Are there other prophecies concerning the time of the advent of Prophet Muḥammad (PBUH)?

Recently, I came across a passage in the Assumption of Moses, also known as the Testament of Moses, which forms part of the Biblical Apocrypha. In this work, Moses (PBUH) is said to have told his attendant, Joshua son of Nun, that 1,750 years after his burial, the kingdom of the next Prophet would arise and that his message would be for all humanity. He further informed him that Allāh would take vengeance upon the unlettered pagans through this Prophet, who would punish them and destroy all their idols. ʿAmr ibn ʿAbasah reported that Prophet Muḥammad (PBUH) said: “He sent me with [a message of] maintaining kinship ties, breaking the idols, and upholding the oneness of Allāh without associating anything with Him.”1 In short, Prophet Muḥammad (PBUH), more than any other Prophet or Messenger, fulfilled his mission of calling people to renounce idolatry and spreading pure monotheism. In other words, he (PBUH) realized the objective of his mission: to make the guidance and the straight path he brought from Allāh prevail over all other paths and systems of life. Allāh says: {He is the One Who has sent His Messenger with ˹true˺ guidance and the religion of truth, that He may cause it to prevail over all others, even though the polytheists may detest it} (Qurʾān 9:33). Moses (PBUH) said: “From my death [assumption] until His advent there shall be 250 times [= year-weeks = 1750 years].”

Are there other prophecies concerning the time of the advent of Prophet Muḥammad (PBUH)?

Moses (PBUH) was buried around 1200 B.C., as the People of the Book report that he lived during the nineteenth pharaonic dynasty, which ruled approximately from 1292 to 1189 B.C.

Are there other prophecies concerning the time of the advent of Prophet Muḥammad (PBUH)?

Interestingly, Prophet Muḥammad (PBUH) was born in 570 C.E., roughly around the time the People of the Book had been awaiting his advent—that is, approximately 1,750 years after the death of Moses (1200 B.C.E.). Indeed, further study of the prophecies concerning Prophet Muḥammad (PBUH) in the Torah and the Bible is both necessary and valuable, particularly for the purpose of inviting people to Islam.

Notes and References

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    Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, (Bayrūt, Lebanon: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyyah, 2020), ḥadīth: 832, available at: https://sunnah.com/muslim:832.