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164 The Glad Tidings of the Messiah (pbuh)

Some of this revealed information deals with the signs of the
End Times. The most significant of these revelations concerns the
Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) second coming. The hadiths about the End
Times can be found in sahih (accredited) hadith collections such as
Imam Nawawi's Riyadh as-Salihin, Imam Malik's Al-Muwatta', Ibn
Khuzayma's Sahih, Ibn Hibban's Sahih, Ahmad ibn Hanbal's
Musnad, and Abu Dawud al-Tayalisi's Musnad. From these
sources, we learn that our Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant
him peace) made many important revelations about the Prophet
Jesus (pbuh), all of which are considered tawatur (reliable).
As is related in the hadith the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) will come
again to Earth within the century in which we live, he will abide by
the religion of Islam, purify Christianity of all its superstitions and
hearsay, be instrumental in the conversion of the People of the
Book into Islam, eradicate the system of dajjal and make the moral
values of Islam rule the world together with Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh).

The Hadiths on the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) Are

"Tawatur"

The hadiths relating the Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) second coming
are reliable (tawatur). Research shows that scholars share this view.
Tawatur is defined as "a tradition which has been handed down by
a number of different channels of transmitters or authorities, hence
supposedly ruling out the possibility of its having been forged." 11
In his Al-Tasrih fi ma Tawatara fi Nuzul al-Masih, the great ha-
dith scholar Muhammad Anwar Shah Kashmiri writes that the ha-
diths about the Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) second coming are all
reliable, and quotes 75 hadiths and 25 works by companions of our
Prophet and their disciples (tabi'un).