Is the following Hadith authentic?
Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said:
“You will fight against the Jews and you will kill them until even a stone would say ‘come here, O Muslim, there is a Jew, so kill him’”
There are other versions as well, including one that mentions the Gharqad tree being a Jewish tree that will not say anything
Answer:
Imam Bukhari (rahimahullah) has recorded the first Hadith. Imam Muslim (rahimahullah) has recorded both these narrations in his Sahih. The Hadith is therefore authentic.
(Sahih Bukhari, Hadith: 2925 and Sahih Muslim, Hadith: 2921 and 2922)
And Allah Ta’ala Knows best
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