10 - Chapter on the mention of al-Baṣrah

4306 - Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Fāris narrated to us, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn ʿAbd al-Wārith narrated to us, my father narrated to me, Saʿīd ibn Jumhān narrated to us, Muslim ibn Abī Bakrah narrated to us: I heard my father narrating that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "A people from my ummah will descend upon a lowland they call al-Baṣrah, beside a river called the Tigris. There will be a bridge over it, its inhabitants will be numerous, and it will be among the settlements of the emigrants."

Ibn Yaḥyā said: Abū Muʿmar said: "And it will be among the settlements of the Muslims. When the end of time approaches, the sons of Qanṭūrāʾ will come — broad-faced, small-eyed — until they descend upon the bank of the river. Then its inhabitants will split into three groups: a group that takes to the tails of cattle and the desert, and they perish; a group that takes for themselves, and they disbelieve; and a group that places their children behind their backs and fights them, and they are the martyrs."

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(1) Its chain is weak. Saʿīd ibn Jumhān — although more than one imam declared him trustworthy — has objectionable narrations, and he erred in the chain of this hadith and in its text as well. For Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn narrated this hadith and differed from him in its chain and text, relating it from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakrah, from ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, who said: "The sons of Qanṭūrāʾ are about to drive you out of the land of Iraq." I said: "Then will we return?" He said: "Do you desire that?" I said: "Yes." He said: "Yes, and you will have a comfort of life." Thus Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn made this the statement of ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, and differed from him in its text as you see. And Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn is an imam agreed upon [for his reliability].

More than one person has narrated this hadith from ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, and they also made it his statement, in wording similar to that of Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn, except that some of them have an addition that contradicts the narration of Saʿīd ibn Jumhān, the explanation of which will come.

And ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ transmitted that from the People of the Book, as is explicitly stated in a narration in Ibn Abī Shaybah 15/112 with a chain that is acceptable in follow-ups, from Rabīʿah ibn =