112 - The Sanctity of the Sacred House (Ḥurmat al-Ḥaram)

2877 - ʿImrān ibn Bakkār informed us, saying: Bishr narrated to us, my father informed me, from al-Zuhrī, Suhaym informed me that he heard Abū Hurayrah say: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "An army will march against this House, and they will be swallowed up by the earth at al-Baydā'."(1)

2878 - Muḥammad ibn Idrīs Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī informed us, saying: ʿUmar(2) ibn Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth narrated to us, saying: My father narrated to us, from Misʿar, saying: Ṭalḥah ibn Muṣarrif informed me, from Abū Muslim al-Agharr, from Abū Hurayrah, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: "The expeditions(3) will not cease from marching against this House until an army among them is swallowed up by the earth."(4)

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(1) A sound ḥadīth on account of corroborating witnesses, and this chain of transmission is plausible for grading as ḥasan. Suhaym: he is the freed slave of the Banū Zuhrah; al-Zuhrī was the sole narrator from him, as mentioned by Muslim in "al-Munfaridāt wa-l-Wuḥdān," p. 123, and al-Dhahabī in "al-Mīzān," 2/109. Al-Bukhārī said in "al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr," 4/192: He used to accompany Abū Hurayrah. Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in "al-Thiqāt," 4/343, and al-ʿIjlī in "Maʿrifat al-Thiqāt," 1/388, and he has a corroborating narrator. The rest of its narrators are trustworthy. Bishr: he is the son of Shuʿayb ibn Abī Ḥamzah. It is found in "al-Sunan al-Kubrā" (3846). See also what follows it, and see the ḥadīth of Ḥafṣah and the commentary on it in its two versions (2879) and (2880).

(2) In (M) and the printed edition: ʿAmr. This is an error.

(3) In the margin of (K): "the armies" (variant reading).

(4) Its narrators are trustworthy, and it is a gharīb ḥadīth, as the author mentioned in "al-Sunan al-Kubrā" following ḥadīth (3848). Misʿar: he is the son of Kidām. It is found in "al-Sunan al-Kubrā" under number (3847). Al-Ḥākim also narrated it in "al-Mustadrak," 4/430, via the path of Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī Muḥammad ibn Idrīs, with this chain, and said: This is a gharīb, ṣaḥīḥ ḥadīth, and they (al-Bukhārī and Muslim) did not narrate it. I know of no one who narrated it other than ʿUmar ibn Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth, and the Imām Abū Ḥātim narrates it from him. See also the two ḥadīths that follow it, and the ḥadīth preceding it.