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	Note that the Sunnah.com website have changed the translation of Sahih Muslim here. For Sahih Muslim they use the published translation by Abdul Hamid Siddiqui, but in 2020 after this miracle claim became popular they edited Siddiqui's translation by replacing ''becomes'' with ''reverts''.		Note that the Sunnah.com website have changed the translation of Sahih Muslim here. For Sahih Muslim they use the published translation by Abdul Hamid Siddiqui, but in 2020 after this miracle claim became popular they edited Siddiqui's translation by replacing ''becomes'' with ''reverts''.

	The word تعود (''~~ta'ooda~~'') could mean "become" or "revert" here.		The word تعود (''ta‘ūda'') could mean "become" or "revert" here.
	{{Quote\|مرقاة المفاتيح شرح مشكاة المصابيح\|		{{Quote\|مرقاة المفاتيح شرح مشكاة المصابيح\|
	وحتى تعود أرض العرب أي: تصير أو ترجع		وحتى تعود أرض العرب أي: تصير أو ترجع

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	وحتى تعود أرض العرب أي: تصير أو ترجع		وحتى تعود أرض العرب أي: تصير أو ترجع

	"And until ''~~ta'ooda~~'' the land of Arabs" - meaning "becomes" or "reverts"		"And until ''ta‘ūda'' the land of Arabs" - meaning "becomes" or "reverts"
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	The correct meaning of تَعُودَ in this context is controversial. This verb~~, عاد ('aada),~~ generally relates to returning or repetition. However, some Arabic speaking critics point out that it can also mean become (for the first time), and argue that this meaning is possible or even likely given grammatical features in this hadith. The typical argument is that generally, though not necessarily, there would be a preposition such as ila (to) or fee (in) after the verb if it meant return to a state.		The correct meaning of تَعُودَ (ta‘ūda), from the root عَوْد (‘awd) in this context is controversial. This verb generally relates to returning or repetition. However, some Arabic speaking critics point out that it can also mean become (for the first time), and argue that this meaning is possible or even likely given grammatical features in this hadith. The typical argument is that generally, though not necessarily, there would be a preposition such as ila (to) or fee (in) after the verb if it meant return to a state.

	More typically, a verb such as صَارَ would be used for "becomes", though Lane's Lexicon states that عاد can be a synonym for صَارَ and gives as an example وَدِدْتُ أَنَّ هٰذَا اللَّبَنَ يَعُودُ قَطِرَانًا (I wish that this milk would become tar).<ref>~~ayn-waw-dal~~ عود - [https://www.studyquran.org/LaneLexicon/Volume5/00000473.pdf Lane's Lexicon p. 2188]</ref>		More typically, a verb such as صَارَ (ṣāra) would be used for "becomes", though Lane's Lexicon states that عاد can be a synonym for صَارَ to mean become for the first time and gives as an example وَدِدْتُ أَنَّ هٰذَا اللَّبَنَ يَعُودُ قَطِرَانًا (I wish that this milk would become tar).<ref>‘awd عود - [https://www.studyquran.org/LaneLexicon/Volume5/00000473.pdf Lane's Lexicon p. 2188]</ref>

	Other critics respond that even if the meaning here is "returns to meadows and rivers", Arabia throughout recorded history has had fertile valleys and productive land.<ref>See for example Strabo, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/16D%2A.html ''The Geography'' Book XVI, Chapter 4], 1st Century BCE</ref> The hadith may represent an elaboration of pre-Islamic folk tales. Al-Tabari records a tradition that centuries earlier, the Yamāmah region of central Arabia "was a most fertile and highly cultivated land, a land most prosperous, with a variety of fruit, wondrous orchards, and tall castles."<ref>Al-Tabari (transl. Moshe Perlmann) ''The History of al-Tabari: Volume IV The Ancient Kingdoms'', Suny Press, p. 151</ref>		Other critics respond that even if the meaning here is "returns to meadows and rivers", Arabia throughout recorded history has had fertile valleys and productive land.<ref>See for example Strabo, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/16D%2A.html ''The Geography'' Book XVI, Chapter 4], 1st Century BCE</ref> The hadith may represent an elaboration of pre-Islamic folk tales. Al-Tabari records a tradition that centuries earlier, the Yamāmah region of central Arabia "was a most fertile and highly cultivated land, a land most prosperous, with a variety of fruit, wondrous orchards, and tall castles."<ref>Al-Tabari (transl. Moshe Perlmann) ''The History of al-Tabari: Volume IV The Ancient Kingdoms'', Suny Press, p. 151</ref>

