Azami 710

Imam Ahmad (20151) and Tabarani in Al-Kabir (6918, 6918) both narrated it, from the hadith of Qatada, from Hasan, from Samura bin Jundab, and he mentioned it. Although Hasan was a mudallis, his hearing from Samura bin Jundab has been established unconditionally, as Bukhari and others have said, and for this reason Ibn Hajar graded it hasan in Fath al-Bari (6/478). This hadith of his is also corroborated by the sahih hadiths on this subject, except for his statement, "Then Isa bin Maryam comes from the direction of Maghrib," whereas in the other hadiths it is "from the direction of the east." Hafiz Haythami mentioned it in Majma al-Zawaid (7/336) and said, "Tabarani and Ahmad narrated it, and its narrators are the narrators of sahih hadith, and Bazzar narrated it with a daif chain."I say, he means what Bazzar narrated in Kashf Astar (3397), from Khalid bin Yusuf, my father Abu Yusuf bin Khalid narrated to me, Jafar bin Saad bin Samura narrated to us, Khubayb bin Sulayman narrated to us, from his father Sulayman bin Samura, from Samura bin Jundab, and he mentioned hadiths with this chain, then he said, and with its chain, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The Antichrist Messiah will remain on earth, once he emerges, for as long as Allah wills, then Isa bin Maryam ﷺ will come from the east, confirming Muhammad ﷺ and following his religious way, then he will kill the Antichrist Messiah, and after that only the establishment of the Hour remains. You will see great things before the establishment of the Hour, so that you will say, 'Were we ever told about this?!' So when you see that, remember Allah, and know that these are the first signs of the Hour."Jafar bin Saad bin Samura is "not strong," as stated in Taqrib, and his teacher Khubayb bin Sulayman bin Samura, who is also his cousin, is daif. Dhahabi said in Mizan, in the biography of Jafar bin Saad bin Samura, "He has a hadith about zakat, from a cousin of his. Ibn Hazm rejected it and said, 'Both of them are unknown.'" Dhahabi said, "His cousin is Khubayb bin Sulayman bin Samura, whose condition is unknown, from his father." Ibn Qattan said, "None of these men is known, and the hadith scholars have exerted their utmost effort regarding them, and this is a chain by which a whole group of hadiths is transmitted. Bazzar mentioned about a hundred of them." Abdul-Haqq Azdi said, "Khubayb is daif, and Jafar is not someone to be relied upon."I say, Tabarani mentioned in Al-Kabir (7/314–322) several hadiths with this same chain. Dhahabi then mentioned several hadiths and said, "In Sunan Abu Dawud there are six hadiths with a chain as follows, Muhammad bin Dawud narrated to us, Yahya bin Hassan narrated to us, from Sulayman bin Musa, from Jafar, from his cousin Khubayb, from his father, from his grandfather. This Sulayman is Zuhri, from the people of Kufa, and is not well known, and in any case this is an obscure chain that cannot serve as the basis for a ruling."I say, this Sulayman is Sulayman bin Musa Zuhri, Abu Dawud Kufi, of Khurasani origin, who settled in Kufa and then Damascus. Abu Hatim said, "I consider his hadith to be sound." Jarh wa Tadil (3/142). And in Taqrib, "There is some weakness in him." So the weakness is not from him alone, but from him and from his teacher Jafar bin Saad bin Samura, and from his teacher and cousin Khubayb bin Sulayman bin Samura. And with this, the saying of the one who said, "It contains a chain of daif and unknown narrators," is confirmed to be correct.