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on epomegranate and will be satisfied. A bull will be worth so much
money, but a horse will be worth only a few dirhams."
Someone asked,
"O Messenger of Allaah, why will a horse be so cheap?" He said,
"Because it will never be ridden in war." He was asked, "Why will the bull
be so expensive?" He said, "Because it will plough the earth. For three
years before the Dajjaal emerges, the people will suffer severe hunger. In
the first year, Allaah will order the sky to withhold a third of its rain, and
the earth to withhold two-thirds of its fruits. In the third year, He will order
the sky to withhold all of its rain, and the earth to withhold all of its fruits,
so that nothing green will grow. Every cloven-hoofed creature will die
except for whatever Allaah wills." Someone asked, "How will the people
live at that time?" He said, "By saying Laa ilaaha illaa Allaah, Allaahu
Akbar, Subhaan Allaah and Al-Hamdu-lillaah. This will be like food for
them." [1]
The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said,
"The Dajjaal will come forth, and one of the Believers will go towards him.
The armed men of the Dajjaal will ask him, 'Where are you going?' He
will say, 'I am going to this one who has come forth.' They will say, 'Kill
him!' Then some of them will say to the others, 'Hasn't your lord [ie the
Dajjaal] forbidden you to kill anyone without his permission?' So they will
take him to the Dajjaal, and when the Believer sees him, he will say, 'O
People, this is the Dajjaal whom the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa
sallam) told us about.' Then the Dajjaal will order them to seize him and
wound him in the head; they will inflict blows all over, even in his back
and stomach. The Dajjaal will ask him, 'Don't you believe in me?' He will
say, 'You are a false Messiah.' The Dajjaal will order that he be sawn in
two from the parting of his hair to his legs; then he will walk between the
two pieces. Then he will say 'Stand!' and the man will stand up. The
Dajjaal will say to him, 'Don't you believe in me?' The believer will say, 'It
has only increased my understanding that you are the Dajjaal.' Then he
will say, 'O people! he will not treat anyone else in such a manner after
me.' The Dajjaal will seize him to slaughter him, but the space between
his neck and collar-bone will be turned into copper, and the Dajjaal will
not be able to do anything to him. He will take the man by his arms and
legs and throw him away; the people will believe that he has been thrown
into Hell, whereas in fact he will have been thrown into Paradise." The
Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "He will be the greatest of
martyrs in the sight of Allaah, the Lord of the Worlds." [Muslim] [2]
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Footnotes
[1] Ibn Maajah, Kitaab al-Fitan, (Hadeeth 4077), 2:1363.
"He will break the cross and kill pigs", i.e. Christianity will be annulled.
"He will not collect the Sadaqah" (i.e. Zakaat) - because there will be so
much wealth, and no-one will be in need of Sadaqah.
Checker's Note: Da`eef. Da`eef Ibn Maajah: 884. Parts are supported.
[2] Muslim, Kitaab al-Fitan wa Ashtaar al-Saa'ah, 8/199, 200
The Hadeeth of Al-Mugheerah Ibn Shu'bah
Al-Mugheerah ibn Shu'bah said,
"No-one asked the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) more
questions about the Dajjaal than I did. He said, 'You should not worry
about him, because he will not be able to harm you.' I said, 'But they say
that he will have much food and water!' He said, 'He is too insignificant in
the sight of Allaah to have all that.' " [Muslim]
Al-Mugheerah ibn Shu'bah said,
"No-one asked the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) more
questions about the Dajjaal than I did." One of the narrators said, "What
did you ask him?" Al-Mugheerah said, "I said, 'They say that the Dajjaal
will have a mountain of bread and meat, and a river of water. The
Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'He is too insignificant in
the sight of Allaah to have all that.' " [Muslim]
From these Ahaadeeth, we can see that Allaah will test His servants with
the Dajjaal and by the miracles which he will be permitted to perform: as
we have already mentioned, the Dajjaal will order the sky to rain for those
who accept him, and will order the earth to bring forth its fruits so that
they and their livestock will eat of it, and their flocks will return fat and
with their udders full of milk. Those who reject the Dajjaal and refuse to
believe in him will suffer drought and famine; people and livestock will
die, and wealth and supplies of food will be depleted. People will follow
the Dajjaal like swarms of bees, and he will kill a young man and bring
him back to life.
This is not a kind of magic; it will be something real with which Allaah will
test His servants at the end of time. Many will be led astray, and many
will be guided by it. Those who doubt will disbelieve, but those who
believe will be strengthened in their faith.
Al-Qaadi 'Iyaad and others interpreted the phrase "He is too insignificant
in the sight of Allaah to have all that" as meaning that the Dajjaal is too
insignificant to have anything that could lead the true believers astray,
because he is obviously evil and corrupt. Even if he brings great terror,
the word Kaafir will be clearly written between his eyes; one report