The Hour Will Not Come Until...
- philhoraia
- May 11, 2024
- 10 min read
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:
The Last Hour would not come until you fight with a people wearing shoes of hair and the Last Hour would not come until you fight with a people having small eyes and broad snub noses.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:
The Last Hour would not come unless you fight with people whose faces are like hammered shields and the Last Hour would not come until you would fight against those wearing the shoes of hair.
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Turks; people with small eyes, red faces, and flat noses. Their faces will look like shields coated with leather. The Hour will not be established till you fight with people whose shoes are made of hair."
Sahih al-Bukhari 2928
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:
The Last Hour would come (so sudden) that a person would be milking the she- camel and the (milk) would not reach the brim of the vessel that the Last Hour would come, and the two persons would be engaged in buying and selling of the clothes and their bargain would not be struck before the Last Hour would come. And someone would be setting his tank in order and he would have hardly set it right when the Last Hour would come.
Did the author here have in the back of his mind passages such as Matthew 24:40-42?
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "The Hour will not be established till there is a war between two groups among whom there will be a great number of casualties, though the claims (or religion) of both of them will be one and the same. And the Hour will not be established till there appear about thirty liars, all of whom will be claiming to be the messengers of Allah. "
Sahih al-Bukhari 3609
Anas b. Malik reported that a person asked Allah's Apostle (ﷺ):
When would the Last Hour come? Thereupon Allah's Messenger (way peace be upon him) kept quiet for a while. Then looked at a young boy in his presence belonging to the tribe of Azd Shanu'a and he said: If this boy lives he would not grow very old till the Last Hour would come to you. Anas said that this young boy was of our age during those days.
Narrated [Anas (RA)]:
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: "The House (Judgement Day) will not come until people boast (to each other) with (the construction and decoration of) mosques. [Reported by al-Khamsah except at-Tirmidhi, and Ibn Khuzaimah graded it Sahih (authentic)].
https://sunnah.com/bulugh/2/135 / Buugh al-Maram Book 2, Hadith 135
The Arabic doesn't have "The House" but 'the Hour'.
Abu Huraira reported God's messenger as saying, “The last hour will not come before Medina drives away its wicked people as the bellows drives away the impurity of iron." Muslim transmitted it.
Jabir b. Samura reported God’s Messenger as saying, “This religion will not cease to endure with a company of the Muslims fighting on its behalf till the last hour comes.” Muslim transmitted it.
It is narrated on the authority of Anas that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:
"The Hour (Resurrection) will not occur as long as anyone says: 'Allah, Allah.'"
It is narrated on the authority of Anas that verily the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:
"The Hour (Resurrection) will not occur until 'Allah, Allah' is not said on earth."
Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu'z Zinad from al-Araj from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "The Hour will not come until a man passes by the grave of another and says, 'If only I were in his place.' "
https://sunnah.com/urn/505760 / Muwatta Malik Book 16, Hadith 54
Abu Hurayra reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "The Final Hour will not come until people compete with one another in the height of their buildings."
It seems doubtful that that the hadith is speaking of tall buildings. From Wiktionary:
Etymology 1[edit]
Verb[edit]
تَطَاوَلَ • (taṭāwala) VI, non-past يَتَطَاوَلُ (yataṭāwalu)
(intransitive) to lengthen quotations ▲
6th century, Imru' al-Qais, تطاول ليلك بالأثمد: تَطَاوَلَ لَيْلُكَ بِٱلْأَثْمُدِ وَنَامَ ٱلْخَلِيُّ وَلَمْ تَرْقُدِ وَبَاتَ وَبَاتَتْ لَهُ لَيْلَةٌ كَلَيْلَةِ ذِي ٱلْعَائِرِ ٱلْأَرْمَدِ taṭāwala layluka bi-l-ʔaṯmudi wanāma l-ḵaliyyu walam tarqudi wabāta wabātat lahu laylatun kalaylati ḏī l-ʕāʔiri l-ʔarmadi Long was your night at al-Athmud the carefree one slept, but you did not slumber he spent the night and it passed for him like a night of someone with sore and inflamed eyes
It was narrated that Hudhaifah bin Asid said:
"The Prophet (ﷺ) looked out at us from a room, when we were talking about the Hour. He said: 'The Hour will not begin until there are ten signs: Dajjal, (False Christ), the smoke, and the rising of the sun from the west.'"
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "The Hour will not be established till a man from Qahtan appears, driving the people with his stick."
Sahih al-Bukhari 7117
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "The Hour will not be established till a fire will come out of the land of Hijaz, and it will throw light on the necks of the camels at Busra."
Narrated Anas ibn Malik:
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The Last Hour will not come until people vie with one another about mosques.
Anas bin Malik narrated that the Allah's Messenger (s.a.w) said:
"The hour shall not be established until time is constricted, and the year is like a month, a month is like the week, and the week is like the day, and the day is like the hour, and the hour is like the flare of the fire."
The word translated "the week" actually means Friday.
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "The Hour will not be established till the sun rises from the west, and when it rises (from the west) and the people see it, then all of them will believe (in Allah). But that will be the time when 'No good it will do to a soul to believe then. If it believed not before.."' (6.158) The Hour will be established (so suddenly) that two persons spreading a garment between them will not be able to finish their bargain, nor will they be able to fold it up. The Hour will be established while a man is carrying the milk of his she-camel, but cannot drink it; and the Hour will be established when someone is not able to prepare the tank to water his livestock from it; and the Hour will be established when some of you has raised his food to his mouth but cannot eat it."
