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With the Hadith - "Chapter on the Obligation of Adhering to the Muslim Community When Tribulations Appear"
With the Hadith - "Chapter on the Obligation of Adhering to the Muslim Community When Tribulations Appear"

We greet you all, dear listeners everywhere, in a new episode of your program "With the Hadith," and we begin with the best greeting: Peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you.

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August 30, 2025

With the Hadith - "Chapter on the Obligation of Adhering to the Muslim Community When Tribulations Appear"

With the Hadith

"Chapter on the Obligation of Adhering to the Muslim Community When Tribulations Appear"


We greet you all, dear listeners everywhere, in a new episode of your program "With the Hadith," and we begin with the best greeting: Peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you.

It is mentioned in Sahih Muslim in Al-Nawawi's commentary "with modifications" in "Chapter on the Obligation of Adhering to the Muslim Community When Tribulations Appear"

Narrated to us Ubaid Allah bin Muadh Al-Anbari, my father narrated to us, Asim narrated to us, who is Ibn Muhammad bin Zaid, from Zaid bin Muhammad from Nafi' who said: Abdullah bin Umar came to Abdullah bin Muti', when the matter of Al-Harra occurred, during the time of Yazid bin Muawiyah, and said: Put down a cushion for Abu Abd Al-Rahman. He said: I did not come to sit, I came to tell you a hadith, I heard the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, saying it, I heard the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, saying: "Whoever withdraws his hand from obedience will meet God on the Day of Judgment without any excuse, and whoever dies without a pledge of allegiance around his neck dies a death of ignorance."

The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Whoever withdraws his hand from obedience will meet God Almighty on the Day of Judgment without any excuse," meaning: he has no excuse for his action, and no excuse will benefit him.

Dear listeners:

Beware, beware... In this time, the nation lives without an Imam, without a Quran implemented in it, without an Islamic life. God Almighty has distinguished this nation from other nations by mandating that it live according to His method and the Sunnah of His Prophet. There is no meaning to its existence without implementing the Book. God says: "I did not create jinn and humans except to worship Me," the wisdom of creation is worship. However, today we see a life far removed from what God intended, but rather a life that angers God Almighty. How can it not be, when the nation is without a pledge of allegiance to an Imam for hearing and obedience? Our noble Messenger - may God’s prayers and peace be upon him - warned in the strongest terms against the absence of an Imam and the lack of allegiance.

Here, the Messenger made it obligatory for every Muslim to have a pledge of allegiance to a Caliph around his neck, but he did not make it obligatory for every Muslim to directly pledge allegiance to the Caliph. What is obligatory is the existence of a pledge of allegiance around the Muslim's neck. The existence of the Caliph is what creates a pledge of allegiance around the necks of Muslims, whether they actually pledge allegiance or not. Therefore, the hadith is evidence of the obligation to appoint a Caliph and not evidence of the obligation for every individual to pledge allegiance to the Caliph. Because what the Messenger condemned is the Muslim's neck being free of allegiance until he dies, and he did not condemn the absence of allegiance. And refraining from establishing a Caliph for the Muslims is one of the greatest sins because it is refraining from performing one of the most important obligations of Islam, upon which the establishment of the rulings of religion depends, but rather the existence of Islam in the arena of life depends on it. All Muslims are greatly sinful in their refraining from establishing a Caliph for the Muslims. If they all agree on this refraining, then the sin is on every individual among them in all parts of the world. And if some Muslims undertake the work to establish a Caliph and others do not, then the sin falls from those who undertake the work to establish the Caliph, and the obligation remains upon them until the Caliph is established. Because engaging in establishing the obligation and adhering to it removes the sin of delaying its establishment from its time and of not completing it. As for those who did not adhere to the work to establish the obligation, the sin, after three days of the Caliph's departure, remains in effect on them until they appoint the one who succeeds him, because God has made an obligation upon them, so they refrained from performing it and did not adhere to the actions that would establish it, and therefore they deserved the sin and deserved God's punishment and disgrace in this world and the hereafter. So, deserving punishment for abandoning any of the obligations that God has imposed is clear and explicit, especially the obligation by which the obligations are implemented, the rulings of religion are established, the cause of Islam is elevated, and the word of God becomes supreme in the lands of Islam and throughout the world.

Dear listeners, until we meet you with another prophetic hadith, we leave you in God's care, and peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you.

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We ask Allah to keep us steadfast on the truth, and make us of His righteous servants, and replace our bad deeds with good deeds, and not disgrace us on the Day of Presentation to Him, O Allah, Amen.

Our dear listeners, until we meet you with another prophetic hadith, we entrust you to Allah, whose deposits are never lost. Peace, mercy, and blessings of Allah be upon you.

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It was narrated from Buraidah, may God be pleased with him, who said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: "Do not call a hypocrite 'Sayyid' (master), for if he is a master, then you have angered your Lord, the Almighty and Sublime." Narrated by Abu Dawood with a Sahih (authentic) chain of narration.

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This noble Hadith guides us on how to deal with the hypocrites we know. The Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, was the only one who knew all the hypocrites by their names, but we can recognize some of them by their characteristics, such as those mentioned in the Quran who perform their obligatory duties lazily and grudgingly, and those who plot against Islam and Muslims, encourage strife, spread corruption on earth, and love to spread immorality by calling for it, protecting it, and nurturing it, and those who tell lies about Islam and Muslims... and others who are characterized by hypocrisy.

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We ask God to protect our nation from such criminals, and to guide us to the straight path and the correct scale by which we measure people's behavior, so that we stay away from those whom God does not love. Amen.

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