Who Was Abu Jahl? Leader of the persecution in Islamic History
Before the worldBefore Adam
The first nationsAdam to Ibrahim
Egypt and Bani Israilc. 1300–1000 BCE
Arabia before Islam523–570 CE
Enemies of the Prophet ﷺ610–632 CE
After the Prophet ﷺ632–1260 CE
The end of timeStill to come
Ten signs before the Hour
Isa ibn Maryam descends
A landslide in the east
A landslide in the west
A landslide in Arabia
The smoke
The sun rises from the west
The Beast of the earth
A fire from Yemen drives people to their gathering
Sahih Muslim lists ten major signs before the Hour without fixing their order. This follows a common order given by the scholars. Sahih Muslim 2901a ↗
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أبو جهل
Abu Jahl
Leader of the persecution613–624 CE
Relied onHis rank in Quraysh
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Undone byTwo teenage boys
Amr ibn Hisham led Quraysh's war on Islam. He killed Sumayyah, the first martyr, enforced the boycott, and swore to trample the Prophet's ﷺ neck while he prayed.
How it ended
Killed at Badr. Two teenage boys of the Ansar struck him down, and Ibn Masud finished him.
No! If he does not desist, We will surely drag him by the forelock -
Every villain in Islamic history, from Iblis to the Dajjal
Each entry is drawn from the Quran, authentic hadith (with links to sunnah.com), the classical commentators and the historians. Companions who fought Islam and later became Muslim are not included, nor are figures Muslims disagree about.
