4350 - `Amr ibn `Uthman narrated to us, Abu al-Mughirah narrated to us, Safwan narrated to me, from Shurayh ibn `Ubayd:

= "When you see the Levant as a table for one man and his household, then at that time will be the conquest of Constantinople." He stopped it (at the Companion). And this is a portion of the hadith before us, as indicated by the narration of al-Layth ibn Sa`d: Ahmad (17734) and al-Harith ibn Abi Usamah in his "Musnad - Zawa'id al-Haythami" (790) both transmitted it via Abu al-Nadr Hashim ibn al-Qasim, from al-Layth ibn Sa`d, from Mu`awiyah ibn Salih, from `Abd al-Rahman ibn Jubayr ibn Nufayr, from his father, from Abu Tha`labah al-Khushani that he said while in Fustat during the caliphate of Mu`awiyah — and Mu`awiyah had sent the people on a military expedition to Constantinople —: "By Allah, this nation will not be incapacitated for half a day. When you see the Levant as a table for one man and his household, then at that time will be the conquest of Constantinople."

It was also transmitted as a stopped (mawquf) narration by al-Bukhari in his "Al-Tarikh al-Kabir" 2/250, and in his "Al-Tarikh al-Awsat" 1/97, from `Abdullah ibn Salih, the scribe of al-Layth, from Mu`awiyah ibn Salih, from `Abd al-Rahman ibn Jubayr, from his father, from Abu Tha`labah al-Khushani, who said while in Constantinople during the caliphate of Mu`awiyah — and Mu`awiyah had sent the people on a military expedition to Constantinople —: "Allah will not incapacitate this nation for half a day."

Al-Tabarani transmitted it in "Al-Kabir" 22/(572) via the path of `Abdullah ibn Salih, from Mu`awiyah ibn Salih, with it. He said: Mu`awiyah raised it (to the Prophet) once, and did not raise it another time.

On this topic, there is also a hadith from Sa`d ibn Abi Waqqas that will follow after this. Its chain is interrupted.

And from al-Miqdam ibn Ma`di Karib, as transmitted by Ibn Abi `Asim in "Al-Ahad wa al-Mathani" (2439), and al-Tabarani 20/(620), and its chain is weak.

His saying: "for half a day" — meaning: of the days of Allah. He, exalted be He, said: {And indeed, a day with your Lord is like a thousand years of what you count} [Al-Hajj: 47]. So half of it is five hundred years. The meaning is: they will inevitably reach half of it, and the intent is their remaining for this duration. It does not negate an increase beyond that, and today they have already exceeded double that amount.

See also necessarily "Fath al-Bari" 11/350-352.