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Conclusion of the Story: This story has been passed down orally by its narrators and was not written down, documented, or brought to light due to security concerns, pursuits, and harassment. When many of those fears subsided and the pursuits calmed down, its narrators began to extract their memories and recall the events of the story from the depths of a memory burdened by hardships. This was especially the case after manifestations appeared that clarified many of the story's mysteries, explained its entirety, unraveled some of its enigmas, and resolved some of its complexities. Furthermore, the insistence of those eager to know its details increased, and we saw that time was running out and stages were being passed, and the story might lose its value, and the Antichrist might descend upon us any day now without the story being a resource for their knowledge and ammunition for their confrontation with the Antichrist.
It is narrated that the Prophet, peace be upon him and his family, was sleeping in the house of Umm Hani after the Isha prayer, and he was taken on the night journey and returned that same night. He recounted the story to Umm Hani and said: "The prophets were shown to me, and I prayed with them." Then he stood to go out to the mosque, and Umm Hani clung to his garment, and he said, "What is it?" She said, "I fear your people will deny you if you tell them." He said, "And if they deny me..." [Narrated by Al-Tabarani in his Mu'jam].
Umm Hani's fear of the people denying him due to the strangeness of the event was not heeded. The Prophet's certainty in the truth he brought and the truth that befell him made him openly tell the people what he saw, regardless of their opinion. Some of them indeed apostatized, and some took it as material for mockery and doubt. However, none of this prevented the Prophet, peace be upon him and his family, from proclaiming the truth he believed in. In this, there is an example for the callers to truth to proclaim the truth without fearing its impact on people's hearts, nor flattering them, nor seeking out positions of satisfaction and approval when it conflicts with speaking the word of truth. [Zilal al-Qur'an, 1/221].
We have an excellent example in the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him and his family.
Therefore, our knowledge of the existence of those who turn away from the story and deny it does not prevent us (And indeed, We know that among you are deniers) [Al-Haqqah, 19].
If this story is denied, then a sister story before it was also denied. The hadith about Tamim bin Aws al-Dari meeting the Antichrist was denied by some, especially later scholars. His meeting was only for an hour of the day, so how about someone who lived with him for years?
And now we see many manifestations suggesting that this story was a prelude to many repercussions, such as the appearance of the Mahdi and the emergence of the Antichrist in his wake. The acceleration of events will reveal matters that will no longer make this story a matter of belief or disbelief, but rather its belief will become part of a "camp of faith" [46] (without hypocrisy) [47].
From Abdullah bin Umar, who said: We were sitting with the Messenger of Allah, and he mentioned the tribulations and spoke extensively about them until he mentioned the tribulation of "Al-Ahlas." A man said, "O Messenger of Allah, what is the tribulation of Al-Ahlas?" He said, "It is fleeing and war. Then the tribulation of prosperity, its smoke is from beneath the feet of a man from my household who claims to be from me, but he is not from me. My allies are only the God-fearing. Then people will reconcile themselves to a man like a rib on a side. Then the tribulation of Al-Duhaima, which will not leave anyone in this Ummah without striking him a blow. When it is said that it has ended, it will continue. A man will become a believer in it in the morning and a disbeliever in the evening, until people become two camps: a camp of faith without hypocrisy, and a camp of hypocrisy without faith. When that happens, then await the Antichrist from that day or the next." [Narrated by Abu Dawud and Ahmad, and authenticated by Al-Hakim and approved by Al-Dhahabi].
There are corroborating evidences for the events of this story, in which a strange personality emerges, close to the specifications of "Abdul Qadir," and even bearing the same name. That personality has a presence in attempts of seduction and misguidance, narrated by one of the callers to truth. He confirms that the one named Abdul Qadir, here as well, has seduced some of his fellow callers who were working in the field of da'wah, alongside their worldly work in the field of freelance contracting. Through their partnership with this person, they became fabulously wealthy and suddenly so. Little by little, they abandoned da'wah, and even abandoned prayer. The situation continued for years, until they...