据艾布·赛义德·胡德里（Abū Sa’īd al-Khudrī）传述，先知ﷺ说："以掌握我灵魂的主发誓，在猛兽与人说话、人的鞭梢和鞋带对他说话、他的大腿告诉他家人在他离开后发生的事情之前，末日是不会来临的。"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

一想到这些陈述对七世纪的沙漠居民而言是多么难以理解，人们不禁感慨万千；然而，此后电力与电子技术的飞速进步，使这些可能性在大多数人看来已是司空见惯。《时代》杂志2002年度最佳发明中，介绍了一家日本玩具制造商研发的狗语翻译器：装在狗项圈上的设备，能将它的呜咽、低吼和哀鸣翻译成“我受不了了”“真无聊”“我好孤单”等短语。341 2006年11月，《纽约时报》发表了题为《这些鞋子是为交谈而造》的文章，赞誉这是未来体育训练的新纪元。342 2010年1月，一款安防摄像头应用问世，它能把我们腰间和口袋里的智能手机变成观察家中的窗口。343 另一个例子是，我们可以与远方的家人视频通话。也许这些正是先知ﷺ所指的事物，也许是我们尚未经历的其他现象。

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.

为简便起见，我们就采用这一组经过验证的预言，它们关乎真主的末代使者穆罕默德ﷺ。不过值得注意的是，先知ﷺ虽然描述了许多末日的征兆，却从未指定确切的日期或时间。相反，他多次向人们诵读《古兰经》中类似这样的经文："你说：'除真主外，天地间无人知道幽玄之事，他们也不知道何时复活。'"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

有人可能会辩称，这本身也构成另一项预言：即历史上无数人对末日何时到来所作的每一个具体预测都将被证明是错误的。任何公正的人，若考虑到这些预言的惊人数量，并想到五十年前的我们自己绝无可能预见到他ﷺ所预言的那些事件，都必定会为之折服。鉴于这些预言的数量与精确程度，它们必须被视为其本来面目：对其先知身份极具说服力的确凿证据。

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 .