Trials and Fierce Battles (Kitab Al-Fitan Wa Al-Malahim)

Book 37 of 43 · Sunan Abi Dawud

39 hadith Hadith 4240–4278 Sunni
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Book 37 of 43

Trials and Fierce Battles (Kitab Al-Fitan Wa Al-Malahim)

Sunan Abi Dawud

39 hadith Hadith 4240–4278 Sunni

About This Book

Compiled during the 833–888 CE period by al-Sijistani.

Trials and Fierce Battles (Kitab Al-Fitan Wa Al-Malahim) is book 37 of 43 in Sunan Abi Dawud, containing 39 hadith.

Geography

This collection was compiled primarily in Basra (later life). The narrators in this book are associated with 21 distinct geographic locations.

Baghdad Kufa Makkah Damascus Hims Cairo Medina Basra Basrah Yemen Mada'in al-Ramla Hiran Wasit Asbahan Tirmidh بغداد Asqalan Iraq Rome al-Raqqa

Narrators in This Book

This book features 142 narrators in its chains of transmission. The most frequently cited are Masdad bin Masrhad مسدد بن مسرهد بن مسربل, Hammad bin Zayd حماد بن زيد بن درهم الأزدي الأزرق, ibn Umar, Muhammad bin Yahya bin Hiban محمد بن يحيى بن حبان, Nsr bin 'Asim al-Lythy نصر بن عاصم الليثي البصري.

Masdad bin Masrhad مسدد بن مسرهد بن مسربل (6) Hammad bin Zayd حماد بن زيد بن درهم الأزدي الأزرق (5) ibn Umar (4) Muhammad bin Yahya bin Hiban محمد بن يحيى بن حبان (4) Nsr bin 'Asim al-Lythy نصر بن عاصم الليثي البصري (3) Abu Hurairah (3) Yonus bin Yazid bin Abi al-Nijad يونس بن يزيد بن أبي النجاد (3) Ayoub al-Sakhtiyani أيوب السختياني (3) Mansur bin al-Ma'tamar al-Salmi منصور بن المعتمر بن عبد الله السلمي (3) al-Laith bin Sa'd الليث بن سعد (3) Sa'id bin Jubayr سعيد بن جبير الأسدي (3) Qatada قتادة (2) Wadah bin 'Abdullah al-Yashkari وضاح بن عبد الله اليشكري أبو عوانة (2) Abdur-Razzaq عبد الرزاق بن همام (2) Ma'mar bin Rashid معمر بن راشد (2) Abdullah bin Muslima al-Qa'nabi عبد الله بن مسلمة بن قعنب القعنبي (2) Abdul Warith bin Sa'id bin Dhakwan عبد الوارث بن سعيد بن ذكوان (2) Abdullah bin 'Amr bin al-'Aas (2) Sulaiman al-A'mash الأعمش / سليمان بن مهران (2) Abdullah bin Wahb عبد الله بن وهب بن مسلم القرشي (2) Ahmed bin Salah al-Masri أحمد بن صالح المصري (2) al-Zuhri ابن شهاب الزهري‎, محمد بن مسلم (2) Unbasa bin Sa'id bin al-Aas عنبسة بن سعيد بن العاص بن سعيد (2) Abdur Rahman bin Mahdi عبد الرحمن بن مهدي (2) ibn Mas'ud (2)

