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Every time it sets, it goes beneath the Throne, prostrates itself, and
seeks permission to rise again. A time will come when three times it will
seek permission and will receive no reply, until, when part of the night
has passed and it realises that even if it were given permission, it would
not be able to rise on time, it will say: 'O my Lord, how far the rising-point
is from me! What can I do for the people now?' Then it will seek
permission to go back, and it will be told: 'Rise from where you are now' -
and it will rise from the West." Then 'Abd Allaah recited the Aayah: "No
good will it do to a person to believe then, if he believed not before, nor
earned good (by performing deeds of righteousness) through his Faith."
[Ahmad] [6]
Footnotes
[1] Ahmad, Musnad, 3/31.
Checker's Note: Saheeh, Saheeh at-Tirmidhee: 2455.
[2] Bukhaaree, Kitaab al-Tafsir, 6/73.
[3] Bukhaaree, ibid.
[4] Muslim, Kitaab al-Imaan, 1/96. Tirmidhee, Abwaab al-Tafsir (Hadeeth
5067), 8/449, 450. Ahmad, Musnad, 2/455, 446.
[5] Similar Hadeeth in Bukhaaree, Kitaab Bid' al-Khalq, 4/131.
[6] Ahmad, Musnad, 2/201.
Checker's Note: Saheeh, Musnad Imaam Ahmad, checking by Ahmad
Shakir: 6881.
The Smoke which will appear at the End of Time
Masrooq said:
"While a man was giving a speech among the people of Kindah, he said,
'There will be smoke on the Day of Resurrection which will deprive the
hypocrites of their hearing and sight, but the believers will only suffer
something like a cold.' We were terrified, so we went to Ibn Masood, who
was reclining. When he heard about this, he became angry and sat up,
and said: 'O people, whoever knows a thing, let him say it; but whoever
does not know, let him say, "Allaah knows best." It is a part of knowledge,
when one does not know something, to say "Allaah knows best." Allaah
(subhaanahu wa ta'aala) said to His Prophet Muhammad (sal-Allaahu
'alayhe wa sallam):
"Say (O Muhammad sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam): 'No wage do I ask of
you for this (the Qur'aan), nor am I one of the Mutakallifoon (those who
pretend and fabricate things which do not exist).'" [Saad (38):86]
"Quraysh were being slow in embracing Islaam, so the Prophet (sal-
Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) prayed against them, saying, 'O Allaah, help
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me against them by sending seven years of famine like those of Joseph.'
They were afflicted by a year of famine in which they were destroyed,
and ate dead animals and bones. They began to see something like
smoke between the sky and the earth. Abu Sufyan came and said, 'O
Muhammad! You came to command us to keep good relations with our
relatives, and your people have perished, so pray that Allaah may relieve
them.'"
Then Ibn Mas'ood recited,
"Then wait you for the Day when the sky will bring forth a visible smoke.
Covering the people, this is a painful torment. (They will say): "Our Lord!
Remove the torment from us, really we shall become believers!" How can
there be for them an admonition (at the time when the torment has
reached them), when a Messenger explaining things clearly has already
come to them. Then they had turned away from him (Messenger
Muhammad sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) and said: "One (Muhammad
sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) taught (by a human being), a madman!"
Verily, We shall remove the torment for a while. Verily! You will revert."
[ad-Dukhaan (44):10-15]
Ibn Masood asked:
"Will their punishment in the Hereafter be removed so they can go back
to their Kufr?"
Allaah (subhaanahu wa ta'aala) said:
"On the Day when We shall seize you with the greatest grasp. Verily, We
will exact retribution." [ad-Dukhaan (44):16]
...and soon will come the inevitable (punishment)!" [al-Furqaan (25):77]
These Ayaat refer to the Day (Battle) of Badr. Allaah (subhaanahu wa
ta'aala) said:
"Alif Laam Meem. The Romans have been defeated. In the nearer land
(Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and Palestine), and they, after their defeat, will be
victorious. Within three to nine years." [ar-Room (30): 1-4] [Bukhaaree]
[1]
This speaker's suggestion - that the idea that the smoke would be on the
Day or Resurrection was not a good one - made Ibn Masood react
angrily. But the smoke will appear before the Day of Resurrection; it will
be one of the signs, which are: the Beast, the Dajjaal, the Smoke, and
Gog and Magog, as the Ahaadeeth narrated from Abu Sareehah, Abu
Hurairah and other Sahaabah indicate.
