The Miracle of the Unseen in the Hadiths of the Antichrist
The hadiths concerning the Antichrist (Dajjal) contain details so precise that their fulfilment — or their alignment with modern realities — constitutes evidence of prophetic knowledge of the unseen. Four of these hadiths are examined here with their scientific and historical contexts.
1. The Conquest of Constantinople Without Weapons
Grade: Sahih · Muslim
The Prophet ﷺ tells us of a war that will take place before the emergence of the Dajjal in which no weapons will be used. The Muslims will come to a coastal city and chant the Takbir and Tahlil — its land side will fall, then its sea side, then it will be opened entirely. That war remains in the realm of the unseen.
The city may be opened in that manner as a sign of honour for the Muslims. It is also possible that sound itself will be used as a weapon — for sound has now been weaponised in ways no one in the era of the Prophet ﷺ could have imagined.
The LRAD (Long Range Acoustic Device) is a directed-sound weapon currently in use that projects powerful acoustic beams capable of incapacitating or dispersing targets at distance without conventional arms.
Al-Jazeera has reported that Israel is currently conducting research into the development of sound weapons:
http://www.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/186B6E6A-59F8-449A-850C-4EFCA31F12D1.htm
Perhaps the Muslims in that future war will employ the weapon of sound through Takbir and Tahlil — and Allah knows best.
2. Madinah’s Seven Gates
Grade: Sahih · Bukhari
Madinah today has exactly seven entrances — seven roads leading into the city — precisely as the Truthful, Trusted, and Trustworthy One ﷺ informed us. They are:
- The old Riyadh–Qassim road
- The Riyadh–Qassim expressway
- The old Tabuk road
- The old Jeddah–Makkah road
- The Hijrah–Jeddah–Makkah expressway
- The new Tabuk road
- The Yanbu expressway
Madinah has seven entrances today — matching the hadith exactly. Al-Madina newspaper published a report on the development of these seven entrances, which can be found at:
http://www.al-madina.com/node/232167
3. The White Palace — The Prophet’s Mosque
“The Antichrist will come and ascend Uhud, look into the city, and say to his companions: ‘Do you see this white palace? This is the Mosque of Ahmad.’ Then he will come to the city and find in every pass of it a king drawn and armed. Then he will come to the salt marsh of al-Jarf and strike its portico. Then the city will shake three times, and no hypocrite, male or female, or immoral man or woman will remain except that he will go out to him. That will be the Day of Salvation.”
The Prophet’s Mosque in its earliest form was a small, simple structure — said to have originally been the area of the Noble Garden (al-Rawdah) only. The mosque has since been massively expanded, and large portions of it are now painted white — such that the description of “the white palace” now applies to it precisely as described.
4. The Dajjal’s Speed — Like Rain Driven by Wind
They said: “O Messenger of Allah, how long will he remain on the earth?” He said: “Forty days — a day like a year, a day like a month, a day like a week, and the rest of his days are like your days.”
They said: “O Messenger of Allah, that day will be like a year — will one day’s prayer suffice us?” He said: “No. Estimate it.”
They said: “How fast will he travel on the earth?” He said: “Like rain that the wind has driven away.”
Grade: Sahih · Sahih al-Jami’
The Scholars’ Interpretation of “Rain Driven by Wind”
The classical scholars of hadith acknowledged this simile but could not fully grasp its meaning. From Tuhfat al-Ahwadhi Sharh Sunan al-Tirmidhi:
http://hadith.al-islam.com/
[!scholar] Al-Tayyibi — Tuhfat al-Ahwadhi Sharh Sunan al-Tirmidhi (p. 416)
“Perhaps they knew that it has a speed on the earth, so they asked about its quality, just as they knew about its duration and asked about its quantity. What is meant by ‘rain’ here is the cloud — using the cause as an effect — meaning that it speeds on the earth like the speed of the cloud driven by wind.”
[!scholar] Ibn al-Malik — Tuhfat al-Ahwadhi
“The sentence is a description of the rain, and the meaning is that this is an example whose quality cannot be understood and whose quantity cannot be estimated.”
The classical scholars said openly that the nature of this speed cannot be understood. What means of transport, whose movement can be likened to clouds driven by wind, was available to the people of the Prophet’s era? None. What is available to us today? The airplane — which travels at the altitude of clouds, driven through the sky, covering the earth at speeds the ancients could only compare to storm-driven rain.
The Slowing of the Earth’s Rotation
The hadith also states that during the Dajjal’s forty days, a day will pass like a year, a day like a month, and a day like a week. Modern science has confirmed that the Earth’s rotation is indeed slowing — and has been doing so throughout its history.
From novan.com:
http://novan.com/earth.htm
“It is well known that the rotation of planet Earth is gradually slowing. For four and a half billion years — its entire lifetime — its rate of rotation has been gradually slowing. The Earth is losing its kinetic energy due to all kinds of friction acting on it: sea tides, galactic space dust, solar wind, space weather, geomagnetic storms. At creation 4.5 billion years ago, the Earth’s day/night cycle was approximately 6.5 hours. The rotation has slowed by roughly only 2 milliseconds since 1820.”
It must be stated clearly: the current rate of Earth’s rotational slowing — 2 milliseconds since 1820 — does not, by itself, explain how a day could become as long as a year, a month, or a week within the Dajjal’s forty-day period. The author does not claim this. What is established is that the rotation of the Earth is not fixed, has slowed dramatically over geological time, and — according to purely theoretical calculations — it is possible for a day the length of a week to come to the Earth. The mechanism by which Allah will bring about this change during the Dajjal’s time remains in the realm of the unseen.
In four hadiths, the Prophet ﷺ described realities that either match precisely what exists today — Madinah’s seven gates, the white palace of his mosque — or anticipate technologies and phenomena that were entirely beyond the imagination of seventh-century Arabia: directed sound as a weapon, airplane-like travel speeds, and the theoretical slowing of Earth’s rotation. The Truthful One ﷺ spoke the truth.