Ottoman Soldiers With Black Regimental Banner [Surah Al-Nisa 4:77) In the First Battle for Gaza, 1917 CE.

📌 Summary On The Authenticity Of Aḥādīth: “Black Banners from Khurāsān [or the East]”

1. ‘Abdul Malik, the son of Shaykh Sulaymān Al-‘Alwān said:

I asked my father, regarding the authenticity of the aḥādīth mentioning the black banners which will come from the direction of Khurāsān — and as in some aḥādīth — from the direction of the East.

He answered: “A number of narrations came on this, in Aḥmad, Al-Tirmidhī and ibn Mājah —and nothing is authentic from them. The best from these, is the ḥadīth of Thawbān, narrated in ibn Mājah's ⌜Al-Sunan⌝, in the book of Fitan. Its chain is authentic outwardly, but it is ma'lūl (i.e. weak with unapparent defects).” — End. (source)


2. Shaykh ‘Abdul ‘Azīz bin Ibrāhīm Al-Khuḍayr said:

“The ḥadīth: «There will emerge from Khurāsān black banners... until they are set up in Īliyā (Al-Quds).» It was narrated by Al-Tirmidhī and its chain is weak (ḍā'īf). In it is (the narrator) Rishdīn, Ibn Ma‘īn said: “his ⌜ḥadīth⌝ is not considered.” And Abū Ḥātim denied him and Al-Nasāī said: “He is rejected.””


3. Shaykh ‘Abdullah Al-Sa’d:

“Hadith of «Black Banners» is not authentic, it is not authentic with regards to its chain.” in another instance he said “no ḥadīth is authentic on «the black banners»” (source)

And he has a detail response (here)


4. Shaykh Khālid Al-Ḥāyik said:

“Nothing is authentic from the ḥadīth regarding «the black banners»” (source)

He wrote a treatise detailing this: “Minaḥul Wadūdi, Fī Bayāni Turqi Aḥādīthi «Al-Rāyātis-Sawdi» (see)


5. Abū ‘Alī Al-Ḥassanī said:

“Nothing is authentic from the aḥādīth on Black Banners, whether in Marfū’ form or as Mawqūf. Rather, every chains of it, is severely weak.” (source)

Also see IslamQA No. 171131 , Al-‘Awnī's investigation on it (here)


~ Galandān