Gharqad

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According to several Sunni Islamic hadiths that describe Islamic eschatology, Gharqad (Arabic: غرقد) is a kind of tree that would protect Jews from Muslims at the end times. It is mentioned in these hadiths that Abu Huraira reported that the Islamic prophet Muhammad said: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews. It is considered likely that the gharqad tree is of the genus Lycium.

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