What Has Been Related About The Constriction Of Time And The Curtailment Of Hope
Darussalam · Volume 4
34. Chapters On Zuhd From The Messenger Of Allāh ﷺJami at-Tirmidhi Darussalam English translation
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Source no. 2332 · Volume 5 · Page 332
Sahih
صحيح، المشكاة (٥٤٤٨ / التحقيق الثانى)
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2332. Anas bin Mālik narrated that Allāh's Messenger ﷺ said: "The Hour shall not be established until time is constricted, and the year is like a month, a month is like the week, and the week is like the day, and the day is like the hour, and the hour is like the flare of the fire." (Ṣaḥīḥ) [Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Gharīb from this route. Sa'd bin Sa'eed (a narrator in the chain) is the brother of Yahyā bin Sa'eed Al-Anṣārī.
٢٣٣٢ - حَدَّثَنَا عَبَّاسُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الدُّورِيُّ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدُ بْنُ مَخْلَدٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ الْعُمَرِيُّ ، عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَا تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ حَتَّى يَتَقَارَبَ» الزَّمَانُ، فَتَكُونُ السَّنَةُ كَالشَّهْرِ، وَالشَّهْرُ كَالْجُمُعَةِ، وَتَكُونُ الْجُمُعَةُ كَالْيَوْمِ، وَيَكُونُ الْيَوْمُ كَالسَّاعَةِ، وَتَكُونُ السَّاعَةُ كَالضَّرْمَةِ بِالنَّارِ. هَذَا حَدِيثٌ غَرِيبٌ مِنْ هَذَا الْوَجْهِ، وَسَعْدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ هُوَ أَخُو يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ.
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Various interpretations have been given to the expression "constriction of time". They are as follows: Those will be the joyful days of merry-making and prosperity. Hence the time shall pass unnoticed. The world shall be devoid of heavenly bliss. As such time shall pass without anybody noticing it. Governments shall come and go in quick succession, and it would seem as if they lasted but a few days. People will be battling with calamities, disturbances and dissensions so that they shall lose the sense of the passage of time. The core of the matter in fact is that the age will be bereft of heavenly bliss. As such the time shall pass at an awfully quick pace. The year, the month and the week shall pass without anyone knowing how they flew away.