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Explanation of the Book of Fitans and Rulings-01b

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The reciter: Abu Nu'aym narrated to us, Ibn 'Iyyunah narrated to us from al-Zuhri from 'Urwah, who said: And Mahmud narrated to me, 'Abd al-Razzaq informed us, Ma'mar informed us from al-Zuhri from 'Urwah from Usamah ibn Zayd (may Allah be pleased with them both), who said:
the Prophet looked down on one of the fortresses of Medina and asked, "Do you see what I see?" When his hearers replied that they did not, he said, "I see civil commotions occurring among your houses like rain falling." أشرف النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم على أطم من آطام المدينة فقال: هل ترون ما أرى ، قالوا : لا قال : فإني لأرى الفتن تقع خلال بيوتكم كوقع القطر
Mishkat al-Masabih 5387
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The Shaykh : Glory be to Allah. In the first hadith, from the mother of the believers, Zaynab bint Jahsh, that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) woke up one night
his face reddened محمرا وجهه
: from what he saw in a dream, and the dreams of the prophets are revelation. He said, may the prayers and blessings of Allah be upon him:
There is no god but Allah. لا إله إلا الله
Sunan Abi Dawud 3117Sahih (Al-Albani)
: the word of sincerity by which there is salvation from every evil and every trial.
Woe to Arabs because of evil which has drawn near ويل للعرب من شر قد اقترب
Sunan Abi Dawud 4249
:
Woe ويل
: a word of warning, and he specified the Arabs with it because they are the bearers of the message and to their lands the message returns. For indeed, faith will retreat to al-Madinah as a snake retreats to its hole.
Woe to the Arabs, from the Great evil that is nearly approaching them. Today a gap has been made in the wall of Gog and Magog like this. ويل للعرب من شر قد اقترب فتح اليوم من ردم يأجوج ومأجوج مثل هذه
Sahih al-Bukhari 7059
Sufyan made a gesture of ninety or a hundred, and I do not know the Arabs' conventions in making such gestures, ninety or a hundred, but, and Allah knows best, this means joining the tip of the thumb to the tip of the index finger, because this is the custom used as a metaphor for a small amount. And his saying:
Today the wall (barrier) of Gog and Magog has been opened فتح اليوم من ردم يأجوج ومأجوج
Sahih Muslim 2881
: it is possible that it was a physical opening and that this barrier began to collapse, and the barrier was built by Dhul-Qarnayn. And it is possible that it was a conceptual opening, not a physical one, and that in the last days of the life of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), people began to sneak out from that direction to try people in their religion. And it is known that Gog and Magog are from the east, and that the trials will be from the east, from where the horn of Shaytan rises. And in this warning is a warning to the Arabs of this opening, and that they must prepare for it. So Zaynab asked: "Will we perish while there are righteous people among us?" He said:
Yes, if there is much wickedness. نعم إذا كثر الخبث
Muwatta Malik 56:22
: What is the corruption? Is the meaning that disbelief or disbelievers have increased in the lands of the Arabs? Or is the meaning that corruption, i.e., bad deeds, has increased, because bad deeds are corruption? It is possible that it is this and that, but the apparent meaning is the first, due to her saying: "Will we perish while there are righteous people among us?" And that if people of evil and people of disbelief mix with us, that is a cause for our destruction. So in it is a warning against allowing disbelievers to reside in the Arabian Peninsula. And for this reason, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in the last of his life, in his illness of death, ordered the expulsion of the polytheists from the Arabian Peninsula and said:
I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslim. لأخرجن اليهود والنصارى من جزيرة العرب حتى لا أدع إلا مسلما
Sahih Muslim 1767a
And among the foolish people of today are those who bring in huge, numerous amounts of employment for the sake of the trivialities of this world, and they are not upon Islam, but rather, and may Allah protect us, they claim that the disbeliever is better than the Muslim, contrary to the saying of Allah the Exalted:
And a believing slave is better than a polytheist, even though he might please you. ولعبد مؤمن خير من مشرك ولو أعجبكم
[Al-Baqarah 2:221]
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As for the second hadith, the hadith of Usamah ibn Zayd (may Allah be pleased with him), then what the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) saw came to pass, for the trials fell among the homes of the people of al-Madinah, and that was in the Battle of al-Hurrah, which whenever a person reads about it, his heart breaks from what happened in the city of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). They did to it what the disbelievers did to the lands of Islam: killing, looting, violating honor, and other things, as is known in history. This is one of the great trials. We ask Allah to protect us and you from the evil of trials.
Source alathar.net

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