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Muhammad Amin Suwaidi in his book Saba'ik az-Zahab, wrote
that the hadiths about the Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) second coming are
reliable. 15
These hadiths are recorded by the Ahl as-Sunnah scholars
and hadith experts in their own works. For instance, Abu Dawud,
Ahmad, at-Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah, al-Hakim, an-Nasa'i, al-Tabarani,
al-Rawajini, Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani, ad-Daylami, al-Baihaqi, as-
Salabi, Hamawaini, Manawi, Ibn al-Jawzi, Muhammad ibn 'Ali al-
Sabban, al-Mawardi, al-Khanji al-Shafi, as-Samani, al-Khwarizmi,
ash-Sharani, ad-Daraqutni, Ibn Sabbagh al-Maliki, Muhibbuddin
Tabari, Ibn Hajr al-Haythami, Shaikh Mansur 'Ali Nasif,
Muhammad ibn Talha, Jalaluddin as-Suyuti, al-Qurtubi, al-
Baghawi and many more deal with the subject in their books.
Ibn Kathir, while explaining that the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) is
a sign of the End Times as pointed out in Surat az-Zukhruf 61, says
that the hadiths about Jesus' (pbuh) second coming prior to the
Day of Judgment have reached the status of mutawatir. 'Abd al-
Fattah Abu Ghudda reveals that the hadiths about Jesus returning
to earth and killing (making the dajjal ineffective) have reached the
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degree of being mutawatir. Al-Kattani shares these views in his
Nazm al-Mutanathir min al-Hadith al-Mutawatir. 17
Such books show the great number of hadiths that exist on
this subject. Furthermore, the hadiths that reveal the Prophet Jesus'
(pbuh) second coming in the End Times as a sign of the Last Day
are found in the main hadith source books, such as those by al-
Bukhari and Muslim. Some of these are as follows:
By Him in Whose Hand is my life, the son of Mary (Jesus) will cer-
tainly invoke the name of Allah for Hajj or for Umrah, or for both, in
the valley of Rawha. (Sahih Muslim)