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	====The land of Arabia reverts to meadows and rivers====		====The land of Arabia reverts to meadows and rivers====
	{{Quote\|{{Muslim\|\|~~157b~~\|reference}}\|		{{Quote\|{{Muslim\|\|157c\|reference}}\|
	وَحَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ، - وَهُوَ ابْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْقَارِيُّ - عَنْ سُهَيْلٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ ‏ "‏ لاَ تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ حَتَّى يَكْثُرَ الْمَالُ وَيَفِيضَ حَتَّى يَخْرُجَ الرَّجُلُ بِزَكَاةِ مَالِهِ فَلاَ يَجِدُ أَحَدًا يَقْبَلُهَا مِنْهُ وَحَتَّى تَعُودَ أَرْضُ الْعَرَبِ مُرُوجًا وَأَنْهَارًا ‏"‏ ‏.‏		وَحَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ، - وَهُوَ ابْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْقَارِيُّ - عَنْ سُهَيْلٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ ‏ "‏ لاَ تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ حَتَّى يَكْثُرَ الْمَالُ وَيَفِيضَ حَتَّى يَخْرُجَ الرَّجُلُ بِزَكَاةِ مَالِهِ فَلاَ يَجِدُ أَحَدًا يَقْبَلُهَا مِنْهُ وَحَتَّى تَعُودَ أَرْضُ الْعَرَبِ مُرُوجًا وَأَنْهَارًا ‏"‏ ‏.‏

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	More typically, a verb such as صَارَ would be used for "becomes", though Lane's Lexicon states that عاد can be a synonym for صَارَ and gives as an example وَدِدْتُ أَنَّ هٰذَا اللَّبَنَ يَعُودُ قَطِرَانًا (I wish that this milk would become tar).<ref>ayn-waw-dal عود - [https://www.studyquran.org/LaneLexicon/Volume5/00000473.pdf Lane's Lexicon p. 2188]</ref>		More typically, a verb such as صَارَ would be used for "becomes", though Lane's Lexicon states that عاد can be a synonym for صَارَ and gives as an example وَدِدْتُ أَنَّ هٰذَا اللَّبَنَ يَعُودُ قَطِرَانًا (I wish that this milk would become tar).<ref>ayn-waw-dal عود - [https://www.studyquran.org/LaneLexicon/Volume5/00000473.pdf Lane's Lexicon p. 2188]</ref>

	Other critics respond that even if the meaning here is "returns to meadows and rivers", Arabia throughout recorded history has had fertile valleys and productive land~~, so such a concept applied to pre-historic Arabia as a whole would not require a great feat of imagination~~.<ref>See for example Strabo, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/16D%2A.html ''The Geography'' Book XVI, Chapter 4], 1st Century BCE</ref>		Other critics respond that even if the meaning here is "returns to meadows and rivers", Arabia throughout recorded history has had fertile valleys and productive land.<ref>See for example Strabo, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/16D%2A.html ''The Geography'' Book XVI, Chapter 4], 1st Century BCE</ref> The hadith may represent an elaboration of pre-Islamic folk tales. Al-Tabari records a tradition that centuries earlier, the Yamāmah region of central Arabia "was a most fertile and highly cultivated land, a land most prosperous, with a variety of fruit, wondrous orchards, and tall castles."<ref>Al-Tabari (transl. Moshe Perlmann) ''The History of al-Tabari: Volume IV The Ancient Kingdoms'', Suny Press, p. 151</ref>

	A few hadiths shed further light on this interpretation, implying that it would likely mean merely a return to the mythological state of the world at the time of Adam rather than any miraculous knowledge of prehistory.		A few hadiths shed further light on this interpretation, implying that it would likely mean merely a return to the mythological state of the world at the time of Adam rather than any miraculous knowledge of prehistory.

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	Note that the Sunnah.com website have ~~tampered with~~ the translation of Sahih Muslim here. For Sahih Muslim they use the published translation by Abdul Hamid Siddiqui, but in 2020 ~~when~~ this miracle claim became popular they edited Siddiqui's translation by replacing ''becomes'' with ''reverts''.		Note that the Sunnah.com website have changed the translation of Sahih Muslim here. For Sahih Muslim they use the published translation by Abdul Hamid Siddiqui, but in 2020 after this miracle claim became popular they edited Siddiqui's translation by replacing ''becomes'' with ''reverts''.

