٣٧٠ - باب أحاديث الدجال وأشراط الساعة وغيرها

Al-Nawwās ibn Samʿān (may Allah be pleased with him) said: One morning the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) mentioned the Dajjāl, lowering his voice over him and raising it, until we thought he was in a cluster of palm trees. When we went to him later, he recognised that in us and said: "What is the matter with you?" We said: O Messenger of Allah, you mentioned the Dajjāl this morning, lowering and raising your voice over him, until we thought he was in a cluster of palm trees. He said: "It is something other than the Dajjāl that I fear most for you. If he appears while I am among you, I shall contend with him on your behalf; but if he appears when I am not among you, then each man must contend for himself, and Allah is my deputy over every Muslim. He is a young man with tightly curled hair and a protruding eye; it is as though I liken him to ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā ibn Qaṭan. Whoever among you reaches him, let him recite over him the opening verses of Sūrat al-Kahf. He will emerge by way of a road between al-Shām and al-ʿIrāq, wreaking havoc to the right and to the left. O servants of Allah, stand firm!" We said: O Messenger of Allah, how long will he remain on the earth? He said: "Forty days: one day like a year, one day like a month, one day like a week, and the rest of his days like your days." We said: O Messenger of Allah, on that day which is like a year, will the prayer of a single day suffice us in it? He said: "No; estimate its measure." We said: O Messenger of Allah, how swiftly will he move through the earth? He said: "Like a rain-cloud driven by the wind. He comes to a people and calls them, and they believe in him and respond to him; he commands the sky and it rains, and the earth and it brings forth growth, so their grazing herds return to them in the evening with their humps the tallest they have ever been, their udders the fullest, and their flanks the most distended. Then he comes to another people and calls them, but they reject his words, so he turns away from them, and they wake stricken by drought with nothing of their wealth in their hands. He passes by the ruins and says to them: Bring forth your treasures! and its treasures follow him like swarms of bees. Then he summons a man brimming with youth and strikes him with the sword, cutting him into two pieces the distance of an archer's shot apart. Then he calls him, and he comes forward, his face shining and laughing. While he is in that state, Allah the Exalted sends down the Messiah, son of Mary (peace and blessings be upon him). He descends at the white minaret to the east of Damascus, clad in two lightly dyed garments, his palms resting on the wings of two angels. When he lowers his head, drops fall; and when he raises it, pearl-like beads roll down from it. No disbeliever who senses the scent of his breath can survive, and his breath reaches as far as his sight reaches. He pursues him until he overtakes him at the gate of Ludd and kills him. Then ʿĪsā (peace and blessings be upon him) comes to a people whom Allah has protected from him, and he wipes their faces and tells them of their ranks in Paradise. While he is in that state, Allah the Exalted reveals to ʿĪsā (peace and blessings be upon him): I have brought forth servants of Mine whom none has the power to fight, so take My servants safely to al-Ṭūr. Then Allah sends Yaʾjūj and Maʾjūj, and they come swarming down from every height. Their forerunners pass by the lake of Ṭabariyyah and drink what is in it, and when the last of them pass, they say: There was once water here. The Prophet of Allah ʿĪsā (peace and blessings be upon him) and his companions are besieged, until the head of an ox is dearer to one of them than a hundred dinars are to one of you today. So the Prophet of Allah ʿĪsā (peace and blessings be upon him) and his companions (may Allah be pleased with them) beseech Allah the Exalted, and Allah the Exalted sends upon them a worm in their necks, and they die all at once like the death of a single soul. Then the Prophet of Allah ʿĪsā (peace and blessings be upon him) and his companions (may Allah be pleased with them) descend to the earth, and they do not find on the earth a span's space but it is filled with their stench and rot. So the Prophet of Allah ʿĪsā (peace and blessings be upon him) and his companions (may Allah be pleased with them) beseech Allah the Exalted, and Allah the Exalted sends birds with necks like those of Bactrian camels, which carry them off and cast them wherever Allah wills. Then Allah, Mighty and Majestic, sends a rain that no house of clay or hide can keep out, and it washes the earth until it leaves it like a polished mirror. Then it is said to the earth: Bring forth your fruit and restore your blessing. On that day a band of people will eat from a single pomegranate and shelter under its rind; the milk will be so blessed that the milch-camel will suffice a large group of people, the milch-cow will suffice a tribe, and the milch-ewe will suffice a clan. While they are in that state, Allah the Exalted sends a pleasant wind which takes them beneath their armpits and seizes the soul of every believer and every Muslim, and there remain the worst of people, coupling openly like donkeys; and upon them the Hour will come." Narrated by Muslim. His words "a road between al-Shām and al-ʿIrāq" mean a path between them. His word "ʿātha" (wreaked havoc) is with the undotted ʿayn and the three-dotted thāʾ; al-ʿayth means the most severe corruption. "Al-dhurā" is with a ḍammah on the dotted dhāl, meaning the tops of the humps; it is the plural of dhirwah, with a ḍammah or kasrah on the dhāl. "Al-yaʿāsīb": the male bees. "Jizlatayn": that is, two pieces. "Al-gharaḍ": the target shot at with arrows — that is, he shoots him a shot like the shot of an arrow at a target. "Al-mahrūdah" is with the undotted or dotted dāl, and it is the dyed garment. His words "lā yadān": that is, no power. "Al-naghaf": a worm. "Farsā": the plural of farīs, which is the slain one. "Al-zalaqah" is with a fatḥah on the zāy and the lām and with the qāf; it is also reported as al-zulfah, with a ḍammah on the zāy, a sukūn on the lām, and with the fāʾ, which is the mirror. "Al-ʿiṣābah": the group. "Al-risl," with a kasrah on the rāʾ: milk. "Al-liqḥah": the milch-animal. "Al-fiʾām," with a kasrah on the fāʾ followed by a lengthened hamzah: the group. "Al-fakhidh" of people: smaller than the tribe.

