চূড়ান্ত সমাপ্তি: শেষ দিবসের ভয়াবহতা ও প্রস্তুতি গ্রহণের আহ্বান

The narrations indicate that the duration of this Ummah exceeds one thousand years, but that excess does not reach five hundred years. That is because it has been reported through multiple routes that the total lifespan of the world, from the time of Adam (peace be upon him) until the establishment of the Hour, is seven thousand years, and that the Prophet (ﷺ) was sent at the end of the sixth millennium. It has also been reported that the Dajjal emerges at the turn of a century, and 'Isa (peace be upon him) descends and slays him, remaining on earth for forty years; that people will remain on earth for one hundred and twenty years after the sun rises from the west; and that the interval between the two Trumpet blasts is forty years. He continued until he said: "And it is impossible for the duration to be one thousand and five hundred years at all." Then he mentioned the hadith of Abu Hurayrah in the compilation of al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi, who said: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "Intercession on the Day of Resurrection is only for those among my Ummah who committed major sins and then died upon them. They shall be in the first gate of Hellfire; their faces will not be blackened." He then cited the remainder of the hadith, in which it states: "And the one among them who abides therein the longest will remain in it for the equivalent of the lifespan of the world from the day it was created until the day it ceases to exist, and that is seven thousand years."

I say: Al-Hafiz Ibn Rajab mentioned in his book "Sifat al-Nar" (The Description of the Fire) that this hadith was recorded by Ibn [Abi] Hatim and others, and al-Isma'ili recorded it at length. Al-Daraqutni stated in the book "al-Mukhtalif": "It is a munkar (denounced) hadith," and he detailed its defects, and Allah knows best.

And al-Suyuti mentioned the hadith of Anas recorded by Ibn 'Asakir and others, that the Prophet (ﷺ)...