Dhu'l‑Suwayqatayn

Attested in hadith collections within the Sunni prophetic materials, Dhu'l‑Suwayqatayn is presented as a specific human actor prophesied to appear in the end times. The name is an Arabic descriptive phrase (literally 'the one with two thin legs') identifying an Abyssinian man who will come from al‑Habash (Abyssinia/Ethiopia) and carry out the dismantling of the Kaʿba. Later exegetes cited in summaries place the event in the wider chronology of end‑time signs—some commentators (e.g., as cited in secondary summaries) read the event as occurring after the return of Jesus (ʿĪsā)—but the core attestation is as a hadith sign recorded in major Sunni compilations.

Hadith summaries describe him as an Abyssinian (al‑Habash), black, short, and bald, with notably 'two thin legs' or 'two small shanks'—a physical trait encoded in the Arabic epithet dhu (possessor of) s‑suwayqatayn. Direct report formulations include images such as 'a black person with thin legs plucking the stones of the Ka`ba one after another.' Some modern notes observe that the phrase 'thin legs' is often interpreted as indicating deformity of the legs.

Sources attribute to him a single defining historical action: the methodical demolition of the Kaʿba 'brick by brick' (described as 'plucking the stones of the Ka`ba one after another') and the removal of its treasure and the Kiswah. This act functions as one of the hadith signs of the Last Days. The hadith literature portrays him as a human agent whose deed signals the collapse of communal faith; the reports do not ascribe supernatural powers beyond the prophesied act itself.