Prophecies in the Hadith
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Muhammad's prophecies are predictions attributed to him and written hundreds of years after his death. Many prophecies are considered "signs of the Hour" (Islamic eschatology). Some prophecies are general statements that may apply to times even before Islam, other prophecies predict early Islamic history (which happened before the predictions were written) and some prophecies make predictions about the the future to come after the hadiths were written.
Prophecies in this article are from the hadiths. Quranic prophecies have a separate article.
Signs of the Hour
"The Hour" (ุงูุณุงุนุฉ) refers to a period of time on the Day of Judgement.
And the Day the Hour appears the criminals will swear they had remained but an hour. Thus they were deluded."
Signs of the Hour indicate that the Hour (and the end of the world) is coming. They were divided by scholars into minor and major. The major signs are contained in this hadith:
Hudhaifa b. Usaid al-Ghifari reported:
Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) came to us all of a sudden as we were (busy in a discussion). He said: What do you discuss about? They (the Companions) said. We are discussing about the Last Hour. Thereupon he said: It will not come until you see ten signs before and (in this connection) he made a mention of the smoke, Dajjal, the beast, the rising of the sun from the west, the descent of Jesus son of Mary (Allah be pleased with him), the Gog and Magog, and land-slides in three places, one in the east, one in the west and one in Arabia at the end of which fire would burn forth from the Yemen, and would drive people to the place of their assembly.
The minor signs indicate that the Hour is "getting closer", while the major signs indicate that the Hour will happen immediately after them. The first major sign is coming of the Dajjal and Muhammad thought that it might happen during his life or during life of his companions:
Some reject the hadiths of the signs of the Hour [1], because a Quranic verse indicates that the Hour will come by surprise (not after seeing clear signs) and that only Allah has knowledge about the Hour (not Muhammad):
They ask you หนO Prophetหบ regarding the Hour, โWhen will it be?โ Say, โThat knowledge is only with my Lord. He alone will reveal it when the time comes. It is too tremendous for the heavens and the earth and will only take you by surprise.โ They ask you as if you had full knowledge of it. Say, โThat knowledge is only with Allah, but most people do not know.โ
Retrodictions and Reiterating Biblical Prophecy
The hadith collections were written, often by Persian authors, hundreds of years after the death of Muhammad. So when the hadiths contain a prophecy about early Islamic history, they are likely only being attributed to Muhammad after the fact, a phenomenon referred to in religious studies as "vaticinium ex eventu" or "prophecy after the fact." This category also includes things that always happened, even before Islam (earthquakes, wars, people being dishonest...) and prophecies copied from the Bible.
Fabrication of hadiths
ููููููู ููู ุขุฎูุฑู ุงูุฒููู ูุงูู ุฏูุฌููุงููููู ููุฐููุงุจูููู ููุฃูุชููููููู ู ู ููู ุงูุฃูุญูุงุฏููุซู ุจูู ูุง ููู ู ุชูุณูู ูุนููุง ุฃูููุชูู ู ูููุงู ุขุจูุงุคูููู ู ููุฅููููุงููู ู ููุฅููููุงููู ู ูุงู ููุถูููููููููู ู ูููุงู ููููุชููููููููู ู
The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah upon him, said: โThere will be in the end of time charlatan liars coming to you with narrations (hadiths) that you nor your fathers heard, so beware of them lest they misguide you and cause you tribulationsโ.
This hadith must in fact be fabricated; there's no evidence that the words and deeds of the prophet were collected in hadith collections at all during his lifetime, since if his opinion was needed on a subject he could just be asked, and there's no evidence of any of these narrations before the dawn of the 8th century. That the author felt the need to fabricate a hadith to stop other people from fabricating hadiths is telling.
The caliphate will last 30 years
Sa'eed bin Jumhan narrated: "Safinah narrated to me, he said: 'The Messenger of Allah(s.a.w) said: "Al-Khilafah will be in my Ummah for thirty years, then there will be monarchy after that."' Then Safinah said to me: 'Count the Khilafah of Abu Bakr,' then he said: 'Count the Khilafah of 'Umar and the Khilafah of 'Uthman.' Then he said to me: 'Count the Khilafah of 'Ali."' He said: "So we found that they add up to thirty years." Sa'eed said: "I said to him: 'Banu Umaiyyah claim that the Khilafah is among them.' He said: 'Banu Az-Zarqa' lie, rather they are a monarchy, among the worst of monarchies."'
- Tirmidhi, author of this hadith collection, was born in 824, more than 100 years after the end of the caliphate
- The hadith in it's text is in the context of discussion about previous caliphates
- The political system after the first caliphate, was still called a caliphate. There was some form of caliphate until the 20th century
Rulership of the foolish after Muhammad
Vile men control affairs of the people
..and the Ruwaibidah will decide matters.โ It was said: โWho are the Ruwaibidah?โ He said: โVile and base men who control the affairs of the people.โโ
Return of the caliphate
The hadith was sent to a new caliph Umar II:
ุญุฏุซูุง ุนุจุฏ ุงููู ุญุฏุซูู ุฃุจู ุซูุง ุณููู ุงู ุจู ุฏุงูุฏ ุงูุทูุงูุณู ุญุฏุซูู ุฏุงูุฏ ุจู ุฅุจุฑุงููู ุงููุงุณุทู ุญุฏุซูู ุญุจูุจ ุจู ุณุงูู ุนู ุงููุนู ุงู ุจู ุจุดูุฑ ูุงูย : ููุง ูุนูุฏุง ูู ุงูู ุณุฌุฏ ู ุน ุฑุณูู ุงููู ุตูู ุงููู ุนููู ู ุณูู ููุงู ุจุดูุฑ ุฑุฌูุง ููู ุญุฏูุซู ูุฌุงุก ุฃุจู ุซุนูุจุฉ ุงูุฎุดูู ููุงู ูุง ุจุดูุฑ ุจู ุณุนุฏ ุฃุชุญูุธ ุญุฏูุซ ุฑุณูู ุงููู ุตูู ุงููู ุนููู ู ุณูู ูู ุงูุฃู ุฑุงุก ููุงู ุญุฐููุฉ ุฃูุง ุฃุญูุธ ุฎุทุจุชู ูุฌูุณ ุฃุจู ุซุนูุจุฉ ููุงู ุญุฐููุฉ ูุงู ุฑุณูู ุงููู ุตูู ุงููู ุนููู ู ุณูู ุชููู ุงููุจูุฉ ูููู ู ุง ุดุงุก ุงููู ุงู ุชููู ุซู ูุฑูุนูุง ุฅุฐุง ุดุงุก ุงู ูุฑูุนูุง ุซู ุชููู ุฎูุงูุฉ ุนูู ู ููุงุฌ ุงููุจูุฉ ูุชููู ู ุง ุดุงุก ุงููู ุงู ุชููู ุซู ูุฑูุนูุง ุฅุฐุง ุดุงุก ุงููู ุฃู ูุฑูุนูุง ุซู ุชููู ู ููุง ุนุงุถุง ููููู ู ุง ุดุงุก ุงููู ุงู ูููู ุซู ูุฑูุนูุง ุฅุฐุง ุดุงุก ุฃู ูุฑูุนูุง ุซู ุชููู ู ููุง ุฌุจุฑูุฉ ูุชููู ู ุง ุดุงุก ุงููู ุงู ุชููู ุซู ูุฑูุนูุง ุฅุฐุง ุดุงุก ุงู ูุฑูุนูุง ุซู ุชููู ุฎูุงูุฉ ุนูู ู ููุงุฌ ุงููุจูุฉ ุซู ุณูุช ูุงู ุญุจูุจ ููู ุง ูุงู ุนู ุฑ ุจู ุนุจุฏ ุงูุนุฒูุฒ ููุงู ูุฒูุฏ ุจู ุงููุนู ุงู ุจู ุจุดูุฑ ูู ุตุญุงุจุชู ููุชุจุช ุฅููู ุจูุฐุง ุงูุญุฏูุซ ุฃุฐูุฑู ุฅูุงู ูููุช ูู ุงูู ุฃุฑุฌู ุงู ูููู ุฃู ูุฑ ุงูู ุคู ููู ูุนูู ุนู ุฑ ุจุนุฏ ุงูู ูู ุงูุนุงุถ ูุงูุฌุจุฑูุฉ ูุงุฏุฎู ูุชุงุจู ุนูู ุนู ุฑ ุจู ุนุจุฏ ุงูุนุฒูุฒ ูุณุฑ ุจู ูุฃุนุฌุจู ุชุนููู ุดุนูุจ ุงูุฃุฑูุคูุทย : ุฅุณูุงุฏู ุญุณู
It was narrated by Ahmed in his Musnad, from Al-Nuโman b.Bashir, who said: โWe were sitting in the mosque of the Messenger of Allah(saw), and Bashir was a man who did not speak much, so Abu Thaโlabah Al-Khashnee came and said: โOh, Bashir bin Saโad, have you memorized the words of the Messenger of Allah (saw) regarding the rulers?โ Huthayfah replied, โI have memorized his wordsโ. So Abu Thaโlabah sat down and Huthayfah said, โThe Messenger of Allah (saw) said โProphet-hood will be among you as long as Allah wishes, then He will lift it up when He wishes to lift it up. Then there will be a Khilafah on the way of the Prophet, and it will be as long as Allah wishes it to be, then Allah will lift it up when He wishes to lift it up. Then there will be an inheritance rule, and it will last as long as Allah wishes it to, then Allah will lift it up when He wishes to lift it up. Then there will be a coercive rule, and it will last as long as Allah wishes it to be, then Allah will lift it up when He wishes to lift it up. Then there will be a Khilafah on the way of Prophet-hood.โ Then he (saw) was silent.โ Habib said: โWhen Umar ibn AbdulAziz became caliph I wrote to him, mentioning this tradition to him and saying, โI hope you will be the commander of the faithful after the biting and the oppressive kingdoms. โIt pleased and charmed him, i.e. Umar ibn AbdulAziz.โ
Umar II died in 720 and he was expected to bring back the good old caliphate. Musnad Ahmad was written in the 9th century.
"Prophet, siddiq and two martyrs"
Notice that the future caliphs are usually mentioned in the order in which they will be caliphs (strongly suggesting these were written later by someone who already knew the order):
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
The Prophet (๏ทบ) ascended the mountain of Uhud and he was accompanied by Abu Bakr, `Umar and `Uthman. The mountain shook beneath them. The Prophet (๏ทบ) hit it with his foot and said, "O Uhudย ! Be firm, for on you there is none but a Prophet, a Siddiq and a martyr (i.e. and two martyrs).
The hadith was interpreted as a vague prediction that Abu Bakr will die naturally and Umar and Uthman will be killed. The 3 caliphs were in the 7th century. Sahih Bukhari was written in the 9th century.
Khawarij
According to Islamic scholars, this hadith is about the coming of the Khawarij:
It was narrated that 'Ali said: "I heard the Messenger of Allah [SAW] say: 'At the end of time there will appear young people with foolish minds. Their faith will not pass through their throats, and they will go out of Islam as an arrow goes through the target. If you meet them, then kill them, for killing them will bring reward to the one who killed them on the Day of Resurrection.'"
Khawarij ("The Leavers") left the army of the caliph Ali in the middle of the 7th century. The prediction was written in the middle of the 9th century, two hundred years later.
The prophecy says "at the end of time". The Khawarij appeared more than a thousand years ago.
Places of killed people at the battle of Badr
..Then the Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ) said: This is the place where so and so would be killed. He placed his hand on the earth (saying) here and here; (and) none of them fell away from the place which the Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ) had indicated by placing his hand on the earth.
According to the Sira, the Battle of Badr was in the 7th century. This hadith collection was authored in the 9th century.
Earthquakes will increase
It's a part of a longer hadith as one of the signs of the end of the world:
There were always earthquakes, increasing and decreasing. There is a report that earthquakes happened also during the life of Muhammad:
He [the Prophet (๏ทบ)] prayed during an earthquake six bowings and four prostrations, and said, "This is the way the Prayer of the Signs (of Allah) is offered.
Earthquakes were also predicted in the Bible:
When you hear of wars and uprisings, do not be frightened. These things must happen first, but the end will not come right away.โ
Then he said to them: โNation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.
Rain is hot
This hadith is classified as mawdu (fabricated). [4] It's part of a long hadith about coming of the Hour:
..ููุฃููู ููููููู ุงููู ูุทูุฑู ููููุธูุง .. ..and that rain will be hot (ููุธุง)..
It was also mentioned in Lane's lexicon:
ููุง ุชููููู ู ุงูุณููุงุนูุฉู ุญูุชููู ููููููู ุงูููููุฏู ุบูููุธูุง ูุงูู ูุทูุฑู ููููุธูุง, a saying of Moแธฅammad, meaning [The resurrection, or the time thereof, will not come to pass until the birth of a child be an occasion of wrath, or rage, and] rain be accompanied by air like the ููุธ [or most vehement heat of summer]. (TA.)
The word ููุธ (qayz) was also mentioned in a different hadith meaning "hot weather":
Rifa'ah bin Rafi' said: I heard Abu Bakr as-Siddeeq say on the minbar of the Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ)ย : I heard the Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ) say, and Abu Bakr wept when he remembered the Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ) , then he recovered and said. I heard the Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ) say, in this hot weather (ุงูููุธ) last year: `Ask Allah for forgiveness, well-being and certainty of faith in the Hereafter and in this world.โ
Some insist that the word ููุธ means "acidic".
Strong wind
Muhammad predicted a strong wind on the same day it happened, so there was probably already a wind getting stronger:
..When we reached Tabuk, the Prophet (๏ทบ) said, "There will be a strong wind tonight and so no one should stand and whoever has a camel, should fasten it." So we fastened our camels. A strong wind blew at night and a man stood up and he was blown away to a mountain called Taiy..
The prophecy was written in the 9th century.
Child is filled with rage
This is a part of a fabricated (mawdu') hadith.
ูุฅู ู ู ุฃุนูุงู ุงูุณุงุนุฉ ูุฃุดุฑุงุทูุง: ุฃู ูููู ุงูููุฏ ุบูุธุงูุ ูุฃู ูููู ุงูู ุทุฑ ููุธุงู
And from the signs of the Hour is that a boy will be enraged and that water will be hot
Angry children have been around since time immemorial.
Muhammad's death
Muhammad predicted that he will die. The prediction doesn't contain any specific information about his death:
I went to the Prophet (๏ทบ) during the Ghazwa of Tabuk while he was sitting in a leather tent. He said, "Count six signs that indicate the approach of the Hour: my death, the conquest of Jerusalem, a plague that will afflict you (and kill you in great numbers) as the plague that afflicts sheep, the increase of wealth to such an extent that even if one is given one hundred Dinars, he will not be satisfied; then an affliction which no Arab house will escape, and then a truce between you and Bani Al-Asfar (i.e. the Byzantines) who will betray you and attack you under eighty flags. Under each flag will be twelve thousand soldiers.
The context is that it will be a sign that the Hour is coming. But Muhammad died more than a thousand years ago and the Hour didn't come.
Muhammad's wife with the longest arm will die first
Narrated 'Aisha:
Some of the wives of the Prophet asked him, "Who amongst us will be the first to follow you (i.e. die after you)?" He said, "Whoever has the longest hand." So they started measuring their hands with a stick and Sauda's hand turned out to be the longest. (When Zainab bint Jahsh died first of all in the caliphate of 'Umar), we came to know that the long hand was a symbol of practicing charity, so she was the first to follow the Prophet and she used to love to practice charity. (Sauda died later in the caliphate of Muawiya).
It's questionable whether the prophecy was metaphorical and fulfilled or whether it was literal and hence re-interpreted. Sahih Bukhari was written in the 9th century.