As mentioned in the Saheeh Ahaadeeth, the fire which will appear before
the Day of Resurrection will burst forth from the direction of Aden, and
drive the people to the place of their final assembly. It will move with
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them and halt with them, and will devour any who lag behind.
Footnote
[1] Bukhaaree, Kitaab at-Tafsir - Soorat ar-Room, 6/142, 143
Other Events which will precede the Hour
It was reported from Abu Sa'eed al-Khudree that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu
'alayhe wa sallam) said,
"Thunderbolts will increase so much as the Hour approaches that when a
man comes to a people, he will ask, 'Who amongst you was struck by a
thunderbolt this morning?' and they will say, 'So-and-so and so-and-so
was struck.' " [Ahmad] [1]
Heavy rain before the Day of Resurrection
It was reported from Abu Hurairah that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe
wa sallam) said,
"The hour will not come until there has been rain which will destroy all
dwellings except tents." [2]
We have already mentioned many Ahaadeeth about the signs of the
Hour. Now we will turn our attention to some Ahaadeeth which could
indicate that the Hour is close at hand.
It was reported from Abu Hurairah that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe
wa sallam) said:
"The Hour will not come until the following events have come to pass:
people will compete with one another in constructing high buildings; two
big groups will fight one another, and there will be many casualties - they
will both be following the same religious teaching; earthquakes will
increase; time will pass quickly; afflictions and killing will increase; nearly
thirty dajjals will appear, each of them claiming to be a messenger from
Allaah; a man will pass by a grave and say, 'Would that I were in your
place'; the sun will rise from the West; when it rises and the people see it,
they will all believe, but that will be the time when 'No good will it do to a
person to believe then, if it believed not before...' [al-An'aam (6):158]; and
a wealthy man will worry lest no-one accept his Zakaat." [Bukhaaree,
Muslim]
It was reported from Anas that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa
sallam) said:
"Among the signs of the Hour are the following: knowledge will decrease
and ignorance will prevail; fornication and the drinking of wine will be
common; the number of men will decrease and the number of women will
increase, until one man will look after fifty women." [Bukhaaree] [3]
'Aa'ishah said,
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"I heard the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) say, 'Day and night
will not pass away until people begin to worship Laat and 'Uzzaa' (two
goddesses of pre-Islaamic Arabic). I said, 'O Messenger of Allaah, I
thought that when Allaah revealed the Aayah "It is He Who has sent His
Messenger (Muhammad sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) with guidance
and the religion of truth (Islaam), to make it superior over all religions
even though the Mushrikoon (polytheists, pagans, idolaters, disbelievers
in the Oneness of Allaah) hate (it)" [at-Tawbah (9):33], it implied that (this
promise) would be fulfilled.' The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam)
said, 'It will happen as Allaah wishes. Then Allaah will send a pleasant
breeze, which will take everyone who has as much faith as a grain of
mustard-seed in his heart. Only those with no goodness in them will be
left, and they will revert to the religion of their forefathers.' " [Muslim] [4]
It was reported from Abu Hurairah that one day, while the Prophet (sal-
Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) was sitting with the people, a Bedouin came
to him and asked him about Eemaan and Islaam, then he asked,
"O Messenger of Allaah, when will the Hour be?" He said, "The one who
is asked about it does not know more than the one who asks, but I tell
you about its signs. When a slave gives birth to her mistress, and when
the bare-footed and naked become the chiefs of the people - these are
among the signs of the Hour. There are five things which no-one knows
except Allaah." Then he recited:
"Verily the knowledge of the Hour is with God (alone). It is He Who sends
down rain, and He Who knows what is in the wombs. Nor does anyone
know what it is that he will earn on the morrow: nor does anyone know in
what land he is to die. Verily God is All-Knowing, All Aware." [Luqman
(31):34]
Then the man went away, and the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa
sallam) said, "Call him back to me," but when the people went to call him,
they could not see anything. The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam)
said, "That was Gabriel, who came to teach the people their religion."
[Bukhaaree, Muslim] [5]
"The bare-footed and naked paupers will compete with one another in
constructing high buildings" means that they will become the chiefs of
people. They will become rich, and their only concern will be to compete
in constructing high buildings. This is as in the Hadeeth we shall see
later:
"The Hour will not come until the happiest people in the world will be the
depraved sons of the depraved."
It was reported from Abu Sa'eed that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa
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sallam) said:
"The Hour will not come until the time when a man will leave his home,
and his shoes or whip or stick will tell what is happening to his family."
