What is your advice to those who are circulating and believing what is known as the prophecy of Ibrahim ibn Saluqiyah, which has recently appeared and is spreading on social media, and which includes: "Until the two numbers become equal 20=20, and the disease of time spreads, and the pilgrimage is prevented, and the clamor disappears, and locusts invade, and people are weary, and the king of the Byzantines dies from his terrible illness, and brother fears brother, and you become like the Jews in bewilderment, and markets stagnate, and prices rise, then await in the month of March an earthquake that threatens the foundations, a third of the people will die, and the child's hair will turn gray from it"? And is Ibrahim ibn Saluqiyah a well-known scholar among the early Muslims (Salaf) in Hadith or history, or is he a person with a bad reputation?
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The matter is nothing more than a mythical tale; there is no scholar from the early or later generations known as Ibrahim ibn Saluqiyah. This is a fabricated character to whom prophecies are attributed. The book "Akhbar al-Zaman" (Chronicles of Time) is by Al-Mas'udi, who died in 346 AH. Someone falsified the character of Ibn Saluqiyah and altered his death date. A Muslim does not need such myths for their religion or worldly life, and they are even more hateful and false if they pertain to informing about the unseen.
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