Sahih al-Bukhari 6506
Abdullah reported Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) as saying:
The Last Hour would affect (most terribly) the wicked persons.
Narrated Anas:
I will narrate to you a narration which nobody will narrate to you after me. I heard that from the Prophet. I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) saying, "The Hour will not be established" or said: "From among the portents of the Hour is that the religious knowledge will betaken away (by the death of religious Scholars) and general ignorance (of religion) will appear; and the drinking of alcoholic drinks will be very common, and (open) illegal sexual intercourse will prevail, and men will decrease in number while women will increase so much so that, for fifty women there will only be one man to look after them."
This is reminiscent of Isaiah 4:1.
It has been narrated by Sa'd b. Abu Waqqas that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:
The people of the West will continue to triumphantly follow the truth until the Hour is established.
It was narrated that Anas bin Malik said:
"The Messenger of Allah said: 'The Hour will not begin until the people compete in (building) mosques.'"
A better translation is “The Hour will not come until people show off in the mosques.”
It was narrated that ‘Ali (رضي الله عنه) said:
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: `The Hour will not begin until one of my Companions will be sought as a lost item is sought, but he will not be found.`
But didn't the last of the Companions die in the 7th Century?
Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) said:
The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) said, "The Last Hour will not come until the Muslims fight against the Jews, until a Jew will hide himself behind a stone or a tree, and the stone or the tree will say: 'O Muslim, there is a Jew behind me. Come and kill him,' but Al-Gharqad tree will not say so, for it is the tree of the Jews."
[Al-Bukhari and Muslim].
Narrated Abu Hurayrah:
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.
Christ said that false Messiahs would arise.
Abu Musa reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "The Final Hour will not come until a man kills his neighbour, his brother and his father."
Mu'awiyah bin Qurrah narrated that his father said:
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "A group of my Ummah will continue to prevail and they will never be harmed by those who forsake them, until the Hour begins."
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:
The last Hour will not come unless there is much bloodshed. They said: What is harj? Thereupon he said: Bloodshed. bloodshed.
Did he make up that word?
Abu Huraira reported God's Messenger as saying, “The best day on which the sun has risen is Friday; on it Adam was created, on it he was brought into paradise, on it he was expelled from it, and the last hour will take place on no day other than Friday.” Muslim transmitted it.
Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) said:
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "The Hour will not come to pass before the River Euphrates dries up to unveil the mountain of gold, for which people will fight. Ninety-nine out of one hundred will die (in the fighting) and every man amongst them will say: 'Perhaps I may be the only one to remain alive."'
Another narration is: "The time is near when the River Euphrates will dry up to unveil a treasure of gold. Whosoever may be alive at that time, should not take anything of it."
[Al-Bukhari and Muslim]
It was narrated from Hudhaifah bin Yaman that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:
“The Hour will not begin until you kill your ruler and fight one another with swords, and your world is inherited by the worst of you.”
Abu Sa'id reported God’s messenger as saying, “Ninety-nine dragons will be given power over an infidel in his grave, and will bite and sting him till the last hour comes. If one of those dragons were to breathe over the earth, it would bring forth no green thing." Darimi transmitted it, and Tirmidhi transmitted something similar, but he said seventy instead of ninety-nine.
Abu Hurayra reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "The Final Hour will not come until people build houses which are like coloured garments."
Ibrahim said:
meaning striped clothes.
Abu Hurayra reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "The Final Hour will not come until houses' adornments resemble painted garments."
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "The Hour will not be established till the buttocks of the women of the tribe of Daus move while going round Dhi-al-Khalasa." Dhi-al-Khalasa was the idol of the Daus tribe which they used to worship in the Pre Islamic Period of ignorance.
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "The Hour will not be established till my followers copy the deeds of the previous nations and follow them very closely, span by span, and cubit by cubit (i.e., inch by inch)." It was said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! Do you mean by those (nations) the Persians and the Byzantines?" The Prophet said, "Who can it be other than they?"
The Byzantines are no longer around.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:
The Last Hour will not come till wealth is abundant and overflowing, so much so that the owner of the property will think as to who will accept Sadaqa from him, and a person would be called to accept Sadaqa and he would say: I do not need it.
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "The Hour will not be established until the son of Mary (i.e. Jesus) descends amongst you as a just ruler, he will break the cross, kill the pigs, and abolish the Jizya tax. Money will be in abundance so that nobody will accept it (as charitable gifts).
Sahih al-Bukhari 2476
So Isa would abrogate part of quran.
The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Hudhaifah through a different chain of narrators from the Prophet (ﷺ). This version says:
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 a man wants the mare to bring forth a foal, it will not deliver in till the Last Hour comes.
Sunan Abi Dawud 4247
Muslims like to say that Jesus didn't know the Hour. But does Allah? One of my posts:
Perhaps the Hour is Near
S 33:63 People ask you about the Hour. Say: The knowledge of it is only with Allah. And what will make you know? Perhaps the Hour is near.
Relevant part: لَعَلَّ السَّاعَةَ تَكُونُ قَرِيبًا la’alla al-sa’ata takunu qariban.
S 42:17 Allah is the one who has sent down the book with truth and the balance. And what will make you know? Perhaps the Hour is near.
Relevant part: لَعَلَّ السَّاعَةَ قَرِيبٌ la’alla a-sa’ata qaribun.
In the first verse we find takunu, a feminine verb agreeing with sa’ah but the adjective is masculine. In the second the verb is missing and the adjective is again masculine.
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