25.The rider on the white horse/Allah sends the Mahdi for a 7-year age

Episode 25: A 2nd Letter to the Tribulation - Comparing End Time Prophecies
K16 The rider on the white horse, known as the beast and antichrist, at the beginning of the seven-year tribulation
H16 Allah sends the Mahdi for a seven-year glorious age

0:00 Sections K16: :H16
0:30 Hadiths: the Mahdi's army of Khorasan conquers Jeruselem
2:34 -the Mahdi will rule the world for seven years
5:16 -Islam's acceptance of the Mahdi on the white horse
8:28 Revelation: the first seal & the rider on the white horse
9:52 -who is this rider on the white horse?
12:40 -the beast of Revelation is the antichrist
14:18 Comparison: will the Mahdi be the antichrist?
17:26 Close

Hadith references
66. Narrated by Thawban, Sunan Ibn Majah 4084, Vol. 5, Book 36, Hadith 4084, https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah:4084, accessed May 15, 2024.
67. Narrated by Abu ‘Abd Allah Na’im b. Hammad al-Maruzi, Kitab al-Fitan (Dar al-Fikr; 1414 H) [annotator: Prof. Dr. Suhayl Zakar], part 4, p. 188, quoted in Toyib Olawuyi, https://www.al-islam.org/imam-al-mahdi-twelfth-khalifah-sahih-sunni-ahadith-toyib-olawuyi/5-black-flags-khurasan, accessed May 15, 2024.
68. Narrated by Abdullah ibn `Abbas, in Nu`aym ibn Hammad, quoted in `Izzat, Muhammad Ibn, and `Arif, Muhammad, Al Mahdi and the End of Time, Dar al Taqwa press, London, second edition 2007, p.28.
69. Narrated by Abu Hurairah, Sunan al-Tirmidhī 2269, Vol. 4, Book 7, Hadith 2269, as quoted in Mohammed Ali Ibn Zubair Ali, Signs of Qiyamah, New Delhi, Abdul Naeen, 2004, p.42, cited in Richardson, Joel, The Islamic AntiChrist, WND Books, Los Angeles, 2009. p. 27; see also https://sunnah.com/tirmidhi:2269 accessed May 15, 2024; Abu Amina Elias, Are hadith of the black flags of al-Mahdi authentic? October 2, 2014, https://www.abuaminaelias.com/hadith-black-flags-al-mahdi/.
70. Nuaim Ibn Hammad (9th century collector of hadiths), Kitab Al-Fitan, https://www.scribd.com/document/378445646/Kitab-al-Fitan-of-Nuaym-b-Hammad, p.215, cited in https://ghayb.com/2017/06/the-black-banners-will-appear-6-years-before-imam-mahdi/, accessed May 15, 2024; see also https://daiyah.fandom.com/wiki/Hadith_of_black_flags, accessed March 16, 2023.
71. Narrated by AbuSa'id al-Khudri, Sunan Abi Dawud 4285, Book 37, Hadith 4272, https://sunnah.com/abudawud:4285, accessed May 15, 2024.
72. Mustadrak Haakim 8673, quoted in Justice and Blessings During the Reign of the Mahdi, December 26, 2022, https://ihyaauddeen.co.za/?p=20267.
73. Narrated by Umm Salamah, Ummul Mu'minin, Sunan Abi Dawud 4286, Book 37, Hadith 4273, https://sunnah.com/abudawud:4286, accessed May 15, 2024.
74. Narrated by Abdullah ibn `Abbas, in Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Abu Nu`aym, and an-Nasa'I, quoted in `Ibn Izzat p.8; also narrated by Abdullah Ibn ‘Abbas, in Ibn Hajar al-Haytami (10th century Egyptian scholar of hadith), Al-Sawa'iq al-Muhriqah, quoted in Ayatollah Sadr al-Din al-Sadr (d.1953), Al-Mahdi, English trans. Jalil Dorrani, Naba Organization, 1994, https://www.al-islam.org/al-mahdi-sayyid-sadruddin-sadr/chapter-4, accessed May 26, 2024.
77. Ka’b al-Ahbar, quoted in `Ibn Izzat p.15.