[Ahmad] [6]
It was reported from Abu Sa'eed that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa
sallam) said:
"By Him in Whose hand is my soul, the Hour will not come until wild
animals talk to men, and a man speaks to his whip or his shoe, and his
thigh will tell him about what happened to his family after he left." [7]
Anas said,
"We were discussing the fact that the Hour would not come until there is
no rain, the earth does not produce crops, and fifty women will be cared
for by one man; and if a woman passes by a man, he will look at her and
say, 'This woman once had a husband.' " [Ahmad] [8]
Abu Hurairah said:
"The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said: 'The Hour will not
come until time passes so quickly that a year will be like a month, a
month like a week, a week like a day, a day like an hour, and an hour like
the time it takes for a palm-leaf to burn.' " [Ahmad] [9]
Abu Hurairah said,
"The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said: 'The world will not
pass away until the one who enjoys it the most is the depraved son of the
depraved.' " [Ahmad] [10]
Abu Hurairah said,
"The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'Before the Hour
comes, there will be years of deceit, in which a truthful person will be
disbelieved and a liar will be believed; and the insignificant will have a
say.' " [Ahmad] [11]
Abu Hurairah said:
"I heard the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) say: 'The Hour will
not come until the sheep with horns no longer fights the sheep without
horns.' " [Ahmad] [12]
It was reported from Abu Hurairah that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe
wa sallam) said,
"The Hour will not come until wealth increases so much that a wealthy
man will be worried lest no-one accept his Sadaqah; knowledge will be
taken away; time will pass quickly; tribulations will appear; and there will
be much Harj." The people asked, "What is Harj, O Messenger of
Allaah?" He said, "Killing, killing." [Ahmad] [13]
It was reported from Abu Hurairah that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe
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wa sallam) said,
"By Him Who sent me with the Truth, this earth will not pass away until
people are afflicted with landslides, are pelted with stones, and are
transformed into animals." The people asked, "When will that be, O
Messenger of Allaah?" He said, "When you see women riding in the
saddle, when singers are common, when bearing false witness becomes
widespread, and when men lie with men and women with women." [14]
Taariq ibn Shihaab said,
"We were sitting with 'Abd Allaah ibn Mas'ood, when a man came and
told us that the time for prayer had come. So we got up and went to the
mosque... After the prayer, a man came to 'Abd Allaah ibn Mas'ood and
said, 'As-salaam 'alayka (Peace be upon you), O Abu 'Abd ar-Rahmaan'.
'Abd Allaah answered, 'Allaah and His Messenger have spoken the truth.'
When we went back, we asked one another, 'Did you hear the answer he
gave? Who is going to ask him about it?' I said, 'I will ask him'; so I asked
him when he came out. He narrated from the Prophet (sal-Allaahu
'alayhe wa sallam):
'Before the Hour comes, there will be a special greeting for the people of
distinction; trade will become so widespread that a woman will help her
husband in business; family ties will be cut; the giving of false witness will
be common, while truthful witness will be rare; and writing will be
widespread.' [Ahmad] [15]
Footnotes
[1] Ahmad, Musnad, 3/64, 65.
Checker's Note: Da`eef isnaad due to Muhammad ibn Mus'ab.
[2] Ahmad, Musnad, 2/262.
Checker's Note: Saheeh, Musnad Imaam Ahmad, checking by Ahmad
Shakir: 7554 and Majma' az-Zawaid of al-Haythamee: 7/331.
[3] Bukhaaree, Kitaab al-'Ilm, 1/30, 31.
[4] Muslim, Kitaab al-Fitan 8/182.
[5] Bukhaaree, Kitaab al-Imaan, 1/19; Kitaab at-Tafsir - Soorat Luqmaan,
6/144. Muslim, Kitaab al-Imaan, 1/30, 31.
[6] Ahmad, Musnad, 3/88, 89.
Checker's Note: Saheeh.
[7] Ahmad, Musnad, 3/82, 84.
Checker's Note: Saheeh, Silsilatul Ahadeeth as-Saheehah: 122.
[8] Ahmad, Musnad, 3/286.
Checker's Note: Saheeh, reported by Ahmad, Abu Ya'la and al-Bazzar.
Majma' az-Zawa'id of al-Haythamee: 7/333 and Kashful Astar bi Zawa'id
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al-Bazzar of al-Haythamee: 3415.
[9] Ahmad, Musnad, 3/358.
