Sahih Muslim Hadith 2456

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[2456] 148 – ( … ) It was narrated that Abü Sa'eed A]-Khudrl said: "While we were with the Messenger of Allah and he was distributing some wealth, Phul-TQiuwaysirah, a man from Banü Tamlm, came and said: '0 Messenger of Allah, be fair!' The Messenger of Allah said: 'Woe to you! Who will be fair if I am not fair? I will be doomed and lost if I am not fair.' 'Umar bin A1-attâb [may Allah be pleased with him] said: '0 Messenger of Allah, give me permission to strike his neck.' The Messenger of Allah said: 'Let him be, for he has companions, in comparison to whose prayer one of you would regard his prayer as insignificant, and he would regard his fasting as insignificant in comparison to their fasting. They recite the Qur'ân but it does not go any further than their collarbones. They will pass out of Islam as an arrow passes out of the prey, and he (the archer) looks at the tip of it and there is nothing on it, then he looks at the sinews (which tie the arrowhead to the shaft) and there is nothing on them, then he looks at its base and there is nothing on it, then he looks at its feathers and there is nothing on them, because it has gone too fast to be smeared with excrement or blood. Their sign will be a black man, one of whose upper arms will be like a woman's breast, or like a piece of quivering flesh. They will emerge when there is division among the people." Abü Sa'eed said: "I bear witness that I heard this from the Messenger of Allah , and I bear witness that 'Ali bin AbI Tâlib fought them when I was with him. He ordered that this man be sought, and he was found and brought, and I looked at him and saw that he was just as the Messenger of Allah had described him."