Muhammad's daughter Fatima will die first from his family
During Muhammad's illness, Fatima was walking like Muhammad, so she also had signs of illness:
`A'isha reported that all the wives of Allah's Apostle (๏ทบ) had gathered (in her apartment) during the days of his (Prophet's) last illness and no woman was left behind that Fatima, who walked after the style of Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ), came there. He welcomed her by saying:
You are welcome, my daughter, and made her sit on his right side or on his left side, and then talked something secretly to her and Fatima wept. Then he talked something secretly to her and she laughed. I said to her: What makes you weep? She said: I am not going to divulge the secret of Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ). I (`A'isha) said: I have not seen (anything happening) like today, the happiness being more close to grief (as I see today) when she wept. I said to her: Has Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) singled you out for saying something leaving us aside? She then wept and I asked her what he said, and she said: I am not going to divulge the secrets of Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ). And when he died I again asked her and she said that he (the Holy Prophet) told her: Gabriel used to recite the Qur'an to me once a year and for this year it was twice and so I perceived that my death had drawn near, and that I (Fatima) would be the first amongst the members of his family who would meet him (in the Hereafter). He shall be my good forerunner and it made me weep. He again talked to me secretly (saying): Aren't you pleased that you should be the sovereign amongst the believing women or the head of women of this Ummah? And this made me laugh.
A plague kills many Muslims
I went to the Prophet (๏ทบ) during the Ghazwa of Tabuk while he was sitting in a leather tent. He said, "Count six signs that indicate the approach of the Hour: my death, the conquest of Jerusalem, a plague that will afflict you (and kill you in great numbers) as the plague that afflicts sheep, the increase of wealth to such an extent that even if one is given one hundred Dinars, he will not be satisfied; then an affliction which no Arab house will escape, and then a truce between you and Bani Al-Asfar (i.e. the Byzantines) who will betray you and attack you under eighty flags. Under each flag will be twelve thousand soldiers.
It was interpreted as a prophecy about the Plague of Amwas (638-639), which is considered a re-emergence of the Plague of Justinian (541-549), so there was a precedent.
The prediction was written in the 9th century.
Sexual immorality (abominations)
It was narrated that โAbdullah bin โUmar said: โThe Messenger of Allah ๏ทบ turned to us and said: โO Muhajirun, there are five things with which you will be tested, and I seek refuge with Allah lest you live to see them: Immorality never appears among a people to such an extent that they commit it openly, but plagues and diseases that were never known among the predecessors will spread among them. They do not cheat in weights and measures but they will be stricken with famine, severe calamity and the oppression of their rulers. They do not withhold the Zakah of their wealth, but rain will be withheld from the sky, and were it not for the animals, no rain would fall on them. They do not break their covenant with Allah and His Messenger, but Allah will enable their enemies to overpower them and take some of what is in their hands. Unless their leaders rule according to the Book of Allah and seek all good from that which Allah has revealed, Allah will cause them to fight one another.โโ
Sexual immorality (or "abomination") was nothing new in the 7th century. The Old Testament mentions such a story:
He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodomโboth young and oldโsurrounded the house. They called to Lot, โWhere are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.โ Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him and said, โNo, my friends. Donโt do this wicked thing. Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them.
In the New Testament Jesus spoke to a woman who had many sexual partners:
โGo and get your husband,โ Jesus told her.
โI donโt have a husband,โ the woman replied.
Jesus said, โYouโre right! You donโt have a husbandโ for you have had five husbands, and you arenโt even married to the man youโre living with now. You certainly spoke the truth!โ
There were also abominations happening in Muhammad's time:
Narrated `Aisha:
that the Prophet (๏ทบ) married her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old. Hisham said: I have been informed that `Aisha remained with the Prophet (๏ทบ) for nine years (i.e. till his death).
Plagues and diseases also happened throughout whole history. Plagues (pestilences) were also predicted in the Bible, hundreds of years before Muhammad:
When you hear of wars and uprisings, do not be frightened. These things must happen first, but the end will not come right away.โ
Then he said to them: โNation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.
Homosexuality
This is a fabricated (mawdu') hadith:
ูุง ุงุจู ู ุณุนูุฏ ุฅู ู ู ุฃุนูุงู ุงูุณุงุนุฉ ูุฃุดุฑุงุทูุง ุฃู ููุชูู ุงูุฑุฌุงู ุจุงูุฑุฌุงู ูุงููุณุงุก ุจุงููุณุงุก
..O Ibn Mas'ud, indeed from the signs of the Hour is that men are content with men and women with women..
It typifies the predictions of increased sin and licentiousness before the apacolypse.
Women naked, but dressed (wearing revealing clothes)
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) having said this:
Two are the types of the denizens of Hell whom I did not see: people having flogs like the tails of the ox with them and they would be beating people, and the women who would be dressed but appear to be naked, who would be inclined (to evil) and make their husbands incline towards it. Their heads would be like the humps of the bukht camel inclined to one side. They will not enter Paradise and they would not smell its odour whereas its odour would be smelt from such and such distance.
Some apologists present it as something new that happens in the 21st century and Muhammad couldn't have guessed it.
This hadeeth is one of the miracles of Prophethood, for these two types of people have appeared, and they exist now, as al-Nawawi (may Allaah have mercy on him) said.
Al-Nawawi lived in the 13th century.
Islamic sources say that there were naked women circumambulating around the Kaba in Muhammad's time:
It was narrated from Saeed bin Jubair that Ibn Abbas said: "Women used to circumambulate the Kabah naked, saying: 'Today some, or all of it will appear And whatever appers I don't make is permissible.' Then the following was revealed: 'O Children of Adam! Take your adornment to every Masjid.'"
There is also a hadith with the same terminology of dressed (ูุงุณูุงุช) and undressed (ุนุงุฑูุงุช) but in a different context:
Narrated Um Salama:
One night the Prophet (๏ทบ) got up and said, "Subhan Allah! How many afflictions Allah has revealed tonight and how many treasures have been sent down (disclosed). Go and wake the sleeping lady occupants of these dwellings up (for prayers), perhaps a well dressed (ูุงุณูุฉ) in this world may be naked (ุนุงุฑูุฉ) in the Hereafter."
Widespread adultery
Anas b. Malik reported Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) as saying:
It is from the conditions of the Last Hour that knowledge would be taken away and ignorance would prevail (upon the world), the liquor would be drunk, and adultery would become rampant.
This is again a prediction of sin and licentiousness before the end of the world.
Jabir b. 'Abdullah reported:
We contracted temporary marriage giving a handful of (tales or flour as a dower during the lifetime of Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) and during the time of Abu Bakr until 'Umar forbade it in the case of 'Amr b. Huraith.
There is also a fabricated (mawdu') prophecy about illegitimate children:
ููุง ุงุจููู ู ูุณูุนููุฏู ุ ุฅูููู ู ููู ุฃูุนูููุงู ู ุงูุณููุงุนูุฉู ููุฃูุดูุฑูุงุทูููุง ุฃููู ููููุซูุฑู ุฃูููููุงุฏู ุงูุฒููููุง
O Ibn Mas'ud, indeed from the signs of the Hour is that there are many children from adultery
Abundant wealth
It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ) said: โThe Hour will not begin until wealth becomes abundant and tribulations appear, and Harj increases.โ They said: โWhat is Harj, O Messenger of Allah?โ He said: โKilling, killing, killing,โ three times.
This hadith may go back to an earlier point in time or even to Muhammad himself; the Qur'an is full of expectations that "the Hour" id est the day of judgement, is imminent, and the background of the Qur'an in the ancient near east was the apacolyptic war between the Byzantine and Sassanid empire which was ravaging the near east at the time.
Men obey their wives
The hadith is daif:
Ali bin Abi Talib narrated that the Messenger of Allah(s.a.w) said: "When my Ummah does fifteen things, the afflictions will occur in it." It was said: "What are they O Messenger of Allah?" He said: "When Al-Maghnam (the spoils of war) are distributed (preferentially), trust is usurped, Zakah is a fine, a man obeys his wife and disobeys his mother, he is kind to his friend and abandons his father, voices are raised in the Masajid, the leader of the people is the most despicable among them, the most honored man is the one whose evil the people are afraid of, intoxicants are drunk, silk is worn (by males), there is a fascination for singing slave-girls and music, and the end of this Ummah curses its beginning. When that occurs, anticipate a red wind, collapsing of the earth, and transformation."
It was mentioned among negative things, that indicates that a woman being dominant in marriage is an evil thing. But it appears that the patriarchy was not universal even in Muhammad's time:
Fire in Hijaz illuminates necks of camels in Busra
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) said, "The Hour will not be established till a fire will come out of the land of Hijaz, and it will throw light on the necks of the camels at Busra."
There was a lava eruption in Hijaz in the year 1256 (Harrat Rahat) which is considered by Muslims as fulfillment. That's the last eruption, but the eruption before that was in 640 - 641 A.D. during the reign of Umar.[7] So there was a precedent. The unspecified date of occurrence makes this prediction one that might be referenced perennially
Making halal what was haram
Narrated Abu 'Amir or Abu Malik Al-Ash'ari:
He heard that the Prophet (๏ทบ) saying, "From among my followers there will be some people who will consider illegal sexual intercourse, the wearing of silk, the drinking of alcoholic drinks and the use of musical instruments, as lawful. And there will be some people who will stay near the side of a mountain and in the evening their shepherd will come to them with their sheep and ask them for something, but they will say to him, 'Return to us tomorrow.' Allah will destroy them during the night and will let the mountain fall on them, and He will transform the rest of them into monkeys and pigs and they will remain so till the Day of Resurrection."
According to the Qur'an, Jews and Christians took their rabbis and monks as lords, because the rabbis and monks made lawful for them what Allah forbade. [8]
Slave woman gives birth to her master/mistress
1. When a slave (lady) gives birth to her master.
2. When the shepherds of black camels start boasting and competing with others in the construction of higher buildings. And the Hour is one of five things which nobody knows except Allah.
The Prophet (๏ทบ) then recited: "Verily, with Allah (Alone) is the knowledge of the Hour--." (31. 34) Then that man (Gabriel) left and the Prophet (๏ทบ) asked his companions to call him back, but they could not see him. Then the Prophet (๏ทบ) said, "That was Gabriel who came to teach the people their religion." Abu 'Abdullah said: He (the Prophet) considered all that as a part of faith.According to Nawawi, the opinion of the majority of scholars is that Muslims will enslave non-Muslim women and have kids with them and the kids will be masters of their mothers because the kids are Muslims. [9] Ibn Hajar (who lived later) didn't like this interpretation, because the enslavement was already happening during the time of Muhammad, so it wasn't really a prophecy of the future.
Ibn Hajar and others, as a result, like to interpret it as kids treating their mothers like slaves. This is not compatible with Waki's comment, and it would appear that children disrespecting their parents has been and will remain a universal phenomenon.
Woman helps her husband in business
'Abdullah said, 'From the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, who said, "Before the Final Hour people will single out one individual for the greeting, commerce will increase until a woman helps her husband in business, people will sever their links with their relatives, knowledge will spread, false testimony will appear and true testimony will be concealed."
Some people control trade
"The Messenger of Allah said: 'One of the portents of the Hour will be that wealth becomes widespread and abundant, and trade will become widespread, but knowledge will disappear. A man will try to sell something and will say: "No, not until I consult the merchant of banu so and so and People will look throughout a vast area for a scribe and will not find one."
Injustice
Ibn 'Umar reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Injustice will appear as darkness on the Day of Rising."
Once again, sin and wrongdoing will multiply before the final hour.
False testimony
ููุธููููุฑู ุงูุดููููุงุฏูุฉู ุจูุงูุฒูููุฑูุ ููููุชูู ูุงูู ุดูููุงุฏูุฉู ุงููุญูููู
..false testimony will appear and true testimony will be concealed.
Yet another predictions of licentiousness and sin before the end of times.
Unfulfilled vows
..then the Prophet (๏ทบ) added, 'There will come after you, people who will bear witness without being asked to do so, and will be treacherous and untrustworthy, and they will vow and never fulfill their vows, and fatness will appear among them."
Cheating in weights (scales)
It was narrated that โAbdullah bin โUmar said: โThe Messenger of Allah ๏ทบ turned to us and said: โO Muhajirun, there are five things with which you will be tested, and I seek refuge with Allah lest you live to see them: Immorality never appears among a people to such an extent that they commit it openly, but plagues and diseases that were never known among the predecessors will spread among them. They do not cheat in weights and measures but they will be stricken with famine, severe calamity and the oppression of their rulers. They do not withhold the Zakah of their wealth, but rain will be withheld from the sky, and were it not for the animals, no rain would fall on them. They do not break their covenant with Allah and His Messenger, but Allah will enable their enemies to overpower them and take some of what is in their hands. Unless their leaders rule according to the Book of Allah and seek all good from that which Allah has revealed, Allah will cause them to fight one another.โโ
This is also mentioned in the Old Testament:
Then the Lord said to me, โThe end has come for My people Israel. I will spare them no longer. The songs of the palace will turn to wailing in that day,โ declares the Lord God. โMany will be the corpses; in every place they will cast them forth in silence.โ Hear this, you who trample the needy, to do away with the humble of the land, saying: โWhen will the new moon be over, So that we may sell grain, And the sabbath, that we may open the wheat market, To make the bushel smaller and the shekel bigger, And to cheat with dishonest scales
This fits into a general eschatological scheme of disasters before the end times found in many end-of-times predictions.
Making money unlawfully
Narrated Abu Hurairah (ra): The Prophet (๏ทบ) said "Certainly a time will come when people will not bother to know from where they earned the money, by lawful means or unlawful means."
If raiding caravans can be called an "unlawful method" of acquiring money, then according to the sirah Muhammad himself engaged in dubious practices to acquire money:
Then the apostle heard that Abu Sufyan b. Harb was coming from Syria with a large caravan of Quraysh, containing their money and merchandise, accompanied by some thirty or forty men." Mohammad said, "This is the Quraysh caravan containing their property, Go out to attack it, perhaps God will give it as prey,
Most Muslims would argue that Muhammad was engaged in war against the Medinians, but his and his followers lust not for religious victory but for booty is noted again and again in the sirah.
Usury (riba)
ุนููู ุฃูุจูู ููุฑูููุฑูุฉู ุฃููู ุฑูุณูููู ุงูููููู ุตููููู ุงูููููู ุนููููููู ููุณููููู ู ููุงูู ููุฃูุชูู ุนูููู ุงููููุงุณู ุฒูู ูุงูู ููุฃูููููููู ููููู ุงูุฑููุจูุง ููููู ุงููููุงุณู ูููููููู ู ููุงูู ู ููู ููู ู ููุฃููููููู ู ูููููู ู ููุงูููู ู ููู ุบูุจูุงุฑููู
Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, โA time will come upon people in which they will consume usury.โ It was said, โAll of the people?โ The Prophet said, โWhoever does not consume it will be affected by its dust.โ
Usury (riba) was already widespread in the period before Islam, which Muslims call "jahilya":
Riba al-Jahiliyah means โthe riba used during the age of ignorance and paganism.โ It is also called riba al-nassee'aa (the riba that is constrained by a time limit and is time dependent). This type of riba was widely practiced by the pagan Arabs at the advent of Islam.
In any interest-based economy, all goods will inevitably be "tainted" directly or indirectly with interest-based practices; this fits into a general pattern of predicting sin and degeneracy before the endtimes.
