The following description belongs to a much later period than the former Sūrahs already quoted, and occurs in [Sūrah xxii. 1–7], which was given at Al-Madīnah not long before Muḥammad’s death:—
“O men (of Makkah) fear your Lord. Verily the Earthquake of the Hour will be a tremendous thing!
“On the day when ye shall behold it, every suckling woman shall forsake her sucking babe; and every woman that hath a burden in her womb shall cast her burden; and thou shalt see men drunken, yet are they not drunken: but it is the mighty chastisement of God!
“There is a man who, without knowledge, wrangleth about God, and followeth every rebellious Satan;
“Concerning whom it is decreed, that he shall surely beguile and guide into the torment of the Flame, whoever shall take him for his lord.
“O men! if ye doubt as to the resurrection, yet, of a truth, have We created you of dust, then of the moist germs of life, then of clots of blood, then of pieces of flesh shapen and unshapen, that We might give you proofs of our power! And We cause one sex or the other, at our pleasure, to abide in the womb until the appointed time; then We bring you forth infants; then permit you to reach your age of strength; and one of you dieth, and another of you liveth on to an age so abject that all his former knowledge is clean forgotten! And thou hast seen the earth dried up and barren: but when We send down the rain upon it, it stirreth and swelleth, and groweth every kind of luxuriant herb.
“This, for that God is the Truth, and that it is He who quickeneth the dead, and that He hath power over everything:
“And that ‘the Hour’ will indeed come—there is no doubt of it—and that God will wake up to life those who are in the tombs.”
Very lengthy accounts of the Day of Resurrection, and of the signs preceding it, are given in all books of tradition, and works on dogmatic theology. (See Ṣaḥīḥu ʾl-Buk͟hārī, Arabic Ed. Kitābu ʾl-Fitan, p. 1045; Ṣaḥīḥu ʾl-Muslim, Arabic Ed. vol. ii. p. 388; Mishkātu ʾl-Maṣābiḥ, Arabic Ed. Kitābu ʾl-Fitan; Sharḥu ʾl-Muwāqif, p. 579.)
The following, collected by Mr. Sale from various writers, is given, with some alterations, additions, and references.