Hadith in This Book 39 hadith

1 4240 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) stood among us (to give us an address) and he left out nothing that would happen up to the last hour without telling of it. Some remembered it and some…
2 4241 Daif
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: four (majestic) trials (fitnahs) will take place among this community, and in their end there will be destruction.
3 4242 Sahih
When we were sitting with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), he talked about periods of trial (fitnahs), mentioning many of them. When he mentioned the one when people should stay…
4 4243 Daif
I swear by Allah, I do not know whether my companions have forgotten or have pretended to forgot. I swear by Allah that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) did not omit a leader of a wrong…
5 4244 Hasan
Subay' ibn Khalid said: I came to Kufah at the time when Tustar was conquered. I took some mules from it. When I entered the mosque (of Kufah), I found there some people of…
6 4245 Hasan
I (Hudhaifah) asked : Will any be spared after the use of the sword ? He replied: There will be remnant with specks in its eye and an illusory truce. He then transmitted the rest…
7 4246 Hasan
The tradition mentioned above (No. 4232) has also been transmitted through a different chain of narrators by Nasr ibn Asim al-Laythi who said: We came to al-Yashkuri with a group…
8 4247 Hasan
He said: If you do not find a caliph in those days, then flee away until you die, even of you die holding on (to a stump of a tree). I asked: What will come next ? He replied: If…
9 4248 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) as saying: If a man takes an oath of allegiance to a leader, and puts his hand on his hand and does it with the sincerity of his heart, he should obey him as much…
10 4249 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) as saying: Woe to Arabs because of evil which has drawn near! He will escape who restrains his hand.
11 4250 Sahih
Ibn 'Umar reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: The Muslims will soon be besieged up to Medina, so that their most distant frontier outpost will be Salah.
12 4251 Sahih Isnaad Maqtu
Salah is near Khaibar.
13 4252 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: Allah, the Exalted, folded for me the earth, or he said (the narrator is doubtful): My Lord folded for me the earth, so much so that I saw…
14 4253 Daif
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Allah has protected you from three things: that your Prophet should not invoke a curse on you and should all perish, that those who follow what is false…
15 4254 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The mill of Islam will go round till the year thirty-five, or thirty-six, or thirty-seven; then if they perish, they will have followed the path of those who…
16 4255 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: The time will become short, knowledge will be decreased, civil strife (fitan) will appear, niggardliness will be case into people's heart,…
17 4256 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: There will be a period of commotion in which the one who lies down will be better than the one who sits, and the one who sits is better than the…
18 4257 Sahih
I asked: Messenger of Allah! tell me if someone enters my house and extends his hands to kill me (what should I do?) The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) replied: Be like the two sons of…
19 4258 Daif Isnaad
The tradition mentioned above (No. 4243) has also been transmitted by Ibn Mas'ud through a different chain of narrators. Ibn Mas'ud said: I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) say: He…
20 4259 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Before the Last Hour there will be commotions like pieces of a dark night in which a man will be a believer in the morning and an infidel in the…
21 4260 Daif
AbdurRahman ibn Samurah said: I was holding the hand of Ibn Umar on one of the ways of Medina. He suddenly came to a hanging head. He said: Unhappy is the one who killed him. When…
22 4261 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to me: O AbuDharr. I replied: At thy service and at thy pleasure, Messenger of Allah. He then mentioned the tradition in which he said: What will…
23 4262 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Before you there will be commotions like pieces of a dark night in which a man will be a believer in the morning and an infidel in the evening. He who sits…
24 4263 Sahih
I swear by Allah, I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: The happy man is he who avoids dissensions: happy is the man who avoids dissensions; happy is the man who avoids…
25 4264 Daif
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: There will be civil strife (fitnah) which will render people deaf, dumb and blind regarding what is right. Those who contemplate it will be drawn by it, and…
26 4265 Daif
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: There will be civil strife which wipe out the Arabs, and their slain will go to Hell. During it the tongue will be more severe than blows of the…
27 4266 Daif
Ziyad, one who has white ears.
28 4267 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: A Muslim's best property will soon be sheep which he will take to the tops of the mountains and the places where the rain falls, fleeing with…
29 4268 Sahih
I came out with the intention of (participating in) fighting. Abu Bakrah met me and said: Go back, for I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: When two Muslims face each other…
30 4269 Sahih
The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted briefly by al-Hasan through a different chain of narrators to the same effect.
31 4270 Sahih
Khalid ibn Dihqan said: When we were engaged in the battle of Constantinople at Dhuluqiyyah, a man of the people of Palestine, who was one of their nobility and elite and whose…
32 4271 Sahih Maqtu
I asked Yahya b. Yahya al-Ghassani about the word i'tabata bi qatlihi spoken by him (as mentioned in the previous tradition). He said: It means those people who fight during the…
33 4272 Daif
The verse "If a man kills a believer intentionally, his recompense is Hell to abide therein for ever" was revealed six months after the verse "And those who invoke not with Allah…
34 4273 Sahih
I asked Ibn 'Abbas (about the verse relating to intentional homicide in Surat An-Nisa') He said: When the verse "Those who invoke not with Allah any other god, nor slay such life…
35 4274 Sahih
The verse: "Those who invoke not with Allah" applied to polytheists. He said: About them another verse, "Say: O my servants who have transgressed against their souls" was also…
36 4275 Sahih
No other verse has repealed the verse "If a man kills a believer intentionally"
37 4276 Hasan Maqtu
This is his recompense. If Allah wishes to disregard him, He may do do.
38 4277 Sahih
We were with the Prophet (ﷺ). He mentioned civil strife (fitnah) and expressed its gravity. We or the people said: Messenger of Allah, if this happens to us it will destroy us.…
39 4278 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: This people of mine is one to which mercy is shown. It will have no punishment in the next world, but its punishment in this world will be trials,…