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Explanation of the hadith regarding the Muslims fighting the Jews, and in which time?

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Question:
Also, Muhammad Taha, from Syria, has another question. He says: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
The Jews will fight you, and you will be victorious over themيقاتلكم اليهود وتنتصرون عليهم
He says that he expects that if this hadith is authentic, then the era we are living in now is the era the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is speaking about. What is your opinion? I ask you to clarify this hadith for me, because there is always a dispute between us regarding it.
May Allah guide you.

Answer:
The hadith is authentic. It was narrated by the two Shaykhs, al-Bukhari and Muslim, in the two Sahihs and others, and its wording is:
The Muslims will fight the Jews, and they will be victorious over them, until the tree and the stone say: O Muslim, O servant of Allah, this is a Jew, come and kill himيقاتل المسلمون اليهود، فينصرون عليهم، حتى يقول الشجر والحجر: يا مسلم، يا عبدالله، هذا يهودي تعال فاقتله
or close to this wording.
The point is: that it is established from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), that the Muslims will fight the Jews, and that they will be victorious over them, to the extent that the stone and the tree will say to the Muslim: O servant of Allah, come, this is a Jew, come and kill him.
As for whether that is in our current time, it is a matter of consideration. The Muslims who are fighting them, and the fighters now, are not at the full level in terms of Islam. Among them are Muslims and non-Muslims, and there is no application of the pure Shari'ah, as it should be, among the Muslims there, as far as we have been informed. Rather, there is the disobedient one, there is the disbeliever, and there is the upright Muslim. So the fighting that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) informed about will be from the committed, upright Muslims. Therefore, Allah will grant them victory over the Jews because of their uprightness upon the religion of Islam and their support for the religion of Allah. It is possible that this will be after a time in which the conditions of the Muslims improve, and they unite upon the truth and guidance, and they are granted victory over them. It is also possible that this is in the time of 'Isa, as is known, for in the time of 'Isa he will kill the Jews, and Allah will grant 'Isa and the Muslims victory over them, and he will kill the Dajjal. There is no doubt that this is in the time of 'Isa. But it is possible that it occurs before 'Isa, and that the conditions of the Muslims improve and their affairs become upright upon the Shari'ah of Allah, and a righteous emir or a righteous imam leads them to the truth and guidance, and they become upright upon the Shari'ah of Allah, and then they direct themselves to fight the Jews, and they are granted victory over them. All of this is a matter of possibility.
As for in the time of 'Isa, there is no doubt that he will kill them, and that he will be granted victory over them, (peace and blessings be upon him), along with the Muslims, when he kills the Dajjal. Yes.
Source binbaz.org.sa

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