Prophecies in the Hadith: Difference between revisions

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In this category are hadiths that don't talk about what already happened before the prophecies were written.
In this category are hadiths that don't talk about what already happened before the prophecies were written.


===Predictions of opposites from the usual===
==="Opposites"===
This is a special category, because it doesn't seem to be a prediction, but rather a statement that the opposite of what was considered granted at that time will happen. For example mountains were considered solid (not moving), so a prophecy says that mountains will be moving. These predictions could be made mechanically just by saying the opposite of what currently happens. So even if they somehow came true, there would still be an alternative explanation for how the prophecy was made.
This is a special category, because it doesn't seem to be a prediction, but rather a statement that the opposite of what was considered granted at that time will happen. For example mountains were considered solid (not moving), so a prophecy says that mountains will be moving. These predictions could be made mechanically just by saying the opposite of what currently happens. So even if they somehow came true, there would still be an alternative explanation for how the prophecy was made.


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Rain was commonly connected to growth of vegetation, so Muhammad predicted the opposite.
Rain was commonly connected to growth of vegetation, so Muhammad predicted the opposite.


===Unfulfilled predictions===
===Unfulfilled===
In this category are predictions that didn't come true. Some of them (like coming of the Dajjal) are not falsifiable, since they could still happen in the future. While others couldn't happen even in the future.
In this category are predictions that didn't come true. Some of them (like coming of the Dajjal) are not falsifiable, since they could still happen in the future. While others couldn't happen even in the future.


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* Muhammad failed to predict modern technology and falsely thought that the technology of his time will be used until the end of times
* Muhammad failed to predict modern technology and falsely thought that the technology of his time will be used until the end of times


===Predictions that came true===
===Fulfilled===
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