Minor Signs
Sending of the Prophet ﷺ
He is the last of the prophets; his sending is the first of the signs.
Bukhārī & Muslim
Death of the Prophet ﷺ
ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAmr said its onset began with the passing of the Prophet ﷺ.
Bukhārī
Spread of killing
«The Hour will not come until killing increases until the one who kills does not know why, and the one killed does not know why.»
Bukhārī & Muslim
Disappearance of knowledge
«Allah takes knowledge by taking the scholars… until people take the ignorant as leaders, who are asked and give rulings without knowledge, going astray and leading others astray.»
Bukhārī
Time passing faster
«The Hour will not come until a year is like a month, a month like a week, a week like a day, and a day like an hour.»
Tirmidhī
Construction of tall buildings
«…when the barefoot, naked shepherds compete in building tall structures.»
Bukhārī & Muslim
Music and silk spreading
«From my Ummah there will be people who make lawful silk, alcohol, and musical instruments.»
Bukhārī
Increase in earthquakes
«The Hour will not come until earthquakes increase.»
Bukhārī
Trust becomes lost
«When trust is lost, then await the Hour.» It was asked: How is it lost? He said: «When authority is given to those unworthy of it.»
Bukhārī
Wine becomes lawful
«A group of my Ummah will make wine lawful and call it by other names.»
Abū Dāwūd
Abundance of women
«The Hour will not come until a man passes by a grave and says: I wish I were in his place» — due to trials and the abundance of women and scarcity of men.
Bukhārī
Major Signs
The Mahdī
A man from the family of the Prophet ﷺ named Muḥammad who rules by justice and fills the earth with fairness as it was filled with oppression.
Abū Dāwūd, Ibn Mājah
The Dajjāl (False Messiah)
A great tribulator claiming divinity, given forty days — the first like a year, the second like a month, the third like a week, the rest like normal days.
Bukhārī & Muslim
Descent of ʿĪsā
He descends at the white minaret in Damascus, prays behind the Mahdī, kills the Dajjāl at the Gate of Ludd, breaks the cross, kills the pig, and abolishes the jizyah.
Bukhārī & Muslim
Yaʾjūj and Maʾjūj
The two tribes that are let loose to spread corruption, drinking the waters of the earth, and whom ʿĪsā prays against until Allah destroys them.
18:94–99, Bukhārī
The Beast of the Earth
A creature that emerges from the earth and speaks to people, marking the believers and disbelievers.
27:82, Tirmidhī
Smoke
A smoke that spreads over the earth and covers it for forty days, affecting the believers like a cold and the disbelievers severely.
44:10
The sun rising from the West
When it rises from the west, the door of repentance closes — no repentance is accepted after that. «When you see this, do not repent — it will not benefit.»
Bukhārī & Muslim
Three landslides
One in the East, one in the West, one in Arabia — massive landslides that swallow people and land.
Bukhārī & Muslim
A fire from Yemen
A fire that emerges from the bottom of ʿAden and gathers people to their gathering place in Syria.
Bukhārī & Muslim
Preparing for the Last Day
Prepare with good deeds
«The smart one is he who subdues himself and works for what comes after death» — every day is a step toward the final meeting.
Tirmidhī
Seek refuge from the Dajjāl
«The Dajjāl is the greatest trial from the creation of Adam to the Hour» — seek refuge from him in every prayer.
Muslim
Memorize Surah al-Kahf
«Whoever memorizes the first ten verses of Surah al-Kahf will be protected from the Dajjāl.»
Muslim
Hold firmly to the Sunnah
In times of trial, hold to the Quran and the Sunnah with the teeth — «Stick to my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the rightly-guided caliphs.»
Abū Dāwūd, Tirmidhī
Duʿās for Protection
اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ عَذَابِ الْقَبْرِ وَأَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ فِتْنَةِ الْمَسِيحِ الدَّجَّالِ
Allāhumma innī aʿūdhu bika min ʿadhābi al-qabr wa aʿūdhu bika min fitnati al-masīḥi ad-dajjāl
O Allah, I seek refuge in You from the punishment of the grave and from the trial of the False Messiah.
Bukhārī & Muslim
اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنَ النَّارِ
Allāhumma innī aʿūdhu bika min an-nār
O Allah, I seek refuge in You from the Fire.
Bukhārī & Muslim