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The descent of Jesus at the end of time
Abd Allah ibn 'Amr said, "The Prophet
(sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) said,
'The Dajjal will appear in my Ummah,
and will remain for forty - "I cannot
say whether he meant forty days,
forty months or forty years." Then Allah
will send Jesus (alayhe salam), the
son of Mary, who will resemble 'Urwah
ibn Mas'ud. He will chase the Dajjal
and kill him. Then the people will
live for seven years during which
there will be no enmity between any two
persons. Then Allah will send a cold
wind from the direction of Syria,
which will take the soul of everyone
who has the slightest speck of good
or faith in his heart. Even if one of
you were to enter the heart of a
mountain, the wind would reach him
there and take his soul.
"Only the most wicked people will be
left; they will be as careless as
birds, with the characteristics of
beasts, and will have no concern for
right and wrong. Satan will come to
them in the form of man and will say,
"Don't you respond?" They will say,
"What do you order us to do?" He will
order them to worship idols, and in
spite of that they will have
sustenance in abundance, and lead
comfortable lives.
"Then the Trumpet will be blown, and
everyone will tilt their heads to
hear it. The first one to hear it
will be a man busy repairing a trough
for his camels. He and everyone else
will be struck down. Then Allah will
send (or send down) rain like dew,
and the bodies of the people (ie the
dead) will grow out of it. Then the
trumpet will be sounded again, and the
people will get up and look around.
Then it will be said, "O people, go to
your Lord and account for
yourselves." It will be said, "Bring out the
people of Hell," and it will be
asked, "How many are there?" - the answer
will come: "Nine hundred and
ninety-nine out of every thousand." On that
day a child will grow old and the
shin will be laid bare." (Al-Qalam
68:42) (Muslim)
Abu Hurairah said, "The Prophet (sallallahu
alayhe wa sallam) said, 'The
son of Mary will come down as a just
leader. He will break the cross, and
kill the pigs. Peace will prevail and
people will use their swords as
sickles. Every harmful beast will be
made harmless; the sky will send down
rain in abundance, and the earth will
bring forth its blessings. A child
will play with a fox and not come to
any harm; a wolf will graze with
sheep and a lion with cattle, without
harming them." (Ahmad)
Abu Hurairah said, "The Prophet (sallallahu
alayhe wa sallam) said, 'By
Him in Whose hand is my soul, surely
the son of Mary will come down among
you as a just ruler. He will break
the cross, kill the pigs and abolish
the Jizyah. Wealth will be in such
abundance that no-one will care about
it, and a single prostration in
prayer will be better than the world and
all that is in it." Abu Hurairah
said, 'If you wish, recite the Ayah:
"And there is none of the People of
the Book but must believe in him
before his death; and on the Day of
Judgment he will be a witness against
them ..." (Al-Nisa 4:159) (Bukhari,
Muslim)
Abu Hurairah reported that the
Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) said,
"The Prophets are like brothers; they
have different mothers but their
religion is one.Iam the closest of
all the people to Jesus son of Mary,
because there is no other Prophet
between him and myself. He will come
again, and when you see him, you will
recognise him. He is of medium
height and his colouring is
reddish-white. He will be wearing two
garments, and his hair will look wet.
He will break the cross, kill the
pigs, abolish the Jizyah and call the
people to Islam. During his time,
Allah will end every religion and
sect other than Islam, and will destroy
the Dajjal. Then peace and security
will prevail on earth, so that lions
will graze with camels, tigers with
cattle, and wolves with sheep;
children will be able to play with
snakes without coming to any harm.
