Dars e Bukhari Sharif صحيح البخاري: كتاب أحاديث الأنبياء

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The exegesis of Hazrat Syed Zaynul Abideen Waliullah Shah (Allah be pleased with him) on 'Sahih al-Bukhari' by Imam Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari.

BOOK OF THE PROPHETS (CHAPTER 49) - The advent of Jesus son of Mary (peace be on her).

Narrated Abu Hurayrah: Allah's Messenger ﷺ said 'By Him in Whose Hands my soul is, surely (Jesus) the son of Mary will soon descend amongst you and will judge mankind justly (as a Just Ruler); he will break the Cross and kill the pigs and there will be no Jizya (taxation taken from non Muslims). Money will be in such abundance that nobody will accept it, and a single prostration to Allah in prayer will be better than the whole world and whatever is in it.'  Abu Hurayrah added: If you wish, you can recite (this verse of the Holy Book): -- 'For there is none among the People of the Book but will believe in it before his death; and on Doomsday, he shall be a witness against them — ('The Holy Quran', Al Nisa [The Women]: 160).*

Narrated Abu Hurayrah: Allah's Messenger ﷺ said 'How will you be when the son of Mary descends amongst you and your imam is among you.'

* This verse has been the subject of controversy regarding its real import. Some scholars believe that it refers to a remote future in relation to the time of the crucifixion indicating that all Jews without exception will one day have faith in Jesus Christ and accept him as a true Prophet of God. They claim that it is also mentioned in this verse that this miracle would take place in the lifetime of Jesus Christ. This they infer from the words قَبْلَ مَوْتِهِ which means before his death.

As the Jews have not yet accepted him, therefore, according to such scholars Jesus must be still alive.

Another commonly held view is that the expression refers to every member of the Jewish faith of the time of Jesus Christ. In this case this would mean that every Jew would believe in Jesus Christ before his death – a claim which can only be verified by God.

Unfortunately many problems and difficulties stand in the way of accepting these propositions in toto.

We propose a completely different and new solution to the problem. The verse under study is translated as ‘there is no one among the People of the Book but will certainly believe in him before his death.’  ('The Holy Quran', Holland 1955.  Translated into English by Maulawi Sher Ali).

The word in italics i.e., ‘one’ is not literally mentioned in the verse but is only implied. If it were mentioned the verse would mean as follows: For there is none among the People of the Book.

The word in italics is the implied word. We suggest that instead of Aḥad being implied we should consider the word farīq as the implied word. In that case the translation would be: ‘There is no sect or group from among the People of the Book but will have faith in him (Jesus Christ) before his death.’

This requires that Jesus must have migrated to the lands occupied by the lost tribes of Israel and in doing so he fulfilled his mission of delivering his message to all the 12 flocks of the house of Israel. This view is further powerfully supported by a Prophecy of Jesus Christ wherein he claimed that he would go in search of the lost sheep of the house of Israel: 

But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 

('The Holy Bible'.  Matthew 15: 24.  Authorised King James Version).

'There is none among the People of the Book' can carry two implications: 

1 - That there is not a single one among the People of the Book who would not have believed in him before his death – 

2 - That there is not a single group of people among the People of the Book who would not have believed in him before his death and this is indeed so. If the first implication is taken to mean the death of the Christ then it is just a mere claim. Tens of millions of Jews died without having believed in him before their death, nor having believed in Christ before his death. The theme of the groups seems apt because Jesus Christ passed away after having migrated to the Lost Tribes when certain people from among every one of these Lost Tribes had accepted him and this took place in Kashmir.

(Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad - Khalifatul Masih IV.  'The Introduction to the Surahs of The Noble Quran: With Brief Explanatory Notes to Some Verses', 2002).

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