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and said something to him that angered him. He swelled until he filled the entire lane. Ibn Umar then went to Hafsa, who had already heard what had happened. She said to him, “May Allah have mercy on you! What did you want with Ibn Sā’id?! Did you not know that the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—said, ‘He will emerge only because of a fit of anger’ (1)?”

In another narration, Nāfi reported that Ibn Umar said: “I met him twice. When I met him the first time, I asked one of the people, ‘Do you say among yourselves that he is the Dajjal?’ He replied, ‘No, by Allah.’ I said, ‘You have lied to me. By Allah, some of you told me that he would not die until he had more wealth and children than any of you.’ And that, they claimed, was indeed his condition at the time. We then spoke for a while, and I parted from him.

“I met him again on another occasion, and his eye had become swollen. I asked, ‘When did your eye become as I now see it?’ He replied, ‘I do not know.’ I said, ‘You do not know, though it is in your own head?!’ He replied, ‘If Allah so willed, He could have created it in this staff of yours.’ He then gave the loudest donkey-like snort I had ever heard. Some of my companions claimed that I struck him with a staff I had with me until it broke into pieces. As for me, by Allah, I was not aware of doing so.”

Ibn Umar then went to the Mother of the Believers and told her what had happened. She said, “What do you want with him?! Did you not know that the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—had said, ‘The first thing that will drive him out against the people is a fit of anger’ (2)?”

Ibn Sayyād would hear what people said about him and was deeply hurt by it. He defended himself by insisting that he was not the Dajjal, arguing that the characteristics of the Dajjal described by the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—did not apply to him.

Thus, Abū Sa’īd al-Khudrī—may Allah be pleased with him—reported in the hadith: “We set out as pilgrims for Hajj or Umrah, and Ibn Sā’id was with us. We stopped at a place, whereupon the people dispersed and I remained

(1) *Sahīh Muslim*, “Tribulations and Signs of the Hour,” chapter “The Account of Ibn Sayyād,” 18:57, with al-Nawawī’s commentary. (2) *Sahīh Muslim*, 18:57–58, with al-Nawawī’s commentary.

فقال له قولًا أغضبه، فانتفخ حتّى ملأ السكة، فدخل ابن عمر على حفصة وقد بلغها، فقالت له: رحمك الله! ما أردتَ من ابن صائد؟! أمّا علمتَ أن رسول الله ﷺ قال: "إنّما يخرُجُ من غضبةٍ يغضبها" (١)؟! وفي رواية عن نافع؛ قال: قال ابن عمر: لقيته مرتين؛ قال: فلقيته، فقلت لبعضهم: هل تَحَدَّثون أنَّه هو؟ قال: لا والله. قال: قلت: كذبتني، والله لقد أخبرني بعضكم أنّه لن يموت حتّى يكون أكثركم مالًا وولدًا، فكذلك هو زعموا اليوم. قال: فتحدَّثنا، ثمَّ فارقته. قال: فلقيتُه مرَّة أخرى وقد نفرت عينيه. قال: فقلتُ: متى فعلت عينُك ما أرى؟ قال: لا أدري. قلتُ: لا تدري وهي في رأسك؟! قال: إن شاء الله خلقها في عصاك هذه. قال: فنخر كأشد نخير حمار سمعت. قال: فزعم بعض أصحابي أني ضربته بعصا كانت معي حتّى تكسَّرت، وأمّا أنا فوالله ما شعرتُ. قال: وجاء حتّى دخل على أم المؤمنين، فحدَّئَها، فقالت: ما تُريد إليه؟! ألم تعلم أنّه قد قال: "إن أول ما يبعثه على النَّاس غضبٌ يغضبه" (٢). وكان ابن صيَّاد يسمع ما يقوله النَّاس فيه، فيتأذَّى من ذلك كثيرًا، ويدافع عن نفسه بأنّه ليس الدَّجَّال، ويحتجُّ على ذلك بأن ما أخبر به النّبيّ ﷺ من صفات الدَّجَّال لا تنطبق عليه. ففي الحديث عن أبي سعيد الخدري ﵁؛ قال: "خرجنا حجَّاجًا أو عُمّارًا ومعنا ابن صائد. قال: فنزلنا منزلًا، فتفرَّق النَّاس، وبقيتُ

(١) "صحيح مسلم"، كتاب الفتن وأشراط السّاعة، باب ذكر ابن صياد، (١٨/ ٥٧ - مع شرح النووي). (٢) "صحيح مسلم" (١٨/ ٥٧ - ٥٨ - مع شرح النووي).