🤲Spiritual Refinement, Manners & Remembrance

The end in strife and epics

النهاية في الفتن والملاحم

Author: أبو الفداء إسماعيل بن عمر بن كثير القرشي البصري ثم الدمشقي (المتوفى: 774هـ) (d. 774)

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كتاب النهاية في الفتن والملاحم للشيخ ابن كثير يندرج ضمن فئة الرقاق والآداب والأذكار، ويختص بجمع وتبيين الأحاديث النبوية التي تتناول الفتن وعلامات الساعة وأحداث المستقبل التي ذُكرت في السنة. يشتمل المجلد الأول على مقدمة تمهيدية ثم سلسلة من الإشارات النبوية إلى مصائر الخلفاء، الفتوحات، والفتن التي ستقع في آخر الزمان، مع توضيح مفاتيح الغيب التي لا يعلمها إلا الله. يهدف النص إلى إقناع القارئ بضرورة الإيمان بما ورد من غيوب ومؤشرات الساعة مستنداً إلى روايات موثوقة.

Translation

The Book of the End in Trials and Epics by Sheikh Ibn Katheer falls within the category of Al-Riqaq, Adab, and Remembrances, and specializes in collecting and clarifying the Prophetic hadiths that deal with temptations, signs of the Hour, and future events mentioned in the Sunnah. The first volume includes an introductory introduction and then a series of prophetic references to the fates of the caliphs, the conquests, and the temptations that will occur at the end of time, with an explanation of the keys to the unseen that only God knows. The text aims to convince the reader of the necessity of believing in the unseen things and indications of the Hour, based on reliable narrations.

Topics covered

First volume
the introduction
May God Almighty have mercy on the nation of Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace
Some of what the Messenger, peace be upon him, told him would happen
A prophetic sign that Muslims would conquer Egypt
A prophetic indication that Omar, may God be pleased with him, will be killed
A prophetic indication that Ammar bin Yasser, may God be pleased with him, will be killed
A prophetic sign that the Muslim army will reach India and Sindh
A prophetic indication that Muslims will fight the Turks
Mentioned in the year five hundred
The fire appeared in the city and continued for a month in the year 654 AH
There is no basis for Israeli women who praise what has passed and what remains of the world
The hour is approaching
The Muslim will be gathered with those he loves on the Day of Resurrection
Whoever dies has his resurrection
The keys to the unseen are five that only God knows
The Messenger, peace be upon him, does not know when the Hour is
A prophetic reference to the succession of good and evil
The return of Islam is as strange as it began
Chapter on the separation of nations
entrance
The nation does not unite on misguidance
Permission for people to isolate themselves when temptations intensify and desires rule
Prohibition of wishing for death
Raising knowledge of the death of scholars

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