	The word تعود (''ta'ooda'') ~~can~~ mean ~~both~~ "become" ~~and~~ "revert".		The word تعود (''ta'ooda'') could mean "become" or "revert" here.
	{{Quote\|مرقاة المفاتيح شرح مشكاة المصابيح\|		{{Quote\|مرقاة المفاتيح شرح مشكاة المصابيح\|
	وحتى تعود أرض العرب أي: تصير أو ترجع		وحتى تعود أرض العرب أي: تصير أو ترجع
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	"And until ''ta'ooda'' the land of Arabs" - meaning "becomes" or "reverts"		"And until ''ta'ooda'' the land of Arabs" - meaning "becomes" or "reverts"
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			The correct meaning of تَعُودَ in this context is controversial. This verb, عاد ('aada), generally relates to returning or repetition. However, some Arabic speaking critics point out that it can also mean become (for the first time), and argue that this meaning is possible or even likely given grammatical features in this hadith. The typical argument is that generally, though not necessarily, there would be a preposition such as ila (to) or fee (in) after the verb if it meant return to a state.

			More typically, a verb such as صَارَ would be used for "becomes", though Lane's Lexicon states that عاد can be a synonym for صَارَ and gives as an example وَدِدْتُ أَنَّ هٰذَا اللَّبَنَ يَعُودُ قَطِرَانًا (I wish that this milk would become tar).<ref>ayn-waw-dal عود - [https://www.studyquran.org/LaneLexicon/Volume5/00000473.pdf Lane's Lexicon p. 2188]</ref>

			Other critics respond that even if the meaning here is "returns to meadows and rivers", Arabia throughout recorded history has had fertile valleys and productive land, so such a concept applied to pre-historic Arabia as a whole would not require a great feat of imagination.<ref>See for example Strabo, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/16D%2A.html ''The Geography'' Book XVI, Chapter 4], 1st Century BCE</ref>

			A few hadiths shed further light on this interpretation, implying that it would likely mean merely a return to the mythological state of the world at the time of Adam rather than any miraculous knowledge of prehistory.

			A hadith collected by Abd al-Razzaq, one of the earliest hadith compilers uses the exact same verb, تَعُودَ in the phrase وتعود الأرض كهيئتها على عهد آدم ("The earth will return to its original state as it was in the time of Adam").<ref>[https://www.islamweb.net/ar/library/content/73/19884/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%84-%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%89-%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86-%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%85-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%87%D9%85%D8%A7-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85 Musannaf Abd al-Razzaq 20843] - islamweb.net</ref>

			A hadith in the collection of Ibn Majah states a similar idea about vegetation growing as it did in the time of Adam:

			{{Quote\|{{Ibn Majah\|\|5\|36\|4077\|}}\|[...] War will cease and Quraish will no longer be in power. The earth will be like a silver platter, with its vegetation growing as it did at the time of Adam, until a group of people will gather around one bunch of grapes and it will suffice them, and a group will gather around a single pomegranate and it will suffice them. An ox will be sold for such and such amount of money, and a horse will be sold for a few Dirham. [...]}}

	====Much rain, but little vegetation====		====Much rain, but little vegetation====

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	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 (تعود) to meadows and rivers.'''		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 (تعود) to meadows and rivers.'''
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			Note that the Sunnah.com website have tampered with the translation of Sahih Muslim here. For Sahih Muslim they use the published translation by Abdul Hamid Siddiqui, but in 2020 when this miracle claim became popular they edited Siddiqui's translation by replacing ''becomes'' with ''reverts''.

	The word تعود (''ta'ooda'') can mean both "become" and "revert".		The word تعود (''ta'ooda'') can mean both "become" and "revert".

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	Muhammad's prophecies are predictions attributed to him and written hundreds of years after his [[Muhammad's Death\|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.		Muhammad's prophecies are predictions attributed to him and written hundreds of years after his [[Muhammad's Death\|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.

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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.		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 likewise predicted in the Bible:
	{{Quote\|The Bible (NIV), Matthew 24:10-11\|		{{Quote\|The Bible (NIV), Matthew 24:10-11\|
	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'''.		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'''.
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	[[Category:Dhul-Qarnayn\|Dhul-Qarnayn]]		[[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 the [[Dhul-Qarnayn and the Alexander Romance]] 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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	This ~~one appears to be increasingly likely~~.		This follows the theme of religion decreasing while sin increases before the end of times.

	====Islam will be widespread====		====Islam will be widespread====
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	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~~.		If these traditions go back to Muhammad, the seem to indicate different ideas Muhammad had about the future;otherwise they may indicate the feelings of the groups of people who fabricated these hadiths at later points in Muslim history.

	====The Quran will disappear overnight====		====The Quran will disappear overnight====