Sudden deaths
ุญุฏุซูุง ุงูููุซู ุจู ุฎุงูุฏ ุงูู ุตูุตู ูุง ุนุจุฏุงููุจูุฑ ุจู ุงูู ุนุงูู ุจู ุนู ุฑุงู ูุง ุดุฑูู ุนู ุงูุนุจุงุณ ุจู ุฐุฑูุญ ุนู ุงูุดุนุจู ุนู ุฃูุณ ุจู ู ุงูู ุฑูุนู ุฅูู ุงููุจู ุตูู ุงููู ุนููู ู ุณูู ูุงู ู ู ุงูุชุฑุงุจ ุงูุณุงุนุฉ ุฃู ูุฑู ุงูููุงู ูุจูุง ูููุงู ููููุชูู ูุฃู ุชุชุฎุฐ ุงูู ุณุงุฌุฏ ุทุฑูุง ูุฃู ูุธูุฑ ุงูู ูุช ุงููุฌุงุก ูู ูุฑู ูุฐุง ุงูุญุฏูุซ ุนู ุงูุนุจุงุณ ุจู ุฒุฑูุญ ุฅูุง ุดุฑูู ุชูุฑุฏ ุจู ุนุจุฏ ุงููุจูุฑ ุจู ุงูู ุนุงูู
Anas bin Malik (RA) narrated that the Prophet (SAW) said: โAmong the signs that the Last Hour is near, is that the crescent would appear larger than its actual size and people would say: โIt appears as if it is only two days old.โ and the masajid will be taken as streets, and sudden death will spread.โ
In other hadiths Muhammad and Ubayd speak about sudden death as something already known:
Narrated Ubayd ibn Khalid as-Sulami,:
A man from the Companions of the Prophet (๏ทบ), said: The narrator Sa'd ibn Ubaydah narrated sometimes from the Prophet (๏ทบ) and sometimes as a statement of Ubayd (ibn Khalid): The Prophet (๏ทบ) said: Sudden death is a wrathful catching.
Islam will be unpleasant for Muslims (like burning ember/coal in hand)
Anas bin Malik narrated that the Messenger of Allah(s.a.w) said: "There shall come upon the people a time in which the one who is patient upon his religion will be like the one holding onto a burning ember."
Following Jews and Christians
Narrated Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri:
The Prophet (๏ทบ) said, "You will follow the ways of those nations who were before you, span by span and cubit by cubit (i.e., inch by inch) so much so that even if they entered a hole of a mastigure, you would follow them." We said, "O Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ)! (Do you mean) the Jews and the Christians?" He said, "Whom else?"
Killing [pointless killing]
Narrated `Abdullah and Abu Musa:
The Prophet (๏ทบ) said, "Near the establishment of the Hour there will be days during which Religious ignorance will spread, knowledge will be taken away (vanish) and there will be much Al-Harj, and Al- Harj means killing."
It is not very clear what this refers to, except for a general prediction of violence before the end of times; originally it may have been a reference to the apacolyptic war between the Romans and the Sassanids, but there's not alot of detail to infer that in this hadith as "killing" may describe many events in history.
Two parties with the same message will fight
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) many ahadith and one of them was this:
The last Hour will not come until the two parties (of Muslims) confront each other and there is a large-scale massacre amongst them and the claim of both of them is the same.
This prediction was interpreted by Islamic scholars as referring to the Battle of Siffin (year 657). Sahih Muslim was written in the 9th century.
Issue between Ali and Aisha
ุฅููููู ุณููููู ุจููููู ูุจูู ุนุงุฆุดุฉู ุฃู ุฑู ูุงู ูุฃูุง ุฃุดูุงููู ูุง ุฑุณููู ุงูููู ูุงู ูุง ููููู ุฅุฐุง ูุงู ุฐูู ูุงุฑุฏูุฏููุง ุฅูู ู ุฃู ูููุง
There will be an issue between you and โAisha.โ He said, โMe, O Messenger of Allah?!โ He said, โYes.โ He said, โMe?!โ He said, โYes.โ He said, โThen [in that case] I would be the worst of them (all people).โ He said, โNo, but when this occurs, return her to her safe quarters.โThe Battle of the Camel happened in 656. The hadith (in Musnad Ahmad) was written in the 9th century.
Ammar will be killed
Narrated Abu Hurairah: that the Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ) said: "Rejoice, 'Ammar, the transgressing party shall kill you."
He was killed in the 7th century. The collection of Tirmidhi was written in the 9th century.
"I have been given Persia"
ุฃูุจุฃ ู ุญู ุฏ ุจู ุนุจุฏ ุงูุฃุนูู ูุงู ุญุฏุซูุง ู ุนุชู ุฑ ูุงู ุณู ุนุช ุนููุง ูุงู ุณู ุนุช ู ูู ููุง ูุญุฏุซ ุนู ุงูุจุฑุงุก ุจู ุนุงุฒุจ ูุงูย : ูู ุง ุฃู ุฑูุง ุฑุณูู ุงููู ุตูู ุงููู ุนููู ู ุณูู ุฃู ูุญูุฑ ุงูุฎูุฏู ุนุฑุถ ููุง ููู ุญุฌุฑ ูุง ูุฃุฎุฐ ููู ุงูู ุนูู ูุงุดุชูููุง ุฐูู ุฅูู ุฑุณูู ุงููู ุตูู ุงููู ุนููู ู ุณูู ูุฌุงุก ุฑุณูู ุงููู ุตูู ุงููู ุนููู ู ุณูู ูุฃููู ุซูุจู ูุฃุฎุฐ ุงูู ุนูู ููุงู ุจุณู ุงููู ูุถุฑุจ ุถุฑุจุฉ ููุณุฑ ุซูุซ ุงูุตุฎุฑุฉ ูุงู ุงููู ุฃูุจุฑ ุฃุนุทูุช ู ูุงุชูุญ ุงูุดุงู ูุงููู ุฅูู ูุฃุจุตุฑ ูุตูุฑูุง ุงูุญู ุฑ ุงูุขู ู ู ู ูุงูู ูุฐุง ูุงู ุซู ุถุฑุจ ุฃุฎุฑู ููุงู ุจุณู ุงููู ููุณุฑ ุซูุซุง ุขุฎุฑ ููุงู ุงููู ุฃูุจุฑ ุฃุนุทูุช ู ูุงุชูุญ ูุงุฑุณ ูุงููู ุฅูู ูุฃุจุตุฑ ูุตุฑ ุงูู ุฏุงุฆู ุงูุฃุจูุถ ุงูุขู ุซู ุถุฑุจ ุซุงูุซุฉ ููุงู ุจุณู ุงููู ููุทุน ุงูุญุฌุฑ ูุงู ุงููู ุฃูุจุฑ ุฃุนุทูุช ู ูุงุชูุญ ุงููู ู ูุงููู ุฅูู ูุฃุจุตุฑ ุจุงุจ ุตูุนุงุก
Al-Bara said: On the Day of Al-Khandaq (the trench) there stood out a rock too immune for our spades to break up. We therefore went to see Godโs Messenger for advice. He took the spade, and said: โIn the Name of Godโ Then he struck it saying: โGod is Most Great, I have been given the keys of Ash-Sham (Greater Syria). By God, I can see its red palaces at the moment;โ on the second strike he said: โGod is Most Great, I have been given Persia. By God, I can now see the white palace of Madain;โ and for the third time he struck the rock saying: โIn the Name of God,โ shattering the rest of the rock, and he said: โGod is Most Great, I have been given the keys of Yemen. By God, I can see the gates of Sanโa while I am in my place.โ
The bloody conquest happened around the year 650. Earliest hadith collection Muwatta Imam Malik (which doesn't contain this hadith) was written around the year 750 and the hadith collection sunan al-Kubra which contains the hadith was written around the year 850. This hadith was written hundreds of years after the event it describes.
Furthermore, Persia was already conquered a thousand years before by Alexander the Great. And at the time of Muhammad Persia was exhausted by wars with Romans which lasted from 54 BC to 628 AD (681 years).
Conquest of Jerusalem
Narrated `Auf bin Mali:
I went to the Prophet (๏ทบ) during the Ghazwa of Tabuk while he was sitting in a leather tent. He said, "Count six signs that indicate the approach of the Hour: my death, the conquest of Jerusalem, a plague that will afflict you (and kill you in great numbers) as the plague that afflicts sheep, the increase of wealth to such an extent that even if one is given one hundred Dinars, he will not be satisfied; then an affliction which no Arab house will escape, and then a truce between you and Bani Al-Asfar (i.e. the Byzantines) who will betray you and attack you under eighty flags. Under each flag will be twelve thousand soldiers.
Some suggest that Muhammad predicted "The Muslim conquest of Jerusalem in 1187 AD." [10]: However, this was the second Islamic conquest of Jerusalem. Muslims first conquered Jerusalem in 636.
Furthermore, after the conquest, the Hour was expected to come. Both events occurred nearly a thousand years in the past. This was written by Bukhari two hundred years after the first conquest.
Hadith in Sunan Abu Dawud also stresses the coming of the Last Hour after the conquest of Jerusalem (holy land):
Narrated Abdullah ibn Hawalah al-Azdi:
The Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ) sent us on foot to get spoil, but we returned without getting any. When he saw the signs of distress on our faces, he stood up on our faces and said: O Allah, do not put them under my care, for I would be too weak to care for them; do not put them in care of themselves, for they would be incapable of that, and do not put them in the care of men, for they would choose the best things for themselves. He then placed his hand on my head and said: Ibn Hawalah, when you see the caliphate has settled in the holy land, earthquakes, sorrows and serious matters will have drawn near and on that day the Last Hour will be nearer to mankind than this hand of mine is to your head.
Conquest of Egypt
Abu Dharr reported Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) as saying:
You would soon conquer Egypt and that is a land which is known (as the land of al-qirat). So when you conquer it, treat its inhabitants well. For there lies upon you the responsibility because of blood-tie or relationship of marriage (with them). And when you see two persons falling into dispute amongst themselves for the space of a brick, than get out of that. He (Abu Dharr) said: I saw Abd al-Rahman b. Shurahbil b. Hasana and his brother Rabi'a disputing with one another for the space of a brick. So I left that (land).
Muslim conquest of Egypt happened in the 7th century. The hadith collection Sahih Muslim was written in the 9th century.
Conquest of Yemen, Syria and Iraq
Sufyan b. Abu Zuhair heard Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) say:
Yemen will be conquered and some people will go away (to that country) driving their camels and carrying their families on them and those who are under their authority, while Medina is better for them if they were to know it. Then Syria will be conquered and some people will go away driving their camels along with them and carrying their families with them and those who are under their authority, while Medina is better for them if they were to know it. Then lraq will be conquered and some people will go away (to that country) driving their camels and carrying their families with them and those who are under their authority. while Medina is better for them if they were to know it.
All conquests happened in the 7th century. Sahih Muslim was written in the 9th century.
Fighting Turks
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet (๏ทบ) said, "The Hour will not be established till you fight a nation wearing hairy shoes, and till you fight the Turks, who will have small eyes, red faces and flat noses; and their faces will be like flat shields. And you will find that the best people are those who hate responsibility of ruling most of all till they are chosen to be the rulers. And the people are of different natures: The best in the pre-lslamic period are the best in Islam. A time will come when any of you will love to see me rather than to have his family and property doubled."
Some suggest that "Turks" here means "Mongols" and that this thus predicts Gengis Khan. However, The Battle of Kharistan (737) which happened between the Umayyad caliphate and Turkic Tรผrgesh, could equally fit the description provided here. This seems more plausible, especially as Sahih Bukhari was written in the 9th century.
One might also note that if Muhammad did in fact make these predictions, Islam's global imperial aspirations (proven as they were by the end of Muhammad's life) would make the conquest of any number of neighboring or nearby peoples a likelihood.
Leave the Turks as long as they leave you
This hadith is often referenced as evidence that Muhammad predicted the Ottoman empire, often ignoring the clause about the Abyssinians
Narrated from Abi Sukainah One of the Companions:
The Prophet (๏ทบ) said: Let the Abyssinians alone as long as they let you alone, and let the Turks alone as long as they leave you alone.
It is said that the Turks should be left alone because they were strong, and they were strong therefore they would eventually become dominant. This is an evidently generous reading of the hadith.
In other hadith, Muhammad is reported to have predicted that after a few wars, Muslims would exterminate the Turks:
ููุงุชููููู ููู ู ุตุบุงุฑู ุงูุฃุนููู ูุนูู ุงูุชููุฑูู ูุงูู ุชุณููููููู ุซูุงุซู ู ุฑุงุช ุญุชููู ุชููุญููููู ุจุฌุฒูุฑุฉู ุงูุนุฑุจู ูุฃู ููุง ูู ุงูุณููุงูุฉู ุงูุฃููู ูููุฌู ู ู ูุฑุจู ู ููู ูุฃู ููุง ูู ุงูุซููุงููุฉู ูููุฌู ุจุนุถู ูููููููู ุจุนุถู ูุฃู ููุง ูู ุงูุซููุงูุซุฉู ููุตุทูููู ููู
People with small eyes, i.e. the Turks, will fight against you, the prophet (๏ทบ) said: You will drive them off three times till you catch up with them in Arabia. On the first occasion when you drive them off those who fly will be safe, on the second occasion some will be safe and some will perish, but on the third occasion they will be extirpated.
Spoils of war distributed preferentially
Hadith da'if:
ุฅูุฐูุง ุงุชููุฎูุฐู ุงููููููุกู ุฏููููุงู
When Al-Fai' is distributed(preferentially)
Al-Fai mean spoils of war.
Fearless traveler (security)
Probably refers to time after the conquest of Iraq in the 7th century:
ูุง ุชููู ู ุงูุณุงุนูุฉู ุญุชู ุชุนูุฏู ุฃุฑูุถู ุงูุนุฑุจู ู ุฑูุฌูุง ูุฃูููููุงุฑูุง ูุญุชู ูุณูุฑู ุงูุฑุงููุจู ุจููู ุงูุนูุฑูุงูู ูู ููููุฉู ููุง ููุฎูุงูู ุฅูููุง ุถูููุงูู ุงูุทุฑููู [ ูุญุชููู ููููุซูุฑู ุงููููุฑูุฌู ูุงููุง ูู ุง ุงูููุฑูุฌู ูุง ุฑุณููู ุงูููู ูุงู ุงููุชูู ]
The Hour will not come until the land of Arabs becomes meadows and rivers and until a rider goes between Iraq and Makka and doesn't fear anything except getting lost and until al-harj is widespread. They said: And what is al-Harj O messenger of God? He said: Killing.
Fat people
Narrated `Imran bin Husain:
"Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) said, 'The best of my followers are those living in my generation (i.e. my contemporaries). and then those who will follow the latter" `Imran added, "I do not remember whether he mentioned two or three generations after his generation, then the Prophet (๏ทบ) added, 'There will come after you, people who will bear witness without being asked to do so, and will be treacherous and untrustworthy, and they will vow and never fulfill their vows, and fatness will appear among them."
After the 7th century Islamic conquests, Muslims became rich and could have a lot of food, so this is again a hadith about a later point in time being projected back into the time of the prophet.
Special greeting
It was interpreted as "greeting only people you know":
ุจููููู ููุฏููู ุงูุณููุงุนูุฉูโ:โ ุชูุณููููู ู ุงููุฎูุงุตููุฉู
Before the Hour there is special greeting
According to this hadith, everyone should be greeted:
Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Amr:
A man asked the Prophet (๏ทบ) , "What sort of deeds or (what qualities of) Islam are good?" The Prophet (๏ทบ) replied, 'To feed (the poor) and greet those whom you know and those whom you do not know.
In other hadiths however Muhammad was preventing Muslims from greeting certain people based on their religion:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) as saying:
Do not greet the Jews and the Christians before they greet you and when you meet any one of them on the roads force him to go to the narrowest part of it.
