It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he said: I was in the Hatim with Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him). He narrated a hadith and then said: "The bonds of Islam will be broken one by one, misguiding leaders (rulers) will appear, and after that the three Dajjals will emerge." I asked: O Abu Abdullah! Have you heard all of this that you are saying from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)? He replied: Yes, I heard it, and I also heard him (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "The Dajjal will emerge from the Jewish quarter of Isfahan. His right eye will be blotted out (sightless), and the other eye will be like a shining star that seems to split the light of the sun. He will catch birds from the sky. He will give three cries which the people of the east and the people of the west (all) will hear. With him will be two mountains: one mountain of smoke and fire, and the other a mountain of trees and rivers. He will say (to deceive): This is Paradise and this is Hell." And I heard him (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Before him (the Dajjal), a great liar (kadhdhab) will emerge." I asked: Then who is the third? He said: "He is the greatest liar of the liars. He will emerge from the direction of the east, and the refuse of the Arabs (base people) and the lowest classes of the non-Arabs will follow him. The first of them will be victorious (outwardly triumphant) and the last of them will be destroyed. Their destruction will be in proportion to the strength of their rule. May the everlasting curse of Allah be upon them." I said: This is a most astonishing thing! He said: "There will be things even more astonishing than this. So when you hear of it (this tribulation), then flee, flee!" I said: What shall I do for those I leave behind? He said: "Order them to join the tops of the mountains (and take refuge there)." I asked: What if they are not allowed to do that? He said: "Order them to become like the mats (ahlas) of their houses (that is, to confine themselves to their homes)." I said: What if that too is not allowed? He said: "O Ibn Umar! It will be a time filled with fear, killing and plunder." I said: O Abu Abdullah! Will there be any way of relief from this killing? He said: "Why not? After every killing there comes relief, but where will those who survive be at that time? It will be a tribulation called 'al-Hariqah' (the consuming fire). It will engulf the pure Arabs, the pure non-Arabs, the owners of treasures and all the rest of the people, then that tribulation will end in such a state that very few people will remain." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu al-Tufayl (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: I was in Kufah when the news spread that the Dajjal had emerged. So we came to Sayyiduna Hudhayfah bin Asid (may Allah be pleased with him) while he was speaking, and I said: The Dajjal has emerged! He said: "Sit down," so I sat down. Then the 'arif (the chief of the district) came to us and he too said that the Dajjal had emerged and that the people of Kufah were fighting him. He said to him as well: "Sit down," so he too sat down. Then it was announced that this was a lie spread by a dyer (sabbagh, a liar). We said: O Abu Sarihah! You made us sit for some particular purpose, so now narrate a hadith to us. He said: "If the Dajjal had emerged in this time of yours, the children would have driven him away by pelting him with potsherds. But the Dajjal will emerge when people are few in number, when there is weakness in religion and when mutual relations have become bad. He will reach every watering place, and the earth will be folded up for him as the skin of a ram is folded, until he comes to Madinah; he will overpower its outer parts but will be prevented from entering the city. Then he will head for the mountain of Iliya (the mountain of Bayt al-Maqdis) and besiege a group of Muslims. Their leaders will say to them: What are you waiting for to fight this tyrant, until you either meet Allah or are granted victory? So they will decide that when morning comes they will fight him. Then when morning comes, Isa ibn Maryam (peace be upon him) will be with them. He will kill the Dajjal and defeat his companions, until the tree, the stone and the clod of earth will call out: O believer! This Jew is hiding behind me, so kill him." He further said: "And there will be three signs in the Dajjal: he will be one-eyed, whereas your Lord is not one-eyed; between his two eyes will be written 'Kafir' (disbeliever), which every believer will read, whether he is unlettered or knows how to write; and of all mounts only the donkey will be made subservient to him, which is entirely ill-omened." Then he said: "There is something other than the Dajjal that I fear more for myself and for you." We said: O Abu Sarihah! What is it? He said: "Tribulations that will be like pieces of the dark night." We said: Who will be the worst people in these tribulations? He said: "Every orator who sways people with his eloquence, and every person who rushes swiftly towards the tribulation." We said: Who will be the best people? He said: "Every rich person who is independent of people and chooses obscurity." I said: I am neither rich nor obscure. He said: "Then be like the ibn labun (a young camel) which has neither a back that can be ridden nor udders that can be milked (that is, keep yourself away from the tribulations in such a way that no one can make use of you)." 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 Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The Dajjal will emerge when there is weakness in religion and knowledge has turned its back. He will have forty days to roam the earth; one day of them will be like a year, one day like a month, one day like a week, and the rest of his days will be like your ordinary days. He will have a donkey which he will ride; the width between its two ears will be forty cubits. He will come to the people and say: I am your Lord! But your Lord is not one-eyed. Between his two eyes will be written 'K F R', which every believer will read, whether he knows how to write or not. He will pass by every water and watering place except Madinah and Makkah; Allah Almighty has made these two cities forbidden to him, and the angels will be guarding their gates." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