Checker's Note: Saheeh, Saheeh al-Jami as-Sagheer: 7422.
[10] Ahmad, Musnad, 2/358.
Checker's Note: Saheeh, Saheeh al-Jami as-Sagheer: 7272.
[11] Ahmad, Musnad, 2/238.
Checker's Note: Hasan, Silsilatul Ahadeeth as-Saheehah: 1887.
[12] Ahmad, Musnad, 2/442.
Checker's Note: Da`eef?? [not quite sure] due to as-Salt ibn Quwaid; an-
Nasaa'ee said, "His hadith is munkar."
[13] Ahmad, Musnad, 2/313.
Checker's Note: Saheeh, Musnad Imaam Ahmad, checking by Ahmad
Shakir: 8120, 8121.
[14] al-Haythamee, Kitaab al-Fitan.
Checker's Note: Da`eef, related by al-Bazzar and at-Tabaraanee in al-
Awsat. It is weak due to Sulaiman ibn Daawood al-Yamami who is
matrook (abandoned). Majma' az-Zawa'id of al-Haythamee.
[15] Ahmad, Musnad, 1/407.
Checker's Note: Saheeh, Silsilatul Ahadeeth as-Saheehah: 648.
Description of the People who will be Alive at the End of Time
It was reported from 'Abd Allaah ibn 'Amr that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu
'alayhe wa sallam) said,
"The Hour will not come until Allaah takes away the best people on earth;
only the worst people will be left; they will not know any good or forbid
any evil." [Ahmad] [1]
'Abd Allaah ibn Mas'ood said,
"I heard the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) say: 'Eloquence can
be bewitching; the worst of the people are those upon whom the Hour will
come while they are still alive, and those who turn graves into mosques.'
" [Ahmad] [2]
It was reported from Anas that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa
sallam) said,
"The Hour will not come until no-one on earth says 'Laa ilaaha illaa
Allaah.'" [Ahmad] [3]
It was also reported from Anas that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa
sallam) said:
"The Hour will not come until no-one on earth says, 'Allaah, Allaah.'"
[Ahmad] [4]
There are two suggestions as to the meaning of the phrase, "until no-one
on earth says 'Allaah, Allaah'":
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It could mean that no-one will forbid evil, or try to correct another if he
sees him doing something wrong. We have already come across this in
the Hadeeth of 'Abd Allaah ibn 'Amr:
"Only the worst people will be left; they will not know any good or forbid
any evil."
It could mean that Allaah will no longer be mentioned, and His Name will
not be known; this will be part of the prevalent corruption and Kufr, as in
the previous Hadeeth,
"Until no-one on earth says 'Laa ilaaha illaa Allaah."
'Aa'ishah said,
"The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) came in, saying 'O
'Aa'ishah, your people will be the first of my Ummah to join me.' When he
sat down, I said, 'O Messenger of Allaah, may I be sacrificed for you!
When you came in, you were saying something which scared me.' He
asked, 'What was that?' I said, 'You said that my people would be the first
of your Ummah to join you.' He said, 'Yes.' I asked, 'Why is that?' He
said, 'Death will be widespread among them, and their relatives will be
jealous of them.' I said, 'How will people be after that?' He said, 'Like
locusts: the strong will devour the weak, until the Hour comes.' " [Ahmad]
[5]
'Albaa' al-Salamee said,
"I heard the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) say: 'The Hour will
only come upon the worst of the people.' " [Ahmad] [6]
Footnotes
[1] Ahmad, Musnad, 1/454.
Checker's Note: Da`eef isnaad due to `an`anah of al-Hasan al-Basree.
[2] Ahmad, Musnad, 3/268.
Checker's Note: Saheeh, Musnad Imaam Ahmad, checking by Ahmad
Shakir: 4342.
[3] Ahmad, Musnad, 3/268.
Checker's Note: Saheeh, Tahdheerus Saajid of Shaykh al-Albaanee, pg.
119.
[4] Ahmad, Musnad, 3/107.
Checker's Note: Saheeh, Saheeh al-Jami as-Sagheer: 7420.
[5] Ahmad, Musnad, 6/81.
Checker's Note: Saheeh, Silsilatul Ahadeeth as-Saheehah: 1953.
[6] Ahmad, Musnad, 3/499.
Checker's Note: Saheeh, Mustadrak of al-Hakim: 4/496. Declared saheeh
by al-Hakim and agreed to by adh-Dhahaabee
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