authorities from Abu Hureirah upwards, who said) that the Apostle of GOD Said: ". . . It will soon come to pass that the Son of Mary will send down to you a just command, and verily He descendeth to my people (followers) and my successors, and when ye see Him then know Him. For verily he is" (then follows an account of Christ's supposed personal appearance). "He shall descend between two sceptres . . . Then He shall break in pieces the cross, and shall slay the hog, and shall impose the jizyah-tax, and shall cause wealth to abound . . . . And He shall fight with men for Islam until He shall destroy in His time all faiths except Islam, and there shall be one worship of GOD, the Lord of the Worlds. And in His time shall GOD destroy the Messiah of Error, the Liar Antichrist (Ad Dajjal). And confidence shall be established to such a degree in the earth that the lions shall eat and drink with the camels, and the panthers with the oxen, and wolves with sheep, and children shall play with snakes, and one of them shall not hurt another. Then He shall continue upon earth forty years, and shall marry, and children shall be born to Him. After that He shall die, and the Muslims shall pray for blessings on Him. And they shall bury Him at Medina at 'Umr's side." Another form of the same tradition is given in the same chapter in these words: "When GOD shall cause Christ Jesus to descend, He shall live among this people (i.e. Muhammadans—فِي هَذِهِ الأُمََّةِ ) as long as He shall live. Then He shall die in this my city (Medina), and shall be buried at the side of 'Umr's grave. Happy are Abu Bakr and 'Umr, for they shall rise between two prophets" (i.e. Jesus and Muhammad).

3. Qisasu'l Anbiya, pp. 274, 275:—"Jesus, with His

Apostles, went to the House of 'Ainu's Suluk. The Jews besieged and stationed themselves round about the house. Immediately Gabriel came and split open the roof of the house. He took up Jesus and carried Him off to the fourth Heaven. GOD Most High gave Him the companionship of the angels, and took from Him all need for food and drink. The king of the Jews, Shuyugh by name, who had entered the house with the intention of slaying Jesus, could not find Him when he sought Him. When some delay took place, the Jews went into the house. GOD Most High had changed Shuyugh into the form of Jesus. The Jews fancied he was Jesus and smote him with the sword. Although he kept crying out 'I am Shuyugh,' yet it was of no avail; but they said that Jesus had by magic turned Himself into the form of Shuyugh. After killing Shuyugh the Jews were seized with doubt, saying, 'If this is Shuyugh, where is Jesus? if this is Jesus, what has become of Shuyugh?' They did not know that Jesus had been carried off to the fourth Heaven . . . . It is recorded that when Dajjal the Accursed comes forth and misleads and makes infidels of people, and the Imam Mahdi with a number of Muslims shall be in Jerusalem, then Jesus shall come forth and wage war with Dajjal and shall slay him, and shall invite his own followers to accept the Muhammadan religion. Jesus will be of the Muhammadan faith, and He will give quarter to every one who believes in Islam, but He shall slay every one who does not believe in Islam. From the east even to the west He shall subdue the whole world and make its people Musalmans, and He shall show forth the strength of the Muhammadan religion to such a degree that in the whole world there shall not remain a single Infidel, and the world shall be inhabited and