Question:
Assalam u alayekum!
One day I was reading the sohbat translation in English from (Haqqani Fellowship website)and it was mentioned in the context of Sura e asr by Sheikh that ummat e Muslima will last 1500 years. 1471 years have been completed, 29 remain.Can you please tell me which Tafsir/Hadith was he referring?
The other day I listened to a khateeb who was saying that qiyamat will occur after 120 years of that event in which the sun will rise from the west?
I am a bit perplexed. May you please clear my confusion.
May Allah increase your knowledge and also Shaikh.
Assalam u alayekum wassalam ila’l shaykh nazaim wa shaykh hisham.
Answer:
`Alaykum as-Salam,
Imam al-Tabari narrated and declared it sound (sahih) from Ibn `Abbas (Allah be well-pleased with him and his father): “The world is seven days, each day a thousand years, and the Prophet was sent in the last of them.” Add to this the fair hadith narrated by Abu Dawud in the Sunan, Ahmad in the Musnad, and al-Hakim in the Mustadrak: “Truly, I swear that I hope my Community will not be denied by their Lord a respite of half a day.” Sa`d b. Abi Waqqas said, “half a day means five hundred years”. These and other reports are the basis on which Imam al-Suyuti in al-Hawi lil-Fatawa (2:86-89) and others said, as Mawlana said, that the term of the world is to the Hijri year 1500. And Allah knows best.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
