Hadith #47

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English Translation

Hushaym narrated to us, he said: Manṣūr — meaning Ibn Zādhān — narrated to us, from al-Ḥasan, from Abū Mūsā that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'Before the Hour there will be al-harj.' They said: And what is al-harj, O Messenger of Allah? He said: 'Killing.' Some of the Muslims said: O Messenger of Allah, we kill in such-and-such a number of polytheists in a single year now! the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'It is not the killing of the polytheists, but rather you will kill one another, until a man kills his neighbor, his cousin, and his relative.' Some of the people said: O Messenger of Allah, will we be sane on that day? He said: 'The intellects of most of the people of that time will be taken away, and there will remain worthless people — most of them thinking they are upon something, but they are upon nothing.' Abū Mūsā said: By the One in Whose Hand is my soul, I find no way out for myself and you from it — if it overtakes me and you — except that we emerge from it as we entered it, not having shed blood in it nor seized property.