Signs of the Hour

"We believe in the signs of the Hour: the emergence of the Dajjal, the descent of Jesus son of Mary from heaven; and we believe in the sun rising from its west, and the Beast of the Earth emerging from its place" ¹.

Ibn Qudama mentions among the signs of the Hour: "the emergence of the Dajjal; the descent of Jesus son of Mary, who kills him; the emergence of Gog and Magog; the emergence of the Beast; the sun rising from its west; and the like of what sound transmission established" ².

In "the account of the sum of the saying of the people of hadith and sunna" in Maqalat al-Islamiyyin, Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari presents what the people of hadith and sunna hold, ending: "And in all we have mentioned of their saying we speak, and to it we go" ³. He relates there that they "believe in the emergence of the Dajjal, and that Jesus son of Mary kills him" ⁴.

This entry presents the positions of the 'Aqida al-Tahawiyya, Ibn Qudama's Lum'at al-I'tiqad, Ibn Taymiyya's al-Wasitiyya, and what al-Ash'ari related in Maqalat al-Islamiyyin of the people of hadith and sunna and declared his own — each attributed to its book. The sayings of the Maturidis and the remaining Sunni and non-Sunni schools from their own books have not yet been added; the entry needs specialist review before promotion.