65/54.9. Chapter:
Sahih Bukhari 4876 — The Hour Is Their Appointed Time
The Statement of Allah the Most High: "Nay, but the Hour is their appointed time (for their full recompense), and the Hour will be more grievous and more bitter." (V.54:46)
Hadith About the Hour: A Meccan Revelation Remembered by Aisha
Sahih Bukhari : 4876
Sahih BukhariHadith Number 4876
حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مُوسَى، حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ، أَنَّ ابْنَ جُرَيْجٍ، أَخْبَرَهُمْ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي يُوسُفُ بْنُ مَاهَكَ، قَالَ إِنِّي عِنْدَ عَائِشَةَ أُمِّ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ قَالَتْ لَقَدْ أُنْزِلَ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ صلى الله عليه وسلم بِمَكَّةَ، وَإِنِّي لَجَارِيَةٌ أَلْعَبُ {بَلِ السَّاعَةُ مَوْعِدُهُمْ وَالسَّاعَةُ أَدْهَى وَأَمَرُّ}
Yusuf bin Mahik Narrated from:
I was in the house of `Aisha, the mother of the Believers. She said, "This revelation:"Nay, but the Hour is their appointed time (for their full recompense); and the Hour will be more previous and most bitter." (54.46)was revealed to Muhammad at Mecca while I was a playful little girl."
Reference : Sahih al-Bukhari 4876In-book reference : Book 65, Hadith 397USC-MSA web (English) reference : Vol. 6, Book 60, Hadith 399
Summary of Sahih Bukhari Hadith 4876
This hadith about the Hour records a memory from Aisha رضي الله عنها. Yusuf bin Mahik said he was in her house when she said that the revelation, Nay, but the Hour is their appointed time, and the Hour will be more grievous and more bitter, was revealed to Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم at Mecca while she was a playful little girl. The narration focuses on the timing and wording of the verse. It also shows that this warning about the Hour was part of the Meccan revelation. The explanation should not turn the hadith into a wider biography. From the given text, the point is that Aisha remembered this verse and linked it to revelation in Mecca during her childhood.
What we learn from this hadith
- Aisha رضي الله عنها remembered this verse from the Meccan period.
- The verse warns that the Hour is the appointed time.
- The hadith reports both the wording and the timing of revelation.
- The narration should be explained without adding unrelated biography.
