Storming the Ka`ba and the
Subsequent Bloodshed
 

People will perform hajj together and gather without an Imam. The Hajjis will be looted and there will be a battle at Mina in which many will be slain and blood will flow until it runs over the Jamra al-'Aqaba. (Jamra: a stone pillar, which represents Satan, that is stoned during the pilgrimage.) (Narrated by 'Amr ibn Shu'ayb, al-Hakim and Nu'aym ibn Hammad)

  

 

People make pilgrimage without an imam leading them. Big wars break out when they come down to Mina, and they are entwined just the way dogs entwine, and tribes attack on each other. This strife is so widespread that legs are buried in lakes of blood. (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi' 'Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir al-zaman, p. 35)

 

The phrase “the year in which he will emerge” draws attention to a massacre that will occur on the date of the Mahdi's emergence. In 1979, a massacre very like this one occurred during the Ka'ba raid, which took place during the pilgrimage month. This raid occurred at the very beginning of the period during which the signs of Mahdi's advent appeared, that is, the first day of the Islamic year 1400 (21 November 1979).

The hadiths also mention bloodshed and massacres. The killing of 30 people during the clashes between Saudi soldiers and militants during the raid confirms the rest of this hadith.

Seven years later, an even bloodier incident happened during the pilgrimage. In this incident, 402 demonstrating pilgrims were killed, and vast amounts of blood was shed. Both the Saudi soldiers and the Iranian pilgrims committed great sins, for they killed one another as mentioned in a hadith. These bloody incidents have great parallels to the environment described in the hadith.

 

The Prophet (may God bless him and grant him peace) said: There will be a voice in Ramadan, a noise in Shewwal, and war between the tribes in the month of Dhu'l Qa'dah. Pilgrims will be despoiled. There will be a war in Mina in which many die, to such an extent that so much blood will flow as to leave the stones there in a lake of blood. (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi' 'Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir al-zaman, p. 31)

 

 

There will be a voice in Ramadan, and a voice in Shawwal. In Dhu'l Qa'dar the tribes will fight one another. In Dhu'l Hijja pilgrims will be despoiled. In Muharram there will be a shout from the sky: “Take heed. Such a person is of the auspicious ones of the people of God. Listen to and obey him.” (Ahmad Diya'al-Din al-Kamushkhanawi, Ramuz al-Ahadith, 2/518-5)

 

 

There will be rebellion in Shawwal, talk of war in Dhu'l Qa'dar, and an act of war in Dhu'I Hijja. Pilgrims will be despoiled and their blood will flow, (over the Kaaba). (Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Rasul Barzanji, Al-Isha‘ah li-ashrat al-sa‘ah, p. 166)

 

 

In the month of Du'l Qa'dar the tribes will wage war, pilgrims will be kidnapped and there will be bloody wars. (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi' 'Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir al-zaman, p. 34)

 

 

There come the cries of war in (the month of) Shawwal with the outbreak of war, massacre, and carnage in (the month of) Dhu'l-Hijja. The pilgrims are plundered in this month, the streets cannot be crossed because of the blood shed, and religious prohibitions are violated. Big sins are committed near the Magnificient House (the Ka`ba). (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi' 'Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir al-zaman, p. 37)

 

(left above)The Kaaba attack in 1979 turned into a massacre. It is striking that this massacre took place at the beginning of the period during when the signs of the End of Times appeared one after another, that is, on the first day of the Hijjri 1400. 7 years after this mass murder, a more bloody event took place during the Hajj, These bloody events have evident parallels with the environment described in the hadiths.
Turkiye, November 21. 1979
(l eft below) "Clash at Mekke" Turkiye, August 2,1987

When we examine the expressions in the hadiths it can be seen that there are indications of important events regarding the same period:

Great sins will be committed beside the Ka'ba

This hadith draws attention to the incidents that will occur near the Ka`ba. The incidents during 1407 actually took place near the Ka`ba, and not inside it, unlike the event of 1400. Both incidents happened just the hadiths indicated that they would.

It is clear that it cannot be mere coincidence that two such major events as bloodshed in the Kaaba and the killing of pilgrims, as reported in the hadiths, should take place one after the other in the period when all the portents regarding the Mahdi are coming true.

...There will be war and slaughter in Dhu'l Hijja.

The fact that this war and conflict is discussed together with the killing of pilgrims in the hadiths shows that these events will take place in the same period of time.

That same period was when the Iran-Iraq war broke out, and the time of the worst fighting and chaos in the countries of the Middle East.