Al-Sham: The Heart of Islam
Rasulallah (saw) said: "Behold, indeed the heart of the abode of the believers is al-Sham."
[Ahmed]
Hadiths on al-Sham (the region consisting of Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon etc):
On the authority of Zaid Ibn Thabit Al-Ansari that: 'I heard the Messenger of Allah (saw) say, 'How blessed is Al-Sham! How blessed is Al-Sham!' "And how is that, Oh Messenger of Allah?" People asked him. 'Those angels of Allah have spread their wings over Al-Sham', he answered.' 'The Prophets built Bait Al-Maqdis (Al Quds),' Ibn Abbas added. 'And the Prophets lived in it, and there is not an inch in Bait Al-Maqdis where a Prophet has not prayed or an Angel has not stood.' [Tirmidhi]
"This rule (i.e. the Khilafah) will be after me in Medina, then in Al-Sham, then in al-Jazeera
(peninsula), then in Iraq, then in Medina, then in Bayt Al-Maqdis (Al-Quds), and when the rule is established in Al-Quds, that would be its place, and thereafter nobody will be able to remove it."
Ibn 'Asakir quoted Yunus Ibn Maysara Ibn Halbas as saying that Rasoolallah (saw) had stated: "This matter (namely the Khilafa) will be after me in Madina, then in Syria, then in the Jazira, then in Iraq, then in Madina, then in Jerusalem. If it is in Jerusalem, its home country is there, and if any people expel it, it will not return there for ever."
[Ibn 'Asakir, Tahdhib Tarikh Dimashq al-Kabir, Volume 1, p42. (Dar al-Masiyrah, Beirut, 1979]
Mu'adh Ibn Jabal (ra) quoted the Prophet (saw) as saying: 'O Mu'adh! Allah the Almighty will enable you to conquer Al-Sham, after my death, from Al-Arish to the Euphrates. Their men and women will be garrisoned until the Day of Judgement. Whoever from amongst you chooses one of the coasts of Al-Sham or Bait Al-Maqdis (Al-Quds) is in Jihad until the Day of Judgement.'
Ibn Sa'd quoted 'Abd Al-Rahman Ibn Abi 'Umayra al-Mazni, "There will be a Baya'a of guidance in Bayt Al-Maqdis (Jerusalem)."
['Ala' al-Din Ali al-Mutaqi Ibn Husam al-Din al-Hindi, Kanz al-'Umal fi Sunan al-'Aqwal wa al- 'Af'al,(Mu'asasat al-Risalah, Beirut, 1979), Vol 14, p.148, Hadith No. 38199]
It was narrated by Saeed b. Almusayyab that he said "There will be an ordeal in Ash-Sham so often that when it goes down from one side it goes up from another. This ordeal will not end until a caller from the sky will call the name of your Ameer". This means that the ordeal will prolong until the establishment of the Khilafah.
Note the following statement was narrated by a companion of the Prophet Muhammad (saw): It was narrated by Suliman b. Hafez Al-himyariy that he said "There will be an ordeal in Ash-Sham that will be frequent like the frequency of water in the water skin but will be removed after you become repentant and after you become so hungry but in that ordeal the smell of bread will be better for you than the smell of musk".
Narrated by Suliman b. Hafez Al-himyariy that a man said to him forty years ago that he heard Kaab Al'ahbar saying: "When the ordeal of Palestine becomes agitated it will be frequent like the frequency of water in the water skin, when it is removed you will be repentant and few".
Narrated by Abdullah Ibn Umar (ra), "I heard the Messenger of Allah (saw) say, 'There will be Hijra (migration) after Hijra. The best of the inhabitants of the Earth will live in the place where Ibrahim (as) made Hijra and the evil will remain elsewhere on Earth.'" [Abu Dawud]
"Two Hijrah's will take place, and the latter will be to the place where your father Ibrahim (as) had immigrated (i.e. Palestine)."
Note: Hijrah occurs when Muslims emigrate from Kufr lands to the Islamic state.
Imam Ahmed reported in his Musnad (5/35) that the Messenger (saw) said:
"If the people of as-Sham (Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria) went astray then there would be no goodness amongst you, but however there will continue to be a group supported from my ummah, and they will not be bothered by those who disapproved until the day of Judgement".
The Imam Ahmad related in his Musnad that Abu Umama Al-Bahili quoted Rasoolallah (saw) as
saying: "A group from my Ummah are still knowledgeable about the truth, they are vanquishing their enemy, and those who disagree with them cannot harm them until Almighty Allah's command comes to them. They are thus." "O Messenger of Allah," he was asked, "where are they?" "In and around Jerusalem," Rasoolallah (saw) replied.
[Musnad al-Imam Ahmad, Vol 5 p 269 (al-Maktab al-Islami Lil Tiba'a wa al-Nashir, Beirut)]
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News and Media:
Enormous crowd calls for Khilafah and death to "Israel" infront of 4 UN Observers
Fantastic message delivered to UN Observers on 20th April 2012, "We want to remove the Giraffe (Bashar) and we want to bring back the Khilafah! O Syria, do not fear!"
World famous Sh Nabeel Alawadi: Syria is a sign of a coming great change [Beautiful words!]
