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Note that the Sunnah.com website have | 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'') | 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==== | ||