Trials – Hadith Answers

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Another version of the Hadith on ‘Allah Ta’ala testing his servant to raise his rank’

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Please authenticate this Hadith.

Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) has said:

“Sometimes a high rank is decreed for a Mu’min which he could never have attained by virtue of his deeds, so Allah Ta’ala makes him experience some hardship, whether it be physical, material or concerning his children. Then, He makes him patient and lets him attain the position decreed for him by Allah ‘Azza Wa Jalla.’

The simplicity of Sahabah compared to our condition today

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Kindly translate of the following narration:

حدثني من سمع علي بن أبي طالب يقول: إنا لجلوس مع رسول الله –صلى الله عليه وسلم- في المسجد إذ طلع مصعب بن عمير -رضي الله عنه- ما عليه إلا بردة له مرقوعة بفرو، فلما رآه رسول الله –صلى الله عليه وسلم- بكى للذي كان فيه من النعمة والذي هو اليوم فيه، ثم قال رسول الله –صلى الله عليه وسلم-: “كيف بكم إذا غدا أحدكم في حلة وراح في حلة، ووضعت بين يديه صحفة ورفعت أخرى، وسترتم بيوتكم كما تستر الكعبة”. قالوا: يا رسول الله: نحن يومئذ خير منا اليوم نتفرغ للعبادة ونكفى المؤنة. فقال رسول الله –صلى الله عليه وسلم-: لأنتم اليوم خير منكم يومئذ

Signs of Qiyamah

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What is the status of this narration?

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (radiyallahu ‘anhu) narrates that Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said:

When public money is passed around like own money
Trust is taken as booty (i.e. intention is to use it and refuse to return it)
Zakah is seen as a tax
Knowledge of Din is acquired for reasons other than spreading the Din
A man obeys his wife and disobeys his mother
Draws his friends close and distances his father
Voices are raised in the Masajid
Tribes are led by their wicked
The leader of the community is the most despicable among them
A person is respected for fear of his reprisals
Singing girls and musical instruments become widespread
Intoxicants are consumed
The latter of this Ummah will curse their former

Then anticipate dangerous hurricanes, earthquakes, collapsing of the earth, disfigurement of bodies and faces, raining of stones, and such signs that follow in succession like beads of a necklace when the string is cut and so they (the beads) fall in succession.

Popular Hadith regarding Sham (Syria)

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Is this Hadith authentic?

It is extensively shared on social media amongst the youth:

Salamah bin Nufail (radiyallahu ‘anhu) said: While I was sitting with the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam) a man came to him and said,

“O Messenger of Allah Horses are being humiliated (ignored), and weapons are being laid down and people are claiming there is no more Jihad and war has ended”

the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam) said:

“They are lying! Fighting has just begun! Fighting has just begun! And a party of my Ummah will remain fighting on the true path and Allah will deviate the hearts of some men and Allah will provide the fighters from them until the final hour starts and the promise of Allah is fulfilled and good is on the foreheads of horses until the day of Judgement. It is being revealed to me that I will be departing you soon and you would follow me in groups while you are fighting each other and the house of the believers is in Sham (Syria)”

Correct translation of the Hadith on the continuity of fitnah (trials)

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Kindly inform as to which is the correct translation to the following Hadith –

‘beads of a rosary’ or ‘pieces of a necklace’.

Rasulullah (Sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam) said, “…signs following one another like the pieces of a necklace falling one after the other, when its string is cut.” or is it: “…like beads of a rosary falling one after the other when its string is cut.”?

JazakAllah khayran

Allah Ta’ala testing his servant to raise his rank in Jannah

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What is the original wording and authenticity of the following?

Nabi (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) has mentioned that sometimes Allah Ta’ala wishes to elevate the rank of a certain person in Jannah, but this persons good deeds are not enough that he can reach this rank, therefore Allah Ta’ala puts him through some trial and tribulation, and then gives him the strength to make sabr, then through this sabr, Allah elevates his rank in Jannah.

Hastening to do good before trials and tribulations

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I humbly request if you could explain the following Hadith:

‘Hasten to perform good deeds before the emergence of trials like pieces of a dark night. A man will awake as a believer and end the day a disbeliever, or end the day a believer and wake as a disbeliever. He will sell his religion for the trivialities of this world’

A Hadith warning against the Shi’ah

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Kindly verify the authenticity of the following Hadith:

يظهر في آخر الزمان قوم يسمون الرافضه يرفضون الاسلام

Translation: Towards the end of time a nation called the ‘Rafidah’ (a type of Shi’ah) will appear, they will reject and abandon Islam.