Story of Adi b. Hatim and the prophecy of the spread of Islam and the end times
I (Ibn Hudhayfah) was being told a report about ʿAdī b. Ḥātim, and I said: This is ʿAdī in the region of Kūfa; if only I would go to him so that I myself might hear it from him. So I went to him and said: I was being told a report about you, and I wanted to be the one to hear it from you.
He said: When Allah sent the Prophet ﷺ, I fled from him, until I was in the farthest land of the Muslims, on the side bordering the Romans. Then I came to dislike the place I was in, until it became more hateful to me than the place I had left. So I said: I will certainly go to this man; by Allah, if he is truthful I will surely listen to him, and if he is lying it will not harm me.
So I came to him, and the people craned their necks to look at me and said: ‘ʿAdī b. Ḥātim, ʿAdī b. Ḥātim,’ I think he said it three times. Then he said to me: "O ʿAdī b. Ḥātim, accept Islam and you will be safe." I said: I am a man of a religion. He said: "O ʿAdī b. Ḥātim, accept Islam and you will be safe." I said: "I am a man of a religion." He said it three times, then he said: "I know your religion better than you do." I said: "You know my religion better than I do?" He said: "Yes. Are you not the leader of your people?" I said: Indeed. Then he mentioned the Rakūsiyyah and said: "In your religion, the mirbāʿ is not lawful." When he said that, my soul humbled somewhat.
Then he said: "I think that what keeps you from Islam is the poverty you see among those around me, and that the people are united against us as one. Do you know the location of al-Ḥīrah?" I said: I have heard of it, but I have not come to it. He said: "Soon a woman in a howdah will set out from there without any protector until she she performs the tawaf of the Kabah; and soon the treasures of Kisrā b. Hurmuz will be opened." I said: Kisrā b. Hurmuz? He said: "Kisrā ibn Hurmuz" three times, "and soon a man will seek someone to accept his wealth as charity, and he will not find anyone."
ʿAdī said: I have indeed seen two: I saw the woman in a howdah set out from al-Ḥīrah without any protector until she performs the tawaf of the Kabah, and I was among the cavalry that raided al-Madā’in. And by Allah, the third will surely come to pass, for it is a report the Messenger of Allah ﷺ told me.
كُنْتُ أُحَدَّثُ حَدِيثًا عَنْ عَدِيِّ بْنِ حَاتِمٍ، فَقُلْتُ: هَذَا عَدِيٌّ فِي نَاحِيَةِ الْكُوفَةِ، فَلَوْ أَتَيْتُهُ فَكُنْتُ أَنَا الَّذِي أَسْمَعُهُ مِنْهُ. فَأَتَيْتُهُ فَقُلْتُ: إِنِّي كُنْتُ أُحَدَّثُ عَنْكَ حَدِيثًا، فَأَرَدْتُ أَنْ أَكُونَ أَنَا الَّذِي أَسْمَعُهُ مِنْكَ. قَالَ: لَمَّا بَعَثَ اللَّهُ ﷻ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فَرَرْتُ مِنْهُ، حَتَّى كُنْتُ فِي أَقْصَى أَرْضِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ مِمَّا يَلِي الرُّومَ، فَكَرِهْتُ مَكَانِي الَّذِي أَنَا فِيهِ حَتَّى كَانَ أَشَدَّ كَرَاهِيَةً لِي مِنَ الْمَكَانِ الَّذِي خَرَجْتُ مِنْهُ. فَقُلْتُ: لَآتِيَنَّ هَذَا الرَّجُلَ، فَوَاللَّهِ لَئِنْ كَانَ صَادِقًا لَأَسْمَعَنَّ مِنْهُ، وَلَئِنْ كَانَ كَاذِبًا مَا هُوَ بِضَائِرِي.
قَالَ: فَأَتَيْتُهُ، وَاسْتَشْرَفَنِي النَّاسُ، وَقَالُوا: عَدِيُّ بْنُ حَاتِمٍ، عَدِيُّ بْنُ حَاتِمٍ، أَظُنُّهُ قَالَهَا ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ. فَقَالَ لِي: «يَا عَدِيُّ بْنَ حَاتِمٍ، أَسْلِمْ تَسْلَمْ». قُلْتُ: إِنِّي مِنْ أَهْلِ دِينٍ. فَقَالَ: «يَا عَدِيُّ بْنَ حَاتِمٍ، أَسْلِمْ تَسْلَمْ». قُلْتُ: إِنِّي مِنْ أَهْلِ دِينٍ. قَالَهَا ثَلَاثًا، ثُمَّ قَالَ: «أَنَا أَعْلَمُ بِدِينِكَ مِنْكَ». فَقُلْتُ: أَنْتَ أَعْلَمُ بِدِينِي مِنِّي؟ قَالَ: «نَعَمْ، أَلَيْسَ تَرْأَسُ قَوْمَكَ؟». قُلْتُ: بَلَى. فَذَكَرَ الرَّكُوسِيَّةَ، وَقَالَ: «إِنَّهُ لَا يَحِلُّ فِي دِينِكَ الْمِرْبَاعُ». فَلَمَّا قَالَهَا تَوَاضَعَتْ نَفْسِي شَيْئًا.
ثُمَّ قَالَ: «إِنِّي قَدْ أَرَى أَنَّ مِمَّا يَمْنَعُكَ مِنَ الْإِسْلَامِ خَصَاصَةً تَرَاهَا بِمَنْ حَوْلِي، وَأَنَّ النَّاسَ عَلَيْنَا أَلْبٌ وَاحِدٌ. هَلْ تَعْلَمُ مَكَانَ الْحِيرَةِ؟». قُلْتُ: قَدْ سَمِعْتُ بِهَا وَلَمْ آتِهَا. قَالَ: «لَتُوشِكَنَّ الظَّعِينَةُ أَنْ تَخْرُجَ مِنْهَا بِغَيْرِ جِوَارٍ، حَتَّى تَطُوفَ بِالْكَعْبَةِ، وَلَتُوشِكَنَّ كُنُوزُ كِسْرَى بْنِ هُرْمُزَ أَنْ تُفْتَحَ». قُلْتُ: كِسْرَى بْنُ هُرْمُزَ؟ قَالَ: «كِسْرَى بْنُ هُرْمُزَ» ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ، «وَلَيُوشِكَنَّ أَنْ يَبْتَغِيَ الرَّجُلُ مَنْ يَقْبَلُ مَالَهُ صَدَقَةً فَلَا يَجِدُ».
قَالَ عَدِيٌّ: فَقَدْ رَأَيْتُ اثْنَتَيْنِ؛ رَأَيْتُ الظَّعِينَةَ تَخْرُجُ مِنَ الْحِيرَةِ بِغَيْرِ جِوَارٍ حَتَّى تَطُوفَ بِالْكَعْبَةِ، وَكُنْتُ فِي الْخَيْلِ الَّتِي أَغَارَتْ عَلَى الْمَدَائِنِ. وَايْمُ اللَّهِ، لَتَكُونَنَّ الثَّالِثَةُ، فَإِنَّهُ حَدِيثُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ حَدَّثَنِيهِ.
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