Traditions on Dajjal
DAJJAL
1. An-Nawwas b. Sam’an reported that
Allaah’s Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم) made a mention of the Dajjal one
day in the morning. He sometimes described him to be insignificant and
sometimes described (his turmoil) as very significant and we felt) as if
he were in the cluster of the date-palm trees.
When we went to him (to the Prophet) in
the evening and he read (the signs of fear) in our faces, he said: What
is the matter with you? We said: Allaah’s Messenger, you made a mention
of the Dajjal in the morning (sometimes describing him) to be
insignificant and sometimes very important, until we began to think as
if he were present in some (near) part of the cluster of the datepalm
trees. Thereupon he said: I harbour fear in regard to you in so many
other things besides the Dajjal. If he comes forth while I am among you,
I shall contend with him on your behalf, but if he comes forth while I
am not amongst you, a man must contend on his own behalf and Allaah
would take care of every Muslim on my behalf (and safeguard him against
his evil).
He (Dajjal) would be a young man with
twisted, contracted hair, and a blind eye. I compare him to
‘Abd-ul-’Uzza b. Qatan. He who amongst you would survive to see him
should recite over him the opening verses of Sura Kahf (xviii.). He
would appear on the way between Syria and Iraq and would spread mischief
right and left. O servant of Allaah! adhere (to the path of Truth).
We said: Allaah’s Messenger, how long
would he stay on the earth? He said.. For forty days, one day like a
year and one day like a month and one day like a week and the rest of
the days would be like your days. We said: Allaah’s Messenger, would one
day’s prayer suffice for the prayers of day equal to one year?
Thereupon he said: No, but you must make
an estimate of time (and then observe prayer). We said: Allaah’s
Messenger, how quickly would he walk upon the earth? Thereupon he said:
Like cloud driven by the wind. He would come to the people and invite
them (to a wrong religion) and they would affirm their faith in him and
respond to him. He would then give command to the sky and there would be
rainfall upon the earth and it would grow crops. Then in the evening,
their posturing animals would come to them with their humps very high
and their udders full of milk and their flanks stretched. He would then
come to another people and invite them. But they would reject him and he
would go away from them and there would be drought for them and nothing
would be left with them in the form of wealth.
He would then walk through the waste,
land and say to it: Bring forth your treasures, and the treasures would
come out and collect (themselves) before him like the swarm of bees. He
would then call a person brimming with youth and strike him with the
sword and cut him into two pieces and (make these pieces lie at a
distance which is generally) between the archer and his target. He would
then call (that young man) and he will come forward laughing with his
face gleaming (with happiness) and it would at this very time that
Allaah would send Christ, son of Mary, and he will descend at the white
minaret in the eastern side of Damscus wearing two garments lightly dyed
with saffron and placing his hands on the wings of two Angels. When he
would lower his head, there would fall beads of perspiration from his
head, and when he would raise it up, beads like pearls would scatter
from it. Every non-believer who would smell the odour of his self would
die and his breath would reach as far as he would be able to see. He
would then search for him (Dajjal) until he would catch hold of him at
the gate of Ludd and would kill him.
Then a people whom Allaah had protected
would come to Jesus, son of Mary, and he would wipe their faces and
would inform them of their ranks in Paradise and it would be under such
conditions that Allaah would reveal to Jesus these words: I have brought
forth from amongst My servants such people against whom none would be
able to fight; you take these people safely to Tur, and then Allaah
would send Gog and Magog and they would swarm down from every slope. The
first of them would pass the lake of Tiberias and drink out of it. And
when the last of them would pass, he would say: There was once water
there. Jesus and his companions would then be besieged here (at Tur, and
they would be so much hard pressed) that the head of the ox would be
dearer to them than one hundred dinars and Allaah’s Prophet, Jesus, and
his companions would supplicate Allaah, Who would send to them insects
(which would attack their necks) and in the morning they would perish
like one single person. Allaah’s Prophet, Jesus, and his companions
would then come down to the earth and they would not find in the earth
as much space as a single span which is not filled with their
putrefaction and stench. Allaah’s Prophet, Jesus, and his companions
would then again beseech Allaah, Who would send birds whose necks would
be like those of bactrin camels and they would carry them and throw them
where God would will.
Then Allaah would send rain which no
house of clay or (the tent of) camels’ hairs would keep out and it would
wash away the earth until it could appear to be a mirror. Then the
earth would be told to bring forth its fruit and restore its blessing
and, as a result thereof, there would grow (such a big) pomegranate that
a group of persons would be able to eat that, and seek shelter under
its skin and the milked cow would give so much milk that a whole party
would be able to drink it. And the milked camel would give such (a large
quantity of) milk that the whole tribe would be able to drink out of
that and the milked sheep would give so much milk that the whole family
would be able to drink out of that and at that time Allaah would send a
pleasant wind which would soothe (people) even under their armpits, and
would take the life of every Muslim and only the wicked would survive
who would commit adultery like asses and the Last Hour would come to
them.
[Sahih Muslim, The Book of Tribulations and the Signs of the Last
Hour, Chapter: ACCOUNT OF THE DAJJAL AND HIS FEATURES AND WHAT WOULD BE
ALONG WITH HIM, Book 41, No. 7015]
2) Narrated Abu Huraira (رضي الله عنه) :
The Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said,
“Shall I not tell you about the dajjal a story of which no prophet told
his nation? The dajjal is one-eyed and will bring with him what will
resemble Hell and Paradise, and what he will call Paradise will be
actually Hell; so I warn you (against him) as Noah warned his nation
against him.”
[Sahih Bukhari, Volume 4, The Book of Prophets, No. 3112]
3) Anas b. Malik (رضي الله عنه) reported that Allaah’s Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said:
“There would be written three letters k. f. r., i. e. Kafir, between the eyes of the Dajjal.”
[Sahih Muslim, The Book of Tribulations and the Signs of the Last
Hour (41), CHAPTER: ACCOUNT OF THE DAJJAL AND HIS FEATURES AND WHAT
WOULD BE ALONG WITH HIM, No. 7008]
4) Anas b. Malik (رضي الله عنه) reported that Allaah’s Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said:
“The Dajjal would be followed by seventy thousand Jews of Isfahan wearing Persian shawls.”
[Sahih Muslim, The Book of Tribulations and the Signs of the Last
Hour (41), CHAPTER: THE REMAINING AHADITH PERTAINING TO THE DAJJAL, No.
7034]
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