Majma al-Zawaid — Hadith 3273

Tha'labah bin Abbad al-Abdi, who was from the people of Basrah, narrates: Once I was present at a sermon of Sayyiduna Samurah bin Jundub (may Allah be pleased with him). During that sermon he mentioned a hadith from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). He narrated: "In the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), once a boy from the Ansar and I were shooting at targets, until, when the sun was the height of two or three spears in the eye of the beholder, it turned black and looked like a mu'matah (here in Musnad Ahmad the word written is tannumah, which refers to a particular plant). He said: One of us said to the other: Let us go to the mosque; by Allah, this matter of the sun will surely bring about some new event concerning the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in his Ummah. Sayyiduna Samurah (may Allah be pleased with him) says: We went towards the mosque, and we found that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) had come out to the people. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) stepped forward and led us in prayer. It was the longest prayer; the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) had never before led us in so long a prayer, and we could not hear his voice. Then he went into prostration, and it was the longest prostration the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) had ever had us make in any prayer, and we could not hear his voice. Then he did the same in the second rak'ah. While the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was sitting after the second rak'ah, the sun became bright. The narrator Zuhayr says: I think he also said: Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ended the prayer with the salam, praised and extolled Allah Almighty, and bore witness that he is the servant of Allah and His Messenger. Then he said: 'O people! I adjure you by Allah and ask you: do you know that I have fallen short in any way in conveying the message of my Lord? Then tell me what it is. I have conveyed the message of my Lord just as it ought to have been conveyed; and if you know that I have conveyed the message of my Lord, then tell me about it!' The narrator says: Some men stood up and said: We bear witness that you have conveyed the message of your Lord, sincerely wished your Ummah well, and fulfilled the duty incumbent upon you. Then those people fell silent. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'Amma ba'd (to proceed): Some people think that the eclipse of this sun, or the eclipse of the moon, or the stars departing from their places, happens because of the death of great people on the earth. Such people are wrong; rather, these things are some of the signs of Allah Almighty, through which the servants of Allah Almighty take heed, and Allah Almighty sees which of these servants repents. By Allah! While I stood here praying, I saw everything that you will face in this world and in the Hereafter. By Allah! The Hour will not be established until thirty liars come forth, the last of whom will be the one-eyed Dajjal, whose left eye will be wiped out; it will be like the eye of Abu Yahya.' He said this about an elderly man from the Ansar who at that time was between him (peace and blessings be upon him) and the chamber of Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her). (The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:) 'When he comes forth, he will claim that he is Allah. Whoever believes in him, affirms him and follows him, none of his earlier deeds will benefit him; and whoever disbelieves in him and denies him will not be taken to account for any of his deeds.' Here the narrator named Hasan reported one word differently. 'He will soon appear (the narrator is uncertain about one word here); he will gain dominance over the entire earth, except that he will not be able to gain it over the Haram and Bayt al-Maqdis. At that time the believers will be gathered in Bayt al-Maqdis, and a tremendous earthquake will strike there. Then Allah Almighty will destroy him (the Dajjal), until the root of a wall (here one narrator reported these words:) the root of a tree, will call out, saying: O believer! (The narrator is uncertain; perhaps the words are:) O Muslim! This is a Jew (the narrator is uncertain; perhaps the words are:) this is a disbeliever; come forward and kill him!' The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'That will not happen until you see certain other matters which will trouble your minds, and you will ask one another about them: Did your Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) mention any of these? And until the mountains move from their places; then after that will come the seizing.'" The narrator says: After that he once again attended a sermon of Samurah (may Allah be pleased with him) in which he related this, and he neither put any word forward nor moved any statement back from its place.
(Allamah Haythami says:) I say: Part of it, concerning the solar eclipse, is mentioned in the Sunan.
Ahmad, and al-Tabarani in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir, recorded it, except that he added these words: "He will soon gain dominance over the entire earth except the Haram and Bayt al-Maqdis." He also related that al-Aswad bin Qays said: I think he said: "Then Sayyiduna Isa bin Maryam (peace be upon him) will come among those people, and he will put an end to the Dajjal and his army." The rest of the hadith is as before. Al-Tirmidhi said about the part of it that he recorded: This hadith is hasan sahih.