Ribʿī ibn Ḥirāsh said: I set out with Abū Masʿūd al-Anṣārī to Ḥudhayfah ibn al-Yamān (may Allah be pleased with them). Abū Masʿūd said to him: Relate to me what you heard from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) about the Dajjāl. He said: "The Dajjāl will come forth, and with him will be water and fire. As for what people see as water, it is a burning fire; and as for what people see as fire, it is cool, sweet water. So whoever among you reaches him, let him plunge into what he sees as fire, for it is sweet, wholesome water." Abū Masʿūd said: I too have heard it. Agreed upon.

ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The Dajjāl will appear in my Ummah and remain forty — I do not know whether forty days, forty months, or forty years — then Allah the Exalted will send ʿĪsā, son of Mary (peace and blessings be upon him), who will seek him out and destroy him. Then the people will remain for seven years during which there is no enmity between any two. Then Allah, Mighty and Majestic, will send a cold wind from the direction of al-Shām, and there will not remain on the face of the earth anyone in whose heart is the weight of an atom of good or faith but it will take his soul; even if one of you were to enter into the heart of a mountain, it would enter upon him there until it took his soul. There will remain the worst of people, as frivolous as birds, with the dispositions of beasts of prey: they recognise no good and reject no evil. Satan will appear to them and say: Will you not respond? They will say: What do you command us? So he will command them to worship idols, while their provision is abundant and their life is good. Then the Trumpet will be blown, and no one will hear it but he will incline one side of his neck and raise the other. The first to hear it will be a man mending the watering-trough of his camels, and he will fall dead, and the people around him will fall dead. Then Allah will send — or He said: Allah will send down — a rain like dew, or like shade, from which the bodies of the people will grow. Then it will be blown into again, and behold, they will be standing, looking on. Then it will be said: O people, come to your Lord! And: Stop them, for they are to be questioned. Then it will be said: Bring out the contingent of the Fire. It will be asked: Out of how many? It will be said: Out of every thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine. That is the day that will turn children grey, and that is the Day when the Shin will be laid bare." Narrated by Muslim. "Al-līt" is the side of the neck; its meaning is that he lays down one side of his neck and raises the other.

Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There is no land but the Dajjāl will tread it, except Makkah and Madinah; and there is no mountain-pass of theirs but the angels are upon it in ranks, guarding them both. Then he will alight at the salt-marsh, and Madinah will quake three times, by which Allah will expel from it every disbeliever and hypocrite." Narrated by Muslim.

He (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The Dajjāl will be followed by seventy thousand of the Jews of Iṣbahān, wearing shawls." Narrated by Muslim.

Umm Sharīk (may Allah be pleased with her) reported that she heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "The people will surely flee from the Dajjāl into the mountains." Narrated by Muslim.

ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Between the creation of Ādam and the coming of the Hour there is no matter greater than the Dajjāl." Narrated by Muslim.

Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī (may Allah be pleased with him) reported from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: "The Dajjāl will come forth, and a man from among the believers will set out towards him; the armed patrols — the patrols of the Dajjāl — will meet him and say to him: Where are you headed? He will say: I am headed for this one who has come forth. They will say to him: Do you not believe in our lord? He will say: There is nothing hidden about our Lord! They will say: Kill him. Then some of them will say to others: Did your lord not forbid you to kill anyone without his leave? So they will take him to the Dajjāl. When the believer sees him, he will say: O people, this is the Dajjāl of whom the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) spoke. The Dajjāl will then order that he be stretched out, and say: Take him and split his head. So his back and belly will be thoroughly beaten. He will say: Do you not believe in me? He will say: You are the lying Messiah! Then he will be ordered, and he will be sawn with the saw from the parting of his head until it separates his two legs. Then the Dajjāl will walk between the two pieces, then say to him: Stand! and he will rise up standing. Then he will say to him: Do you believe in me? He will say: I have only increased in insight concerning you. Then he will say: O people, he will not do this to anyone else among the people after me. The Dajjāl will take him to slaughter him, but Allah will make what is between his neck and his collarbone into copper, and he will find no way to him. So he will take him by his hands and feet and hurl him; the people will think he has hurled him into the Fire, but he has only been cast into Paradise." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "This is the greatest of people in testimony before the Lord of the Worlds." Narrated by Muslim, and al-Bukhārī narrated part of it in its meaning. "Al-masāliḥ": they are the guards and the scouts.

Al-Mughīrah ibn Shuʿbah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: No one asked the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) about the Dajjāl more than I asked him. He said to me: "What harm can he do you?" I said: They say that with him is a mountain of bread and a river of water. He said: "He is more insignificant before Allah than that." Agreed upon.

Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There is no prophet but he warned his Ummah of the one-eyed liar. Indeed, he is one-eyed, and your Lord — Mighty and Majestic — is not one-eyed; between his eyes is written kāf-fāʾ-rāʾ (kāfir, 'disbeliever')." Agreed upon.

Abū Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Shall I not tell you a ḥadīth about the Dajjāl such as no prophet ever told his people? He is one-eyed, and he will come bringing with him a likeness of Paradise and the Fire; so what he calls Paradise is in fact the Fire." Agreed upon.

Ibn ʿUmar (may Allah be pleased with them both) reported that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) mentioned the Dajjāl in the midst of the people and said: "Indeed Allah is not one-eyed. Behold, the Messiah, the Dajjāl, is blind in the right eye; his eye is like a protruding grape." Agreed upon.

Abū Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The Hour will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews, until the Jew hides behind a stone or a tree, and the stone and the tree say: O Muslim, here is a Jew behind me — come and kill him! — except the box-thorn (al-gharqad), for it is one of the trees of the Jews." Agreed upon.

He (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "By the One in whose hand is my soul, the world will not pass away until a man passes by a grave, rolls himself upon it, and says: Would that I were in the place of the occupant of this grave! — not out of religion, but only because of the affliction [of the trials of that time]." Agreed upon.

He (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The Hour will not come until the Euphrates uncovers a mountain of gold over which people will fight, so that out of every hundred, ninety-nine will be killed, and every man among them will say: Perhaps I will be the one who survives." In another narration: "The Euphrates is about to uncover a treasure of gold; whoever is present at it, let him take nothing from it." Agreed upon.

He said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "They will leave Madinah at its very best, with nothing frequenting it but the foragers" — meaning the beasts of prey and the birds that seek food — "and the last to be gathered will be two shepherds from Muzaynah, heading for Madinah, driving their sheep with their calls; but they will find it desolate, until when they reach the Pass of al-Wadāʿ they will fall down on their faces." Agreed upon.

Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "In the end of time there will be a caliph from among your caliphs who will scatter wealth without counting it." Narrated by Muslim.

Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There will surely come upon people a time when a man will go round with charity of gold but will not find anyone to accept it from him; and a single man will be seen followed by forty women taking refuge with him, because of the scarcity of men and the abundance of women." Narrated by Muslim.

Abū Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) reported from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: "A man bought a piece of land from another man, and the one who bought the land found in his land a jar containing gold. The one who bought the land said to the seller: Take your gold; I only bought the land from you, I did not buy the gold. And the one to whom the land had belonged said: I only sold you the land and what is in it. So they brought their dispute to a man, who said: Do you two have a child? One of them said: I have a son. The other said: I have a daughter. He said: Marry the boy to the girl, spend on themselves from it, and give charity." Agreed upon.