Here are also two further useful links below:
Prophecies:
Imam Ahmad, Al-Hakim and Abu Dawud quoted 'Abdullah Ibn Zughb Al- Ibadi who heard from 'Abdullah Ibn Hawwala Al- Azdi that: "Rasoolallah (saw) put his hand on my head, and then said: 'Ibn Hawwala, if you see that the Caliphate has taken its abode in the holy land, then the earthquake, the tribulations and great events are at hand, and the Last Hour on that day will be closer to people than my hand is to your head."
[Musnad al-Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal Volume 5, p.288 No. 21449; Sunan Abu Dawud, Volume 3, No. 2173]
Prophet Muhammad (saw) said, "There will be Nabuwa with Rehma (Prophethood with Mercy). The there will be Khilafah with Ba'yah (pledge). Then Allah will change it when He wishes. Then there will be Mulkan 'Adoodan (Rule by force). Then Allah will change it when He wishes. Then there will be Mulkan Jabriya (against people's will). Then Allah will change it when He wishes. Then there will be Khilafah Ala Minhajin Nabuwa (on the path of Prophethood). The earth and the sky will bestow their treasures." [Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal]
/"The Prophecy will remain among you for as long as Allah wills, then Allah will lift it when He wishes to, then it will be a Khilafah Rashidah (rightly guided) on the method of the Prophecy, it will remain for as long as Allah wills, then Allah will lift it if He wishes, then it will be a hereditary leadership which will remain for as long as Allah wills, then He will lift it if he wishes, then it will be a tyrannical rule, and it will remain for as long as Allah wills, then He will lift it if He wishes, then it will be a Khilafah Rashida on the method of the Prophecy, then he kept silent."
Narrated by Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman: An-Nu'man told on Hudhayfah's authority that Allah's Messenger (saw) said, "Prophecy will remain among you as long as Allah wishes it to remain, then Allah Most High will remove it. Then there will be a caliphate according to the manner of prophecy as long as Allah wishes it to remain, then Allah Most High will remove it. Then there will be a distressful kingdom which will remain as long as Allah wishes it to remain, then Allah Most High will remove it. Then there will be a proud kingdom which will remain as long as Allah wishes it to remain, then Allah Most High will remove it. Then there will be a caliphate according to the manner of prophecy." Then he stopped. Habib said: "When Umar ibn AbdulAziz became caliph I wrote to him, mentioning this tradition to him and saying, "I hope you will be the commander of the faithful after the distressful and the proud kingdoms." It pleased and charmed him, i.e. Umar ibn AbdulAziz." [Tirmidhi]
[Ahmad and Bayhaqi, in Dala'il an-Nubuwwah, transmitted it]
Islam will reach the whole world as the Prophet Muhammad (saw) said in the hadeeth "Islam will reach where day and night had reached and my Ummah will reach where it was being reached." And in another hadeeth the Prophet says "..and at the end there will be Khilafah on the footsteps of the early prophethood."
"Allah has shown me the east and the west and the authority of my Ummah shall reach to whatever was shown to me of it." [Muslim No.2889, and others Abu Dawud]
Imam Ahmed recorded from Tanim ad-Dari that he said, I heard the Messenger of Allah saying "This matter (Islam) will keep spreading as far as the night and day reach, until Allah will not leave a house made of mud or fur, but will make this Deen enter it, whilst bringing might to a mighty person (a Muslim) and humiliation to a disgraced person (the one who rejects Islam). Might with which Allah (swt) elevates Islam (and its people) and disgrace with which Allah (swt) humiliates disbelief (and its people)."
Muslim reported on the authority of Abu Hazim, who said: "I accompanied Abu Hurairah for five years and heard him talking of the Prophet's saying: The Prophets ruled over the children of Israel, whenever a Prophet died another Prophet succeeded him, but there will be no Prophet after me. There will be Khulafa'a and they will number many. They asked: What then do you order us? He said: Fulfil the bay'ah to them one after the other and give them their due. Surely Allah will ask them about what He entrusted them with." [Bukhari, Book of Traditions of Prophets, No 3196]
Abu Dawud has narrated on the authority of Qays b. Abi Hazm: "That Abu Bakr (ra) after he had glorified and praised Allah (swt) he said: O people! You read this ayah but you do not understand it:
"O you who believe! Guard your own souls: If you follow the right guidance none can hurt you from those who have gone astray" [al-Maida:105]
'I heard the Messenger of Allah (saw) say: "The people when they see the tyrant and do not restrain his hands, Allah will be about to punish them all". And I heard the Messenger of Allah (saw) say: "Any people amongst whom sins are committed, and they could change them but they did not (change), Allah will be about to bring a punishment which engulfs all." [Abu Dawud: Book of Battles/3775]
Al-Baihaqi narrated on the authority of Ali (ra) that he said "the people will not be straightened except by an imam (khalifah) whether he is good or bad". [hadith number 14286 in Kanz Ul Ummal]
Upon appointment as a governor of Hims (part of modern day Syria) by Umar bin al-Khattab (ra), Umayr bin Sa'd (ra) said to the people: "O people! Islam is a mighty fortress and a sturdy gate. The fortress of Islam is justice and its gate is the truth. If you destroy the fortress and demolish the gate you would undermine the defences of this deen. Islam will remain strong so long as the Sultan (Khilafah) or central authority is strong. The strength of the Sultan neither comes from flogging with the whip, nor killing with the sword but from ruling with justice and holding fast to the truth."
Lastly I'll leave you with a pic I found below:
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