It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Dajjal was mentioned in his presence, and he said: O people! When the Dajjal comes out, you will be divided into three groups: one group will follow him; one group will go off to the lands of their forefathers, to the places where the wormwood shrubs grow; and one group will take up position on the bank of the Euphrates - the Dajjal will fight them and they will fight him - until the believers gather in the villages of Syria. Then they will send out a vanguard (towards the Dajjal's army), among whom will be a horseman on a reddish-sorrel (ashqar) or piebald horse. Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: They will all be martyred, and not a single one of them will return. Salamah says that Abu Sadiq told him, on the authority of Rabi'ah bin Najidh, that Ibn Mas'ud said the words "a reddish-sorrel horse." Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The People of the Book claim that Sayyiduna al-Masih (peace be upon him) will descend (to confront) him. (The narrator says:) I did not hear Ibn Mas'ud narrate any other report from the People of the Book besides this one. Then Gog and Magog will come out, and they will surge through the earth like waves in great numbers and spread corruption. Then Abdullah recited this verse: "And they will swoop down from every height" [Surah al-Anbiya: 96] . He said: Then Allah Almighty will send upon them a creature (a worm) like this naghaf (the worm that infests the noses of camels); it will enter their ears and nostrils, and they will all die from it, and the earth will be filled with the stench of their corpses. Then there will be crying out in supplication to Allah, and Allah Almighty will send down rain that will cleanse the earth of them (their corpses). He said: Then Allah Almighty will send an extremely cold wind (zamharir baridah), which will not leave a single believer on the face of the earth, but that wind will take him into its embrace (take his soul). Then the Hour will be established upon the worst of people. Then an angel will stand between the heaven and the earth with the Trumpet and blow into it - and the Trumpet is a horn - and all the creation of the heavens and the earth will die, except those whom your Lord wills. Then there will be an interval between the two blowings for as long as Allah wills, and there will be no creature of the children of Adam but that some part of it remains. Then Allah Almighty will send down from beneath the Throne water like the semen of men, from which their flesh and bodies will grow just as the earth brings forth vegetation from rain. Then Abdullah recited this verse: "And it is Allah who sends the winds, and they stir up clouds, and We drive them to a dead land and give life thereby to the earth after its death. Thus is the Resurrection" [Surah Fatir: 9] . He said: Then an angel will blow into the Trumpet between the heaven and the earth, and every soul will fly to its body until it enters it. Then they will all rise up before Allah, the Lord of the worlds, like one man standing up. Then Allah Almighty will manifest Himself to the creation and meet them, and whoever used to worship anything besides Allah, that thing will be brought before him and he will follow it. Allah Almighty will meet the Jews and ask: Whom did you worship? They will say: We worshipped Uzayr. Allah will ask: Do you want water? They will say: Yes. Then Hell will be shown to them like a mirage. Then Abdullah recited this verse: "And We will present Hell that Day to the disbelievers, on full display" [Surah al-Kahf: 100] . Then Allah will meet the Christians and ask: Whom did you worship? They will say: The Messiah. Allah will ask: Do you need water? They will say: Yes. So Hell will be shown to them too like a mirage. The same will be done with everyone who used to worship anyone besides Allah. Then Abdullah recited this verse: "And stop them; indeed, they are to be questioned" [Surah al-Saffat: 24] . Then Allah Almighty will manifest Himself to the creation in His special majesty, until He passes by the Muslims and asks: Whom did you worship? They will say: We worshipped Allah and did not associate anything with Him. Allah Almighty will rebuke them (test them) two or three times and ask: Whom did you worship? They will say: We worshipped Allah and did not associate anything with Him. Allah will say: Do you recognise your Lord? They will say: Glory be to Him! When He makes Himself known, we will recognise Him. At that time "the shin will be uncovered," and every believer will fall down in prostration before Allah, while the backs of the hypocrites will become (rigid) like a single plank, as though iron skewers (al-safafid) had been put in them. They will say: O our Lord! Allah will say: "You used to be called to prostration when you were sound (but you did not prostrate)." Then the Sirat (the Bridge) will be ordered and set up over Hell, and people will pass over it according to their deeds: some groups like the flash of lightning, some like the speed of the wind, some like the flight of birds, some like the swiftest beasts, until a man will pass over it running, then another walking, and the last of them will be a man who drags himself along on his belly. He will say: O my Lord! Why did You make me slow? Allah will say: "I did not make you slow; rather, your deeds made you slow." Then Allah Almighty will grant permission for intercession, and the first to intercede will be the Holy Spirit, Jibril (peace be upon him), then Ibrahim, the Friend of Allah (peace be upon him), then Musa (peace be upon him), then Isa (peace be upon him). Then your Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) will stand up fourth, and after him (peace and blessings be upon him) no one will intercede in the matter in which he (peace and blessings be upon him) intercedes. This is the "Praiseworthy Station" (al-Maqam al-Mahmud) which Allah Almighty mentioned: "It may be that your Lord will raise you to a praiseworthy station" [Surah al-Isra: 79] . Then every soul will see its abode, whether it is in Paradise or in Hell, and this is "the Day of Regret." The people of Hell will see their (would-be) house in Paradise, and it will be said to them: "If only you had done (good) deeds!" and they will be overwhelmed with regret. And the people of Paradise will see their (would-be) house in Hell, and it will be said to them: "Had Allah not bestowed His favour upon you (you would have been here)." Then the angels, the prophets, the martyrs, the righteous and the believers will intercede, and Allah will accept their intercession. Then Allah Almighty will say: "I am the Most Merciful of those who show mercy," and by His mercy He will bring out of Hell more people than those who came out through the intercession of all creation. Then Allah will say: "I am the Most Merciful of all." Then Abdullah recited these verses: "What led you into Saqar? They will say: We were not of those who prayed, nor did we feed the poor, and we used to indulge (in falsehood) with those who indulged, and we used to deny the Day of Recompense" [Surah al-Muddaththir: 42-46] . Then Abdullah counted four on his hand (tying knots with his fingers) and said: "Do you see any good in these people?" No one in whom there is even a speck of good will be left in Hell. Then, when Allah Almighty wills that no one more be brought out of Hell, He will change their faces and colours. So a man will come (to intercede) and look, but he will not be able to recognise anyone. Then a man in Hell will call out to him, saying: O so-and-so! I am so-and-so. He will say: I do not recognise you. At that time they will say: "Our Lord, bring us out of it; then if we return (to evil), we will indeed be wrongdoers," and Allah will say: "Remain despised therein and do not speak to Me" [Surah al-Mu'minun: 107-108] . When Allah says this, Hell will be closed over them, and then not a single one of them will be able to come out. This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Nu'aym bin Dijajah (may Allah have mercy on him) that he said: I was sitting with Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) when Sayyiduna Uqbah Abu Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) came. Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said to him (in an affectionate tone): "O Farrukh! Is it you who said this? Or do you give this fatwa to the people?" He replied: "I only inform them about the end, and the end is bad." Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Tell us what you heard from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) concerning the hundred years." He said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "A hundred years will not pass while there remains on the earth any eye that blinks (any living human)." Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "You have made a mistake, and you also made a mistake in your first fatwa. He (peace and blessings be upon him) meant only those who were alive (on the face of the earth) on that day. And is it not after the hundred years that prosperity and relief from hardship are to come?!"