Controversy over the Hadith
Narrated Al-Miqdam ibn Ma'dikarib:
The Prophet (๏ทบ) said: Beware! I have been given the Qur'an and something like it, yet the time is coming when a man replete on his couch will say: Keep to the Qur'an; what you find in it to be permissible treat as permissible, and what you find in it to be prohibited treat as prohibited. Beware! The domestic ass, beasts of prey with fangs, a find belonging to confederate, unless its owner does not want it, are not permissible to you. If anyone comes to some people, they must entertain him, but if they do not, he has a right to mulct them to an amount equivalent to his entertainment.
This hadith, although rated sahih, is almost certainly a vaticinum ex eventu about controversies which took place after the prophet died. It's unlikely that if the prophet himself had said in his lifetime that these things were haram that there would be people claiming that they were actually allowed by the shari'ah.
Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As:
I used to write everything which I heard from the Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ). I intended (by it) to memorise it. The Quraysh prohibited me saying: Do you write everything that you hear from him while the Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ) is a human being: he speaks in anger and pleasure? So I stopped writing, and mentioned it to the Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ). He signalled with his finger to him mouth and said: Write, by Him in Whose hand my soul lies, only right comes out from it.
This hadith, though sahih and not technically a prophecy, probably is indicative of problems in the 8th century, when the idea that the words and deeds of the prophet should govern all aspects of life was still controversial. This hadith is backdating that later controversy into the prophet's own lifetime.
Liars will be trusted and honest people will be regarded as liars
It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ) said: โThere will come to the people years of treachery, when the liar will be regarded as honest, and the honest man will be regarded as a liar; the traitor will be regarded as faithful, and the faithful man will be regarded as a traitor; and the Ruwaibidah will decide matters.โ It was said: โWho are the Ruwaibidah?โ He said: โVile and base men who control the affairs of the people.โโ
This was already happening according to Islamic sources. According to the sira some Arabs trusted the false prophet Musaylimah.
"The pen will spread"
ุนููู ุงุจููู ู ูุณูุนููุฏู ุนููู ุงููููุจูููู ุตููููู ุงูููููู ุนููููููู ููุณููููู ู ููุงูู ุจููููู ููุฏููู ุงูุณููุงุนูุฉู ุชูุณููููู ู ุงููุฎูุงุตููุฉู ููููุดูููู ุงูุชููุฌูุงุฑูุฉู ุญูุชููู ุชูุนูููู ุงููู ูุฑูุฃูุฉู ุฒูููุฌูููุง ุนูููู ุงูุชููุฌูุงุฑูุฉู ููููุทูุนู ุงูุฃูุฑูุญูุงู ู ููููุดูููู ุงููููููู ู ููุธููููุฑู ุงูุดููููุงุฏูุฉู ุจูุงูุฒูููุฑู ููููุชูู ูุงูู ุดูููุงุฏูุฉู ุงููุญูููู
Ibn Masโud reported: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, โJust before the Hour, the greeting of peace will only be given to specific people, trade will proliferate to the point that a woman will help her husband in his business, family ties will be severed, the pen will spread, false testimony will prevail and truthful testimony will be concealed.โ
There is the Pen that Allah created first and which writes the future:
โI arrived in Makkah and met Ata bin Abi Rabah. I said: โO Abu Muhammad! Some people with us speak about Al-Qadar.โ Ata said: โI met Al-Walid bin Ubadah bin As-Samit and he said: โMy father narrated to me, he said: โI heard the Messenger of Allah saying: โVerily the first of what Allah created was the Pen (ุงูููู ). He said to it: โWrite.โ So it wrote what will be forever.โโ
There is also the Pen that writes deeds:
Narrated 'Aishah (RA): The Prophet (๏ทบ) said: "There are three people whose actions are not recorded ( ุฑูููุนู ุงูููููููู ู ุนููู ุซูููุงุซูุฉู, literally "is lifted the pen from three"), a sleeping person till he awakes, a child till he is a grown up, and an insane person till he is restored to reason or recovers his sense." [Reported by Ahmad and al-Arba'a, except at-Tirmidhi. al-Hakim graded it Sahih (authentic)].
Narrated Abu Salamah: It was narrated from Abu Salamah that Abu Hurairah said: "I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, I am a young man and I fear hardship for myself, but I cannot afford to marry; should I castrate myself?'" The Prophet turned away from him until he said it three times. Then the Prophet said: "O Abu Hurairah, the pen is dried concerning what you are going to face, so (it is up to you whether) you castrate yourself or not." Abu Abdur-Rahman (An-Nasai) said: Al-Awzai did not hear this narration from Az-Zuhri, and this hadith is sahih, Yunus reported it from Az-Zuhri.
Literacy was increasing before Muhammad was born. Jews and Christians first used oral traditions, but then switched to writing. There was also the ongoing global transitions from oral cultures to written cultures more generally.
Notice also that the prophecy was written by people who were writing hadiths from oral traditions.
Family ties will be severed
Ibn Masโud reported: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, โJust before the Hour, the greeting of peace will only be given to specific people, trade will proliferate to the point that a woman will help her husband in his business, family ties will be severed (ููููุทูุนู ุงูุฃูุฑูุญูุงู ู), the pen will spread, false testimony will prevail and truthful testimony will be concealed.โ
Islamic mythology teaches that among the first people were brothers Cain and Abel and Cain killed Abel.
There is also hadith where Muhammad encourages people to keep the ties of kinship, which indicates they weren't doing it enough in his time:
Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah said: "Learn enough about your lineage to facilitate keeping your ties of kinship (ุชูุตูููููู ุจููู ุฃูุฑูุญูุงู ูููู ู). For indeed keeping the ties of kinship encourages affection among the relatives, increases the wealth, and increases the lifespan."
Killing of family members for the sake of Islam was also approved by Muhammad:
He assembled the people and said: I adjure by Allah the man who has done this action and I adjure him by my right to him that he should stand up. Jumping over the necks of the people and trembling the man stood up.
He sat before the Prophet (peace be upon him) and said: Apostle of Allah! I am her master; she used to abuse you and disparage you. I forbade her, but she did not stop, and I rebuked her, but she did not abandon her habit. I have two sons like pearls from her, and she was my companion. Last night she began to abuse and disparage you. So I took a dagger, put it on her belly and pressed it till I killed her.
Thereupon the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Oh be witness, no retaliation is payable for her blood.A similar prophecy exists in Tabrani, predicting "family ties will be severed", though this hadith is often mistranslated (also the hadith is weak):
โFrom among the signs of Qiyamah is that people will maintain ties with distant relatives and strangers (ุงูุฃุทุจุงู) but sever ties with close family.โ
The word ุงูุฃุทุจุงู (al-atbaaq) is today sometimes translated as "dishes" (although the classical translation (understanding) fits better into the context) and then they interpret the "dishes" as "satellites", but this is clearly an anachronistic, inaccurate translation.
Automobiles (actually camels with lofty saddles)
Muhammad forbade riding on mayathir (ู ูุงุซุฑ) (silk saddles), so mayathir were something already known:
..He forbade us to drink from silver utensils, to wear gold rings, to ride on silken saddles (ุฑููุจ ุงูู ูุงุซุฑ), to wear silk clothes..
There is a prophecy about people riding on mayathir at the end of times:
ุณูููููููู ููู ุขุฎูุฑู ููุฐููู ุงููุฃูู ููุฉู ุฑูุฌูุงูู ููุฑูููุจูููู ุนูููู ุงููู ูููุงุซูุฑู ุญูุชููู ููุฃูุชููุง ุฃูุจูููุงุจู ู ูุณูุงุฌูุฏูููู ู
They will mount their mayaathir until they come to the doors of their mosques
Albani explained:
the word mayaathir is the plural of meetharah and Ibn al-Athir described it as, โโฆ smooth and soft, made out of silk or a silk brocade [heavy silk] which the rider places beneath him on the saddle on top of the camel.
And a re-iteration of the same prophecy:
ูููู ูู ุขุฎุฑ ุฃู ุชู ุฑุฌุงู ูุฑูุจูู ุนูู ุณุฑุฌ ูุฃุดุจุงู ุงูุฑุญุงู ููุฒููู ุนูู ุฃุจูุงุจ ุงูู ุณุงุฌุฏ ูุณุงุคูู ูุงุณูุงุช ุนุงุฑูุงุช
In the last [part] of my nation there will be men who ride on saddles that resemble packsaddles (ุณุฑุฌ ูุฃุดุจุงู ุงูุฑุญุงู). They will alight at the doors of the mosques. Their women are clothed but naked. On their heads are [what appears to be] like the humps of [lean] camels. Curse them for they are cursed. If there were a nation from the nations to come after you, your women would serve them, just as the women of the nations that were before you served you.
Some try to translate ุณุฑุฌ ูุฃุดุจุงู ุงูุฑุญุงู as "carriots" or "cars", but:
- ุณูุฑูุฌ means "saddlebag; packsaddle; saddle; pigskin; pillion" [12]
- ุฑูุญูู means "Either of a pair of a bags laid over the back of a horse - saddlebag; packsaddle; saddle". [13]
Ignorance [of Islamic teachings]
Narrated `Abdullah and Abu Musa:
The Prophet (๏ทบ) said, "Near the establishment of the Hour there will be days during which Religious ignorance will spread, knowledge will be taken away (vanish) and there will be much Al-Harj, and Al- Harj means killing."- In Islamic discourse, the period before Muhammad's career is called jahilya (ignorance).
- in context of Islamic jurisprudence, theology and scriptural analysis, when Muhammad says "knowledge" it means "knowledge of Muhamamd's claims and commands" and when Islam says "ignorance" it means "ignorance of Muhammad's claims and commands"
Learning for something other than Islam
ุฅุฐุง ุงุชููุฎูุฐู ุงูููููุกู ุฏูููููุง ูุงูุฃู ุงูุฉู ู ูุบูููู ูุง ูุงูุฒูุงุฉู ู ูุบูุฑูู ูุง ูุชูุนููููู ู ูุบูุฑู ุงูุฏููููู ูุฃุทุงุน ุงูุฑุฌูู ุงู ุฑุฃุชูู ูุนูููู ุฃูู ููู ูุฃูุฏูููู ุตุฏูููู ูุฃูููุตูู ุฃุจุงู ูุธูููุฑูุชู ุงูุฃุตูุงุชู ูู ุงูู ุณุงุฌุฏู ูุณุงุฏ ุงููุจููุฉู ูุงุณูููููู ููุงู ุฒุนูู ู ุงูููู ู ุฃูุฑูุฐููููู ูุฃูููุฑูู ู ุงูุฑุฌูู ู ูุฎูุงูุฉู ุดุฑููู ูุธูููุฑูุชู ุงูููููุงูู ูุงูู ุนุงุฒูู ูุดูุฑูุจูุชู ุงูุฎูู ูุฑู ูููุนูู ุขุฎูุฑู ูุฐู ุงูุฃู ุฉู ุฃููููุง ูููููุฑูุชูููุจููุง ุนูุฏ ุฐูู ุฑููุญูุง ุญู ุฑุงุกู ูุฒูููุฒูููุฉู ูุฎูุณูููุง ูู ูุณูุฎูุง ูููุฐูููุง ูุขูุงุชู ุชูุชูุงุจูุนู ูููุธุงู ู ุจุงูู ููุทูุนู ุณูููููู ูุชุชุงุจุน ุจุนุถูู ุจุนุถูุง
When spoiles of war are distributed; and property given in trust will be considered as booty for oneself; Zakat will be looked upon as a fine; learning for other than the religion; a man will obey his wife and disobey his mother; a man will bring his friends nearer and drive his father far off; noises will be raised in the masjids; the most wicked of a tribe will become its ruler; the most worthless member of a people will become its leader; a man will be honoured for fear of the evil he may do; singing girls and musical instruments will come into vogue; drinking of wine will become common; and the later generations will begin to curse the previous generations; then wait, for red violent winds, earthquakes, swallowing up by the earth, defacement (of human faces), pelting of stones from the skies as rain, and a continuing chain of disasters followed one by another, like beads of a necklace falling one after the other rapidly when its string is cut.
Secular knowledge for secular purposes was studied before Islam.
Tall buildings
ููุฃููู ุชูุฑูู ุงููุญูููุงุฉู ุงููุนูุฑูุงุฉู ุงููุนูุงููุฉู ุฑูุนูุงุกู ุงูุดููุงุกู ููุชูุทูุงููููููู ููู ุงููุจูููุงุกู
..and when you see barefoot, naked, destitute shepherds competing in constructing tall buildings
The Bible contained a story of the Tower of Babel, Egyptians built pyramids. The desire and ability to construct tall buildings appears to has been common in history.
Lane's Lexicon explains al binaa as "originally an inf. n.: (see 1, first sentence:) then applied to A building; a structure; an edifice;] a thing that is built, or constructed".[15] The "compete in height" aspect of the translation comes from the word ุชุทุงูู (tataawul)[16] These words appear in some other narrations in the same or similar context in relation to the 7th century.
There were people in the 7th century building buildings that could be considered tall in that time. Ibn Hajar wrote in his famous commentary on Sahih Bukhari:
ูุชุทุงูู ุงููุงุณ ูู ุงูุจููุงู ููู ู ู ุงูุนูุงู ุงุช ุงูุชู ููุนุช ุนู ูุฑุจ ูู ุฒู ู ุงููุจูุฉ
"The people are [competing in height] building buildings" - and that's from the signs which happened close at the time of the prophethood
The caliph Uthman was accused of practicing tataawul at his time, though the meaning here may simply be that he built a lot of buildings.
Muslims could afford building tall buildings after they got rich from early Islamic conquests.
Narrated Qais bin Abi Hazim:
We went to pay a visit to Khabbab (who was sick) and he had been branded (cauterized) at seven places in his body. He said, "Our companions who died (during the lifetime of the Prophet) left (this world) without having their rewards reduced through enjoying the pleasures of this life, but we have got (so much) wealth that we find no way to spend It except on the construction of buildings .Had the Prophet not forbidden us to wish for death, I would have wished for it.' We visited him for the second time while he was building a wall. He said: A Muslim is rewarded (in the Hereafter) for whatever he spends except for something that he spends on building."
Some add that theses buildings were described as being "as high as mountains", but that hadith is mawqoof (not from Muhammad). It was a saying of โAbdullah ibn โAmr and it was after Muslims became rich from early Islamic conquests, so they could likely imagine themselves building tall in Mecca. Also the hadith is da'eef:
Sayyiduna โAbdullah ibn โAmr (radiyallahu โanhuma) is reported to have said: โโฆโฆWhen you see tunnels/canals being dug in Makkah Mukarramah and the buildings (of Makkah Mukarramah) higher than the peak of the mountains then know that Qiyamah is close.โ
- Fatwa (Arabic) says that since it's not from Muhammad, it shouldn't even be called a hadith.
Mosques full of hypocrites
ุนู ุนุจุฏ ุงูููู ุจูู ุนูู ุฑู ูุงูย : ูุฃุชู ุนูู ุงููุงุณ ุฒู ุงูู ุ ูุฌุชู ูุนูู ูููุตููููู ูู ุงูู ุณุงุฌุฏู ุ ูููุณ ูููู ู ุคู ูู
A time will come on people when they get together and pray in mosques and isn't among them a single believer
Praying hypocrites were also mentioned in the Bible:
โAnd when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others.
The imperialistic nature of Islam's spread may have encouraged this type of hypocrisy, and the flood of opportunists joining the ranks of Islam after the conquest is likely the origin of these ahadith:
It is reported on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah said:
I have been commanded to fight against people so long as they do not declare that there is no god but Allah, and he who professed it was guaranteed the protection of his property and life on my behalf except for the right affairs rest with Allah.
