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for Muslims. Furthermore, there is no hadith that asserts
that Jesus (pbuh) will not return.

3. The hadith reported by Jabir ibn 'Abdullah: "He who
denies the appearance of the Mahdi is inevitably blas-
pheming against what was revealed to the Prophet (may
Allah bless him and grant him peace). He who denies the
appearance of Jesus (pbuh), the son of Maryam, has be-
come an unbeliever. Someone who denies that the an-
tichrist will appear is also inevitably an unbeliever," is an-
other important piece of evidence. This hadith appears in
such important Islamic sources as Sheikh Muhammad
Parisa's Fusul-i Sitta, Ibn Ishaq's Kitab al-Ta`aruf li
Madhhab Ahl al-Tasawwuf, Imam Suhayli's al-Rawd al-
Unuf, and Imam Suyuti's Alamat al-Mahdi. Moreover, Abu
Bakr explained the hadith in these terms: "It was revealed
to us from Muhammad ibn Hasan, to him from Abu
'Abdullah al-Husayn ibn Muhammad, to him from Ibn
Uways, to him from Malik ibn Abas, to him from
Muhammad ibn Munkadir, and to him from Ibn Jabir." 126

4. Another factor is the number and reliability of the ha-
dith narrators regarding the second coming. Among
these people are Abu al-Asas al-Sanani, Abu Rafi', Abu
al-Aliya, Abu Umama al Bahili, Abu al-Darda', Abu
Hurayra, Abu Malik al-Khudri, Jabir ibn 'Abdullah,
Hudhayfa ibn Adis, Safina, Qatada, 'Uthman ibn al-'As,
Nafi' ibn Kaysani, Al Walid ibn Muslim, 'Ammar ibn
Yathir, and 'Abdullah ibn 'Abbas, may Allah be pleased
with all of them.

Given this, Islamic scholars regard belief in the
Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) second coming and his causing true