عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ - رضي الله عنه - أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ: «لَا تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ حَتَّى تَطْلُعَ الشَّمْسُ مِنْ مَغْرِبِهَا، فَإِذَا طَلَعَتْ مِنْ مَغْرِبِهَا، آمَنَ النَّاسُ كُلُّهُمْ أَجْمَعُونَ، فَيَوْمَئِذٍ ﴿لَا يَنْفَعُ نَفْسًا إِيمَانُهَا لَمْ تَكُنْ آمَنَتْ مِنْ قَبْلُ أَوْ كَسَبَتْ فِي إِيمَانِهَا خَيْرًا﴾ [الأنعام: 158]».
Abu Hurayrah narrated that God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said:
1. The Last Hour will not arrive until the sun has risen from the west. 2. When it rises from the west all mankind will believe. 3. At that time ‘to believe will be of no avail to any human being who did not believe before, or who did not put its faith to good use’.
(6: 158) Related by al-Bukhari, 4635; Muslim, 157
Abu Hurayrah ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣakhr al-Dawsī embraced Islam in the year in which the Battle of Khaybar took place, i.e. Year 7 of the Hijri calendar. He was the Prophet’s companion who narrated the largest number of his hadiths, because he committed himself to remain close to the Prophet. He was keen to learn the Prophet’s hadiths and he remained for a long time in Madinah. He died in Year 58 AH, 678 CE.
