Jihad & Military Expeditions

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Let him who hears of the Dajjal (Antichrist) go far from him for I swear by Allah that a man will come to him thinking he is a believer and follow him because of confused ideas...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: I have told you so much about the Dajjal (Antichrist) that I am afraid you may not understand. The Antichrist is short, hen-toed, woolly-haired, one-eyed, an eye-sightless, and neither protruding nor deep-seated. If you are confused...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) mentioned the Dajjal (Antichrist) saying: If he comes forth while I am among you I shall be the one who will dispute with him on your behalf, but if he comes forth when I am...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

A similar tradition has been transmitted by Abu Umamah from the prophet (ﷺ) through a different chain of narrators. In this version he mentioned the prayers to the same effect.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

If anyone memorizes ten verses from the beginning of surat al-Kahf, he will be protected from the trial of Dajjal (Antichrist). Abu Dawud said: In this way Hashim al-dastawa’I transmitted it from Qatadah, but he said : “If anyone memorizes...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: There is no prophet between me and him, that is, Jesus (ﷺ). He will descent (to the earth). When you see him, recognise him: a man of medium height, reddish fair, wearing two light yellow garments,...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) once delayed the congregational night prayer. He came out and said: The talk of Tamim ad-Dari detained me. He transmitted it to me from a man who was on of of the islands of the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

I heard the crier of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) calling : Assemble for the prayer. I Then came out and prayed along with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ): When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) finished his prayer, he sat...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

The prophet (ﷺ) offered the noon prayer and ascended the pulpit. Before this day he did not ascend it except on Friday. He then narrated this story. Abu Dawud said: Ibn Sudran belongs to Basrah. He was drowned in the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said one day from the pulpit: When some people were sailing in the sea, their food was finished. An island appeared to them. They went out seeking bread. They were met by the Jassasah (the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

The prophet (ﷺ) passed by Ibn Sa’Id along with some of his companions. ‘Umar b. al-Kattab was among them. He was playing with boys near the fortress of Banu Maghalah. He was near the age of puberty (i.e. a boy)....

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

Nafi' told that Ibn Umar used to say: I swear by Allah that I do not doubt that Antichrist is Ibn Sayyad.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

You swear by Allah! He said: I heard Umar swearing to that in the presence of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), but the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) did not make any objection to it.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

We saw the last of Ibn Sayyad at the battle of the Harrah.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The Last Hour will not come before there come forth thirty Dajjals (fraudulents), everyone presuming himself that he is an apostle of Allah.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The Last Hour will not come before there come forth thirty liar Dajjals (fraudulents) lying on Allah and His Apostle.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

Do you think that his one of them, that is al-Mukhtar (al-Thaqaff)? He said : He is from the leaders.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: The first defect that permeated Banu Isra'il was that a man (of them) met another man and said: O so-and-so, fear Allah, and abandon what you are doing, for it is not lawful for...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

"Or Allah will mingle your hearts together and curse you as He cursed them." Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been transmitted by al-Muharibi, from al-'Ala bin al-Musayyab, from 'Abd Allah bin 'Amr bin Murrah, from Salim al-Aftas, from Abu...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

You people recite this verse "You who believe, care for yourselves; he who goes astray cannot harm you when you are rightly-guided," and put it in its improper place. Khalid's version has: We heard the Prophet (ﷺ) say: When the...