has come. And thus, they would leave everything there and go back.[10]

 

The hadith makes it clear that the conquest of this city will ocur near the last hour and will involve no war, only prayer and zhikr…

Here is a relevant excerpt from Tazqirat’ul Awliya, page 161:

“When Akshamsattin heard that many intented to prevent Sultan Mehmet from conquering Constantinople, he told Sultan Mehmet:

‘Sultan Mehmet will conquer Constantinople first… Then Bani Asfar will take it and then the Mahdi will take it back from the Bani Asfar’…”

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An-Nawwas b. Saman reported;

Allah’s Rasul (saw) made a mention of the Dajjal one day in the morning. He sometimes described him to be insignificant and sometimes described his turmoil as very significant and we felt as if he were in the cluster of the date-palm trees. When we went to him in the evening and he read the signs of fear in our faces, he said:

“What is the matter with you?” We said, “Allah’s Rasul, you made a mention of the Dajjal in the morning sometimes describing him to be insignificant and sometimes very important, until we began to think as if he were present in some near part of the cluster of the date-palm trees.” Thereupon he said, “I harbor fear in regard to you in so many other things besides the Dajjal. If he comes forth while I am among you, I shall contend with him on your behalf, but if he comes forth while I am not amongst you, a man must contend on his own behalf and Allah would take care of every Muslim on my behalf and safeguard him against his evil. The Dajjal will be a young man with curly, contracted hair, and a blind eye. I compare him to Abd-ul-Uzza b. Qatan. He who amongst you would survive to see him should recite over him the opening verses of Sura Kahf. He would appear on the way between Syria and Iraq and would spread mischief right and left. O servants of Allah! When this takes place, adhere to the path of Truth!”