There Will be Khwarij to the End of Time

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ 

Some books of sirah mention the following version in the chapters devoted to the battles against the Banu Hanifah, “At the end of times a man will come out of Musaylimah’s country and he will change the religion of Islam.”  Most of the Khwarij were also from the Najd area, from the tribes of Banu Hanifah, Banu Tamim, and Banu Wa’il.  Musaylimah ibn Habib al-Khadzdzab was from the Banu Hanifah, and Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab an-Najdi was from Banu Tamim. 

Sayyidina Abu Bakr ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Utsman asw-Swadiq (r.a.) said, concerning the Banu Hanifah, the tribe of Musaylimah the Liar, “Their valley will not cease to be a valley of dissensions until the end of time, and the religion will never recover from their liars until Judgement Day,” and in another version, “Woe to al-Yamamah without end.”  al-Yamamah is the valley in the Najd. 

When Sayyidina ‘Ali ibn Abu Thalib (k.w.) killed the Khwarij, someone said, “Praise be to Allah (s.w.t.) Who has Brought them down, and Relieved us from them.” 

Sayyidina ‘Ali (k.w.) replied, “Verily, by the One in Whose Hand is my soul, some of them are still in the loins of men and they have not been born yet, and the last of them will fight on the side of the Antichrist.” 

The Prophet (s.a.w.) said, “A people that recite the Qur’an will come out of the East, but it will not go past their throats.  Every time a generation of them is cut down another one will come until the last one finds itself on the side of the Antichrist.”  He was referring to Najd, where the Wahhabi sect was born.