The Hadith rules for understanding the sayings of trials and clarifying them

Salih Numan Al-Harithimost important findings of the researchThere is no doubt that foresight into the future and what will happen in it, and how to deal with it, is something the human soul longs for, and this natural human tendency within the soul has led some who are affiliated with Islam to fall into a type of mistake based on guesses and assumptions in their dealing with the prophetic hadiths that addressed some of the fitan and events that were foretold to occur in the future. This confusion and error occurred only as a result of neglecting the controls and restrictions set by scholars and insight to ensure that dealing with these texts is based on the rules, rulings, and objectives of Sharia. Therefore, this research came as a guide to this issue, revealing its features, and establishing the principles for correctly and straightly applying these hadiths related to fitan and al-malahim, following an inductive approach due to its close connection to this matter. This research is organized into an introduction and two sections. The first section: clarifies the concept of fitan, the purposes of the narration of its hadiths, and some rulings derived from them. The second section: addresses the core of the topic, explaining the controls for dealing with hadiths of fitan and al-malahim, and the ways to correctly interpret their application to reality. Then, a conclusion that summarizes the knowledge mentioned in the research. Keywords: fitan, al-malahim, incorrect application, controls, dealing, methodology.