A sound hadith from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), serious in its meaning, warning in its text that a person’s repentance will not be accepted if any of these terrifying and dreadful events, which contradict our experiences of life, occur. They are all among the major signs of the Hour that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) told us about.

Anglicized:

Rawā Muslim fī Ṣaḥīḥihi ‘an Abī Hurayrah raḍiya Allāhu ‘anhu qāla: qāla Rasūlu Allāh ṣallā Allāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam: Thalāth idhā kharajna lā yanfaʿ nafsan īmānhā lam takun āmant min qablu aw kasabat fī īmānihā khayran: ṭulūʿ al-shams min maghribihā, wa al-Dajjāl, wa Dābbat al-Arḍ.

Translation:

Muslim narrated in his Sahih from Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Three things, when they appear, no soul will benefit from its faith if it had not believed before or had not earned any good through its faith: the rising of the sun from its setting place (the west), the Antichrist (al-Dajjal), and the Beast of the Earth.