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(6). 3153. Abū Rāfi' narrated a Hadīth of Abū Hurairah, from the Prophet ﷺ, regarding the 'barrier.'[2] "They excavated each day, until when they are just about to penetrate it, their leader says: 'Go back so that you can penetrate
it tomorrow!" He said: "But Allāh makes it return just as it was, until their appointed time, when Allāh ordains to send them upon the people, and their leader says: 'Go back so you can penetrate it tomorrow, if Allāh wills.' So he makes this exception." He said: "So they return, and find it just as it was when they left it. Then they penetrate it, and (they, i.e., Ya'jūj and Ma'jūj) are released upon the people drinking up the water, and the people flee from them. They shoot their arrows into the heavens so they return dyed with blood, and they say – crudely and arrogantly – 'We vanquished those in the earth, let us dominate the inhabitants of the heavens.' Then Allāh sends Naghaf upon them, attaching to the nape of their necks, destroying them." He said: "By the One in Whose Hand is the soul of Muḥammad! The beasts of the earth will become very fat and bloated with milk from their flesh."
(Sahīh)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Hasan Gharīb. We only know of it like this from this route.
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Footnotes
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[1] Al-Kahf 18.82.
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[2] Al-Kahf 18.93.
Commentary
Dhul-Qarnain built a strong and mighty iron wall to protect the people from the mischief and destruction of Ya'jūj and Ma'jūj in order to make them unable to jump over the wall and incapable of breaking through it. They, every day, try to dig through the wall, but so long as Allāh does not will their appearance there will be no excavation through the wall. When the time of their appearance will arrive, according to the wording of the Qur'an, 'He
would make it ground into powder'; then their appearance beyond the wall will be possible. For other related matters, see no. 2240 about Yaj'ūj and Ma'jūj.
