Fath al-Rabbani

Yaqub bin Asim says: I heard a man saying to Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with him): “Do you say that the Day of Judgment will be established by such-and-such time?” Upon hearing this, Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: “I wish that I would not narrate anything to you people. I had only said that after some time you will witness a great calamity, and that has appeared in the form of the burning of the House of Allah (the Ka’bah).” After this, Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “The Dajjal will appear among my Ummah and he will remain for forty. I do not remember whether the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said forty days, or forty years, or forty months, or forty nights.” Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “After that, Allah the Exalted will send Isa ibn Maryam (peace be upon him), whose appearance will resemble Urwah bin Mas’ud al-Thaqafi. He will come and kill the Dajjal. After that, the Muslims will spend seven years in such a way that there will be no enmity between any two Muslims. Then Allah the Exalted will send a cool wind from the direction of Syria, and every person who has even a mustard seed’s weight of faith in his heart will die because of that wind, to the extent that if a believing Muslim is inside the mountains, that wind will reach him there as well.” He said: “I heard all this from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) myself. After that, the most wicked and evil people will remain, whose behavior and intellect will be like that of birds and wild beasts, who will not distinguish between good and evil. Satan will appear to them in human form and say to them: ‘Why do you not obey me?’ Then he will command them to worship idols, so they will begin to worship idols. In those days, they will have abundant sustenance and a prosperous life. After that, the Trumpet will be blown, and its terror and effect will be such that whoever hears its sound will fall down right there. The first person to hear its sound will be a man repairing his water trough, and he will fall down right there, and then all the people will fall down. After that, Allah the Exalted will send down abundant rain, and by its effect, people’s bodies will grow. Then the Trumpet will be blown again, and people will stand up looking around. Then it will be said to the people: ‘Come to your Lord,’ and it will be said to the angels: {وَقِفُوْھُمْ اِنَّہُمْ مَسْئُوْلُوْنَ} (Surah as-Saffat: 24) (And stop them, for they must be questioned). Then it will be said: ‘Set aside the portion for Hell.’ It will be asked: ‘How much is it?’ It will be said in reply: ‘Out of every thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine.’ At that time, there will be such terror that young children will become old, and on that day the veil will be lifted from (Allah’s) shin.” Muhammad bin Ja’far says: “Shu’bah narrated this hadith to me several times, and I also recited it before him.”