Scholars maintain that the hadiths about the descent of Jesus are numerous as well as mutawatir (concurrent). These are not like common individual to solitary reports (akhbar-e-ahad) which are reported by a few. These hadith are narrated by multiple Companions, transmitted by many narrators, and recorded by most hadith compilers.
Imam Ibn Kathīr states that the hadiths about the descent of Jesus have reached the level of tawatur. These narratives tell us that the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said that before the Day of Judgment, Jesus would descend again. At that time, he will come as a just ruler. In the exegesis of Ibn Kathīr, it is mentioned:
وقد تواترت الأحاديث عن رسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم أنه أخبر بنزول عيسى عليه السلام قبل يوم القيامة إمامًا عادلاً وحكمًا مقسطًا.
The narratives ascribed to the Messenger of Allah on the subject are mutawatir, and these reports tell us that the Prophet informed about the descent of Jesus before the Day of Judgment as a just leader and a fair judge. (4/169)
Imam Shawkānī also considers the hadith narratives about the descent of Jesus among the mutawatir reports. He includes the narratives about the emergence of the Dajjal in the same category. In Awn al-Mabūd, the commentary on Sunan of Abu Dawud, his position is quoted as follows:
وقال الشوكاني وجميع ما سقناه بالغ حد التواتر ... الأحاديث الواردة في المهدي المنتظر متواترة والأحاديث الواردة في الدجال متواترة والأحاديث الواردة في نزول عيسى عليه السلام متواترة.
Imam Shawkānī said that all the narratives we have mentioned have reached the level of tawatur ... Therefore, hadiths about the awaited Mahdī, the Dajjal, and the descent of Jesus are all mutawatir. (11/308)