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Updated on 24 September 2026 at 12:34 AM
📖 1 min readعن أبي موسى رضي الله عنه قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم : «فَنَاءُ أُمَّتي بالطَّعْن والطَّاعون». فقيل: يا رسول الله، هذا الطَّعْنُ قد عَرَفْناه، فما الطَّاعون؟ قال: «وَخْزُ أعدائِكم مِن الجِنِّ، وفي كلٍّ شُهَداء».
The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) mentions that the death of the majority of the Muslims is caused by two things:
First: fighting with weapons against the disbelievers in wars, and inter-Muslim fights at times of civil strife.
Second: the plague, which causes widespread and collective death caused by the Muslims' enemies from among the non-Muslim Jinn, by jabbing them. Anyone who dies of either type, killing or the plague, is a martyr.
However, some said that in this Hadīth, the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) prayed that the members of his Ummah would die of either type so that they attain martyrdom. The first interpretation is the correct one. Allah knows best.
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