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Lawami, Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Saffarini states that
Islamic scholars are in agreement on the issue:
The community of the faithful agrees that Jesus (pbuh),
the son of Maryam, will return. No member of the people
of the Divine law has opposed this element. 105
In his commentary, Ruh al-Ma'ani fi Tafsir al-Qur'an,
the great Islamic scholar Sayyid al-Alusi cited examples of
the views of other Islamic scholars and
said that the community is
agreed on the return of the
Prophet Jesus (pbuh),
and that these statements
were so well known as to at-
tain the level of consensus. He
also stated that belief in the com-
ing of the Prophet Jesus (pbuh)
was obligatory. 106
The Hadith on the
Prophet Jesus
(pbuh) Are "Tawatur"
The hadith relating the
Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) second coming
are tawatur, a specialized term
defined as "a tradition that has
been handed down by a num-
ber of different channels of
