Who Was Jalut? The giant 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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جالوت

Jalut

The giantc. 1020 BCE

Relied onHis size and his army

Undone byA young Dawud

Commander of the army that oppressed Bani Israil. Many of Talut's soldiers lost heart at the sight of him.

How it ended

Killed by the young Dawud (2:251).

So they defeated them by permission of Allah, and David killed Goliath, and Allah gave him the kingship and prophethood and taught him from that which He willed. And if it were not for Allah checking [some] people by means of others, the earth would have been corrupted, but Allah is full of bounty to the worlds.
Quran 2:251

The lessonHow many a small company has overcome a large company by permission of Allah (2:249).

In the Quran

2:249-251

Stood against
Source: Named in the QuranNamed 3 times in the Quran.

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.