Al Fitan

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Foretold events

Conquests foretold (Persia, Rome, Yemen, Sham, Iraq, Egypt, Jerusalem)

Appeared

In brief

In the hardest days, when the Muslims were few and surrounded, the Prophet ﷺ foretold that they would conquer Persia, Rome, Yemen, Sham, Iraq, Egypt and Jerusalem.

While digging the trench around Madinah, he struck a stubborn rock and said he had been given the keys of Sham, Persia and Yemen. He told Adi ibn Hatim that a woman would travel alone from al-Hirah to the Ka'bah fearing no one but Allah, and that the treasures of Kisra, the Persian emperor, would be spent in the path of Allah. Adi lived to see both. He told Suraqah he would wear Kisra's bracelets, and Umar later put them on him.

These came true within a few decades: Jerusalem in 15-16 AH, Egypt in 20-21 AH, and Persia by about 31 AH. Scholars such as al-Bayhaqi gathered them as proofs of his prophethood.

What to do

Hope in Allah's promise even in the narrowest times, as the Companions did at the trench.

Where it sits in the sequence

Phase 1 / 7Foretold for the early generations

Events the narrations foretold that scholars connect with the first centuries of Islam. No single narration puts them in order.