Gharqad

In Sunni tradition it was narrated that Muhammad said:[5]

The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.

Narrations that include mentioning of the Gharqad tree, are:

• Sahih Muslim, 41:2922 (brought above)
• Sahih Muslim 41:6984
• Sahih Muslim 41:6985
• Sunan ibn Majah, 36:152

Narrations that do not mention the Gharqad tree, rather, only mention stones talking or also trees talking, are:

• Sahih al-Bukhari, 4:56:791
• Sahih Al-Bukhari 4:52:177
• Sahih Muslim 41:6981
• Sahih Muslim 41:6982
• Sahih Muslim 41:6983
• Another narration.[6]

Within Sunni Islam, these narrations are understood as part of Sunni eschatology's description of a great war at the end times against the forces of Dajjal which should occur after the second coming Jesus according to Islam. Then, according to this eschatology, Jesus will lead an army of Muslims, some of whom are righteous Christians and righteous Jews converting to Islam in the eve of the battle, to fight the army of Dajjal consisted of Jews beleving Dajjal is a god, and if a Jew of Dajjal's army hides behind a stone or a tree, this stone or tree will miraculously talk to a Muslims to expose him unless it's a Gharqad tree, because its "their tree".[7][8]

Sunni moderate writers debate the subject in pedantic eschatological terms, emphasizing that this should happen only in the end times after the second coming of Jesus in accordance to Sunni thought and should not damage current Islamic-Jewish relations.[9][10]

According to one Sunni interpretation, Dajjal's army will not be consisted only of evil Jews but also of evil Christians and evil Muslims believing Dajjal is a god, fighting as soldiers and not as civilians.[7] This specific interpretation was criticized for not referring to Jews alone, while the author noted that "No one disputes that this relates to future events and not to our time".[11]

The general message of the text is often alleged as a prophecy but it does not appear in the Quran, which is considered by Muslims to be the godly revelation to Muhammad.
According to Memri TV, Qadhi described this text as referring to an end times war which is "a fight between good and evil"[12] and that the text is "predictive and not prescriptive".[12]

Not all Muslims accept all hadith as reliable and may conclude somewhat different eschatology; most Shia Muslims reject Sunni hadith as unreliable and have their own hadith such as The Four Books. While according to Karimov, Zaydi Shia may hold Sunni hadiths with high esteem[13], Zaydis have their own main Hadith traditions.[14] While some Ibadi Muslims do not consider Sunni Hadith as reliable and rely on Tartib al-Musnad, Hoffman noted that contemporary Ibadis often approve of the standard Sunni collections.[15]

Dajani Daoudi concluded that by comprehensive review of the Quran, no such hadith would exist since it openly contradicts Islamic faith and that Muslims believe a hadith is the word of man while the Quran is the word of God.[16] Dajani Daoudi added that "this hadith" (that which he quoted) was collected 150 years after the death of Muhammad, that the authenticity of such a hadith is disputed and that this particular hadith has become controversial for promoting anti-Jewish sentiments among Muslims.[17]

• Uzair
• Armageddon
• Hate speech
• List of forests in Israel

• Syrian Islamic Scholar Abdul Nafee Al-Rifai: Jerusalem Municipality Made It Mandatory To Plant Gharqad Trees In People's Gardens In Order To Protect The Jews From The Muslims On Judgement Day