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Islamic eschatology

علم آخر الزمان

Islamic eschatology is the part of the creed concerned with death, the signs of the Hour, resurrection, reckoning and recompense; the Tahawiyya and its Sharh devote a chapter to belief in the signs of the Hour, noting that scholars devoted whole works to its hadiths 1 2.

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Islamic eschatology is the part of the creed concerned with death, the signs of the Hour, resurrection and reckoning; the Tahawiyya and its Sharh devote a chapter to belief in the signs of the Hour 1 2.

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The Sharh notes that scholars devoted well-known compilations to the hadiths of the signs, enumerating among them the mission of Muhammad, the seal of the prophets, and the events foretold after him 1.

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The endings of deeds (khawatim)· God's promise (wa'd Allah)· The people of the qibla and not declaring takfir for sin· The hereafter: the grave, resurrection and reckoning· Reason and heart· The Throne (al-Arsh)· Al-din al-qayyim (the upright religion)· Absolute unseen (al-ghayb al-mutlaq)

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  1. al-Aqida al-Tahawiyya, Dar Ibn Hazm 1995
  2. Sharh al-Tahawiyya, Ibn Abi al-Izz al-Hanafi (Dar al-Hadith, Cairo)
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islam.museum contributors. “Islamic eschatology”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/concept/akhirat-al-zaman/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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The endings of deeds (khawatim)

That deeds are weighed by their endings; in his commentary on Ibn Masud's hadith Ibn Rajab explains 'deeds are but by their endings' as meaning that what counts is the state — sound or corrupt — in which the deed ends, that an evil ending comes through a hidden inward corrupting trait in the servant that people do not see, and that 'endings are the legacy of what preceded'; hence the early generations' intense fear of a bad ending and their fear that lesser hypocrisy might overcome them at the end and carry them into greater hypocrisy, while the Prophet often prayed 'O turner of hearts, make my heart firm on Your religion'.