Nuzul as per scholars

Introduction

In this article (How will Ibn-e-Maryam descend?), we have quoted plenty of Verses and Ahadith to prove that Isa (as) has died and that the Messiah prophecied is from within the Ummah, but unfortunately, there still exists people who are always looking for proof from outside these two sources that Allah has given us. They want the scholars to quote what we are showing from Quran. Thus, for the sake of such people, here are a few scholars. Read more here.

4th Century

As early as 4th cent. AH, Muslims were split three ways on the nature of the Second Coming of Jesus (as), as historian al-Muṭahhar b. Ṭāhir al-Maqdisī (fl. 355 AH) noted in al-Bad’ wa-t-ta’rīkh. A part of the umma held that someone else would come in the likeness of Jesus (as).

وقالت فرقة نزول عيسى خروج رجل شبيه بعيسى في الفضل والشرف كما يقال للرجل الخير هو ملك ولشرير هو شيطان يراد به التشبيه ” لا ” الأعيان

A section (of the Muslims) says: “The descent of Jesus signifies the fact that a man will appear who will resemble Jesus in virtue and excellence. This is like how it is said about a good man that he is an Angel, or about an evil man that he is a Satan, by way of resemblance, but not intending it literally.”

[Kitāb al-bad’ wa-l-ta’rīkh, pg 196]

8th Century

In the 8th cent. AH, the historian Sirāj ad-Dīn ibn al-Wardī (d. 749 AH) reiterated precisely this tripartite division of Muslims in Kharīdat al-ʻajāʼib wa-farīdat al-gharāʼib, which suggests that this has remained the belief of a part of the ummah throughout the centuries.

وقالت فرقة: نزول عيسى خروج رجل يشبه عيسى في الفضل والشرف كما يقال للرجل الخير ملك وللشرير شيطان, تشبيهاً بهما, ولا يراد الأعيان.

A section (of the Muslims) says: “The descent of Jesus signifies the fact that a man will appear who will resemble Jesus in virtue and excellence. This is like how it is said about a good man that he is an Angel, or about an evil man that he is a Satan, by way of resemblance, but not intending it literally.”

[Kharīdat al-‘ajā’ib wa-farīdat al-gharā’ib. by Ibn al-Wardī, ‘Umar ibn al-Muẓaffar, pg 190]

Hazrat Mu’in al-Din Chishti (RH)

Hazrat Mu’in al-Din Chishti (RH) calls himself “Second Isa”

دم بدم روح القدس اندر معینے سے دمد

من نمے دانم مگر من عیسیء ثانی شدم

[Irshadaat e Noor Vol 3, page 175]