In a narration recorded by Muslim through al-Muʿtamir, he said: “I heard my father say: Qatādah narrated to us from Anas,” with the wording: “When a disbeliever performs a good deed, he is given some worldly provision on account of it. As for the believer, Allah stores up his good deeds for him in the Hereafter and grants him provision in this world for his obedience.”
The hadith under this heading has already appeared in the first volume, no. (53), with a more abbreviated documentation than here; a principle is mentioned there to which reference should be made.
- “Its knowledge is with my Lord; none but He will reveal it at its appointed time. But I shall tell you of its signs and what will occur before it: before it there will be tribulation and harj. They said, ‘Messenger of Allah, we know what tribulation is, but what is harj?’ He said, ‘In the Ethiopian language, it means killing. Mutual estrangement will be cast among people, so that scarcely anyone will recognize anyone else.’”
Ahmad recorded it (5/389) from Hudhayfah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, was asked about the Hour, and he said it. I say: Its chain of transmission is authentic according to Muslim’s criterion. Al-Haythamī said in Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid (7/309): “Ahmad narrated it, and all its narrators are narrators of the Ṣaḥīḥ collections.” He then cited a corroborating report for it (7/324), narrated by al-Ṭabarānī—that is, in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr—and said: “It contains an unnamed narrator.”