It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) that a Jewish woman of Madinah Munawwarah gave birth to a child, one of whose eyes was flattened and protruding upwards. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) feared that this might be the Dajjal. He (peace and blessings be upon him) saw him, and he was covered with a sheet, and a humming sound was coming from him. But his mother, warning him, said: "O Abdullah! Abu al-Qasim (peace and blessings be upon him) has come, so go to him." So he came out from under the sheet. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "What is wrong with his mother? May Allah destroy her. If she had left him lying as he was, he would have revealed his reality by his own words." Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Ibn Sayyad! What do you see?" He said: "I see the truth and I see falsehood, and I see a throne upon water." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The matter has been confused for you." Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him: "Do you bear witness that I am the Messenger of Allah?" He replied: "Do you bear witness that I am the Messenger of Allah?" The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I believe in Allah and His Messengers." After that, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) left him and went back. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) went to him again and found him among the date-palm trees, humming something, but again his mother warned him, saying: "Abdullah! Abu al-Qasim has come." So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "What is wrong with her? May Allah destroy her. If she had left him unaware as he was, he would have revealed his reality by his own words." Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) says that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) wanted to hear his words, so that he would know whether he was the Dajjal or not. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Ibn Sayyad! What do you see?" He said: "I see the truth and I see falsehood, and I see a throne upon water." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him: "Do you bear witness that I am the Messenger of Allah?" He replied: "Do you bear witness that I am the Messenger of Allah?" The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I believe in Allah and His Messengers." Thus, the matter was confused for him. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) left him and went away, and then for the third or fourth time, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) went to him with a group of Ansar and Muhajirin, and Sayyiduna Abu Bakr and Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) were also with him. It happened that this time the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) quickly went ahead of us, trying to hear something from him, but his mother quickly went to him and said: "Abdullah! Abu al-Qasim has come." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "What is wrong with her? May Allah destroy her. If she had left him unaware as he was, he would have revealed his reality by his own words." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Ibn Sayyad! What do you see?" He said: "I see the truth and I see falsehood, and I see a throne upon water." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do you bear witness that I am the Messenger of Allah?" He replied: "And do you bear witness that I am the Messenger of Allah?" The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I believe in Allah and His Messengers." Thus, the matter was confused for him. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him: "Ibn Sayyad! We are thinking of a word in our hearts for you, that is, to test you. Tell us what it is." He said: "It is ad-dukh, ad-dukh." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him: "Go away, go away." Sayyiduna Umar bin Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "O Messenger of Allah! Allow me to kill him." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If he is indeed the Dajjal, you will have no power over him; the one who will confront him will be Isa ibn Maryam (peace be upon him). And if he is not the Dajjal, then it is not permissible for you to kill a dhimmi." In any case, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) continued to fear that he might be the Dajjal.