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ذِكْرُ الْبَيَانِ بِأَنَّ قَوْلَهُ ﷺ «يَمْشُونَ فِي الشَّعَرِ» يُرِيدُ بِهِ أَنَّهُمْ يَنْتَعِلُونَهُ

ibnhibban:6746Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. Qutaybah > Ḥarmalah b. Yaḥyá > Ibn Wahb > Yūnus > Ibn Shihāb > Saʿīd b. al-Musayyib > Abū Hurayrah

The Last Hour would not come until a people wearing shoes of hair fight against you having their faces like hammered shields. (Using translation from Muslim 2912b)  

ابن حبّان:٦٧٤٦أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ قُتَيْبَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حَرْمَلَةُ بْنُ يَحْيَى قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يُونُسُ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي سَعِيدُ بْنُ الْمُسَيِّبِ أَنَّ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «لَا تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ حَتَّى تُقَاتِلَكُمْ أُمَّةٌ يَنْتَعِلُونَ الشَّعَرَ وُجُوهُهُمْ مِثْلُ الْمَجَانِّ الْمُطْرَقَةِ» وَهِيَ التِّرَسَةُ  


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Collected by Muslim, Aḥmad, Ibn Ḥibbān, Suyūṭī
muslim:2912bḤarmalah b. Yaḥyá > Ibn Wahb > Yūnus > Ibn Shihāb > Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab > Abū Hurayrah

The Last Hour would not come until a people wearing shoes of hair fight against you having their faces like hammered shields.  

مسلم:٢٩١٢bوَحَدَّثَنِي حَرْمَلَةُ بْنُ يَحْيَى أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ أَخْبَرَنِي يُونُسُ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ أَخْبَرَنِي سَعِيدُ بْنُ الْمُسَيَّبِ أَنَّ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لاَ تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ حَتَّى تُقَاتِلَكُمْ أُمَّةٌ يَنْتَعِلُونَ الشَّعَرَ وُجُوهُهُمْ مِثْلُ الْمَجَانِّ الْمُطْرَقَةِ  

ahmad:7676ʿAbd al-Razzāq > Maʿmar > al-Zuhrī > Ibn al-Musayyib > Abū Hurayrah

The Last Hour would not come until a people wearing shoes of hair fight against you having their faces like hammered shields. (Using translation from Muslim 2912b)   

أحمد:٧٦٧٦حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنِ ابْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لَا تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ حَتَّى يُقَاتِلَكُمْ قَوْمٌ يَنْتَعِلُونَ الشَّعْرَ وُجُوهُهُمْ كَالْمَجَانِّ الْمُطْرَقَةِ  

ahmad:7263Sufyān > al-Zuhrī > Saʿīdʿan Abū Hurayrah Yablugh Bih

The Last Hour would not come unless you fight with people whose faces are like hammered shields and the Last Hour would not come until you would fight against those wearing the shoes of hair. (Using translation from Muslim 2912a)   

أحمد:٧٢٦٣حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ سَعِيدٍعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ يَبْلُغُ بِهِ

النَّبِيَّ ﷺ لَا تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ حَتَّى تُقَاتِلُوا قَوْمًا كَأَنَّ وُجُوهَهُمُ الْمَجَانُّ الْمُطْرَقَةُ نِعَالُهُمُ الشَّعْرُ  

ahmad:20674And Hb b. Jarīr from my father > al-Ḥasan > ʿAmr b. Taghlib

You shall fight in the hours to come against a nation wearing shoes made of hair and faces like hammered shields, with red complexion and small eyes. (Using translation from Muslim 2912e)   

أحمد:٢٠٦٧٤حَدَّثَنَا وَهْبُ بْنُ جَرِيرٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي قَالَ سَمِعْتُ الْحَسَنَ يَقُولُ حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ تَغْلِبَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ تُقَاتِلُونَ بَيْنَ يَدَيِ السَّاعَةِ قَوْمًا يَنْتَعِلُونَ الشَّعَرَ وَلَتُقَاتِلُنَّ قَوْمًا كَأَنَّ وُجُوهَهُمُ الْمَجَانُّ الْمُطْرَقَةُ  

ذِكْرُ الْإِخْبَارِ عَنْ وَصْفِ لِبَاسِ الْقَوْمِ الَّذِينَ وَصَفْنَا نَعْتَهُمْ

ibnhibban:6745Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm a freed slave of Thaqīf > Qutaybah b. Saʿīd > Yaʿqūb b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Suhayl b. Abū Ṣāliḥ from his father > Abū Hurayrah

The Last Hour would not come until the Muslims fight with the Turks-a people whose faces would be like hammered shields wearing clothes of hair and walking (with shoes) of hair. (Using translation from Muslim 2912d)  

ابن حبّان:٦٧٤٥أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمُ مَوْلَى ثَقِيفٍ حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ سُهَيْلِ بْنِ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «لَا تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ حَتَّى يُقَاتِلَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ التُّرْكَ قَوْمًا وُجُوهَهُمْ كَالْمَجَانِّ الْمُطْرَقَةِ يَلْبَسُونَ الشَّعَرَ وَيَمْشُونَ فِي الشَّعَرِ»