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What is the authenticity of the narration that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, on the night of the Isra, passed by an old woman, and Jibril informed him that the age of the world is what remains of her life? And did the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, see the caravan of Quraysh on his way back from Jerusalem to Mecca and inform them of its arrival time?

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The two hadiths are weak and not authentic. The first hadith - which includes the story of the old woman whom the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, saw - was narrated by Al-Tabari in his Tafsir, and it contains strangeness and denunciation. Its defect lies in Abdur-Rahman ibn Hashim, whose status is unknown. The second hadith - which includes the Prophet's, peace and blessings be upon him, narration of the stories of the Quraysh caravan - was narrated by Abu Ya'la in his dictionary, and it is a strange hadith due to Muhammad ibn Ismail Al-Wasawisi being the only narrator of it, and he is weak.

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