Narrated `Ikrima:
`Ali burnt some people and this news reached Ibn `Abbas, who said, "Had I been in his place I would not have burnt them, as the Prophet (๏ทบ) said, 'Don't punish (anybody) with Allah's Punishment.' No doubt, I would have killed them, for the Prophet (๏ทบ) said, 'If somebody (a Muslim) discards his religion, kill him.' "
Voices raised in mosques
The hadith is daif:
Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah(s.a.w) said: "When Al-Fai' is distributed(preferentially), trust is a spoil of war, Zakat is a fine, knowledge is sought for other than the(sake of the) religion, a man obeys his wife and disobeys his mother, he is close to his friend and far from his father, voices are raised in the Masajid, tribes are led by their wicked, the leader of the people is the most despicable among them, the most honored man is the one whose evil the people are afraid of, singing slave-girls and music spread, intoxicants are drunk, and the end of this Ummah curses its beginning- then anticipate a red wind, earthquake, collapsing of the earth, transformation, Qadhf, and the signs follow in succession like gems of a necklace whose string is cut and so they fall in succession."
People were raising voices even in the time of Muhammad in front of him. Muhammad rebuked them in the Quran:
O you who have believed, do not raise your voices above the voice of the Prophet or be loud to him in speech like the loudness of some of you to others, lest your deeds become worthless while you perceive not.
Decoration of mosques
It was narrated from Anas that the Prophet (๏ทบ) said: "One of the portents of the Hour will be that people will show off in building Masjids."
There was a precedent. Christians and Jews were adorning their places of worship:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas:
I was not commanded to build high mosques. Ibn Abbas said: You will certainly adorn them as the Jews and Christians did.
Markets will approach (taqaarub al-aswaaq)
ูุง ุชููู ู ุงูุณุงุนุฉู ุญุชู ุชูุธูููุฑู ุงูููุชููู ูููุซุฑู ุงููุฐูุจู ูุชุชูุงุฑูุจู ุงูุฃุณูุงูู ููุชูุงุฑูุจู ุงูุฒู ุงูู ูููุซูุฑู ุงููุฑุฌู ูููุชู ูู ุง ุงููุฑูุฌู ูุงู ุงููุชููู
The Hour won't come till tribulations show up, lies are widespread and taqaarub of markets and taqaarub of time and harj is widespread. I said: What is al-harj? He said: Killing.
The hadith is vague in its entirety, but the situation on markets expectedly changed after Muslims got rich by the 7th century conquests.
Breaking the convenant with god makes enemies overpower them
... They do not break their covenant with Allah and His Messenger, but Allah will enable their enemies to overpower them and take some of what is in their hands. Unless their leaders rule according to the Book of Allah and seek all good from that which Allah has revealed, Allah will cause them to fight one another.โโ
This is mentioned in the Old Testament:
Punishment for Disobedience
โโBut if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands, and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant, then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and sap your strength. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it. I will set my face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you.
A man passes by a grave and wants to be dead too
ููุญูุชููู ููู ูุฑูู ุงูุฑููุฌููู ุจูููุจูุฑู ุงูุฑููุฌููู ููููููููู ููุง ููููุชูููู ู ูููุงูููู
... till a man when passing by a grave of someone will say, 'Would that I were in his place...
The Old Testament mentions this:
"Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for death is better to me than life."
People will treat a man with respect because they fear the evil he could do
The hadith is daif (weak).
Ali bin Abi Talib narrated that the Messenger of Allah(s.a.w) said: "When my Ummah does fifteen things, the afflictions will occur in it." It was said: "What are they O Messenger of Allah?" He said: "When Al-Maghnam (the spoils of war) are distributed (preferentially), trust is usurped, Zakah is a fine, a man obeys his wife and disobeys his mother, he is kind to his friend and abandons his father, voices are raised in the Masajid, the leader of the people is the most despicable among them, the most honored man is the one whose evil the people are afraid of, intoxicants are drunk, silk is worn (by males), there is a fascination for singing slave-girls and music, and the end of this Ummah curses its beginning. When that occurs, anticipate a red wind, collapsing of the earth, and transformation."
Intimidation with violence was already used before Islam. It was also used by Muhammad.
The leader of a people will be the worst of them
This hadith is daif (weak).
Ali bin Abi Talib narrated that the Messenger of Allah(s.a.w) said: "When my Ummah does fifteen things, the afflictions will occur in it." It was said: "What are they O Messenger of Allah?" He said: "When Al-Maghnam (the spoils of war) are distributed (preferentially), trust is usurped, Zakah is a fine, a man obeys his wife and disobeys his mother, he is kind to his friend and abandons his father, voices are raised in the Masajid, the leader of the people is the most despicable among them, the most honored man is the one whose evil the people are afraid of, intoxicants are drunk, silk is worn (by males), there is a fascination for singing slave-girls and music, and the end of this Ummah curses its beginning. When that occurs, anticipate a red wind, collapsing of the earth, and transformation."
Predictions of the future (after the hadiths)
In this category are hadiths that don't appear to speak of events which already transpired before the prophecies were written.
Mountains will move
This hadith is da'eef (Ufayr bin Ma'daan is in the chain):
ูุง ุชููู ู ุงูุณุงุนุฉู ุญุชู ุชุฒููู ุงูุฌุจุงูู ุนู ุฃู ุงูููููุง ูุชูุฑููููู ุงูุฃู ูุฑู ุงูุนุธุงู ู ุงูุชู ูู ุชููููููุง ุชูุฑููููููุง
The Hour will not begin until the mountains are moved from their places and you see great calamities which you have never seen before.
Non-speaking objects will start speaking
Abu Sa'eed Al-Khudri narrated that the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) said: "By the One in Whose Hand is my soul! The Hour will not be established until predators speak to people and until the tip of a man's whip and the straps on his sandal speak to him, and his thigh informs him of what occurred with his family after him."
Though this hadith is often metaphorically interpreted to refer to modern technology (mobile phones), the original wording of the hadith appears to be rather literal in its intention.
The Old Testament already has a story about a talking serpent:
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, โDid God really say, โYou must not eat from any tree in the gardenโ?โ
According to the hadith, for Muhammad (unlike for most people), talking objects wouldn't even be much miraculous, since he was hearing voices regularly. For example he heard a stone saluting him:
The land of Arabia reverts to meadows and rivers
ููุญูุฏููุซูููุง ููุชูููุจูุฉู ุจููู ุณูุนููุฏูุ ุญูุฏููุซูููุง ููุนููููุจูุ - ูููููู ุงุจููู ุนูุจูุฏู ุงูุฑููุญูู ููู ุงููููุงุฑูููู - ุนููู ุณูููููููุ ุนููู ุฃูุจููููุ ุนููู ุฃูุจูู ููุฑูููุฑูุฉูุ ุฃูููู ุฑูุณูููู ุงูููููู ุตูู ุงููู ุนููู ูุณูู ููุงูู โ "โ ูุงู ุชููููู ู ุงูุณููุงุนูุฉู ุญูุชููู ููููุซูุฑู ุงููู ูุงูู ูููููููุถู ุญูุชููู ููุฎูุฑูุฌู ุงูุฑููุฌููู ุจูุฒูููุงุฉู ู ูุงูููู ูููุงู ููุฌูุฏู ุฃูุญูุฏูุง ููููุจูููููุง ู ููููู ููุญูุชููู ุชูุนููุฏู ุฃูุฑูุถู ุงููุนูุฑูุจู ู ูุฑููุฌูุง ููุฃูููููุงุฑูุง โ"โ โ.โ
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (way peace be upon him) as saying:
The Last Hour will not come before wealth becomes abundant and overflowing, so much so that a man takes Zakat out of his property and cannot find anyone to accept it from him and till the land of Arabia reverts (ุชุนูุฏ) to meadows and rivers.
The word ุชุนูุฏ (ta'ooda) can mean both "become" and "revert".
ูุญุชู ุชุนูุฏ ุฃุฑุถ ุงูุนุฑุจ ุฃู: ุชุตูุฑ ุฃู ุชุฑุฌุน
"And until ta'ooda the land of Arabs" - meaning "becomes" or "reverts"
Much rain, but little vegetation
ูุง ุชูููู ู ุงูุณููุงุนุฉู ุญุชู ููู ุทูุฑู ุงููููุงุณู ู ูุทุฑูุง ุนุงู ููุงุ ููุง ุชููุจูุชู ุงูุฃุฑุถู ุดูุฆูุง.
The Hour would not come until there is too much rain, but the earth does not produce crops
Other Predictions About the Future
Coming of Muhammad and the Hour are close like the forefinger and middle finger joined together
Anas reported Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) as saying:
I and the Last Hour have been sent like this and (he while doing it) joined the forefinger with the middle finger.
A 7th century boy won't grow very old before the Hour comes
ููุญูุฏููุซูููู ุญูุฌููุงุฌู ุจููู ุงูุดููุงุนูุฑูุ ุญูุฏููุซูููุง ุณูููููู ูุงูู ุจููู ุญูุฑูุจูุ ุญูุฏููุซูููุง ุญูู ููุงุฏูุ - ููุนูููู ุงุจููู ุฒูููุฏู - ุญูุฏููุซูููุง ู ูุนูุจูุฏู ุจููู ูููุงููู ุงููุนูููุฒููููุ ุนููู ุฃูููุณู ุจููู ู ูุงููููุ ุฃูููู ุฑูุฌููุงูุ ุณูุฃููู ุงููููุจูููู ุตูู ุงููู ุนููู ูุณูู ููุงูู ู ูุชูู ุชููููู ู ุงูุณููุงุนูุฉู ููุงูู ููุณูููุชู ุฑูุณูููู ุงูููููู ุตูู ุงููู ุนููู ูุณูู ููููููููุฉู ุซูู ูู ููุธูุฑู ุฅูููู ุบููุงูู ู ุจููููู ููุฏููููู ู ููู ุฃูุฒูุฏู ุดููููุกูุฉู ููููุงูู โ "โ ุฅููู ุนูู ููุฑู ููุฐูุง ููู ู ููุฏูุฑููููู ุงููููุฑูู ู ุญูุชููู ุชููููู ู ุงูุณููุงุนูุฉู โ"โ โ.โ ููุงูู ููุงูู ุฃูููุณู ุฐูุงูู ุงููุบููุงูู ู ู ููู ุฃูุชูุฑูุงุจูู ููููู ูุฆูุฐู โ.โ
Anas b. Malik reported that a person asked Allah's Apostle (๏ทบ):
When would the Last Hour come? Thereupon Allah's Messenger (way peace be upon him) kept quiet for a while. Then looked at a young boy in his presence belonging to the tribe of Azd Shanu'a and he said: If this boy lives he would not grow very old till the Last Hour would come to you. Anas said that this young boy was of our age during those days.
There are two versions of this hadith. In this version, the "to you" was added by the translators to indicate that it is the last hour (death) of the people who asked. However this qualification is entirely absent in the Arabic text. This version of the hadith reported by Anas just says "until the hour comes" (ุญูุชููู ุชููููู ู ุงูุณููุงุนูุฉู) (see also Sahih Bukhari 8:73:188 quoted below where Anas seems to be a witness, Sahih Muslim 41:7051, and Sahih Muslim 41:7053). Another version of the hadith is reported by Aisha and instead has the phrase "until your hour comes to you" (ุญูุชููู ุชููููู ู ุนูููููููู ู ุณูุงุนูุชูููู ู) Sahih Bukhari 8:76:518 and Sahih Muslim 41:7050.
...In the meantime, a slave of Al-Mughira passed by, and he was of the same age as I was. The Prophet (๏ทบ) said. "If this (slave) should live long, he will not reach the geriatric old age, but the Hour will be established."
Nothing will live one hundred years from now
The "tonight" in italic was added by translators to accommodate the later re-interpretation:
ุฃูุฑูุฃูููุชูููู ู ููููููุชูููู ู ููุฐูููุ ููุฅูููู ุฑูุฃูุณู ู ูุงุฆูุฉู ุณูููุฉู ู ูููููุง ูุงู ููุจูููู ู ูู ูููู ูููู ุนูููู ุธูููุฑู ุงูุฃูุฑูุถู ุฃูุญูุฏู
Narrated `Abdullah bin `Umar:
Once the Prophet (๏ทบ) led us in the `Isha' prayer during the last days of his life and after finishing it (the prayer) (with Taslim) he said: "Do you realize (the importance of) this night?" Nobody present on the surface of the earth tonight will be living after the completion of one hundred years from this night."
When the prophecy failed 100 years later, it was subject to retroactive re-interpretation in Bukhari:
Narrated `Abdullah bin `Umar:
The Prophet (๏ทบ) prayed one of the `Isha' prayer in his last days and after finishing it with Taslim, he stood up and said, "Do you realize (the importance of) this night? Nobody present on the surface of the earth tonight would be living after the completion of one hundred years from this night." The people made a mistake in grasping the meaning of this statement of Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) and they indulged in those things which are said about these narrators (i.e. some said that the Day of Resurrection will be established after 100 years etc.) But the Prophet (๏ทบ) said, "Nobody present on the surface of earth tonight would be living after the completion of 100 years from this night"; he meant "When that century (people of that century) would pass away."
If 10 scholars of the Jews would follow me, no Jew would be left upon the surface of the earth
ูููู ุชูุงุจูุนูููู ุนูุดูุฑูุฉู ู ููู ุงูููููููุฏู ููู ู ููุจููู ุนูููู ุธูููุฑูููุง ูููููุฏูููู ุฅููุงูู ุฃูุณูููู ู
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) as saying:
If ten scholars of the Jews would follow me, no Jew would be left upon the surface of the earth who would not embrace Islam.
The Arabic original doesn't say "ten Jewish scholars", but only "ten Jews" (ุนุดุฑุฉ ู ู ุงููููุฏ).
30 false prophets before the Hour
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) as saying:
The Last Hour would not come until there would arise about thirty impostors, liars, and each one of them would claim that he is a messenger of Allah.
According to the sira, in Muhammad's time there were other (supposedly false) prophets like Saf ibn Sayyad and Maslamah bin แธคabฤซb (called by Muslims "Musaylimah al-Kadhdhฤb" (Musaylama the Liar)), Al-Aswad Al-Ansi and Tulayha.
False prophets were also already predicted in the Bible:
At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.
Rising of the Sun from its setting place
We were sitting in the shade of the chamber of the Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ) discussing (something) and when we mentioned the last hour, our voices rose high. The Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ) said: The last hour will not come or happen until there appear ten signs before itย : the rising of the sun in its place of setting, the coming forth of the beast, the coming forth of Gog and Magog, the Dajjal (Antichrist), (the descent of) Jesus son of Mary, the smoke, and three collapses of the earth: one in the west, one in the east, and one in the Arabian Peninsula. The last of that will be the emergence of a fire from Yemen, from the lowest part of Aden, and drive mankind to their place of assembly.
This seems to suggest that the sun revolves about the Earth and can reverse direction
There is also a related verse in the Quran:
Do they [then] wait for anything except that the angels should come to them or your Lord should come or that there come some of the signs of your Lord? The Day that some of the signs of your Lord will come no soul will benefit from its faith as long as it had not believed before or had earned through its faith some good. Say, "Wait. Indeed, we [also] are waiting."
