Jihad & Military Expeditions

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

Ibn ‘Umar reported the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him)As saying: The Muslims will soon be besieged up to Madina so that their most distant frontier outpost will be Salah.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

Salah is near Khaibar.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Allah will not gather two swords upon this community: Its own sword and the sword of its enemy.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Let the Abyssinians alone as long as they let you alone, and let the Turks alone as long as they leave you alone.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

The last hour will not come before the Muslims fight with the Turks, a people whose faces look as if they were shields covered with skin, and who will wear sandals of hair.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

The last hour will not come before you fight with a people whose sandals are of hair, and the Last hour will not come before you fight with a people who have small eyes, short noses, and whose faces look...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

In the tradition telling that people with small eyes, i.e. the Turks, will fight against you, the prophet (ﷺ) said: You will drive them off three times till you catch up with them in Arabia. On the first occasion when...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Some of my people will alight on low-lying ground, which they will call al-Basrah, beside a river called the Tigris over which there is a bridge. Its people will be numerous and it will...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The people will establish cities, Anas, and one of them will be called al-Basrah or al-Busayrah. If you should pass by it or enter it, avoid its salt-marshes, its Kall, its market, and the gate of...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

We went on the pilgrimage and met a man who asked us: Is there a town near you called al-Ubullah? We said: Yes. He said: Is there any of you who will undertake to pray two or four rak'ahs on...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Leave the Abyssinians alone as long as they leave you alone, for it is only the Abyssinian with short legs who will seek to take out the treasure of the Ka'bah.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

A group of people came to Marwan in Medina, and they heard him say that the first of the signs to appear would be the coming forth of the Dajjal (Antichirst). He said: I then went to Abd Allah b....

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

We were sitting in the shade of the chamber of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) discussing (something) and when we mentioned the last hour, our voices rose high. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: The last hour will not come...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

The last hour will not come before rising of the sun in its place of setting. When it rises (there) and the people see it, those who are on it (the earth) will believe. This is the time of which...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

The Euphrates is soon to uncover a treasure of gold, but those who are present must not take any of it.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

“Uncover a mountain of gold”.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

I know best what the Dajjal (Antichrist) will have with him. He will have with him a sea of water and a river of fire, and what you see as fire will be water and what you sea as water...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

No prophet was sent who had not warned his people about the one-eyed. Between his eyes will be written “infidel” (kafir).

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

“the letters k, f, r” (are on his forehead).

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

Every Muslim will read it.