Jesus will remain for forty years,
then die, and the Muslims will pray for
him." (Ahmad)
Ibn Masud reported that the Prophet (sallallahu
alayhe wa sallam) said,
"On the night of the Isra (night
journey), I met my father Abraham, Moses
and Jesus, and they discussed the
Hour. The matter was referred first to
Abraham, then to Moses, and both
said, 'I have no knowledge of it. Then it
was referred to Jesus, who said,
'No-one knows about its timing except
Allah; what my Lord told me was that
the Dajjal will appear, and when he
sees me he will begin to melt like
lead. Allah will destroy him when he
sees me. The Muslims will fight
against the Kafirs, and even the trees and
rocks will say, "O Muslim, there is a
Kafir hiding beneath me - come and
kill him!" Allah will destroy the
Kafirs, and the people will return to
their own lands. Then Gog and Magog
will appear from all directions,
eating and drinking everything they
find. The people will complain to me,
so I will pray to Allah and He will
destroy them, so that the earth will
be filled with their stench. Allah
will send rain which will wash their
bodies into the sea. My Lord has told
me that when that happens, the Hour
will be very close, like a pregnant
woman whose time is due, but her
family do not know exactly when she
will deliver'" (Ahma, Ibn Majah)
Description of
The Messiah Jesus Son of Mary, Messenger of Allah
Abu Hurairah said, "The Prophet (sallallahu
alayhe wa sallam) said, 'On
the night of the Isra' (miraculous
journey to Jerusalem) I met Moses - he
was a slim man with wavy hair, and
looked like a man from the Shanu'ah
tribe. I also met Jesus - he was of
medium height and of a red complexion,
as if he had just come out of the
bath'" (Bukhari, Muslim)
The Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa
sallam) said, "Whilst I was asleep, I
saw myself (in a dream) making Tawaf
around the Ka'bah. I saw a
brown-skinned man, with straight
hair, being supported by two men, and
with water dripping from his head. I
said, 'Who is this?' They said, 'The
son of Mary'I turned around and saw a
fat, ruddy man, with curly hair, who
was blind in his right eye; his eye
looked like a floating grape. I asked,
'Who is this?' They said, 'The Dajjal'
The one who most resembles him is
Ibn Qatan." Al-Zuhri explained: Ibn
Qatan was a man from Khuzaah who died
during the Jahiliyyah (before the
coming of Islam). (Bukhari)
The Appearance
of Gog and Magog
They (two tribes or peoples) will
appear at the time of Jesus son of Mary,
after the Dajjal. Allah will destroy
them all in one night, in response to
the supplication of Jesus.
Abu Hurairah reported that the
Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) said,
"Every day, Gog and Magog are trying
to dig a way out through the barrier.
When they begin to see sunlight
through it, the one who is in charge of
them says, 'Go back; you can carry on
digging tomorrow,' and when they
come back, the barrier is stronger
than it was before. This will continue
until their time comes and Allah
wishes to send them forth. They will dig
until they begin to see sunlight,
then the one who is in charge of them
will say, 'Go back; you can carry on
digging tomorrow, insha'Allah.' In
this case he will make an exception
by saying insha' Allah, thus relating
the matter to the Will of Allah. They
will return on the following day,
and find the hole as they left it.
They will carry on digging and come out
against the people. They will drink
all the water, and the people will
entrench themselves in their
fortresses. Gog and Magog will fire their
arrows into the sky, and they will
fall back to earth with something like
blood on them. Gog and Magog will
say, 'We have defeated the people of
earth, and overcome the people of
heaven. Then Allah will send a kind of
worm in the napes of their necks, and
they will be killed by it' 'By Him
in Whose hand is the soul of
Muhammad, the beasts of the earth will become
fat.'"
Gog and Magog are two groups of
Turks, descended from Yafith (Japheth),
the father of the Turks, one of the
sons of Noah. At the time of Abraham
(alayhe salam), there was a king
called Dhu'l-Qarnayn. He performed Tawaf
around the Ka'bah with Abraham (alayhe
salam) when he first built it; he
believed and followed him.
Dhu'l-Qarnayn was a good man and a great king;
Allah gave him great power and he
ruled the east and west. He held sway
over all kings and countries, and
travelled far and wide in both east and
west. He travelled eastwards until he
reached a pass between two
mountains, through which people were
coming out. They did not understand
anything, because they were so
isolated; they were Gog and Magog. They
were spreading corruption through the
earth, and harming the people, so
the people sought help from
Dhu'l-Qarnayn. They asked him to build a
barrier between them and Gog and
Magog. He asked them to help him to build
it, so together they built a barrier
by mixing iron, copper and tar.
Thus Dhu' -Qarnayn restrained Gog and
Magog behind the barrier. They tried
to penetrate the barrier, or to climb
over it, but to no avail. They could
not succeed because the barrier is so
huge and smooth. They began to dig,
and they have been digging for
centuries; they will continue to do so
until the time when Allah decrees
that they come out. At that time the
barrier will collapse, and Gog and
Magog will rush out in all directions,
spreading corruption, uprooting
plants, killing people. When Jesus (AS)
prays against them, Allah will send a
kind of worm in the napes of their
necks, and they will be killed by it.