Tafsir:
"On the day that one of your Lordโs signs comes" โ and this is the rising of the sun from the west as reported in the hadฤซth of the two Sahฤซhs of Bukhฤrฤซ and Muslim โ it shall not benefit a soul to believe if it had not believed theretofore
The hadith:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) said, "The Hour will not be established until the sun rises from the West: and when the people see it, then whoever will be living on the surface of the earth will have faith, and that is (the time) when no good will it do to a soul to believe then, if it believed not before." (6.158)
Another hadith says that right after the rising, a beast will appear in the forenoon:
Abu zurโah said: A group of people came to Marwan in Medina, and they heard him say that the first of the signs to appear would be the coming forth of the Dajjal (Antichirst). He said: I then went to Abd Allah b. โAmr and mentioned it to him. He did not say anything(reliable). I heard the Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ) say: The first of the signs to appear will be the rising of the sun in its place of setting and the coming forth of the beast against mankind in the forenoon. Whichever of them comes first will soon be followed by the other. โAbd Allah who used to read the scriptures (Torah, Gospel) said: I think the first of them will be the rising of the sun in its place of setting.
It was narrated from โAbdullah bin โAmr that the Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ) said: โThe first signs to appear will be at the rising of the sun from the west and the emergence of the Beast to the people, at forenoon.โโ 'Abdullah said: "Whichever of them appears first, the other will come soon after." 'Abdullah said: "I do not think it will be anything other than the sun rising from the west."
Some today proffer metaphorical interpretation that the "rising of the Sun from the west" refers to the rise of the Western civilization, though this would leave the segment regarding the beast unexplained.
The Quran seems to affirm the possibility that God could make the Sun "rise from the West":
Have you not considered the one who argued with Abraham about his Lord [merely] because Allah had given him kingship? When Abraham said, "My Lord is the one who gives life and causes death," he said, "I give life and cause death." Abraham said, "Indeed, Allah brings up the sun from the east, so bring it up from the west." So the disbeliever was overwhelmed [by astonishment], and Allah does not guide the wrongdoing people.
See also Dhul-Qarnayn's story in the Quran, where this possibility is further confirmed, as the Sun is described to set in a muddy spring at the "farthest part" of the world"
Stones and trees say to Muslims: "here is a Jew behind me; come and kill him"
The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.
According to the hadith, Muhammad himself used to hear voices from stones as well:
Time will pass more quickly (taqaarub az-zamaan)
ูุง ุชููููู ู ุงูุณููุงุนูุฉู ุญูุชููู ููุชูููุงุฑูุจู ุงูุฒููู ูุงูู ุ ููุชูููููู ุงูุณููููุฉู ููุงูุดููููุฑู ุ ููููููููู ุงูุดููููุฑู ููุงููุฌูู ูุนูุฉู ุ ููุชูููููู ุงููุฌูู ูุนูุฉู ููุงููููููู ู ุ ููููููููู ุงููููููู ู ููุงูุณููุงุนูุฉู ุ ููุชูููููู ุงูุณููุงุนูุฉู ููุงุญูุชูุฑูุงูู ุงูุณููุนูููุฉู
The Hour will not begin until time passes quickly, so a year will be like a month, and a month will be like a week, and a week will be like a day, and a day will be like an hour, and an hour will be like the burning of a braid of palm leaves.
Islamic scholars have interpreted this variously, without any agreement as to the possible meaning:
The scholars differed concerning the meaning of the phrase taqaarub al-zamaan (time passing more quickly). There are many views, the strongest of which is:
That the phrase taqaarub al-zamaan (time passing quickly) may be interpreted literally or metaphorically.
A man from Qahtan appears, driving the people with his stick
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) said, "The Hour will not be established till a man from Qahtan appears, driving the people with his stick."
Qahtan still exists, but the prophecy remains unfulfilled. [19]
A man called Jahjah will occupy the throne
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) as saying:
The day and the night would not come to an end before a man called al-Jahjah would occupy the throne.
- Fatwa (AR) puts this prophecy among non-fulfilled prophecies
Conquest of Constantinopole without fighting and the Hour come together
This hadith is considered da'eef by Albani (but sahih by Dhahabi):
ูุชูุชุญู ุงููุณุทูุทูููุฉุ ูููุนู ุงูุฃู ูุฑ ุฃู ูุฑูุงุ ูููุนู ุงูุฌูุด ุฐูู ุงูุฌูุด
Verily you shall conquer Constantinople. What a wonderful leader will her leader be, and what a wonderful army will that army be!
The predictions historically played a huge role in the continued Muslim jihads against the Roman (Byzantine) Empire, and when the Muslims finally conquered it in 1453 it was seen as the fulfillment of an eschatological vision of an apocalypse which never happened.
Another hadith adds that the Hour was expected to come with this conquest:
Anas bin Malik said: "Constantinople will be conquered with the coming of the Hour."
The coming of the Dajjal was expected right after the conquest:
Narrated Mu'adh ibn Jabal:
The Prophet (๏ทบ) said: The flourishing state of Jerusalem will be when Yathrib is in ruins, the ruined state of Yathrib will be when the great war comes, the outbreak of the great war will be at the conquest of Constantinople and the conquest of Constantinople when the Dajjal (Antichrist) comes forth. He (the Prophet) struck his thigh or his shoulder with his hand and said: This is as true as you are here or as you are sitting (meaning Mu'adh ibn Jabal).
Another hadith mentions Romans attacking Dabiq before the conquest of Constantinople. The mention of swords makes it hard to re-interpret as a prophecy about another conquest of Constantinople in the future:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) as saying:
The Last Hour would not come until the Romans would land at al-A'maq or in Dabiq. An army consisting of the best (soldiers) of the people of the earth at that time will come from Medina (to counteract them). When they will arrange themselves in ranks, the Romans would say: Do not stand between us and those (Muslims) who took prisoners from amongst us. Let us fight with them; and the Muslims would say: Nay, by Allah, we would never get aside from you and from our brethren that you may fight them. They will then fight and a third (part) of the army would run away, whom Allah will never forgive. A third (part of the army) which would be constituted of excellent martyrs in Allah's eye, would be killed and the third who would never be put to trial would win and they would be conquerors of Constantinople. And as they would be busy in distributing the spoils of war (amongst themselves) after hanging their swords by the olive trees, the Satan would cry: The Dajjal has taken your place among your family. They would then come out, but it would be of no avail. And when they would come to Syria, he would come out while they would be still preparing themselves for battle drawing up the ranks. Certainly, the time of prayer shall come and then Jesus (peace be upon him) son of Mary would descend and would lead them. When the enemy of Allah would see him, it would (disappear) just as the salt dissolves itself in water and if he (Jesus) were not to confront them at all, even then it would dissolve completely, but Allah would kill them by his hand and he would show them their blood on his lance (the lance of Jesus Christ).
Also:
Narrated Mu'adh ibn Jabal:
The Prophet (๏ทบ) said: The flourishing state of Jerusalem will be when Yathrib is in ruins, the ruined state of Yathrib will be when the great war comes, the outbreak of the great war will be at the conquest of Constantinople and the conquest of Constantinople when the Dajjal (Antichrist) comes forth. He (the Prophet) struck his thigh or his shoulder with his hand and said: This is as true as you are here or as you are sitting (meaning Mu'adh ibn Jabal).
The conquest of Constantinople was predicted to happen without fighting, whereas in fact a fierce siege preceded the final fall of the city:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Apostle (may peace he upon him) saying:
You have heard about a city, one side of which is on land and the other is in the sea (Constantinople). They said: Allah's Messenger, yes. Thereupon he said: The Last Hour would not come unless seventy thousand persons from Bani lshaq would attack it. When they would land there, they will neither fight with weapons nor would shower arrows but would only say: "There is no god but Allah and Allah is the Greatest," and one side of it would fall. Thaur (one of the narrators) said: I think that he said: The part by the side of the ocean. Then they would say for the second time: "There is no god but Allah and Allah is the Greatest" and the second side would also fall, and they would say: "There is no god but Allah and Allah is the Greatest," and the gates would be opened for them and they would enter therein and, they would be collecting spoils of war and distributing them amongst themselves when a noise would be heard saying: Verily, Dajjal has come. And thus they would leave everything there and go back.
Constantinople was conquered in 1453 by fighting, the Dajjal didn't appear and the city was renamed to Istanbul.
Conquest of Rome
Nafi' b. Utba reported:
We were with Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) in an expedition that there came a people to Allah's Apostle (๏ทบ) from the direction of the west. They were dressed in woollen clothes and they stood near a hillock and they met him as Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) was sitting. I said to myself: Better go to them and stand between him and them that they may not attack him. Then I thought that perhaps there had been going on secret negotiation amongst them. I however, went to them and stood between them and him and I remember four of the words (on that occasion) which I repeat (on the fingers of my hand) that he (Allah's Messenger) said: You will attack Arabia and Allah will enable you to conquer it, then you would attack Persia and He would make you to conquer it. Then you would attack Rome and Allah will enable you to conquer it, then you would attack the Dajjal and Allah will enable you to conquer him. Nafi' said: Jabir, we thought that the Dajjal would appear after Rome (Syrian territory) would be conquered.
The Roman empire was conquered by Mehmet the Conqueror of the Turkish Ottoman dynasty in the 15th century, but the Dajjal did not appear after this event though many in the Muslim world thought he would.
Byzantines will make truce with Muslims, betray them and attack them
Narrated `Auf bin Mali:
I went to the Prophet (๏ทบ) during the Ghazwa of Tabuk while he was sitting in a leather tent. He said, "Count six signs that indicate the approach of the Hour: my death, the conquest of Jerusalem, a plague that will afflict you (and kill you in great numbers) as the plague that afflicts sheep, the increase of wealth to such an extent that even if one is given one hundred Dinars, he will not be satisfied; then an affliction which no Arab house will escape, and then a truce between you and Bani Al-Asfar (i.e. the Byzantines) who will betray you and attack you under eighty flags. Under each flag will be twelve thousand soldiers.
The prophecy is considered unfulfilled:
Imam Ibn al-Muneer said: 'Till this time the incident of gathering and attacking Rome in this huge number of soldiers has not happened yet. This matter has not taken place yet.
Conquest of India and the second coming of Jesus come together
Also known as ghazwa-e-hind.
It was narrated that Thawban, the freed slave of the Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ), said: "The Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ) said: 'There are two groups of my Ummah whom Allah will free from the Fire: The group that invades India (ุชูุบูุฒูู ุงููููููุฏู, taghzoo al-hind), and the group that will be with Isa bin Maryam, peace be upon him.'"
Early conquests of India happened in the 7th century (for example Battle of Rasil), while author of the hadith collection al-Nasa'i lived in the 9th century.
The conquest of India is linked to the second coming of Jesus (Isa). In other (although weak) hadiths it's even more explicit:
The Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said โ and he mentioned India โ then he said: โAn army of yours will invade India and Allah will grant its conquest to them, until they bring their kings in chains, and Allah will forgive them their sins. Then they will return and when they return, they will find the son of Maryam in ash-Shaam (Syria).โ Abu Hurayrah said: If I live to see that campaign, I will sell everything I possess and join the campaign. Then if Allah grants us victory and we return, then I will be Abu Hurayrah the freed (protected from Hellfire). And when we return to Syria we will find there โEesa ibn Maryam. Then I shall make sure that I draw close to him and tell him that I accompanied you, O Messenger of Allah. The Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) smiled and said: โUnlikely, unlikely.โ [very difficult?]
However, the second coming did not follow either these events:
What is mentioned in the hadith of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah have mercy on him), which was narrated by Naโeem ibn Hammaad, about the conquest of India has not happened up till now, but it will happen when โEesaa ibn Maryam (peace be upon him) descends, if the hadith that says that is saheeh.
No more Khosrau and Caesar
In Muhammad's time, the ruler of Persia was called Khosrau and the ruler of the Byzantine empire Caesar.
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet (๏ทบ) said, "Khosrau will be ruined, and there will be no Khosrau after him, and Caesar will surely be ruined and there will be no Caesar after him, and you will spend their treasures in Allah's Cause." He called, "War is deceit'.
There are many examples of this prophecy failing for both Kusrau and Caesar. For example:
- Khusrau Shah was the king of the Justanids in the 10th century
- Khusrau Khan was the Sultan of Delhi in the 14th century
- John Doukas was a Caesar of the Byzantine empire in the 11th century
- Mehmed the Conqueror - a 15h century Muslim conqueror, also called himself Caesar
The prophecy is probably referring to the 7th century Islamic conquests. The prediction in Sahih Bukhari was written in the 9th century.
Nations will soon call each other to attack Muslims
The Prophet (๏ทบ) said: The people will soon summon one another to attack you as people when eating invite others to share their dish. Someone asked: Will that be because of our small numbers at that time? He replied: No, you will be numerous at that time: but you will be scum and rubbish like that carried down by a torrent, and Allah will take fear of you from the breasts of your enemy and last enervation into your hearts. Someone asked: What is wahn (enervation). Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ): He replied: Love of the world and dislike of death.
This hadith was invoked by ISIS to rationalize the international coalition that formed against them.
Romans would form a majority amongst people
Mustaurid Qurashi reported:
I heard Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) as saying: The Last Hour would come when the Romans would form a majority amongst people. This reached 'Amr b. al-'As and he said: What are these ahadith which are being transmitted from you and which you claim to have heard from Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ)? Mustaurid said to him: I stated only that which I heard from Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ). Thereupon 'Amr said: If you state this (it is true), for they have the power of tolerance amongst people at the time of turmoil and restore themselves to sanity after trouble, and are good amongst people so far as the destitute and the weak are concerned.
The Roman (Byzantine) empire dissolved without the realization of this prophecy.
Western people will triumphally follow the truth until the Hour
It has been narrated by Sa'd b. Abu Waqqas that the Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ) said:
The people of the West will continue to triumphantly follow the truth until the Hour is established.
Twelve caliphs
Shi'ite Imamology rests heavily upon this hadith, though has been continuously troubled by it (as have been Sunni scholars), as there appears to be no clear group of "twelve Caliphs" to have appeared in history:
It has been narrated on the authority of Jabir b. Samura who said:
I heard the Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ) say: Islam will continue to be triumphant until there have been twelve Caliphs. Then the Prophet (๏ทบ) said something which I could not understand. I asked my father: What did he say? He said: He has said that all of them (twelve Caliphs) will be from the Quraish.
It has been narrated on the authority of Amir b. Sa'd b. Abu Waqqas who said:
I wrote (a letter) to Jabir b. Samura and sent it to him through my servant Nafi', asking him to inform me of something he had heard from the Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ). He wrote to me (in reply): I heard the Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ) say on Friday evening, the day on which al-Aslami was stoned to death (for committing adultery): The Islamic religion will continue until the Hour has been established, or you have been ruled over by twelve Caliphs, all of them being from the Quraish. also heard him say: A small force of the Muslims will capture the white palace, the police of the Persian Emperor or his descendants. I also heard him say: Before the Day of Judgment there will appear (a number of) impostors. You are to guard against them. I also heard him say: When God grants wealth to any one of you, he should first spend it on himself and his family (and then give it in charity to the poor). I heard him (also) say: I will be your forerunner at the Cistern (expecting your arrival).
Commentaries by (Sunni) Islamic scholars:
ูู ุฃูู ุฃุญุฏุง ููุทุน ูู ูุฐุง ุงูุญุฏูุซ ูุนูู ุจุดูุก ู ุนูู
I have not met anyone who could be certain about the meaning of this hadith!
ูุฐุง ุงูุญุฏูุซ ูุฏ ุฃุทูุช ุงูุจุญุซ ุนููุ ูุชุทููุจุช ู ุธุงูููุ ูุณุฃูุช ุนููุ ูู ุง ุฑุฃูุช ุฃุญุฏุง ููุน ุนูู ุงูู ูุตูุฏ ุจู
I have researched for long to understand this hadith and referred to many references and made much enquiries about it, yet I did not meet anyone who could understand it.
