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pulpit with his staff, said: 'This is Tayyibah, this is Tayyibah, this is
Tayyibah, [i.e. Madeenah]. Have I not told you something like this?' The
people said, 'Yes.' He said, 'I liked the account given to me by Tameem
because it agrees with that which I have told you about the Dajjaal, and
about Makkah and Madeenah. Indeed he is in the Syrian sea or the
Yemen sea. No, on the contrary, he is in the East, he is in the East, he is
in the East' and he pointed towards the East. Faatimah said: I memorised
this from the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam)." [Muslim] [1]
'Abd Allaah ibn 'Umar said,
"The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'While I was asleep, I
saw myself in a dream performing Tawaaf (circumambulation) around the
Ka'bah. I saw a ruddy man with lank hair and water dripping from his
head. I said, "Who is he?" and they said, "The son of Mary." Then I
turned around and saw another man with a huge body, red complexion,
curly hair and one eye. His other eye looked like a floating grape. They
said, "This is the Dajjaal." The one who most resembles him is Ibn Qatan,
a man from the tribe of al-Khuzaa'ah'.' " [Bukhaaree, Muslim] [2]
Jaabir ibn 'Abd Allaah said,
"The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'The Dajjaal will
appear at the end of time, when religion is taken lightly. He will have forty
days in which to travel throughout the earth. One of these days will be
like a year, another will be like a month, a third will be like a week, and
the rest will be like normal days. He will be riding a donkey; the width
between its ears will be forty cubits. He will say to the people: "I am your
lord." He is one-eyed, but your Lord is not one-eyed. On his forehead will
be written the word Kaafir, and every believer, literate or illiterate, will be
able to read it. He will go everywhere except Makkah and Madeenah,
which Allaah has forbidden to him; angels stand at their gates. He will
have a mountain of bread, and the people will face hardship, except for
those who follow him. He will have two rivers, and I know what is in them.
He will call one Paradise and one Hell. Whoever enters the one he calls
Paradise will find that it is Hell, and whoever enters the one he calls Hell
will find that it is Paradise. Allaah will send with him devils who will speak
to the people. He will bring a great tribulation; he will issue a command to
the sky and it will seem to the people as if it is raining. Then he will
appear to kill someone and bring him back to life. After that he will no
longer have this power. The people will say, "Can anybody do something
like this except the Lord?" The Muslims will flee to Jabal al-Dukhaan in
Syria, and the Dajjaal will come and besiege them. The siege will
intensify and they will suffer great hardship. Then Jesus son of Mary will
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descend, and will call the people at dawn: "O people, what prevented you
from coming out to fight this evil liar?" They will answer, "He is a Jinn."
Then they will go out, and find Jesus son of Mary. The time for prayer will
come, and the Muslims will call on Jesus to lead the prayer, but he will
say, "Let your Imaam lead the prayer." Their Imaam will lead them in
praying Salaat al-Subh (Morning prayer), then they will go out to fight the
Dajjaal. When the liar sees Jesus, he will dissolve like salt in water.
Jesus will go to him and kill him, and he will not let anyone who followed
him live.' " [Ahmad] [3]
Footnotes
[1] Muslim, Kitaab al- Fitan, 8/203-205.
Al-Jassaasah is so called because he spies on behalf of the Dajjaal (from
jassa - to try to gain information, to spy out, etc.).
Baysaan - a village in Palestine.
'Ayn Zughar (the spring of Zughar) is a town in Palestine.
[2] Bukhaaree, Kitaab al-Fitan, 9/75. Muslim, Kitaab al-Imaan, 1/108.
[3] Ahmad, Musnad, 3/367, 368.
Checker's Note: Da`eef. Silsilatul Ahaadieeh ad-Da`eefah: 1969. It
contains the `an`anah of Abu Zubair. Parts are found in authentic
narrations. Refer to Dajjaal section in Saheeh Muslim.
The Hadeeth of Al-Nuwas Ibn Sam'an Al-Kilabi
Al-Nuwas ibn Saman said,
"One morning the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) spoke about
the Dajjaal. Sometimes he described him as insignificant, and sometimes
he described him as so dangerous that we thought he was in the clump
of date-palms nearby. When we went to him later on, he noticed that fear
in our faces, and asked, 'What is the matter with you?' We said, 'O
Messenger of Allaah, this morning you spoke of the Dajjaal; sometimes
you described him as insignificant, and sometimes you described him as
being so dangerous that we thought he was in the clump of date-palms
nearby.
"The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'I fear for you in other
matters besides the Dajjaal. If he appears whilst I am among you, I will
contend with him on your behalf. But if he appears while I am not among
you, then each man must contend with him on his own behalf, and Allaah
will take care of every Muslim on my behalf. The Dajjaal will be a young
man, with short, curly hair, and one eye floating. I would liken him to 'Abd
al-Uzzaa ibn Qatan. Whoever amongst you lives to see him should recite
the opening Ayaat of Surat al-Kahf. He will appear on the way between