The Second Coming

So there is this idea of the Antichrist and the end. And most Muslims do believe in a second coming of Jesus — the vast majority of Muslims. There are many hadiths that confirm this. It is not actually mentioned directly in the Qurʾān, but most Muslims do believe in a second coming of Christ towards the end of time.

The question naturally arises whether that would not mean that Muhammad (peace be upon him) was not the seal of the prophets. That is a good point, and it is something that the scholars did deal with. He will not come back as a prophet bringing a sharīʿah. According to the Muslims, he actually comes back and he confirms the tradition of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). That is how the Muslims view it: that he comes back. The question was whether that would not mean that the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was not the seal — but it would not, in the sense that the Prophet (peace be upon him) is after Jesus. The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: there is no prophet between me and Jesus. And he said that all of the prophets are brothers: we have the same father, which is the religion, the dīn of Islam, with different mothers, meaning the different sharīʿahs, the different sacred laws.