He (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that he heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "There were two women, each with her son. A wolf came and made off with the son of one of them. She said to her companion: It is your son that it took. The other said: It is your son that it took. So they brought their dispute to Dāwūd (peace and blessings be upon him), who judged the child to belong to the elder. Then they went out to Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd (peace and blessings be upon him) and told him. He said: Bring me a knife; I will split him between the two of you. The younger said: Do not do it! May Allah have mercy on you — he is her son. So he judged the child to belong to the younger." Agreed upon.

Mirdās al-Aslamī (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The righteous will depart, one after another, and there will remain dregs like the dregs of barley or dates, about whom Allah will not care in the least." Narrated by al-Bukhārī.

Rifāʿah ibn Rāfiʿ al-Zuraqī (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Jibrīl came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: How do you regard the people of Badr among you? He said: "Among the best of the Muslims" — or a word to that effect. He said: And likewise those of the angels who witnessed Badr. Narrated by al-Bukhārī.

Ibn ʿUmar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When Allah the Exalted sends down a punishment upon a people, the punishment strikes all who are among them; then they are raised up according to their deeds." Agreed upon.

Jābir (may Allah be pleased with him) said: There was a palm-trunk against which the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to stand — meaning during the sermon — and when the pulpit was placed, we heard from the trunk a sound like that of pregnant she-camels, until the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came down and placed his hand upon it, and it became calm. In another narration: When it was the day of Jumuʿah, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sat upon the pulpit, and the palm-tree beside which he used to preach cried out until it almost split apart. In another narration: It cried out like the crying of a child, so the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came down, took it, and embraced it to himself, and it began to moan like the moaning of a child being quieted, until it settled. He said: "It wept over the remembrance [of Allah] it used to hear." Narrated by al-Bukhārī.

Abū Thaʿlabah al-Khushanī, Jurthūm ibn Nāshir (may Allah be pleased with him), reported from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: "Allah the Exalted has ordained obligations, so do not neglect them; He has set limits, so do not transgress them; He has forbidden certain things, so do not violate them; and He has been silent about certain things as a mercy to you, not out of forgetfulness, so do not inquire about them." A good (ḥasan) ḥadīth, narrated by al-Dāraquṭnī and others.

ʿAbd Allah ibn Abī Awfā (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: We campaigned with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) on seven campaigns, eating locusts. In another narration: We ate locusts with him. Agreed upon.

Abū Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The believer is not stung from the same hole twice." Agreed upon.

He said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There are three whom Allah will not speak to on the Day of Resurrection, nor look at, nor purify, and for them is a painful punishment: a man who has surplus water in the desert and withholds it from the traveller; a man who sells goods to another after the ʿAṣr prayer, swearing by Allah that he paid such-and-such for them, so the buyer believes him though it is not so; and a man who pledges allegiance to a ruler, pledging to him only for worldly gain, so that if he gives him of it he fulfils, but if he gives him nothing of it he does not fulfil." Agreed upon.

He reported from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: "Between the two blasts [of the Trumpet] there are forty." They said: O Abū Hurayrah, forty days? He said: I decline [to specify]. They said: Forty years? He said: I decline. They said: Forty months? He said: I decline. "Everything of the human being decays except the tailbone (the coccyx); from it the creation is reconstructed. Then Allah sends down water from the sky, and they grow as the herbage grows." Agreed upon.

He said: While the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was in a gathering addressing the people, a Bedouin came and said: When is the Hour? The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) continued speaking. Some of the people said: He heard what was said but disliked it; others said: Rather, he did not hear. Until, when he had finished his discourse, he said: "Where is the one who asked about the Hour?" He said: Here I am, O Messenger of Allah. He said: "When the trust is neglected, await the Hour." He said: How is it neglected? He said: "When the affair is entrusted to other than its people, await the Hour." Narrated by al-Bukhārī.

He reported that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "They [the imams] lead the prayer for you: if they are correct, it is for you; and if they err, it is for you and against them." Narrated by al-Bukhārī.

He (may Allah be pleased with him), regarding the verse "You were the best nation brought forth for mankind" [al-Baqarah: 110], said: The best of people for people: they bring them in chains around their necks until they enter into Islam.

