What is the correct sequence of appearance for the Mahdi, Gog and Magog, the Antichrist (Al-Masih Ad-Dajjal), and Jesus (peace be upon him)?
The scholars have classified the signs mentioned—the smoke, the Dajjal, the Beast, the sun rising from the west, the descent of Isa ibn Maryam, Gog and Magog, three sinkings of the earth (one in the East, one in the West, and one in the Arabian Peninsula), and finally a fire that emerges from Yemen—as the major signs of the Hour's advent, as narrated by Muslim from Hudhayfah ibn Usayd al-Ghifari. As for the emergence of the Mahdi, it has been established by numerous hadiths reaching the level of tawatur (mass transmission), and scholars have counted it among the major signs due to its concurrence with the emergence of the Dajjal and the descent of Isa, peace be upon him.
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