Hadith 250

e to you, O Basrah, from an army neither having any dust for it nor any hiss (sound)! ’
Al-Munzir said to him-asws, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! And what is that which would afflict them from before the drowning, from what you-asws mentioned, and what is the woe (Weyh)? ’
He-asws said: ‘These are two doors. The woe (Weyh) is a door of Mercy, and the doom (Al-Weyl) is a door of Punishment, O Ibn Al-Jaroud! Sometimes there is mightiness from it, parties killing each other, and from it is Fitna happening at it – ruination of the dwellings, and ruination of the houses, and plundering of the wealth, and making captive of the women, slaughtering with a slaughter. O doom! Their affair is a strange narration. And from it is that Al-Dajjal-la the great, the one-eyed, the swabbed of the right eye would be released at it, and the other it is as if it is mixed with the blood. It is as if in the redness there is a clot protruding from the pupil as if it is a seed of the grape floating upon the water. There shall follow him-la from its people, a number of the ones who were killed at Al-Ubulah, from the martyrs. Their Evangels would be in their chests. He will be killed, the one who is killed, and he will flee, the one who flees. Then there would be tremors, then submergence, then morphing, then the dusty hunger, then the red death, and it is the drowning. O Munzir! For Al-Basra there are three names besides Al-Basra in the books. The first, no one knows it except the scholars. From it is Al-Khareeba, and from it is Tadmur, and from it is Al-Mowtafakah’. And he-asws continued the Hadeeth up to he-asws said: ‘O people of Al-Basra! Allah-azwj did not Make for anyone from the Muslim cities, neither a noble scheme nor honourable, except and He-azwj has Made among you all the superior of that, and Increased for you of His-azwj Grace by His-azwj Conferment what isn’t for them. You are the straightest of the people of Qiblah. Your Qiblah is upon the place where the Imam-asws stands with at Makkah, and your readers are the most well-read of the people, and your ascetic ones are the most ascetic of the people, and your worshippers and the most worshipping of the people, and your traders are the most trading of the people and their most truthful in trading, and your truthful ones are the most honourable of the people in the truthfulness, and your rich ones are the most intense of spending of the people and humble. And your noble ones are the most excellent of the people in manners, and you are a lot of the people as neighbours, and least of them in encumberment to what is of no concern, and their most eager of them to the Salat in congregation. Your fruits are the most plentiful of the fruits, and your wealth is the most abundant of the wealth, and your young ones are the cleverest of the children, and your womenfolk are the most deserving of the women and their best with husbands. The w