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3955. It was narrated that Hudhaifah said: “We were sitting with ‘Umar and he said: ‘Which of you has remembered a Hadith from the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ concerning Fitnah?’” Hudhaifah said: “I said: ‘I have.’ He said: ‘You are very bold.’ He said: ‘How?’ He said: ‘I heard him say: “The Fitnah of a man with regard to his family, his children and his neighbors are expiated by his prayers, fasts, charity and enjoining what is good and forbidding what is evil.” ‘Umar said: ‘This is not what I meant, rather I meant that which moves like the waves of the sea.’” Hudhaifah said: “Don’t worry about it, O Commander of the Believers! For there is a closed door between you and them.” ‘Umar said: “Will that door be broken or opened?” I said: No, it will be broken.” ‘Umar said:
"Then it will never be closed."
We asked Hudhaifah: "Did 'Umar know what that door meant?" He said: "Yes, just as he knows that there will be night before morning, because I narrated to him a Hadith in which there are no errors."
We were afraid to ask him who the door was, so we said to Masruq: "Ask him." He said: "Umar." (Sahih)
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Commentary
Breaking doors indicates the martyrdom of 'Umar. A Magus named Abu Lulu Fayroz murdered him. By this action the conspirators were able to remove a great obstacle from their way to carry out their evil plots.
These afflictions occurred just as the Prophet ﷺ, had predicated. It proves his truthfulness and that the Prophet ﷺ, talks only in the light of the revelation. It cannot be used as an evidence that the Prophet ﷺ, ever had the knowledge of the unseen.
