Question:
Assalamo Alaykom, I need help with this one. I am Sufism follower who recently has had arn argument with a wahabi about the following Hadith:
The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ, said, “O Allāh bestow your blessings on our Shām. O Allāh bestow your blessings on our Yemen.” The people said, “O Messenger of Allāh, and our Najd.” I think the third time the Prophet ﷺ, said, “There (in Najd) will occur earthquakes, trials and tribulations, and from their appears the Horn of Satan.”
Reported in al-Bukhārī
I have argued with him that this Hadith speaks about the Najd area in Arabia, but he counter argued with the following link where he refrenced to some hadith which mentions Iraq as the horns of satan. Now I need to know if the refrences he has given are true or made up ,and what should be my response. Pliz elighten med ,and pass this email to someone who is fully knowledgable about this matter. Here is the link:
https://www.troid.org/the-hadith-on-najd/
Answer:
Waalaykumussalam warahmatullah,
The first big dajjals to appear were the pseudo-Prophets of Najd such as Musaylima and Tulayha al-Asadi among others. Najd was also home to the first of those who recanted, leading to the wars of ridda led by our liege lord Abu Bakr al-Siddiq. Iraq produced the Khawarij which were fought by Sayyidina `Ali. So both interpretations are correct but the earliest, most important one and best-established one is Najd, and Najd also produced the biggest end-time fitna of all which has split the Umma down the middle and weakened it more than the Khawarij of old, the Mongols, the Franks, the Fatimids and the Safavids put together.
For more documentation and discussion of this particular hadith see the following:
https://eshaykh.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Excellence-of-Syro-Palestine.pdf
and
https://archive.org/details/Misbah-al-Anam-Habib-Alawi-ibn-Ahmad-al-Haddad
Wassalam.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
