Sayyiduna Hudhayfah bin al-Yaman (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: I asked the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) about Ya'juj and Ma'juj (Gog and Magog), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Ya'juj is a nation and Ma'juj is a nation, and each nation consists of four hundred thousand nations. A man among them does not die until he sees before him a thousand male offspring from his own loins, every one of them bearing arms." I said: "O Messenger of Allah, describe them for us." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "They are of three kinds: one kind of them is like the arz trees." I said: "What is the arz?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "It is a tree in al-Sham whose height reaches one hundred and twenty cubits into the sky." Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "These are the ones before whom neither horse nor iron can stand. And one kind of them spreads one of his ears as a bed and covers himself with the other. They will not pass by an elephant, a wild animal, a camel or a pig without eating it, and whoever of them dies, they eat him too. Their vanguard will be in al-Sham and their rear in Khurasan, and they will drink up the rivers of the East and the Lake of Tiberias."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from al-A'mash except Muhammad bin Ishaq, and no one narrated it from Muhammad bin Ishaq except Yahya bin Sa'id al-Attar."
Hadith Referenceالمعجم الأوسط / باب العين / 3855
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:موضوع
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