Rain which will destroy all dwellings except tents
ุญุฏุซูุง ุนุจุฏ ุงููู ุญุฏุซูู ุฃุจู ุซูุง ุฃุจู ูุงู ู ูุนูุงู ูุงูุง ุซูุง ุญู ุงุฏ ุนู ุณููู ูุงู ุนูุงู ูู ุญุฏูุซู ูุงู ุฃูุง ุณููู ุจู ุฃุจู ุตุงูุญ ุนู ุฃุจูู ุนู ุฃุจู ูุฑูุฑุฉ ูุงู ูุงู ุฑุณูู ุงููู ุตูู ุงููู ุนููู ู ุณูู ย : ูุง ุชููู ุงูุณุงุนุฉ ุญุชู ูู ุทุฑ ุงููุงุณ ู ุทุฑุง ูุง ุชูู ู ูู ุจููุช ุงูู ุฏุฑ ููุง ุชูู ู ูู ุงูุง ุจููุช ุงูุดุนุฑ ุชุนููู ุดุนูุจ ุงูุฃุฑูุคูุทย : ุฅุณูุงุฏู ุตุญูุญ ุนูู ุดุฑุท ู ุณูู
The Hour will not come until there has been rain which will destroy all dwellings except tents
Not living according to the sharia causes infighting between Muslims
It was narrated that โAbdullah bin โUmar said: โThe Messenger of Allah ๏ทบ turned to us and said: โO Muhajirun, there are five things with which you will be tested, and I seek refuge with Allah lest you live to see them: Immorality never appears among a people to such an extent that they commit it openly, but plagues and diseases that were never known among the predecessors will spread among them. They do not cheat in weights and measures but they will be stricken with famine, severe calamity and the oppression of their rulers. They do not withhold the Zakah of their wealth, but rain will be withheld from the sky, and were it not for the animals, no rain would fall on them. They do not break their covenant with Allah and His Messenger, but Allah will enable their enemies to overpower them and take some of what is in their hands. Unless their leaders rule according to the Book of Allah and seek all good from that which Allah has revealed, Allah will cause them to fight one another.โโ
As the Muslim community split into warring factions very quickly after the death of the prophet, this hadith is almost certainly another example of vaticinium ex eventu about events of the various Muslim civil war, fitnahs, revolts, and unrest from the 7th and 8th centuries.
12 thousand from Aden Abyan will make Islam victorious
ูุฎุฑุฌู ู ู ุนุฏูู ุฃูุจููููู ุงุซูุง ุนุดุฑู ุฃูููุง ููุตุฑููู ุงูููู ูุฑุณููููู ูู ุฎูุฑู ู ูู ุจููู ูุจูููู
Out of Aden-Abyan will come 12000, giving victory to the (religion of) Allah and His Messenger. They are the best between me and them.
Group of Muslims will remain victorious until Allah's order
Narrated Al-Mughira bin Shu`ba:
The Prophet (๏ทบ) said, "A group of my follower swill remain predominant (victorious) till Allah's Order (the Hour) comes upon them while they are still predominant (victorious).
Ninety-nine dragons in infidel's grave until the Hour
Abu Sa'id reported Godโs messenger as saying, โNinety-nine dragons will be given power over an infidel in his grave, and will bite and sting him till the last hour comes. If one of those dragons were to breathe over the earth, it would bring forth no green thing."
Darimi transmitted it, and Tirmidhi transmitted something similar, but he said seventy instead of ninety-nine.
Periods of fitnah
Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar:
When we were sitting with the Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ), he talked about periods of trial (fitnahs), mentioning many of them.
When he mentioned the one when people should stay in their houses, some asked him: Messenger of Allah, what is the trial (fitnah) of staying at home?
He replied: It will be flight and plunder. Then will come a test which is pleasant. Its murkiness is due to the fact that it is produced by a man from the people of my house, who will assert that he belongs to me, whereas he does not, for my friends are only the God-fearing. Then the people will unite under a man who will be like a hip-bone on a rib. Then there will be the little black trial which will leave none of this community without giving him a slap, and when people say that it is finished, it will be extended. During it a man will be a believer in the morning and an infidel in the evening, so that the people will be in two camps: the camp of faith which will contain no hypocrisy, and the camp of hypocrisy which will contain no faith. When that happens, expect the Antichrist (Dajjal) that day or the next.
Inheritance is not distributed
ูุงู ุชููููู ู ุญูุชููู ูุงู ููููุณูู ู ู ููุฑูุงุซู ูููุงู ููููุฑูุญู ุจูุบููููู ูุฉู
..The Last Hour would not come until shares of inheritance are not distributed and there is no rejoicing over spoils of war...
People don't rejoice over spoils of war
ูุงู ุชููููู ู ุญูุชููู ูุงู ููููุณูู ู ู ููุฑูุงุซู ูููุงู ููููุฑูุญู ุจูุบููููู ูุฉู
..The Last Hour would not come until shares of inheritance are not distributed and there is no rejoicing over spoils of war...
Muslims will soon flee to mountains from persecution
ุนููู ุฃูุจูู ุณูุนููุฏู ุงููุฎูุฏูุฑูููู ุฑูุถููู ุงูููููู ุนููููู ุฃูููููู ููุงูู ููุงูู ุฑูุณูููู ุงูููููู ุตููููู ุงูููููู ุนููููููู ููุณููููู ู ูููุดููู ุฃููู ููููููู ุฎูููุฑู ู ูุงูู ุงููู ูุณูููู ู ุบูููู ู ููุชูุจูุนู ุจูููุง ุดูุนููู ุงููุฌูุจูุงูู ููู ูููุงููุนู ุงููููุทูุฑู ููููุฑูู ุจูุฏูููููู ู ููู ุงููููุชููู
โSoon the best property of a Muslim will be a flock of sheep he takes to the top of a mountain, or in the valleys of rainfall, fleeing with his religion from tribulations.โ
All believers will go to Syria
ูุฃุชู ุนูู ุงููุงุณ ุฒู ุงู ูุง ูุจูู ููู ู ุคู ู ุฅูุง ูุญู ุจุงูุดุงู
A time will come to people when no believer remains except that he came over to As-Sham
Extinction of the Quraysh tribe
ุฃุณุฑุนู ูุจุงุฆูู ุงูุนุฑุจู ููุงุกู ูุฑูุดู ูููุดูู ุฃู ุชู ุฑูู ุงูู ุฑุฃุฉู ุจุงููุนูู ูุชููู ุฅู ูุฐุง ูุนูู ูุฑุดููู
The fastest Arab tribe in extinction is Quraysh. Soon a woman will pass by a sandal, then she will say that this is a sandal of a Qurashi.
Arabs will be exterminated and go to hell
Hadith da'eef:
It was narrated from โAbdullah bin โAmr that the Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ) said: โThere will be a tribulation which will utterly destroy the Arabs, and those who are slain will be in Hell. At that time the tongue will be worse than a blow of the sword.โ
Last of the ummah will curse the first
Fabricated (mawdu') hadith:
It was narrated that Jabir said: "The Messenger of Allah said: 'When the last people of this Ummah curse the first, (at that time) whoever conceals a Hadith will be concealing what Allah has revealed.'" (Maudu')
Pilgrimage to Makka will be abandoned
Narrated Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri:
The Prophet (๏ทบ) said "The people will continue performing the Hajj and `Umra to the Ka`ba even after the appearance of Gog and Magog." Narrated Shu`ba extra: The Hour (Day of Judgment) will not be established till the Hajj (to the Ka`ba) is abandoned.
Disappearance of faith
It is narrated on the authority of Anas that the Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ) said:
"The Hour (Resurrection) will not occur as long as anyone says: 'Allah, Allah.'"
This one appears to be increasingly likely.
Islam will be widespread
Although Muhammad predicted that Islam will disappear, he also predicted that Islam will succeed:
Tamim al-Dari reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, โThis matter will certainly reach every place touched by the night and day. Allah will not leave a house or residence but that Allah will cause this religion to enter it, by which the honorable will be honored and the disgraceful will be disgraced. Allah will honor the honorable with Islam and he will disgrace the disgraceful with unbelief.โ
"Indeed Allah gathered the earth for me so that I saw its east and its west. And surely my Ummah's authority shall reach over all that was shown to me of it.
Muhammad's predictions about the future of the Muslim ummah appear to have ranged non-existence and annihilation to complete domination, perhaps based on his feelings at various times. Given this full spectrum of possibility, however, it is difficult to maintain that there is any substance to these predictions.
The Quran will disappear overnight
ุนููู ุฒูุฑูู ุนููู ุงุจููู ู ูุณูุนููุฏู ุฑุถู ุงููู ุนูู ููุงูู ููููุณูุฑูููููู ุนูููู ุงููููุฑูุขูู ุฐูุงุชู ููููููุฉู ููููุง ููุชูุฑููู ุขููุฉู ููู ู ูุตูุญููู ููููุง ููู ููููุจู ุฃูุญูุฏู ุฅููููุง ุฑูููุนูุชู
The Quran will vanish in one night. No verse in the scripture or in the heart of anyone will be left behind.
Islam will wear out
ูุฏุฑูุณู ุงูุฅุณูุงู ู ูู ุง ูุฏุฑูุณู ููุดูู ุงูุซูููุจู ุญุชููู ูุง ููุฏุฑูู ู ุง ุตูุงู ูุ ููุง ุตูุงุฉูุ ููุง ูุณูููุ ููุง ุตุฏููุฉูุ ูููููุณุฑู ุนูู ูุชุงุจู ุงูููููู ุนุฒูู ูุฌููู ูู ููููุฉูุ ููุง ูุจูู ูู ุงูุฃุฑุถู ู ููู ุขูุฉูุ ูุชุจููู ุทูุงุฆูู ู ูู ุงููููุงุณู ุงูุดูููุฎู ุงููุจูุฑู ูุงูุนุฌูุฒูุ ููููููู: ุฃุฏุฑููููุง ุขุจุงุกููุง ุนูู ูุฐููู ุงูููู ุฉูุ ูุง ุฅูููู ุฅูููุง ุงููููููุ ููุญูู ููููููุง ููุงูู ูููู ุตููุฉู: ู ุง ุชูุบูู ุนููู : ูุง ุฅูููู ุฅูููุง ุงููููููุ ููููู ูุง ููุฏุฑููู ู ุง ุตูุงุฉูุ ููุง ุตูุงู ูุ ููุง ูุณูููุ ููุง ุตุฏูุฉูุ ูุฃุนุฑุถู ุนููู ุญูุฐููููุฉูุ ุซู ูู ุฑุฏูููุง ุนููููู ุซูุงุซูุงุ ูููู ุฐูููู ูุนุฑุถู ุนููู ุญูุฐููููุฉูุ ุซู ูู ุฃูุจูู ุนููููู ูู ุงูุซููุงูุซุฉูุ ููุงูู: ูุง ุตููุฉูุ ุชููุฌูููู ู ูู ุงููููุงุฑ ุซูุงุซูุง
โIslam will wear out as embroidery on a garment wears out, until no one will know what fasting, prayer, (pilgrimage) rites and charity are. The Book of Allah will be taken away at night, and not one Verse of it will be left on earth. And there will be some people left, old men and old women, who will say: โWe saw our fathers saying these words: โLa ilaha illallahโ so we say them too.โ Silah said to him: โWhat good will (saying): La ilaha illallah do them, when they do not know what fasting, prayer, (pilgrimage) rites and charity are?โ Hudhaifah turned away from his. He repeated his question three times, and Hudhaifah turned away from him each time. Then he turned to him on the third time and said: โO Silah! It will save them from Hell,โ three times.
Islam will end up like a snake crawling back into its hole
It is narrated on the authority of Ibn 'Umar ('Abdullah b. 'Umar) that the Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ) observed:
Verily Islam started as something strange and it would again revert (to its old position) of being strange just as it started, and it would recede between the two mosques just as the serpent crawls back into its hole.
In other hadith, Muhammad described belief in Islam as a snake:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) said, "Verily, Belief returns and goes back to Medina as a snake returns and goes back to its hole (when in danger).
Countries colonized by Muslims will stop paying them and Muslims will be poor again
The hadith is in the chapter called "Making Endowments Of The Lands Of As-Sawad, And The Lands That Were Conquered By Force":
Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ) as saying โIraq will prevent its measure (qafiz) and dirham. Syria will prevent its measure (mudi) and dinar. Egypt will prevent its measure (irdabb) and dinar. Then you will return to the position where you started. Zuhair said this three times. The flesh and blood of Abu Hurairah witnessed it.
Buttocks of women of Daus are moving around the Yemenite Kaba
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) said, "The Hour will not be established till the buttocks of the women of the tribe of Daus move while going round Dhi-al-Khalasa." Dhi-al-Khalasa was the idol of the Daus tribe which they used to worship in the Pre Islamic Period of ignorance.
It was interpreted metaphorically as a rise of polytheism because the idol was destroyed and the people were killed before it came trueย :
Jabir reported that there was in pre-Islamic days a temple called Dhu'l- Khalasah and it was called the Yamanite Ka'ba or the northern Ka'ba. Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) said unto me:
Will you rid me of Dhu'l-Khalasah and so I went forth at the head of 350 horsemen of the tribe of Ahmas and we destroyed it and killed whomsoever we found there. Then we came back to him (to the Holy Prophet) and informed him and he blessed us and the tribe of Ahmas.
People commonly have sex in the streets, like donkeys
ูุง ุชููู ู ุงูุณููุงุนุฉู ุญุชููู ูุชุณุงูุฏู ุงููููุงุณู ูู ุงูุทููุฑูู ุชุณุงููุฏู ุงูุญู ูุฑู
The Hour shall not commence until the people engage in sexual intercourse in the streets just like donkeys.
Public sex was already happening among ancient civilizations.[22]
Rise of polytheism
..the Last Hour will not come before the tribes of my people attach themselves to the polytheists and tribes of my people worship idols..
Polytheism has become less popular with time.
People will worship goddesses Lat and Uzza again
The goddesses Lat and Uzza were worshiped by Arabs before the Islamic conquest of Arabia.
'A'isha reported:
I heard Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) as saying: The (system) of night and day would not end until the people have taken to the worship of Lat and 'Uzza. I said: Allah's Messenger, I think when Allah has revealed this verse:" He it is Who has sent His Messenger with right guidance, and true religion, so that He may cause it to prevail upon all religions, though the polytheists are averse (to it)" (ix. 33), it implies that (this promise) is going to be fulfilled. Thereupon he (Allah's Apostle) said: It would happen as Allah would like. Then Allah would send the sweet fragrant air by which everyone who has even a mustard grain of faith in Him would die and those only would survive who would have no goodness in them. And they would revert to the religion of their forefathers.
All believers will be killed by a wind from Allah and only evil people (= non-Muslims) will survive
'A'isha reported:
I heard Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) as saying: The (system) of night and day would not end until the people have taken to the worship of Lat and 'Uzza'. I said: Allah's Messenger, I think when Allah has revealed this verse:" He it is Who has sent His Messenger with right guidance, and true religion, so that He may cause it to prevail upon all religions, though the polytheists are averse (to it)" (ix. 33), it implies that (this promise) is going to be fulfilled. Thereupon he (Allah's Apostle) said: It would happen as Allah would like. Then Allah would send the sweet fragrant air by which everyone who has even a mustard grain of faith in Him would die and those only would survive who would have no goodness in them. And they would revert to the religion of their forefathers.
