With-Love-to-Muhammad

148 With Love to Muhammad sa the Khātam-un-Nabiyyīn
It is also mentioned in several reliable ahādīth that the
descent of Jesus as is one of the events that will occur in the Last
Hour. For example, in Sahīh Muslim, Kitāb-ul-Fitan wa Ashrat As-
Sa’ah or the Book of Conflicts and Signs of the Last Hour, hadīth no.
6931, it is mentioned that the Holy Prophet sa stated ten signs of
the Last Hour and one of those is the descent of Jesus as .
All Sunni Muslims believe this and if Farhan Khan denies
it, then he does not know his own beliefs. Nevertheless, living
up to his academic dishonesty, Farhan Khan modifies Ibn
Khaldūn’s above statement to literally mean: “…he [i.e., Ibn
Khaldūn] says that from now until the end of time there will be
no more prophets.” Khan apparently confuses Ibn Khaldūn’s
words and does not realize that Ibn Khaldūn simply stated what
all Sunni Muslims believe: there is no prophet between the
Holy Prophet sa and the Last Hour in which the Promised
Messiah as would appear.
It is a shame that Farhan Khan then tries to discredit Ibn
Khaldūn by writing that “he was not a muhaddith, nor was this
his specialty. Expertise in social sciences does not automatically
translate into expertise in hadīth interpretation.”
The fact of the matter is that Ibn Khaldūn was a great
scholar and is still highly regarded all over the world. He knew
the Arabic meaning of khātam and the context within which it is
used to praise people. Farhan Khan does not. It is a serious pity
that a person like Farhan Khan would dare flatter himself into
thinking that we would ever take his opinion over the likes of a
great scholar like Ibn Khaldūn, regardless of his expertise or
not. Farhan Khan’s wakeup call is long overdue.
Sixth, no matter how Farhan Khan understands Imām
Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalānī rh or Ibn Khaldūn, the fact of the matter is
that both of them believed in the coming of a latter day prophet,
that is, the Promised Messiah as .