He reported from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: "Allah — Mighty and Majestic — marvels at a people who enter Paradise in chains." Al-Bukhārī narrated both. Its meaning: they are taken captive and shackled, then they embrace Islam and so enter Paradise.

He reported from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: "The most beloved of lands to Allah are their mosques, and the most hateful of lands to Allah are their markets." Narrated by Muslim.

Salmān al-Fārisī (may Allah be pleased with him), from his own words, said: Do not be, if you can help it, the first to enter the market nor the last to leave it, for it is the battlefield of Satan, and there he plants his banner. Muslim narrated it thus. Al-Barqānī narrated it in his Ṣaḥīḥ from Salmān, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do not be the first to enter the market nor the last to leave it; in it Satan has laid his eggs and hatched."

ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal reported from ʿAbd Allah ibn Sarjis (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: I said to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him): O Messenger of Allah, may Allah forgive you. He said: "And you." ʿĀṣim said: So I asked him: Did the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) seek forgiveness for you? He said: Yes, and for you — then he recited this verse: "And seek forgiveness for your sin and for the believing men and the believing women." [Muḥammad: 19]. Narrated by Muslim.

Abū Masʿūd al-Anṣārī (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Among what people have received from the words of the earliest prophethood is: If you feel no shame, then do whatever you wish." Narrated by al-Bukhārī.

Ibn Masʿūd (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The first matter to be judged among people on the Day of Resurrection will concern bloodshed." Agreed upon.

ʿĀʾishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The angels were created from light, the jinn were created from a smokeless flame of fire, and Ādam was created from what has been described to you." Narrated by Muslim.

She (may Allah be pleased with her) said: The character of the Prophet of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was the Qurʾān. Narrated by Muslim within the course of a long ḥadīth.

She said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever loves to meet Allah, Allah loves to meet him; and whoever dislikes to meet Allah, Allah dislikes to meet him." I said: O Messenger of Allah, is it the dislike of death? For all of us dislike death. He said: "It is not so; rather, when the believer is given glad tidings of Allah's mercy, His good pleasure, and His Paradise, he loves to meet Allah, so Allah loves to meet him; and when the disbeliever is informed of Allah's punishment and His wrath, he dislikes to meet Allah, so Allah dislikes to meet him." Narrated by Muslim.

Umm al-Muʾminīn Ṣafiyyah bint Ḥuyayy (may Allah be pleased with her) said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was in seclusion (iʿtikāf), so I came to visit him at night. I spoke with him, then rose to return, and he rose with me to see me back. Two men of the Anṣār (may Allah be pleased with them) passed by, and when they saw the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), they hastened on. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Take your time; she is Ṣafiyyah bint Ḥuyayy." They said: Glory be to Allah, O Messenger of Allah! He said: "Indeed, Satan flows through the son of Ādam as the blood flows, and I feared that he might cast some evil — or he said: something — into your hearts." Agreed upon.

Abū al-Faḍl al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I was present with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) on the Day of Ḥunayn. Abū Sufyān ibn al-Ḥārith ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib and I kept close to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and did not part from him, while the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was on a white mule of his. When the Muslims and the polytheists met, the Muslims turned and fled, but the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) began urging his mule towards the disbelievers. I was holding the bridle of the mule of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), restraining it so that it would not go fast, while Abū Sufyān was holding the stirrup of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: O ʿAbbās, call out to the Companions of the Acacia Tree! ʿAbbās — who was a man with a loud voice — said: So I called out at the top of my voice: Where are the Companions of the Acacia Tree? By Allah, when they heard my voice, their turning back was like the turning of cattle towards their young, and they cried: Here we are, here we are! They and the disbelievers fought, while the call went out among the Anṣār, who were saying: O company of the Anṣār, O company of the Anṣār! Then the call was confined to the Banū al-Ḥārith ibn al-Khazraj. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), upon his mule, craning forward over it towards their fighting, said: This is when the battle has grown fierce. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) took some pebbles and threw them at the faces of the disbelievers, then said: They are defeated, by the Lord of Muhammad! I went to look, and behold, the fighting was as it had been, as far as I could see; but by Allah, no sooner had he thrown the pebbles at them than I kept seeing their force grow blunt and their affair in retreat. Narrated by Muslim. "Al-waṭīs" is the oven; its meaning is that the war grew intense. His words "ḥaddahum" — with the undotted ḥāʾ — that is, their might.