Killing neighbors and family members
ุนููู ุฃูุจูู ู ููุณููโ ููุงูู ุฑูุณูููู ุงูููู ุตูู ุงููู ุนููู ูุณูู โ ูุงู ุชููููู ู ุงูุณููุงุนูุฉู ุญูุชููู ููููุชููู ุงูุฑููุฌููู ุฌูุงุฑููู ููุฃูุฎูุงูู ููุฃูุจูุงูู
The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, โThe Hour will not be established until a man kills his neighbor, his brother, and his father.โ
Abundance of deaths by lightning
ุชููุซูุฑู ุงูุตูููุงุนููู ุนููุฏู ุงููุชูุฑุงุจู ุงูุณููุงุนุฉูุ ุญุชููู ููุฃุชูู ุงูุฑููุฌููู ุงููููู ูุ ูููููู: ู ูู ุตูุนููู ููุจููููู ู ุงูุบูุฏุงุฉูุ ูููููููู: ุตูุนููู ูููุงูู ููููุงูู.
There will be an abundance of lightning with the coming of the Hour, until a man comes to a tribe asking: Who was struck today? Then they say: So and so
John Jensenius (a lightning specialist) said that the number of injuries and deaths caused by lightning is actually going down. [23]
Luka bin Luka will be the happiest person
Hudhaifah bin Al-Yaman narrated that the Messenger of Allah(s.a.w) said: "The Hour will not be established until the happiest of people in the world is Luka' bin Luka'."
Scholars interpreted the name "Luka bin Luka" (ููุน ุจู ููุน) to mean "the most despicable/wicked/evil"[24] and "wickedness", rather than a specific person
Wine, musical instruments and singing girls will turn Muslims into monkeys and pigs
ููููุดูุฑูุจูููู ููุงุณู ู ููู ุฃูู ููุชูู ุงููุฎูู ูุฑู ููุณูู ูููููููุง ุจูุบูููุฑู ุงุณูู ูููุง ููุนูุฒููู ุนูููู ุฑูุกููุณูููู ู ุจูุงููู ูุนูุงุฒููู ููุงููู ูุบููููููุงุชู ููุฎูุณููู ุงูููููู ุจูููู ู ุงูุฃูุฑูุถู ููููุฌูุนููู ู ูููููู ู ุงููููุฑูุฏูุฉู ููุงููุฎูููุงุฒููุฑู
It was narrated from Abu Malik Ashโari that the Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ) said: โPeople among my nation will drink wine, calling it by another name, and musical instruments will be played for them and singing girls (will sing for them). Allah will cause the earth to swallow them up, and will turn them into monkeys and pigs.โ
Since the hadith literally says "is played upon their heads with musical instruments" (ููุนูุฒููู ุนูููู ุฑูุกููุณูููู ู ุจูุงููู ูุนูุงุฒููู) some claim that it is a prediction of headphones. But it says "played", not "placed" upon their heads, the word "instruments" is in the plural form and the singing girls are obviously real singing girls, while with head phones the singing would be included in the headphones. The interpretation that the word "musical instruments" (ู ุนุงุฒู) refers to musical instruments fits much better into the context.
Muhammad himself listened to singing girls, perhaps he was in a better mood since it was the day of Eid:
Narrated Aisha:
Abu Bakr came to my house while two small Ansari girls were singing beside me the stories of the Ansar concerning the Day of Buath. And they were not singers. Abu Bakr said protestingly, "Musical instruments of Satan in the house of Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ)ย !" It happened on the `Id day and Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) said, "O Abu Bakr! There is an `Id for every nation and this is our `Id."
Wine and singing was already mentioned in pre-Islamic Arab poetry:
Peace, confound you! You can't turn me from my purpose
Thy scolding dries my spittle!
To the music of singers in times past 'twas fine
When we drank our fill of purest noblest wine.
Drinking freely of wine brings me no shame
If my behaviour no boon-companion would blame.
For death no man can hold back Though he drink the perfumed potions of the quack.
Milking, clothes and tank before the Hour
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) as saying:
The Last Hour would come (so sudden) that a person would be milking the she- camel and the (milk) would not reach the brim of the vessel that the Last Hour would come, and the two persons would be engaged in buying and selling of the clothes and their bargain would not be struck before the Last Hour would come. And someone would be setting his tank in order and he would have hardly set it right when the Last Hour would come.
Allah will put pieces of the world on his fingers
Muhammad agreed with this prophecy presented by a Jewish Scholar
Abdullah b. Mas'ud reported that a Jewish scholar came to Allah's Apostle (may peace he upon him) and said:
Muhammad, or Abu al-Qasim, verily, Allah, the Exalted and Glorious would carry the Heavens on the Day of Judgment upon one finger and earths upon one finger and the mountains and trees upon one finger and the ocean and moist earth upon one finger, and in fact the whole of the creation upon one finger, and then He would stir them and say: I am your Lord, I am your Lord. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) smiled testifying what that scholar had said. He then recited this verse:" And they honour not Allah with the honour due to Him; and the whole earth will be in His grip on the Day of Resurrection and the heaven rolled up in His right hand. Glory be to Him I and highly Exalted is He above what they associate (with Him)" (Az-Zumar:67).
Medina banishes its evils
Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) as saying:
A time will come for the people (of Medina) when a man will invite his cousin and any other near relation: Come (and settle) at (a place) where living is cheap, come to where there is plenty, but Medina will be better for them; would they know it! By Him in Whose Hand is my life, none amongst them would go out (of the city) with a dislike for it, but Allah would make his successor in it someone better than be. Behold. Medina is like furnace which eliminates from it the impurities. And the Last Hour will not come until Medina banishes its evils just as a furnace eliminates the impurities of iron.
Nobody will accept charity
Narrated Haritha bin Wahab:
I heard the Prophet (๏ทบ) saying, "O people! Give in charity as a time will come upon you when a person will wander about with his object of charity and will not find anybody to accept it, and one (who will be requested to take it) will say, "If you had brought it yesterday, would have taken it, but today I am not in need of it."
Not paying zakat will cause a lack of rain
It was narrated that โAbdullah bin โUmar said: โThe Messenger of Allah ๏ทบ turned to us and said: โO Muhajirun, there are five things with which you will be tested, and I seek refuge with Allah lest you live to see them: Immorality never appears among a people to such an extent that they commit it openly, but plagues and diseases that were never known among the predecessors will spread among them. They do not cheat in weights and measures but they will be stricken with famine, severe calamity and the oppression of their rulers. They do not withhold the Zakah of their wealth, but rain will be withheld from the sky, and were it not for the animals, no rain would fall on them. They do not break their covenant with Allah and His Messenger, but Allah will enable their enemies to overpower them and take some of what is in their hands. Unless their leaders rule according to the Book of Allah and seek all good from that which Allah has revealed, Allah will cause them to fight one another.โโ
Swelling of crescents [The Moon]
ู ููู ุงูุชุฑุงุจู ุงูุณุงุนูุฉู ุงูุชูุงุฎู ุงูุฃูููููุฉู
From approaching of the Hour is the swelling of crescents
An Abyssinian will destroy the Kaba
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger ๏ทบ as saying: It would be an Abyssinian having two small shanks who would destroy the House ol Allah, the Exalted and Glorious.
Collapse, transformation and stoning from the sky
'Aishah narrated "The Messenger of Allah(s.a.w) said:
'In the end of this Ummah there will be a collapse, transformation, and Qadhf."' She saidย :"I said: 'O Messenger of Allah! Will they be destroyed while they are righteous among them?' He said: 'Yes, when evil is dominant."'
It's just three vague words ุฎูุณููู ููู ูุณูุฎู ููููุฐููู (khasf and maskh and qadhf). Tafsir:
3176 - (ุจูู ูุฏู ุงูุณุงุนุฉ ู ุณุฎ) ููุจ ุงูุฎููุฉ ู ู ุดูุก ุฅูู ุดูุก ุฃู ุชุญููู ุงูุตูุฑุฉ ุฅูู ุฃูุจุญ ู ููุง ุฃู ู ุณุฎ ุงููููุจ (ูุฎุณู) ุฃู ุบูุฑ ูู ุงูุฃุฑุถ (ููุฐู) ุฃู ุฑู ู ุจุงูุญุฌุงุฑุฉ ู ู ุฌูุฉ ุงูุณู ุงุก
maskh - transformation of creation from its shape to an uglier one
khasf - a depression in the Earth
qadhf - pelting with stones from the sky
Euphrates will uncover a mountain of gold soon
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) said, "Soon the river "Euphrates" will disclose the treasure (the mountain) of gold, so whoever will be present at that time should not take anything of it." Al-A'raj narrated from Abii Huraira that the Prophet (๏ทบ) said the same but he said, "It (Euphrates) will uncover a mountain of gold (under it).
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger ๏ทบ as saying: The Last Hour would not come before the Euphrates uncovers a mountain of gold, for which people would fight. Ninety-nine out of each one hundred would die but every man amongst them would say that perhaps he would be the one who would be saved (and thus possess this gold).
No mountain of gold was found uncovered by the Euphrates soon thereafter, let alone an exceptionally deadly conflict over the ownership of such gold. There is a gold mine more than a kilometer from the Euphrates which is claimed to fulfil the prophecy (the Copler mine in Erzincan province, Turkey). This was neither uncovered by the Euphrates, nor is it a mountain, nor has there been a deadly scramble to possess it.
The hadith prophecy is simply one adapted from the well known Biblical apocalypse, Revelation 16:12, "The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East." In Revelation, this occurs in the context of a series of bowls of wrath poured out in highly symbolic language. The meaning is very obviously not literal.
Gender ratio will be 50 women to 1 men
I will narrate to you a Hadith and none other than I will tell you about after it. I heard Allah's Messenger (๏ทบ) saying: From among the portents of the Hour are (the following): -1. Religious knowledge will decrease (by the death of religious learned men). -2. Religious ignorance will prevail. -3. There will be prevalence of open illegal sexual intercourse. -4. Women will increase in number and men will decrease in number so much so that fifty women will be looked after by one man.
Knowledge will be sought from young people
ุนููู ุฃูุจูู ุฃูู ููููุฉู ุงููููุฎูู ูููู ุฃูููู ุงููููุจูููู ุตููููู ุงูููููู ุนููููููู ููุณููููู ู ููุงูู ุฅูููู ู ููู ุฃูุดูุฑูุงุทู ุงูุณููุงุนูุฉู ุซู ุฃููู ููููุชูู ูุณู ุงููุนูููู ู ุนูููุฏู ุงููุฃูุตูุงุบูุฑู
The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, โVerily, among the signs of the Hour is that knowledge will be sought from the young.โ
Seventy-three sects
Narrated Abu Hurairah: that the Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ) said: "The Jews split into seventy-one sects, or seventy-two sects, and the Christians similarly, and my Ummah will split into seventy-three sects."
Emergence of Sufyani
This hadith is da'eef:
ูุฎุฑุฌ ุฑุฌู ููุงู ูู ุงูุณููุงูู ูู ุนู ู ุฏู ุดู ุ ูุนุงู ุฉ ู ู ูุชุจุนู ู ู ููุจ ุ ูููุชู ุญุชู ูุจูุฑ ุจุทูู ุงููุณุงุก ูููุชู ุงูุตุจูุงู ุ ูุชุฌู ุน ููู ููุณ ูููุชููุง ุญุชู ูุง ูู ูุน ุฐูุจ ุชูุนุฉ ุ ููุฎุฑุฌ ุฑุฌู ู ู ุฃูู ุจูุชู ูู ุงูุญุฑุฉ ููุจูุบ ุงูุณููุงูู ููุจุนุซ ุฅููู ุฌูุฏุงู ู ู ุฌูุฏู ูููุฒู ูู ุ ููุณูุฑ ุฅููู ุงูุณููุงูู ุจู ู ู ุนู ุ ุญุชู ุฅุฐุง ุตุงุฑ ุจุจูุฏุงุก ู ู ุงูุฃุฑุถ ุฎุณู ุจูู ุ ููุง ููุฌู ู ููู ุฅูุง ุงูู ุฎุจุฑ ุนููู
There will emerge a man called as-Sufyaani from the depths of Damascus, and most of those who follow him will be from (the tribe of) Kalb. He will kill many people until he rips open the bellies of women and kill children. (The tribe of) Qays will gather against him and he will kill them. A man from my family will emerge in the harrah, and news of that will reach as-Sufyaani. He will send troops against him and he will defeat them. Then as-Sufyaani will march towards him accompanied by those who are with him, then when he is in a plain, they will be swallowed up by the earth and none of them will be saved except the one who will tell others about them.
Muslims in mosque won't find an imam to lead them in prayer
This hadith is da'eef:
Narrated Sulamah daughter of al-Hurr:
I heard the Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ) say: One of the signs of the Last Hour will be that people in a mosque will refuse to act as imam and will not find an imam to lead them in prayer.
It was narrated from Abu Sa'eed that the Prophet (๏ทบ) said: "when there are three people let one of them lead the prayer, and the one who is most entitled to lead the prayer is the one who has most knowledge of the Qur'an."
This prophecy was included in a chapter called "It Is Disliked To Refuse The Position Of Imam", and is perhaps best understood as a sort of moral exhortation to lead prayer when a prayer needs to be led.
Dajjal nor plague will be able to enter Medina
Anas narrated that the Messenger of Allah(s.a.w) said: "The Dajjal will come to Al-Madinah to find the angels have surrounded it. Neither the plague nor the Dajjal will enter it, if Allah wills."
Medina, historically, has not proven to be especially or at all plague-proof. Moreover, during plagues, the Saudi government (and the caliphates, historically) had to close off access to Mecca and Medina to prevent the spread of disease.
Jesus will break the cross, kill the pigs and abolish Jizyah
It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Prophet (๏ทบ) said: "The Hour will not begin until 'Eisa bin Maryam comes down as a just judge and a just ruler. He will break the cross, kill the pigs and abolish the Jizyah, and wealth will become so abundant that no one will accept it."
Gog and Magog will drink out the lake of Tiberias
And then Allah would send Gog and Magog and they would swarm down from every slope. The first of them would pass the lake of Tiberias and drink out of it. And when the last of them would pass, he would say: There was once water there.
Gog and Magog are described in the hadith and Quran as tribes on Earth blocked by a big iron wall, erected by , that will be unlocked at the end of times. There are supposed to be so many of them that they will drink the entire lake of Tiberias (Sea of Galilee) dry.
Gog and Magog will successfully dig through the wall
It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ) said: "Gog and Magog people dig every day until, when they can almost see the rays of the sun, the one in charge of them says: "Go back and we will dig it tomorrow." Then Allah puts it back, stronger than it was before. (This will continue) until, when their time has come, and Allah wants to send them against the people, they will dig until they can almost see the rays of the sun, then the one who is in charge of them will say: "Go back, and we will dig it tomorrow if Allah wills.' So they will say: "If Allah wills." Then they will come back to it and it will be as they left it. So they will dig and will come out to the people, and they will drink all the water. The people will fortify themselves against them in their fortresses. They will shoot their arrows towards the sky and they will come back with blood on them, and they will say: "We have defeated the people of earth and dominated the people of heaven." Then Allah will send a worm in the napes of their necks and will kill them thereby.'" The Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ) said: "By the One in Whose Hand is my soul, the beasts of the earth will grow fat on their flesh."
Muslims will use bows, arrows and shields of Gog and Magog as firewood for 7 years
It was narrated from Nawwas bin Sam'an that the Messenger of Allah (๏ทบ) said: "The Muslims will use the bows, arrows and shields of Gog and Magog as firewood, for seven years.'"
See also
External:
- List of Muhammad's prophecies (Arabic)
- RationalWiki: Biblical prophecies, Criteria for a true prophecy (could be analogically applied to Islamic prophecies)
- 15 Hindu predictions - Comparing and contrasting Islamic prophecies with those of other religions' scriptures predictions is instructive
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- โ Orgies Through the Ages
- โ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/are-lightning-strikes-becoming-more-common/
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