Hadith 2248

What Has Been Related About Ibn Ṣayyād

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Darussalam · Volume 4

31. Chapters On Al-Fitan From The Messenger Of Allāh ﷺ

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الجزء: 4 ¦ الصفحة: 100

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2248. It was narrated from ‘Abdur-Rahmān bin Abī Bakrah from his father who said: “The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: ‘The father of the Dajjāl and his mother, will abide for thirty years without bearing a son. Then a boy shall be born to them, having one eye in which there is some defect, providing little use. His eyes sleep but his heart does not sleep.' Then the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ described his parents for us: 'His father is tall, with little fat, with a nose as if it were a beak. His mother is a bulky woman with long breasts.'" So Abū Bakrah said: "I heard about a child being born to some Jews in Al-Madinah. So Az-Zubair bin Al-'Awwām and I went until we entered upon his parents. They appeared as the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ had described them. We said: 'Do you have any children?' They said: 'We remained for thirty years without any children being born to us, then we bore a boy, having one eye in which there is some defect, providing little use. His eyes sleep but his heart does not sleep.'" He said: "So we were leaving them, when he appeared, glittering in the sunlight in a velvet garment, murmuring something. He uncovered his head and said: 'What were you saying?' We said: 'Did you hear what we were saying?' He said: 'Yes, that my eyes sleep but my heart does not sleep.'" (Ḍa'if) [Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Ḥasan Gharīb, we do not know of it except as a narration of Ḥammād bin Salamah.

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٢٢٤٨ - حَدَّثَنَا ‌عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُعَاوِيَةَ الْجُمَحِيُّ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا ‌حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ ، عَنْ ‌عَلِيِّ بْنِ زَيْدٍ ، عَنْ ‌عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي بَكْرَةَ، عَنْ ‌أَبِيهِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «يَمْكُثُ أَبُو الدَّجَّالِ وَأُمُّهُ ثَلَاثِينَ عَامًا لَا يُولَدُ لَهُمَا وَلَدٌ،» ثُمَّ يُولَدُ لَهُمَا غُلَامٌ أَعْوَرُ أَضَرُّ شَيْءٍ وَأَقَلُّهُ مَنْفَعَةً، تَنَامُ عَيْنَاهُ وَلَا يَنَامُ قَلْبُهُ ثُمَّ نَعَتَ لَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَبَوَيْهِ فَقَالَ: أَبُوهُ طُوَالٌ ضَرْبُ اللَّحْمِ، كَأَنَّ أَنْفَهُ مِنْقَارٌ، وَأُمُّهُ فِرْضَاخِيَّةٌ طَوِيلَةُ الثَّدْيَيْنِ فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرَةَ: فَسَمِعْنَا بِمَوْلُودٍ فِي الْيَهُودِ بِالْمَدِينَةِ، فَذَهَبْتُ أَنَا وَالزُّبَيْرُ بْنُ الْعَوَّامِ حَتَّى دَخَلْنَا عَلَى أَبَوَيْهِ، فَإِذَا نَعْتُ رَسُولِ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِيهِمَا، فَقُلْنَا: هَلْ لَكُمَا وَلَدٌ؟ فَقَالَا: مَكَثْنَا ثَلَاثِينَ عَامًا لَا يُولَدُ لَنَا وَلَدٌ ثُمَّ وُلِدَ لَنَا غُلَامٌ أَعْوَرُ أَضَرُّ شَيْءٍ وَأَقَلُّهُ مَنْفَعَةً، تَنَامُ عَيْنَاهُ وَلَا يَنَامُ قَلْبُهُ، قَالَ: فَخَرَجْنَا مِنْ عِنْدِهِمَا، فَإِذَا هُوَ مُنْجَدِلٌ فِي الشَّمْسِ فِي قَطِيفَةٍ لَهُ، وَلَهُ هَمْهَمَةٌ فَتَكَشَّفَ عَنْ رَأْسِهِ فَقَالَ: مَا قُلْتُمَا؟ قُلْنَا: وَهَلْ سَمِعْتَ مَا قُلْنَا؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ تَنَامُ عَيْنَايَ وَلَا يَنَامُ قَلْبِي. هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ، لَا نَعْرِفُهُ إِلَّا مِنْ حَدِيثِ حَمَّادِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ.

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It is not Hadīth for the simple reason that Abū Bakrah ﷺ only embraced Islam at the time of the siege of Taif after the conquest of Makkah in the year 8 AH. And according to the unanimous Hadīth (appearing in both Sahih Muslim and Al-Bukhārī) when the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ met him at the oasis, he had already approached the age of puberty. Abū Bakrah ﷺ came and settled in Al-Madinah just two years before the death of the Prophet ﷺ.