Assalamualaykum wr wb, Dear Shaykh may Allah be pleased and have mercy on you and all the Muslim Ummah, may allah swt increase your knowledge and Muslim Ummah knowledge. Dear Shaykh i have heard and hadith and I wanted to enaquire that, is this hadith Authentic. Book "Alaamaat-e-Qayamat Or Nuzool-e-Masih" Page-58 Per Hadees No.9 Its reported by Thoban RA that the Prophet S.A.WS said that there will be two Jamah's in my Ummah who will be saved from the Fire of the Jahannam. 1. The one jamah who will be from Hindusthan (hind) or India who will participate in Jihad or who will perform Jihad. 2. The other Jamah which will be along with Eesa Ibn-e-Maryam Alaihsalaam (Sunan Nisai Shareef, Kitab-ul-Jihad, Musnad Ahmed, Kanz-ul-Aamaal Bahawala "Durr-e-Mukhtaarah" wa Mujma-e-Zawaid (Bahawala Aosat Tabrani this hadith according to Imam Nisai its Sahih.) I Had received this hadith with this proofs, and i wanted to know its authenticity. Furhter Shaykh i have also heard of Hadith which i do not remember as which book has it, It states that India will support or Hind will support Imam Mahdi is this also as Authentic Hadith? May Allah be pleased with you and with your work and forgive you and all the ummah. Thanking you in advance. Assalamualaykum wr wb.

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger.

The first narration which you mentioned is authentic and is reported by the scholars whom you mentioned, and narrated by others with the wording “A group of people will conquest India”, as regards the narration which you mentioned: “A group of people from India will conquest…” then this is not authentic, and it contradicts the authentic narration which we mentioned.

Concerning the other narration which you mentioned, we have not come across any trace of it, but if you mean the narrations of the people who will hold black flags and who will support the Mahdi then these narrations are authentic, and some narrations, stated that they are from Khurasan (eastern Persia), but some scholars classified these narrations as weak.

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