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) ↩

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