This is an interesting episode, again from the Qadiani history. 

Once, Mirza Qadiani arranged to convene a discussion with a local head of the episcopal diocese named Atham. Argumentations continued for fifteen days. When Mirza could not beat his adversary, he invoked Allah for a decision. He pronounced that Allah had made this decision for Atham: This liar would be thrown into ‘Ha via‘ (Hell) within fifteen months from June 5, 1893. 

Mirza predicted these words in his book ‘Junge-Muqaddas’ p.293.

He wrote… 

“I admit right now that if this prediction goes false, i.e., if within fifteen months from this day, the party deemed to be a liar in Allah’s view does not fall into ‘Ha via’ as death punishment, then I am prepared to undergo every type of punishment: disgrace me, blacken my face, collar a rope around my neck or hang me on the gallows. I am prepared for everything”. 

The time limit started shrinking, and Qadiani Jamaat was certain that Atham would die within fifteen months because Sire Mirza Qadiani had written: 

“And I swear by the greatness of Allah that He will certainly do so, will certainly do so; will certainly do so; the earth and sky may deviate but not His ordainments.” 

As the zero hour drew nearer and the countdown started, Mirza Qadiani madly shouted: 

“If I am a liar, keep the gallows ready for me and consider me the most accursed of all the accursed persons, the evil-doers and the satans”. (Jung-e-Muqaddas, last page). 

During the night preceding the avowed daybreak, the town of Qadian went into a drone of tumult and tribulation. Men and women, big and small, rubbed their noses on the earth, lamenting: 

“O Allah, Atham may die; O Allah, Atham be dead!
“O Allah, send a bolt from the blue for Atham!” 

They were certain Atham would not live to see the dawn of the next day. On his part, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani worked out sorcery spells the whole night before Atham’s death and had charms recited over black grams to be thrown into blind dry wells. (Seerat-ul-Mahdi, Vol. 1: p:178; Vol. 2 p:7). 

Despite all invocations, contrivances, and hullabaloo, Atham saw the dawn and many more dawns for many years. Thus, Allah the Exalted testified that: 

*Mirza’s prediction was not a divine revelation;
*Mirza’s prediction was his imposture;
*Mirza deserved the punishment he had proposed on himself, that is, 
–“Disgrace me”
–“Blacken my face”
–“Collar a rope around my neck”
–“Hang me on the gallows”. 

Excerpt from the writings of Hazrat Shaykh Muhammad Yusuf Ludhianvi (Rahmatullahi Alayh)