Jubayr bin Nufayr narrates from his father that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) mentioned the Dajjal and said: "If he (the Dajjal) emerges while I am present, then I will be the one who contends with him on your behalf; and if he emerges after me, then every person will be his own defender, and Allah is my successor (guardian) over every Muslim. Beware! He is one-eyed, as if his eye were like the eye of Abd al-Uzza bin Qatan al-Khuza'i. Take heed! Between his two eyes will be written 'Kafir' (disbeliever), which every Muslim will read. So whoever of you meets him should recite the opening verses of Surah al-Kahf. He will emerge from the route between Syria and Iraq and will spread great mischief to the right and to the left. O servants of Allah, remain steadfast!" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said this three times. It was said: O Messenger of Allah! How long will he stay on the earth? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Forty days: one day like a year, one day like a month, one day like a week, and the rest of the days will be like your ordinary days." The Companions said: O Messenger of Allah! How shall we pray on that (long) day? Will the prayers of a single day suffice, or shall we estimate the time? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "No, rather you should estimate (the time)." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Imran bin Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever of you hears of the emergence of the Dajjal should keep away from him, for a man will go to him thinking that he is a believer, but because of the doubts that he (the Dajjal) will raise, he will keep following him." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it, and I do not know of anyone other than Yahya bin Sa'id who mentioned Abu al-Dahma' in the chain of Hisham bin Hassan.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Imran bin Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever hears of the Dajjal should keep away from him (he (peace and blessings be upon him) said this three times), for a man will go to him and, because of the doubts that will be sent with him, will take him to be truthful and will begin to follow him."

It is narrated from Abu al-Wadi' Abbad bin Nusayb that we were travelling towards Kufah with the Commander of the Faithful, Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him). When we reached a distance of two or three nights' journey from Harura', some people separated from us. We mentioned this to Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), and he said: "Do not let their affair trouble you; they will soon return." We saw that on the next day twice as many people as before separated. We mentioned it again to Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), and he said: "Do not let their matter frighten you; their affair is insignificant." And Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) instructed (the army): "Do not be the first to start fighting them until they begin fighting you." Then they (the Khawarij) knelt on their knees, and we protected ourselves with our shields. They began to shower us with arrows, then they came close to us and attacked with spears, then they used their swords, until they were about to fall upon us with their swords. Then a man from Banu Abd al-Qays named Sa'sa'ah bin Suhan went out towards them and called out three times. They asked: What do you want? Sa'sa'ah said: I remind you of Allah, that you should not go out in a land that becomes a reproach for the people of the earth; and I adjure you by Allah that you should not pass out of the religion as an arrow passes through the game. When we saw that they had turned their swords upon us, Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Rise up (in defence) with the blessing of Allah." Only a short part of the day had passed when we had struck down those we struck down, and those who fled had fled. Then Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) praised Allah and said: "My dear friend (peace and blessings be upon him) informed me that their leader would be a man with a deficient hand (born stunted or short), and on the tip of his breast there would be a few hairs 'like the tail of a jerboa' (a desert rat). Search for him." The people searched for him but did not find him. We came and said: We did not find him. He said: "Search for him. By Allah! I have neither lied, nor have I been told a lie." We kept searching for him until Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) himself reached the far end of the battlefield. He kept saying: "Turn this one over, turn this one over," until a man from Kufah came and said: Here he is! Then Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Allahu Akbar! By Allah, no one will come to you who can tell you who his father is; this is Malik!" The people began saying: This is Malik, this is Malik. Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) asked: "Son of whom?" The people said: We do not know. Then a man from Kufah came and said: I know more about him than anyone. I was breaking in a filly belonging to so-and-so; I had loaded light sacks on its back and was walking it back and forth, when suddenly the filly bolted. That old man called out to me and said: O boy! Look, the filly has bolted. I said: I see a shadow, as if it were a crow or a goat. Just then this man appeared before us. The old man asked: Who are you? He said: A man from the people of Yamamah. The old man asked: How have you come here in this dishevelled state? He said: I have come to worship Allah in the prayer place of Kufah. Then the old man took him by the hand, and Allah is witness that there was no fourth one there besides us, until he took him home and said to his wife: Allah has sent good to you. His wife said: By Allah! I am in need of it; what is it? He said: This is a dishevelled man, as you see; he has come from Yamamah to worship in Kufah. So he kept worshipping there and calling people until people gathered around him. Then Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Take heed! My dear friend (peace and blessings be upon him) informed me that they are three brothers from among the jinn. This one is the eldest of them; the second will have a large following, and there will be weakness in the third." Imam Muslim has recorded the hadith of the man with the deficient hand in abridged form, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it with this wording, and this hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration.

