063. The Genocidal Hadith of the "Rocks and the Trees"
63. Ibn Hammad, Kitab al-fitan (Beirut: Dar al-Fikr, 1993), 348, 350; and, e.g., `Abd al-`Aziz Mustafa, Qabla an yuhdam al-Aqsa (Cairo: Dar al-Tawzi‘wa-l-Nashr al-Islamiyya,1990), 285; and widely quoted. For an English translation, see the “Hamas Covenant,” Journal of Palestine Studies 22 (1993): 123. Note that although Jews are the most prominent subjects of this tradition, there are a number of classical versions in which Jews are not mentioned: see Ibn al-Munadi, Kitab al-malahim (Qumm: Dar al-Sira, 1998), p. 247; and Ibn Abi Shayba, Kitab al-musannaf (Hyderabad: n.p., 1966–71), 15:167 (no. 19402). However, according to Cook, only the versions mentioning the Jews are cited in modern Muslim apocalyptic literature. On the genocidal aspects of this Hadith, which current apologists deny, see Matthias Küntzel, European Roots of Antisemitism in Current Islamic Thinking."
