Partial Translation
of Sunan Abu-Dawud:
Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)
Book 37, Number 4278:
Narrated AbuHurayrah:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Allah will
raise for this community at the end of every hundred
years the one who will renovate its religion for it.
Book 37, Number 4281:
Narrated Mu'adh ibn Jabal:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: The flourishing
state of Jerusalem will be when Yathrib is in ruins, the
ruined state of Yathrib will be when the great war
comes, the outbreak of the great war will be at the
conquest of Constantinople and the conquest of
Constantinople when the Dajjal (Antichrist) comes forth.
He (the Prophet) struck his thigh or his shoulder with
his hand and said: This is as true as you are here or as
you are sitting (meaning Mu'adh ibn Jabal).
Book 37, Number 4282:
Narrated Mu'adh ibn Jabal:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: The greatest
war, the conquest of Constantinople and the coming forth
of the Dajjal (Antichrist) will take place within a
period of seven months.
Book 37, Number 4283:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Busr:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: The time
between the great war and the conquest of the city
(Constantinople) will be six years, and the Dajjal
(Antichrist) will come forth in the seventh.
Book 37, Number 4284:
Narrated Thawban:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: The people will
soon summon one another to attack you as people when
eating invite others to share their dish. Someone asked:
Will that be because of our small numbers at that time?
He replied: No, you will be numerous at that time: but
you will be scum and rubbish like that carried down by a
torrent, and Allah will take fear of you from the
breasts of your enemy and last enervation into your
hearts. Someone asked: What is wahn (enervation).
Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him): He replied: Love
of the world and dislike of death.
Book 37, Number 4285:
Narrated AbudDarda':
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: The place of
assembly of the Muslims at the time of the war will be
in al-Ghutah near a city called Damascus, one of the
best cities in Syria.
Book 37, Number 4287:
Narrated Awf ibn Malik:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Allah will not
gather two swords upon this community: Its own sword and
the sword of its enemy.
Book 37, Number 4288:
Narrated One of the Companions:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Let the
Abyssinians alone as long as they let you alone, and let
the Turks alone as long as they leave you alone.
Book 37, Number 4292:
Narrated AbuBakrah:
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said: Some
of my people will alight on low-lying ground, which they
will call al-Basrah, beside a river called Dajjal (the
Tigris) over which there is a bridge. Its people will be
numerous and it will be one of the capital cities of
immigrants (or one of the capital cities of Muslims,
according to the version of Ibn Yahya who reported from
AbuMa'mar).
At the end of time the descendants of Qantura' will
come with broad faces and small eyes and alight on the
bank of the river. The town's inhabitants will then
separate into three sections, one of which will follow
cattle and (live in) the desert and perish, another of
which will seek security for themselves and perish, but
a third will put their children behind their backs and
fight the invaders, and they will be the martyrs.
Book 37, Number 4293:
Narrated Anas ibn Malik:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) 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 its commanders, and keep to its
environs, for the earth will swallow some people up,
pelting rain will fall and earthquakes will take place
in it, and there will be people who will spend the night
in it and become apes and swine in the morning.
Book 37, Number 4294:
Narrated AbuHurayrah:
Salih ibn Dirham said: 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 my
behalf in the mosque of al-Ashshar, stating "they are on
behalf of AbuHurayrah"?
He (AbuHurayrah) said: I heard my friend AbulQasim
(peace_be_upon_him) say: On the Day of Resurrection
Allah will raise martyrs from the mosque of al-Ashshar,
who will be the only ones to rise with the martyrs of
Badr.
Book 37, Number 4295:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) 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.
Book 37, Number 4305:
Narrated Imran ibn Husayn:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) 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
roused in him by him.
Book 37, Number 4306:
Narrated Ubadah ibn as-Samit:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) 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
about him, know that your Lord is not one-eyed.
Book 37, Number 4310:
Narrated AbuHurayrah:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: There is no
prophet between me and him, that is, Jesus
(peace_be_upon_him). He will descent (to the earth).
When you see him, recognise him: a man of medium height,
reddish fair, wearing two light yellow garments, looking
as if drops were falling down from his head though it
will not be wet. He will fight the people for the cause
of Islam. He will break the cross, kill swine, and
abolish jizyah. Allah will perish all religions except
Islam. He will destroy the Antichrist and will live on
the earth for forty years and then he will die. The
Muslims will pray over him.
Book 37, Number 4311:
Narrated Fatimah, daughter of Qays:
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) 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 sea. All of a sudden he
found a woman who was trailing her hair. He asked: Who
are you?
She said: I am the Jassasah. Go to that castle. So I
came to it and found a man who was trailing his hair,
chained in iron collars, and leaping between Heaven and
Earth.
I asked: Who are you? He replied: I am the Dajjal
(Antichrist). Has the Prophet of the unlettered people
come forth now? I replied: Yes. He said: Have they
obeyed him or disobeyed him? I said: No, they have
obeyed him. He said: That is better for them.
Book 37, Number 4314:
Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) 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 Antichrist's spy).
I said to AbuSalamah: What is the Jassasah? He
replied: A woman trailing the hair of her skin and of
her head. She said: In this castle. He then narrated the
rest of the (No. 4311) tradition. He asked about the
palm-trees of Baysan and the spring of Zughar. He said:
He is the Antichrist. Ibn Salamah said to me: There is
something more in this tradition, which I could not
remember. He said: Jabir testified that it was he who
was Ibn Sayyad.