Sulayman bin Rabi'ah al-Ghubari narrates that he once performed Hajj during the caliphate of Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him), and with him were al-Muntasir bin al-Harith al-Dabbi and a group of Qur'an reciters from the people of Basrah. He said: When the people had completed their rites, they said: "By Allah! We will not return to Basrah until we meet a Companion of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) who is well regarded (and trustworthy), who will narrate to us some remarkable hadith that we can narrate to our companions when we go back." He says: We kept asking until we were told that Abdullah bin Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with them both) was staying in the lower part of Makkah. We went to him, and there we saw a very large caravan (of baggage), in which three hundred mounts were ready to set off; of them, one hundred were riding mounts and two hundred were baggage camels. We asked: "Whose baggage is this?" The people said: "Abdullah bin Amr's." We said: "Is all of this his, although we were told that he is the most humble of people?" The people asked: "Who are you?" We said: "From the people of Iraq." They said: "O people of Iraq! Finding fault is truly your way. (The fact is that) these hundred riding mounts are for his brothers, whom he gives to ride on them, and the two hundred baggage camels are for the people who stay with him as guests." We said: "Take us to him." They said: "He is in the Sacred Mosque." So we went looking for him until we found him sitting at the back of the Ka'bah. He was short, his eyes were watering and he had no hair on his head; he was dressed in two sheets and a turban and was not wearing a shirt, and he had hung his sandals in his left hand. We said: "O Abdullah! You are a Companion of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), so narrate to us a hadith by which Allah Almighty will benefit us after today." He asked us: "And who are you?" We said: "Do not ask who we are; may Allah forgive you, narrate a hadith to us." He said: "I will not narrate anything to you until you tell me who you are." We said: "We would have liked you not to criticise us, to excuse us, and to narrate to us some of what we asked you about." He said: "By Allah! I will certainly not narrate to you until you tell me which cities you are from." When we saw that he had sworn an oath and was insisting, we said: "We are people from Iraq." He said: "Shame on all of you, O people of Iraq! You lie, you deny the truth and you mock." When he mentioned mockery, it grieved us greatly. We said: "Allah forbid that we should mock a person like you. As for your saying about lying, by Allah, lying has spread among the people and among us. As for denying, by Allah, we hear a hadith that we have not heard from anyone we trust, and we come close to denying it. And as for your saying about mockery, no one among the Muslims mocks a person like you, for by Allah, as far as we know, you are today the leader of the Muslims. You are among the first Muhajirun, and it has reached us that you read the Qur'an to Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) (that is, learned it from him), that there is no Qurayshi on the face of the earth more dutiful to his parents than you, and that you had the most beautiful eyes of all people but weeping ruined your eyes. Then after the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) you read all the (revealed) books, so in our view there is no one superior to you in knowledge. And we do not know of any man remaining among the Arabs for whom people leave the jurists of their own city and go to another city seeking knowledge from him, other than you. So, may Allah forgive you, narrate a hadith to us." He said: "I will not narrate a hadith to you until you give me a firm covenant that you will not deny me, will not lie against me, and will not mock." We said: "Take from us whatever covenant you wish." He said: "Upon you is the covenant of Allah and His pledges that you will not deny me in what I narrate to you, will not lie against me and will not mock." We said: "That is binding upon us." He asked: "Is Allah Almighty a guarantor and trustee over you in this?" We said: "Yes." He said: "O Allah, be a witness over them." Then at that point he said: "Listen! By the Lord of this Mosque, this sacred city, this sacred day and this sacred month! (And I have made the oath very firm, have I not? We said: Yes, you have made every effort.) He said: Soon the Banu Qantura bin Karkara, a people with flat noses and small eyes, whose faces are as if they were layered shields, as is in the revealed Book of Allah, will drive you out of Khurasan and Sijistan with great violence. They are a people who will wear their hair down to their earlobes, wear sandals of hair and tie their swords around their waists, until they come and settle at al-Ubullah (a place near Basrah)." Then he asked: "How far is al-Ubullah from Basrah?" We said: "Four farsakhs." He said: "Then they will tie the head of a horse to every palm tree of the Tigris, then they will send word to the people of Basrah: Leave it before they fall upon you. So the people of Basrah will leave Basrah; some of them will reach Bayt al-Maqdis, some will reach Madinah, some will go to Makkah, and some will join the Bedouins (A'rab). Then none of those who pray will remain except that he will be either killed or a captive, about whose blood they will decide as they please." The narrator says: We returned from him, and this hadith grieved us greatly. We had gone only a short distance from him when al-Muntasir bin al-Harith al-Dabbi turned back and said: "O Abdullah bin Amr! You have narrated to us a hadith that has terrified us, and we do not know which of us will live to see it. So tell us, will there be any sign before this event?" Abdullah bin Amr said: "Do not lose your mind. Yes! Before it there will be an amarah." Al-Muntasir bin al-Harith asked: "What is the amarah?" He said: "Amarah means a sign." He asked: "What is that sign?" He said: "It is the