A contagious disease whose name raises panic and arouses feelings of anxiety, and it was called - as we see in history books - the black disease, the plague, and we mention and remember it as evidence of the prophecy of the Messenger of God - may God bless him and grant him peace - when the news came from heaven that a human catastrophe would befall his nation and his followers, wiping out many of them.
The timing
In the eighteenth year of the Hijra, it was the first plague that occurred in Islam, in a town called: Emmaus, and groups of prominent Companions died because of it, among them are Muadh bin Jabal, Abu Ubaidah, Yazid bin Abi Sufyan, and Sharhabeel bin Hasna, Abu Jandal Sahl bin Omar and his father, and Al-Fadl bin Al-Abbas bin Abdul Muttalib, may God be pleased with them all.
The great companion Auf bin Malik, may God be pleased with him, explained to us the news of the prophecy, at the time it was said, and the circumstances that accompanied it, Awf, may God be pleased with him, says: I came to the Prophet - may God bless him and grant him peace - during the Battle of Tabuk while he was wearing a leather dome, He said: “Prepare six things before the Hour: my death, then Jerusalem will be opened then, two deaths will be taken from you like sheep's shears, then the money will increase until a man is given one hundred dinars, He remains dissatisfied, and then there is a strife, and no Arab house remains without entering it, then there will be a truce between you and the Banu al-Asfar, but they will betray you and attack you under eighty targets, under each target are twelve thousand) Narrated by Al-Bukhari,
Here we see that the Prophet - may God bless him and grant him peace - told of six signs
He spoke after him, and all of them are signs of the Hour. As for his death, peace and blessings be upon him, it was in the eleventh year of the Hijra, as for the conquest of Jerusalem, it was at the hands of the Rightly Guided Caliph Omar bin Al-Khattab - may God be pleased with him - in the year fifteen AH. And then “the two deaths” that the Prophet - may God bless him and grant him peace - informed about their arrival and occurrence.
And the bottom line
The staying is a licence, and the leaving is a licence
Whoever is in the epidemic and is infected, there is no benefit in his going out, and by going out he transmits the disease to healthy people, whoever is not injured will be permitted to go out for treatment, provided that all people do not go out, someone must remain to care for the sick. This malignant disease has claimed the lives of many people, Most of them were great Muslim conquerors, and Omar bin Al-Khattab, may God be pleased with him, dealt with this affliction with the utmost caution, as he and those with him did not enter the Levant, He also tried to remove the healthy from the land of the epidemic, and he also took full responsibility after this epidemic ended, He traveled to the Levant and supervised the solution of problems and the management of the consequences of this crisis, and his reference and guide in everything he did was Islamic law, He understood it, worked hard and implemented it, and he ordered and directed the governors accordingly, thus, he became an example for all princes and rulers after him on how to confront and manage crises.
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