The Rising of the Sun from the West:

Allah Most High says:
“Are they waiting for anything but that the angels should come to them, or that your Lord should come, or that some of your Lord’s signs should come? On the Day that some of your Lord’s signs do come, no soul will profit from its faith if it had not believed before or earned, through its faith, any good.” 1.

Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Kathīr states in al-Nihāyah: “Al-Bukhārī, while commenting on this verse, reported: Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid narrated to us; ʿImārah narrated to us; Abū Zurʿah narrated to us—from Abū Hurayrah—who said that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ declared: ‘The Hour will not be established until the sun rises from the west. When the people behold it, everyone on earth will believe, yet that is the moment when belief will no longer benefit a soul that had not believed beforehand.’ The rest of the compilers, except al-Tirmidhī, also recorded this ḥadīth…” End quote.

Al-Saffārīnī said, “The scholars—may Allah have mercy on them—affirm that the rising of the sun from the west is established by sound Sunnah and unequivocal reports, and indeed by the Book revealed to the Messenger:

Allah says, ‘On the Day that some of your Lord’s signs do come, no soul will profit from its faith if it had not believed before or earned, through its faith, any good…’ 2; the exegetes, unanimously or by an overwhelming majority, hold that this verse refers to the sun’s rising from the west, and, in essence,