Dhul-Suwayqatayn (
Arabic: ذو السويقتين,
lit. 'the man with two thin legs',[1]Amharic: ዱል-ሱወይቃታይን) is a figure mentioned in the
hadith of the
Islamic prophet
Muhammad,[1] according to which a group of
Abyssinian (
Ethiopian) men are destined to permanently destroy the
Ka‘aba at the end of times and remove its treasure. It will be dismantled brick-by-brick, therefore in a peaceful manner. At this time faith in
God will have disappeared, so the destruction will go unnoticed.[1]Abd Allah ibn Amr ibn al-As and
Ibn Kathir interpreted that this will occur after the
second coming of
Isa (Jesus Christ).[2]
Following the
Fifth Crusade (1217–1221), this tradition was transferred to Europe when Bishop
Oliver of Paderborn's Historia Damiatina described a
Nubian king as an omen indicating the end of Islam.[5]