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Gharqad the tree of the Jews

Question:

What is the Gharqad (a kind of thorny tree) tree?

Answer:

This kind of tree is well known in Madinah. The Prophet ﷺ informed us that when the Muslims fight the Jews, the Jews will try to hide behind trees, every tree will inform the Muslims that a Jew is hiding behind it, except for the Gharqad tree, for it is their tree ¹.

1. It is narrated from the hadith of Abu Hurayrah that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “The Hour will not begin until the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims will kill them, until a Jew hides behind a rock or a tree, and the rock or tree will say: ‘O Muslim, O slave of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.’ Except the gharqad (a thorny tree), for it is one of the trees of the Jews.” (Sahih Muslim 2922) ↩

Muftis

• Shaykh Ibn 'Uthaymeen

• Published on

  Safar 19, 1446 AH | 23rd Aug, 2024
• Estimated Reading Time

  1 min read
• Source :

  Fatawa Islamiyah 8/393
• Fatwas   Non-muslim   Palestine
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