عن أبي سعيد الخدري رضي الله عنه قال: قال رسول الله ﷺ: «والذي نفسي بيده، لا تقوم الساعة حتى يكلم السباعُ الإنسَ، وحتى يكلم الرجلَ عذبةُ سوطِه، وشِراكُ نعلِه، وتخبره فخذُه بما أحدث أهله بعده».340

Abū Sa’īd al-Khudrī  reports that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said, “By the One in whose hand is my soul, the Hour will not commence until predators speak to people, and until the tip of a man’s whip and the straps on his sandals speak to him, and his thigh informs him of what occurred with his family after he left.”340

One can only imagine how difficult these statements were for a seventh-century desert dweller to process, but the incredible strides in electricity and electronics since then have made such possibilities mundane for most people. In TIME's Best Inventions of 2002, a Japanese toy-maker is showcased for creating a dog translator; a device on its collar that interprets its yelps, growls, and whines into phrases such as "I can't stand it", "how boring", and "I am lonely."341 In November of 2006, The New York Times published an article entitled "These Shoes Are Made for Talking," hailing a new age of futuristic sports training.342 In January of 2010, a security camera app was released which transformed the smart-phones on our hips and in our pockets into windows into our homes.343 Another example is our ability to video chat with family members from afar. Perhaps these are what the Prophet ﷺ intended, or perhaps other phenomena that we have yet to experience.

One can only imagine how difficult these statements were for a seventh-century desert dweller to process, but the incredible strides in electricity and electronics since then have made such possibilities mundane for most people. In TIME’s Best Inventions of 2002, a Japanese toy-maker is showcased for creating a dog translator; a device on its collar that interprets its yelps, growls, and whines into phrases such as “I can’t stand it”, “how boring”, and “I am lonely.”341 In November of 2006, The New York Times published an article entitled “These Shoes Are Made for Talking,” hailing a new age of futuristic sports training.342 In January of 2010, a security camera app was released which transformed the smart-phones on our hips and in our pockets into windows into our homes.343 Another example is our ability to video chat with family members from afar. Perhaps these are what the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم intended, or perhaps other phenomena that we have yet to experience.

لأجل الإيجاز، سنكتفي بهذه المجموعة من النبوءات الموثّقة عن خاتم أنبياء الله محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم. ومن الجدير بالذكر أنه مع أن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم وصف كثيراً من علامات آخر الزمان، فإنه لم يحدّد تاريخاً أو وقتاً بعينه. بل كان في مناسبات عديدة يتلو على الناس آيات من القرآن الكريم مثل قوله تعالى: {قُل لَّا يَعْلَمُ مَن فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ الْغَيْبَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ ۚ وَمَا يَشْعُرُونَ أَيَّانَ يُبْعَثُونَ}.344

For the sake of brevity, we will settle for this set of verified prophecies of God’s final prophet, Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم. It is noteworthy, however, that although the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم described so many portents of the end-times, he never specified an exact date or time. Rather, he would on multiple occasions recite to people the likes of these verses from the Qur’an: “Say, [O Muhammad], ‘None in the heavens and earth knows the unseen except Allah, and they do not perceive when they will be resurrected.’”344

يمكن لأحدٍ أن يحتجّ بأنّ هذا أيضًا يشكّل نبوءةً أخرى، وهي أنّ كلّ توقيتٍ محدّدٍ لقيام الساعة — وقد قدّمه عددٌ لا يُحصى من الناس عبر التاريخ — سيثبت خطؤه. وكلّ منصفٍ يتأمّل في هذا العدد الهائل من النبوءات، ويتذكّر أنّنا أنفسنا قبل خمسين عامًا ما كان بوسعنا أن نتنبّأ بالأحداث التي أخبر بها النبيّ ﷺ، لا بدّ أن يُعجَب بها. وبالنظر إلى عدد هذه النبوءات ودقّتها، يجب أن تُرى على حقيقتها: براهينَ قاطعةً بشكلٍ ساحقٍ على نبوّته ﷺ.

Someone can argue that this too constitutes another prophecy, namely that every specific prediction about when the Final Hour will be—which countless people have made throughout history—will be mistaken. Any fair-minded person who considers the staggering number of these prophecies and reflects that we ourselves 50 years ago could never have predicted the events he صلى الله عليه وسلم predicted, must be impressed by them. Given the number and precision of these prophecies, they must be seen for what they are: overwhelmingly convincing proofs of his prophethood .