The Restoration

Al-Habib Abu Bakr al-Adani ibn Ali al-Mashhur
Paperback, 256 pages

Reclaiming the Fourth Pillar of Religion through the Hadith of Jibril

When Jibril came to the Prophetﷺ, he asked about Islam, Iman and Ihsan, and then about the Hour and its signs. The scholars of ușul built the sciences of religion upon the first three.

This treatise argues that the hadith sets out four pillars, not three, and that the fourth, knowledge of the Signs of the Hour, which the author calls Figh al-Tahawwulat, the Understanding of Transformations, must be restored beside them.

Presented with the Arabic facing the English, it sets out the sciences of this fourth pillar: the tribulations that unravel the bonds of Islam, glad tidings and immunities, the cosmic signs and great battles, and the bond between religion and history.