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Sufyan bin Wahb al-Khawlani (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "The hundred years will not come while anyone (of those present now) remains on the back of the earth." The narrator says: I related this to Hujayrah. Then Abd al-Rahman bin Hujayrah went to Abd al-Aziz bin Marwan, and Sufyan (may Allah be pleased with him) was also brought, while he had become very old. Abd al-Aziz asked him about this hadith, and he narrated it. Abd al-Aziz said: Perhaps he (peace and blessings be upon him) meant that of those who were with him (peace and blessings be upon him) at that time, none would remain at the completion of a hundred years? Sufyan (may Allah be pleased with him) said: This is how I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say it. This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs did not record it. And the clear proof that what the Commander of the Believers Sayyiduna Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) said to Sayyiduna Abu Mas'ud Uqbah bin Amr al-Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him), and what Abd al-Aziz bin Marwan said to Sufyan bin Wahb al-Khawlani (may Allah be pleased with him), was correct is the following hadith:

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, a month or so before his death: "There is no living soul on the face of the earth today upon which a hundred years will pass and it will still be alive on that day." Imam Muslim (may Allah have mercy on him) recorded this hadith with this same chain in his Sahih.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say, a month before his death: "People ask about the Hour, yet its knowledge is only with Allah. And I swear by Allah that there is no living soul on the earth today upon which a hundred years will pass (and it remains alive)." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs did not record it with these clear and reasonable words, from which it is understood that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) meant only those people on the earth that day who had already been born: that they would not remain alive until a hundred years had passed from the time when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) gave this address. It by no means signifies that one born after that year would not live a hundred years. Do you not see that the Commander of the Believers (may Allah be pleased with him) spoke sternly in this matter to Sayyiduna Abu Mas'ud al-Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him), even though he was one of the eminent Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)?

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Busr (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came to our house together with my father. He says: I was going back and forth between my father and my mother (running errands). We prepared food for him (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) ate, and he made a supplication for us which I do not remember (word for word). Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) passed his blessed hand over my head and said: "This boy will live a century (qarnan) (that is, a hundred years)." The narrator says: And so he lived for a hundred years. This is further proof of the soundness of what has been mentioned.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Busr (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said about him: "This boy will live a century (qarnan)." The narrator says: And so he lived for a hundred years. He had a wart on his face, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "He will not die until this wart has gone from his face." And so he did not die until that wart had gone from his face.