According to an authentic narration, the Noble Messenger (Upon whom be blesssings and peace) said: “There will be a big epidemic during the conquest of Jerusalem.” [^84] When Jerusalem was conquered during the caliphate of ‘Umar, a widespread epidemic caused in three days the death of about seventy thousand people.
[^84]: Bukhārī, Ṭibb, 30; Khiyal, 13; Muslim, Salām, 98, 100; Muwaṭṭa’, Madīna, 22, 24; Musnad, iv, 195-6; Bayhaqī, Dalā’il al-Nubūwwa, vi, 383; Suyūṭī, al-Khaṣā’iṣ al-Kubrā, ii, 477-8.
Again, according to an authentic narration, the Prophet (Upon whom be blesssings and peace) predicted that Basra [^85] and Baghdad would come into existence, which at that time had not been founded, that the treasure of the world would enter Baghdad, [^86] and that the Turks and the people living on the shores of the Caspian Sea would do battle with the Arabs and that the majority of them would later enter the fold of Islam, [^87] and that among the Arabs they would come to dominate them. He said: “The Persians [non-Arabs] will almost predominate among you, consuming your booty and smiting you.” [^88]
[^85]: al-Albānī, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Jāmi‘ al-Ṣaghīr, vi, 268, no: 7736; Tabrīzī, Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ, 5433.
[^86]: Qāḍī Iyāḍ, al-Shifā’, i, 344; ‘Alī al-Qārī, Sharḥ al-Shifā’, i, 703; Ibn Kathīr, al-Bidāya wa’l-Nihāya, x, 102; Tabrīzī, Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ, no: 5433.
[^87]: Bukhārī, Jihād, 95; Muslim, Fitan, 64-66; Tirmidhī, Fitan, 37; Ibn Māja, Fitan, 36.
[^88]: Qāḍī Iyāḍ, al-Shifā’, i, 341; al-Khafājī, Sharḥ al-Shifā’, iii, 194; ‘Alī al-Qārī, Sharḥ al-Shifā’, i, 692; al-Haythamī, Majma‘ al-Zawā’id, vii, 310; al-Ḥākim, al-Mustadrak, iv, 519; Musnad, ii, 288, 296, 304, 324, 377, 520; iv, 66; v, 38.
He also said: “The ruin of my community will be at the hands of the wicked ones from Quraysh,” [^89] suggesting the disorder caused by the wicked leaders of the Umayyads, such as Walid and Yazid.
[^89]: Bukhārī, Manāqib, 25; al-Ḥākim, al-Mustadrak, iv, 479, 527, 572; Musnad, ii, 288, 296, 301, 304, 324, 377, 520, 536; iv, 66; (with different wording) v, 38; Ibn Ḥibbān, Ṣaḥīḥ, viii, 215, 252.
He furthermore predicted that apostasy would take place in such areas as Yamama. [^90]
[^90]: Bukhārī, Manāqib, 25; Maghāzī, 70; Ta’bīr, 40; Muslim, Ru’yā, 21, 22; Tirmidhī, Ru’yā, 10; Musnad, ii, 319, Bayhaqī, Dalā’il al-Nubūwwa, v, 334-6; vi, 358, 360, 524.
During the famous Battle of Khandaq, he declared: “From now on, I will make assaults on the Quraysh and their confederates, not they on me.” [^91] This was also verified.
[^91]: Bukhārī, Maghāzī, 29; Musnad, iv, 262; vi, 394; Ibn Ḥibbān, Ṣaḥīḥ, vi, 272.
According to an authentic narration, he said a few months prior to his death: “One of God’s bondsmen has been given a choice, and he chose that which is with God.” [^92]
[^92]: Bukhārī, Manāqib al-Anṣār, 45; Ṣalāt, 80; Faḍā’il al-Ṣaḥāba, 3; Muslim, Faḍā’il al-Ṣaḥāba, 2; Tirmidhī, Manāqib, 15; Abū Dā’ūd, Muqaddima, 14; Musnad, iii, 18, 478; iv, 211; v, 139; Ibn Ḥibbān, Ṣaḥīḥ, viii, 200; ix, 58.