I said: He died. He said: Let him die. I said: He
accepted Islam. He said: Let him accept Islam. I said:
He entered Medina. He said: Let him enter Medina.
Book 37, Number 4316:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar:
Nafi' told that Ibn Umar used to say: I swear by
Allah that I do not doubt that Antichrist is Ibn Sayyad.
Book 37, Number 4317:
Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:
Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir told that he saw Jabir ibn
Abdullah swearing by Allah that Ibn as-Sa'id was the
Dajjal (Antichrist). I expressed my surprise by saying:
You swear by Allah! He said: I heard Umar swearing to
that in the presence of the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him), but the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) did not make any objection to it.
Book 37, Number 4318:
Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:
We saw the last of Ibn Sayyad at the battle of the
Harrah.
Book 37, Number 4319:
Narrated AbuHurayrah:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: The Last Hour
will not come before there come forth thirty Dajjals
(fraudulents), everyone presuming himself that he is an
apostle of Allah.
Book 37, Number 4320:
Narrated AbuHurayrah:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: The Last Hour
will not come before there come forth thirty liar
Dajjals (fraudulents) lying on Allah and His Apostle.
Book 37, Number 4322:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Mas'ud:
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) 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 you. He then met him the next day and that
did not prevent him from eating with him, drinking with
him and sitting with him. When they did so. Allah
mingled their hearts with each other.
He then recited the verse: "curses were pronounced on
those among the children of Isra'il who rejected Faith,
by the tongue of David and of Jesus the son of
Mary"...up to "wrongdoers".
He then said: By no means, I swear by Allah, you must
enjoin what is good and prohibit what is evil, prevent
the wrongdoer, bend him into conformity with what is
right, and restrict him to what is right.
Book 37, Number 4323:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Mas'ud:
A similar tradition (to the No. 4322) has also been
transmitted by Ibn Mas'ud through a different chain of
narrators to the same effect.
This version adds: "Or Allah will mingle your hearts
together and curse you as He cursed them."
Book 37, Number 4324:
Narrated AbuBakr:
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
(peace_be_upon_him) say: When the people see a wrongdoer
and do not prevent him, Allah will soon punish them all.
Amr ibn Hushaym's version has: I heard the Apostle of
Allah (peace_be_upon_him) say: If acts of disobedience
are done among any people and do not change them though
the are able to do so, Allah will soon punish them all.
Book 37, Number 4325:
Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If any man is
among a people in whose midst he does acts of
disobedience, and, though they are able to make him
change (his acts), they do not change, Allah will smite
them with punishment before they die.
Book 37, Number 4327:
Narrated AbuTha'labah al-Khushani:
AbuUmayyah ash-Sha'bani said: I asked AbuTha'labah
al-Khushani: What is your opinion about the verse "Care
for yourselves".
He said: I swear by Allah, I asked the one who was
well informed about it; I asked the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) about it.
He said: No, enjoin one another to do what is good
and forbid one another to do what is evil.
But when you see niggardliness being obeyed, passion
being followed, worldly interests being preferred,
everyone being charmed with his opinion, then care for
yourself, and leave alone what people in general are
doing; for ahead of you are days which will require
endurance, in which showing endurance will be like
grasping live coals. The one who acts rightly during
that period will have the reward of fifty men who act as
he does.
Another version has: He said (The hearers asked:)
Apostle of Allah, the reward of fifty of them?
He replied: The reward of fifty of you.
Book 37, Number 4328:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: How will you do
when that time will come? Or he said: A time will soon
come when the people are sifted and only dregs of
mankind survive and their covenants and guarantees have
been impaired and they have disagreed among themselves
and become thus, interwining his fingers. They asked:
What do you order us to do, Apostle of Allah? He
replied: Accept what you approve, abandon what you
disapprove, attend to your own affairs and leave alone
the affairs of the generality.
Book 37, Number 4329:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As:
When we were around the Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him), he mentioned the period of
commotion (fitnah) saying: When you see the people that
their covenants have been impaired, (the fulfilling of)
the guarantees becomes rare, and they become thus
(interwining his fingers). I then got up and said: What
should I do at that time, may Allah make me ransom for
you? He replied: Keep to your house, control your
tongue, accept what you approve, abandon what you
disapprove, attend to your own affairs, and leave alone
the affairs of the generality.
Book 37, Number 4330:
Narrated AbuSa'id al-Khudri:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: The best
fighting (jihad) in the path of Allah is (to speak) a
word of justice to an oppressive ruler.
Book 37, Number 4331:
Narrated Amirah al-Kindi:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: When sin is
done in the earth, he who sees it and disapproves of it
will be taken like one who was not present, but he who
is not present and approves of it will be like him who
sees.
Book 37, Number 4335:
Narrated AbuTha'labah al-Khushani:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Allah will not
fail to detain this community for less than half a day.
Book 37, Number 4336:
Narrated Sa'd ibn AbuWaqqas:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: I hope my
community will not fail to maintain their position in
the sight of their Lord if He delays them half a day.
Sa'd was asked: How long is half a day? He said: It is
five hundred years.
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