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these two traditions, read together, reveal that, be- fore the advent of the Promised l\lessiah, false prophets will arise, but their hash will be settled eventually and the advent of the true claimant shall be heralded forth. According to historical evidence, the number of impostors had decidedly reached the given figure of thirty, long before the appearance of the Holy }'ounder of the Ahmadiyya l\lovement. Allama Qastalani says in his famous book : Mowahib- illaddut1ia _\ -·· :. , ~ ,. . . _ -!I. • , w; i • ~ _,,,__. ,~. c:W\~~,~. JV-- • ~tl. s ~ ->~fl~ ~. ,J ~ii_,~ t ~ ~~JI \~~~~~. )\::Jt~~u. ~ ('. "_;. ,~~ ~. . JJ•y,r!. ,- J ''Qazi Ayaz says that the truth of this tradition has become manifest. A count of the known false prophets from ·the time of Holy Prophet (Allah bless him) to our day will show that the gh•en number has been reached and a student of history will recognize the truth of this statement"!, Similar evidence will be found in other works, like lkmalulikamal. Sharhi Muslim and Hujjujul Klrmah edited bv Nawab Siddiq Hasan Khan, Chief of the. A. hlihad. ia. When, inspite of respeated remonstrances, the Maulvies persisted in dubbing him as one of the impostors predicted to appear by the Holy Prophet (Allah bless him), the Promised Messiah 1. Yo/, 2 p. 198, 11,