“Before the Hour there will be liars, so beware of them.” Muslim and Ahmad recorded it (5/86–90, 92, 94–96, 100, 101, 106, and 107).

3 - As for the hadith of Thawbān, Abū Asmāʾ al-Raḥabī narrated from him, tracing it back to the Prophet, in the hadith: “Allah drew the earth together for me …” It includes: “… There will be thirty liars in my ummah, each claiming to be a prophet. But I am the Seal of the Prophets; there is no prophet after me.” It was recorded by Abū Dāwūd (4252), Ibn Mājah (3952), and Ahmad (5/278), with an authentic chain according to Muslim’s criteria. Muslim also recorded it in his Ṣaḥīḥ (8/171), but without this addition and other material found in the version transmitted by the first two. Al-Tirmidhī likewise recorded it (2/27) and said: “Good and authentic.”

Know that among these impostors who claimed prophethood was the Indian Mirza Ghulam Ahmad al-Qādiyānī. During British rule in India, he claimed to be the awaited Mahdī; then he claimed to be Jesus, peace be upon him; and finally, he claimed prophethood. Many people with no knowledge of the Quran and sunnah followed him. I met with some of their missionaries, Indians and Syrians, and engaged in many debates with them, one of which was conducted in writing. In it, I challenged them to debate their belief that many prophets would come after the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him—including their prophet, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad al-Qādiyānī. In their first reply, they began to evade the issue, seeking thereby to divert attention from debating this belief of theirs. But I refused and insisted upon it, so they suffered a crushing defeat, and those who attended realized that they were people of falsehood.

They have many other false doctrines in which they have certainly contravened the consensus of the ummah. These include their denial of bodily resurrection; their claim that bliss and Hellfire pertain to the spirit rather than the body; and their assertion that the punishment of the disbelievers will come to an end. They deny the existence of the jinn, claiming that the jinn mentioned in the Quran are a group of human beings. They subject Quranic texts that conflict with their doctrines to a reprehensible figurative reinterpretation, after the manner of the Bāṭiniyyah (esoteric sectarians)