Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الصَّمَدِ وَعَفَّانُ قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ أَخْبَرَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ زَيْدٍ عَنْ حِطَّانَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الرَّقَاشِيِّ عَنِ الْأَشْعَرِيِّ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ إِنَّ بَيْنَ يَدَيْ السَّاعَةِ الْهَرْجَ قَالُوا وَمَا الْهَرْجُ قَالَ الْقَتْلُ قَالُوا أَكْثَرُ مِمَّا نَقْتُلُ إِنَّا لَنَقْتُلُ كُلَّ عَامٍ أَكْثَرَ مِنْ سَبْعِينَ أَلْفًا قَالَ إِنَّهُ لَيْسَ بِقَتْلِكُمْ الْمُشْرِكِينَ وَلَكِنْ قَتْلُ بَعْضِكُمْ بَعْضًا قَالُوا وَمَعَنَا عُقُولُنَا يَوْمَئِذٍ قَالَ إِنَّهُ لَتُنْزَعُ عُقُولُ أَهْلِ ذَلِكَ الزَّمَانِ وَيُخَلَّفُ لَهُ هَبَاءٌ مِنْ النَّاسِ يَحْسِبُ أَكْثَرُهُمْ أَنَّهُمْ عَلَى شَيْءٍ وَلَيْسُوا عَلَى شَيْءٍ قَالَ عَفَّانُ فِي حَدِيثِهِ قَالَ أَبُو مُوسَى وَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ مَا أَجِدُ لِي وَلَكُمْ مِنْهَا مَخْرَجًا إِنْ أَدْرَكَتْنِي وَإِيَّاكُمْ إِلَّا أَنْ نَخْرُجَ مِنْهَا كَمَا دَخَلْنَا فِيهَا لَمْ نُصِبْ مِنْهَا دَمًا وَلَا مَالًا.
English Translation
Abd al-Samad and Affan narrated to us, they said: Hammad b. Salama narrated to us: Ali b. Zayd informed us, from Hittan b. Abdullah al-Raqashi, from al-Ash'ari: that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Before the Hour there will be al-harj." They said: What is al-harj? He said: "Killing." They said: More than what we already kill? We kill more than seventy thousand every year. He said: "It will not be your killing of the polytheists, but rather some of you killing one another." They said: And will we have our reason with us on that day? He said: "The reason of the people of that time will indeed be taken away, and there will remain behind a rabble of people, most of whom think they are upon something when they are upon nothing." Affan said in his narration: Abu Musa said: "By the One in whose hand is my soul, I find no way out for myself or for you from it, if it should reach me and you, except that we come out of it as we entered it, having gained from it neither blood nor wealth."