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This is authentic but this can refer to what is happening now or to an event that will take place years from now! Only Allah knows that. 

Is this hadeeth aurhantic.? If it is authantic wat does it mean ? The messenger of Allah s.a.w said the place pf assembly of the Muslims at the time of the war wil be in al ghutah near a city called Damascus , one of the best cities in Syria.