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==Predictions of the future (after the hadiths)== | ==Predictions of the future (after the hadiths)== | ||
In this category are hadiths that don't | In this category are hadiths that don't appear to speak of events which already transpired before the prophecies were written. | ||
==="Opposites"=== | ==="Opposites"=== | ||
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Though this hadith is often | 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: | The Old Testament already has a story about a talking serpent: | ||
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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: | |||
{{Quote|{{Muslim|30|5654}}|Jabir b. Samura reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: I recognise '''the stone in Mecca which used to pay me salutations''' before my advent as a Prophet and I recognise that even now.}} | {{Quote|{{Muslim|30|5654}}|Jabir b. Samura reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: I recognise '''the stone in Mecca which used to pay me salutations''' before my advent as a Prophet and I recognise that even now.}} | ||
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When the prophecy failed 100 years later, | When the prophecy failed 100 years later, it was subject to retroactive re-interpretation in Bukhari: | ||
{{Quote|{{Bukhari|1|10|575}}| | {{Quote|{{Bukhari|1|10|575}}| | ||
Narrated `Abdullah bin `Umar: | Narrated `Abdullah bin `Umar: | ||
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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. | 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. | ||
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According to the sira, in Muhammad's time there were other (supposedly false) prophets like Saf ibn Sayyad and Maslamah bin Ḥabīb (called by Muslims "Musaylimah al-Kadhdhāb" (Musaylama the Liar)), Al-Aswad Al-Ansi and Tulayha. | |||
False prophets were also already predicted in the Bible: | False prophets were also already predicted in the Bible: | ||
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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. | 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. | ||
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[[Category:Dhul-Qarnayn|Dhul-Qarnayn]] | |||
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" | 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"==== | ====Stones and trees say to Muslims: "here is a Jew behind me; come and kill him"==== | ||
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Muhammad used to hear | According to the hadith, Muhammad himself used to hear voices from stones as well: | ||
{{Quote|{{Muslim|30|5654}}|Jabir b. Samura reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: I recognise '''the stone in Mecca which used to pay me salutations''' before my advent as a Prophet and I recognise that even now.}} | {{Quote|{{Muslim|30|5654}}|Jabir b. Samura reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: I recognise '''the stone in Mecca which used to pay me salutations''' before my advent as a Prophet and I recognise that even now.}} | ||