The Miracle of Ahmad — Page 47
47 fault lies with his mentor, Maulaw i Muhammad Husain. And at every place where the issue of the life and death of Hadrat ‘ I s a is raised before them, they forthwith begin to quote a huge assort - ment of traditions from S a hih al-Bukh a r i , S a hih Muslim, J a mi‘ Tirmidh i , Sunan Ibn M a jah, Sunan Ab u D a w u d, Sunan Nas a ’ i , Musnad Im a m Ahmad, T abar a n i , Mu‘jam Kab i r, Nu‘aim Ibn H amm a d, Mustadrak Ha kim, S a hih Ibn Khuzaimah, Naw a dir-ul- U su l Tirmidh i , Ab u D a w u d T ay a lis i , Ahmad, Musnad al-Firdaus, Ibn ‘As a kir, Kit a b al-Waf a Ibn Jauz i , Shar h as-Sunnah Baghaw i , Ibn Jar i r, Baihaq i , Akhb a r al-Mahd i , Musnad Ab u Ya‘l a , and cer - tain other books of Hadith saying they all mention that ‘ I s a will descend. Whether it would take place in Jerusalem or Damascus or on Mount Af i q or among an army of the Muslims is, however, still not decided. They cite this as the most complex issue today. What is even more surprising is that some of the books men - tioned above are so rare that even the fathers of these esteemed gentlemen would not have seen them. Yet, they keep mention - ing these books so that the people may at least think of them as learned, scholarly men familiar with such a large corpus of litera - ture. Alas, they act perfidiously. I now feel embarrassed to invoke the name of the Jews, for ‘Jews’ such as these are found only in Islam. Only a few days have passed since Maulaw i Muhammad Husain tried to ingratiate himself with the British Government by presenting to them a book regarding the Mahdi. The book says that not even a single hadith regarding the Mahdi can be proved as authentic. The author has also received a piece of land as reward for his services. I do not know what services he has rendered. But, one service that he has surely rendered to the government is that