People created tall buildings in medieval times - big houses for status. It's about competing for worldly status rather than remaining pious and fits in with the theme of numerous other hadiths. It is warning the conquerers not to get rich and arrogant.
You just try to make them remarkable. You should read them as if they are referring to the near future and are based on contemporary events; then they seem pretty unremarkable.
They're remarkable to me but not to you and i understand it very well as it speaks about the signs of the end times.
You talk about the conquest of Constantinople. This took 800 years and was achieved by somebody who was not even part of the Caliphate. In addition, this was a person who, contrary to Islamic Law, proclaimed himself Caliph despite the Abbasid Caliphate still being in existence.
Yes, he was a Muslim, he was a great worrier and his army was the best of all armies and he destroyed the armies of
the Byzantine empire, that was indeed a great achievements by the Muslims.
The hadith doesn't speak about the caliphate but you don't study well, the hadith says
“Verily you shall conquer Constantinople. What a wonderful leader will he be, and what a wonderful army will that army be!”
Enjoy watching a short part of a movie when Muslim won against the Byzantines.
Eventually, his descendants would even go to war against other Muslims and take the Caliphate by force, which at least made them legitimate Caliphs (well if you reinterpret the rule about the Caliph needing to be Quraysh).
The hadith doesn't speak about the caliphate but about a great Muslim leader, you're the one mixing things up
So there was a prophecy about a magnificent leader taking Constantinople, which was clearly expected to happen soon. When it eventually happened 800 years later, it was by a Turk and, according to your source, "the Turkish people are the defenders of the Antichrist." Not only this but Mehmet II was arguably an apostate for claiming he was the Caliph, despite it clearly being against Islamic Law for him to do so. At the very least he was a blasphemer for doing this.
And you consider this a remarkable prophecy?
Where did the hadith mention the caliphate, Mehmet II was a great Muslim leader, the hadith doesn't mention other
than this, i don't understand why you're mixing things up.
“Verily you shall conquer Constantinople. What a wonderful leader will he be, and what a wonderful army will that army be!”