# Muhammad's Failed Prophecies URL: https://islamsproblems.com/muhammad-failed-prophecies/ Part: Core Arguments --- ### 8. Muhammad's Failed Prophecies Muhammad made multiple time-bound predictions about al-Sā'ah (the Hour / apocalypse) that have provably failed. **(anything in parenthesis or like "X said this meant" was added later and "to you" isn't in the original Arabic)** #### 1. As near as the index and middle finger > "I saw Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) pointing with his index and middle fingers, saying, '**The time of my Advent and the Hour are like these two fingers.**'" > [Sahih Bukhari 4936](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4936) #### 2. Three different boys "won't grow old" before the Hour Muhammad said this about **three separate young boys** in his lifetime. > "Anas reported that **a person asked Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as to when the Last Hour (al-Sā'ah) would come**. He had in his presence a young boy of the Ansar who was called Muhammad. **Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: If this young boy lives, he may not grow very old till the Last Hour (al-Sā'ah) comes."** > [Sahih Muslim 2953a](https://sunnah.com/muslim:2953a) > "Anas b. Malik reported that **a person asked** **Allah's Apostle (ﷺ): When would the Last Hour (al-Sā'ah) come?** Thereupon **Allah's Messenger** (way peace be upon him) **kept quiet for a while.** Then looked at a young boy in his presence belonging to the tribe of Azd Shanu'a and **he said: If this boy lives he would not grow very old till the Last Hour (al-Sā'ah) would come."** > [Sahih Muslim 2953b](https://sunnah.com/muslim:2953b) > "A young boy of Mughira b. Shu'ba happened to pass by (the Holy Prophet) and he was of my age. > Thereupon **Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) said: If he lives long he would not grow very old till the Last Hour (al-Sā'ah) would come"** > [Sahih Muslim 2953c](https://sunnah.com/muslim:2953c) > **"A bedouin came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! When will The Hour (al-Sā'ah) be established?"**... In the meantime, a slave of Al-Mughira passed by, and he was of the same age as > I was. **The Prophet (ﷺ) said. "If this (slave) should live long, he will not reach the geriatric old age, but the Hour (al-Sā'ah) will be established."** > [Sahih Bukhari 6167](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:6167) #### 3. Within 100 years One month before his death: > "Allah's Messenger as saying this one month before his death: You asked me about **the Last Hour (al-Sā'ah)** whereas its knowledge is with Allah. **I, however, take an oath and say that none upon the earth, the created beings, would survive at the end of one hundred years**." > [Sahih Muslim 2538a](https://sunnah.com/muslim:2538a) > "Do you realize (the importance of) this night? **Nobody present on the surface of the earth tonight will be living after the completion of one hundred years from this night.**" > [Sahih Bukhari 116](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:116) #### 4. People initially understood it literally > "The people made a mistake in grasping the meaning of this statement of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and **they indulged in those things which are said about these narrators (i.e. some said that the Day of Resurrection will be established after 100 years etc.)**" > [Sahih Bukhari 601](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:601) #### 5. Dajjal (Antichrist) comes after the conquest of Constantinople Constantinople fell to the Ottomans in 1453. **The Dajjal did not come.** > "the outbreak of the great war **will be at the conquest of Constantinople and the conquest of Constantinople when the Dajjal (Antichrist) comes forth**. He (the Prophet) struck his thigh or his > shoulder with his hand and said: This is as true as you are here or as you are sitting (meaning Mu'adh ibn > Jabal)." > [Sunan Abu Dawud 4294](https://sunnah.com/abudawud:4294) [Sahih Muslim 2897](https://sunnah.com/muslim:2897) [Sahih Muslim 2920a](https://sunnah.com/muslim:2920a) [Jami at-Tirmidhi 2239](https://sunnah.com/tirmidhi:2239) #### The lexical kill-shot - **The Quran uses al-Sā'ah for ONLY the literal apocalypse 30+ times.** The Quran uses mawt for personal death. - **Nowhere else in the sahih hadiths does al-Sā'ah mean personal death** - except where it's invoked specifically to rescue this exact set of failed predictions. ### Sources - Sahih Bukhari 4936: https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4936 - Sahih Muslim 2953a: https://sunnah.com/muslim:2953a - Sahih Muslim 2953b: https://sunnah.com/muslim:2953b - Sahih Muslim 2953c: https://sunnah.com/muslim:2953c - Sahih Bukhari 6167: https://sunnah.com/bukhari:6167 - Sahih Muslim 2538a: https://sunnah.com/muslim:2538a - Sahih Bukhari 116: https://sunnah.com/bukhari:116 - Sahih Bukhari 601: https://sunnah.com/bukhari:601 - Sunan Abu Dawud 4294: https://sunnah.com/abudawud:4294 --- Markdown mirror of https://islamsproblems.com/muhammad-failed-prophecies/ · Full site map for agents: https://islamsproblems.com/llms.txt