rule (leadership) of boys. So when you see that the rule of boys has covered the earth, then know that what I have told you has arrived." He says: Al-Muntasir came away from him and walked about the distance of an arrow's flight, then went back to him again. We said to him: "Why are you troubling this old man, a Companion of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)?" He said: "By Allah! I will not desist until he makes it clear to me." So when he went back to him, he made it clear to him. This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Zayd bin Wahb that we were with Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) in this mosque, and he said: "Tribulations are coming to you that will overshadow you; they will rain down small pebbles, then the tribulation after it will rain down heated stones, then after it will come the dark tribulation. There is no living person among you who sees what you are seeing without also seeing the tribulation of the Dajjal." The narrator says: Among us was a Bedouin from the tribe of Rabi'ah, and he said: Subhan Allah, O Companions of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)! What about the Dajjal, when his description has been given to us as broad-foreheaded, with raised hump-like shoulders and broad-shouldered? I saw that Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) was taken aback by his words, and he said: "I ask you by Allah, do you know what you said?" He said: You said that there is no living person among you who sees all that you are seeing without also seeing the tribulation of the Dajjal. The narrator says: I saw that the face of Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) brightened. I asked: Was it because he had remembered the hadith correctly? He said: Yes. Then Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) said in a low voice: "What do you think of the Day of the House yesterday (the siege of Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him))? It was a general tribulation that engulfed all the people." That Bedouin said: Subhan Allah, O Companions of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)! Then where will those people go who cut the udders of our she-camels and break into our houses? He said twice: "They are the transgressors." He further said: "I went out on the Day of al-Jara'ah, and I knew that not even the amount of blood in a cupping vessel would be shed in it, and I did not forbid anyone from that tribulation except Ibn al-Hasramah." The Bedouin again said: Subhan Allah, O Companions of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)! Was Ibn al-Hasramah above the rest of the people? He said: "When the tribulation comes, it is for the one who stands up (to fight) and the one who speaks out (with his tongue), and Ibn al-Hasramah was a man who talked a great deal." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), because they used Imran bin Muslim as evidence, but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Umamah al-Bahili (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) addressed us one day, and most of his address was about the Dajjal, until he (peace and blessings be upon him) finished his address. Among the things he (peace and blessings be upon him) told us that day was: "Allah Almighty did not send any prophet except that he warned his nation about the Dajjal. I am the last of the prophets and you are the last nation, and he (the Dajjal) will certainly emerge among you. If he emerges while I am among you, then I will contend with him on behalf of every Muslim; and if he emerges among you after me, then every person will be his own defender, and Allah is my successor (guardian) over every Muslim. He will emerge from a route between Iraq and Syria and will spread great tribulation and mischief to the right and to the left. O servants of Allah, remain steadfast! He will begin (his tribulation) by saying: I am a prophet, whereas there is no prophet after me. Then the second thing he will say is: I am your Lord, whereas you will never see your Lord before you die. Between his two eyes will be written 'Kafir' (disbeliever), which every believer will read. So whoever of you meets him should spit in his face and recite the opening verses of Surah al-Kahf. He will be given power over one soul of the children of Adam, whom he will kill and then bring back to life; he will be able to do this only with that one person, and he will not be given this power over anyone else. Among his tribulations is that he will have with him a Paradise and a Fire; his Fire will (in reality) be Paradise and his Paradise will (in reality) be Fire. So whoever is tested by being thrown into his Fire should close his eyes and call upon Allah for help, and that fire will become cool and safe for him, just as it became cool and safe for Ibrahim (peace be upon him). Among his tribulations also is that he will pass by a tribe and they will believe in him and affirm him, so he will pray for them, and on that very day the sky will rain upon them and the earth will bring forth crops that very day, and in the evening their livestock will return larger than before, very fat, with full flanks and udders full of milk. And he will pass by a tribe who will disbelieve in him and deny him, so he will invoke against them, and (because of drought) by morning not one of their grazing animals will remain. He will remain on the earth for forty days: one day of them will be like a year, one day like a month, one day like a week, and one day like ordinary days, and his last days will be like a mirage (very short). You should estimate (the times of) those long days and pray. (In the last days the situation will be such that) a man will set out in the morning from one gate of the city, and evening will fall before he reaches the other gate." The Companions said: O Messenger of Allah! How shall we pray in those short days? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Estimate (the time) in them and pray." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it with this wording.