The Destruction
of The Ka'bah
At the end of time, Dhu'l-Suwayqatayn,
who will come from Abyssinia
(al-Habash), will destroy the Ka'bah
in order to steal its treasure and
Kiswah (cloth covering). The Ka'bah
is the ancient building which was
built by Abraham, and whose
foundations were laid by Adam.
As Tafsir (interpretation) of the
Ayah "Until the Gog and Magog (people)
are let through (their barrier)'"
(al-Anbiya 21:96), it was reported from
Ka'b al-Ahbar that Dhu'l-Suwayqatayn
will first emerge at the time of
Jesus, son of Mary. Allah will send
Jesus at the head of a vanguard of
between seven and eight hundred.
While they are marching towards
Dhu'l-Suwayqatayn, Allah will send a
breeze from the direction of Yemen,
which will take the soul of every
believer. Only the worst of people will
be left, and they will begin to
copulate like animals. Ka'b said: "At that
time, the Hour will be close at
hand."
'Abd Allah ibn 'Amr said, "I heard
the Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa
sallam) say, Dhu'l-Suwayqatayn from
Abyssinia will destroy the Ka'bah and
steal its treasure and Kiswah. It is
as if I could see him now: he is
bald-headed and has a distortion in
his wrists. He will strike the Ka'bah
with his spade and pick-axe'."
(Ahmad)
It was reported from 'Abd Allah ibn 'Umar
that the Prophet (sallallahu
alayhe wa sallam) said, "Leave the
Abyssinians alone so long as they do
not disturb you, for no-one will
recover the treasure of the Ka'bah except
Dhu'l-Suwayqatayn from Abyssinia."
(Abu Dawud, in the chapter on the
prohibition of provoking the
Abyssinians)
Ibn 'Abbas narrated that the Prophet
(sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) said,
"It is as if I can see him now: he is
black and his legs are widely
spaced. He will destroy the Ka'bah
stone by stone." (Ahmad)
The Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa
sallam) said, "The Hour will not come
until a man from Qahtan appears and
rules the people." (Muslim; similar
Hadith in Bukhari) This man could be
Dhu'l-Suwayq, someone else, because
this man comes from Qahtan, while
other reports say that Dhu'l-Suwayqatayn
comes from Abyssinia; and Allah knows
best.
Abu Hurairah said, "The Prophet (sallallahu
alayhe wa sallam) said, 'Day
and night will not come to an end
until a freed man called Jahjah holds
sway'" (Ahmad) This could be the name
of Dhul-Suwayqatayn from Abyssinia;
and Allah knows best.
'Umar ibn al-Khattab reported that he
heard the Prophet (sallallahu alayhe
wa sallam) say: "The people of Makkah
will leave, and only a few people
will pass through it. Then it will be
resettled and rebuilt; then the
people will leave it again, and
no-one will ever return."
Madinah Will Remain
Inhabited At the Time of the Dajjal
It has been proven in the Sahih
Ahadith, as already stated, that the
Dajjal will not be able to enter
Makkah and Madinah, and that there will
be angels at the gates of Makkah to
ward him off and prevent him from
entering.
It was reported from Abu Hurairah
that the Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa
sallam) said, "Neither the Dajjal nor
plague will be able to enter
Madinah." As mentioned above, the
Dajjal will camp outside Madinah, and it
will be shaken by three tremors.
Every hypocrite and sinner will go out to
join the Dajjal, and every believer
and Muslim will stay. That day will be
called the Day of Purification (Yawm
al-Khalas). Most of those who go out
to join the Dajjal will be women. As
the Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa
sallam) said, "Verily it (Madinah) is
good; its evil will be eliminated
and its goodness will be obvious."
Allah SWT said:
"Women impure are for men impure, and
men impure for women impure, and
women of purity are for men of
purity, and men of purity are for women of
purity'" (Al-Nur 24-26)
Madinah will remain inhabited during
the days of the Dajjal, and during
the time of Jesus son of Mary (AS),
until he dies and is buried there.
Then it will be destroyed.
'Umar ibn al-Khattab said, "I heard
the Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa
sallam) say, 'A rider will go around
Madinah and say, There used to be
many Muslims here'" (Ahmad)
FOOTNOTE:
*Dhu'l-Suwayqatayn: al-Suwayqatayn is
the diminutive of al-Saqayn (legs);
his legs are described as being
"small" because they are thin. Thin legs
are, in general, a characteristic of
the Sudanese and people of the Horn
of Africa.
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