The evidentiary point lies in the word “bellows,” for bellowing is a sound specific to camels. This is because “when the she-camel was killed, her calf fled. A rock opened for him, so he entered its hollow; it then closed over him, and he remains there until he emerges by Allah’s leave—Glorious and Exalted is He.”

He then said, “How well the poet said:

Recall the emergence of Sālih’s she-camel’s calf,
branding humankind with unbelief and faith.” (1)

Al-Qurtubī’s preference for this opinion is open to question, for the chain of the hadith upon which he relied includes a rejected narrator.

Moreover, some hadith collections contain the wordings “draws near” and “grows” instead of “bellows,” as in al-Hākim’s al-Mustadrak.

Second: It is al-Jassāsa, mentioned in the hadith of Tamīm al-Dārī—may Allah be pleased with him—concerning the Dajjāl.

This opinion is attributed to Abd Allah ibn Amr ibn al-Ās—may Allah be pleased with them both. (2)