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This article looks at different categories of Muhammad's prophecies with examples. Many of the prophecies are considered "signs of the Hour".  
Muhammad's prophecies are predictions written hundreds of years after Muhammad's death and attributed to him. Many prophecies are considered "signs of the Hour" (Islamic eschatology). Some prophecies are general statements that fit on times even before Islam, other prophecies predict early Islamic history (which happened before the predictions were written) and some prophecies (most of them unfulfilled) predict the future after the hadiths were written.


* 7th century Arabs didn't have the concept of "an hour" meaning 60 minutes. An hour (ساعة) just meant a period of time [shorter than a day]. <ref>AR: https://islamqa.info/ar/answers/140286/%D9%85%D8%A7-%D9%87%D9%88-%D9%85%D9%82%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AB-%D9%88%D9%87%D9%84-%D9%87%D9%88-%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%AF%D9%82%D9%8A%D9%82%D8%A9</ref> "The Hour" (الساعة) refers to a period of time in the Day of Judgement (so the signs of the hour also indicate the end of the world). <ref>Quran 30:55 "And '''the Day the Hour''' appears the criminals will swear they had remained but an hour. Thus they were deluded."</ref>
* 7th century Arabs didn't have the concept of "an hour" meaning 60 minutes. An hour (ساعة) just meant a period of time [shorter than a day]. <ref>AR: https://islamqa.info/ar/answers/140286/%D9%85%D8%A7-%D9%87%D9%88-%D9%85%D9%82%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AB-%D9%88%D9%87%D9%84-%D9%87%D9%88-%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%AF%D9%82%D9%8A%D9%82%D8%A9</ref> "The Hour" (الساعة) refers to a period of time in the Day of Judgement (so the signs of the hour also indicate the end of the world). <ref>Quran 30:55 "And '''the Day the Hour''' appears the criminals will swear they had remained but an hour. Thus they were deluded."</ref>
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