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Bukhari: Volume 4, Book 56, Number 807
Narrated by Abu Said
Al-Khudri:
While
we were with Allah's Apostle who was distributing (i.e. some
property), there came Dhu-l-Khuwaisira, a man from the tribe of Bani
Tamim and said, "O Allah's Apostle! Do Justice." The Prophet said,
"Woe to you! Who could do justice if I did not? I would be a desperate
loser if I did not do justice." 'Umar said, "O Allah's Apostle! Allow
me to chop his head off." The Prophet said, "Leave him, for he has
companions who pray and fast in such a way that you will consider your
fasting negligible in comparison to theirs. They recite Qur'an but it
does not go beyond their throats (i.e. they do not act on it) and they
will desert Islam as an arrow goes through a victim's body, so that
the hunter, on looking at the arrow's blade, would see nothing on it;
he would look at its Risaf and see nothing: he would look at its Na,di
and see nothing, and he would look at its Qudhadh ( 1 ) and see
nothing (neither meat nor blood), for the arrow has been too fast even
for the blood and excretions to smear. The sign by which they will be
recognized is that among them there will be a black man, one of whose
arms will resemble a woman's breast or a lump of meat moving loosely.
Those people will appear when there will be differences amongst the
people." I testify that I heard this narration from Allah's Apostle
and I testify that 'Ali bin Abi Talib fought with such people, and I
was in his company. He ordered that the man (described by the Prophet
) should be looked for. The man was brought and I looked at him and
noticed that he looked exactly as the Prophet had described him.
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