a band of people will eat from a single pomegranate and take shelter beneath its huge rind (1). Blessing will be placed in milk (2) so that one milch she-camel will suffice an entire company of people, one milch cow will suffice a whole tribe, and one milch ewe will suffice a clan. While they are living in that state, Allah will send a pleasant breeze that takes them from beneath their armpits, whereupon it will seize the soul of every believer and every Muslim. The vilest of mankind will remain, copulating in public like donkeys (3); upon them the Hour will come.”

ʿAlī ibn Ḥujr al-Saʿdī narrated to me; ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir and al-Walīd ibn Muslim narrated to us. Ibn Ḥujr said, “One of their reports became mixed with the other,” and he related—from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir, with this same chain—something similar to what we have mentioned, adding after the Prophet’s words, “There was once water here” the following:

“Then they will march on until they reach Mount al-Khamar (4), which is the mountain of Jerusalem. They will say, ‘We have slain the inhabitants of the earth; come, let us slay those who are in heaven.’ They will shoot their arrows toward the sky, and Allah will return their arrows to them drenched in blood.”

In another version narrated by Ibn Ḥujr it says: “For I have sent down servants of Mine against whom no one has the power to fight.” That concludes what Muslim transmitted, both chain and text; he alone reported it apart from al-Bukhārī.

Imām Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal also included it in his Musnad, through al-Walīd ibn Muslim, with a similar chain, adding after the words, “and it will cast them wherever Allah wills.”

Ibn Jābir said: ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yazīd al-Saksakī told me, from Kaʿb—or someone else—who said: “It will cast them in al-Mahbal (5).” Ibn Jābir asked, “And where is al-Mahbal?” He replied, “Where the sun rises.”

Abū Dāwūd recorded part of it through Ṣafwān ibn ʿAmr (6) from al-Walīd ibn Muslim. al-Tirmidhī narrated the complete version from ʿAlī ibn Ḥujr and said: “It is gharīb, ḥasan, ṣaḥīḥ; we know it only through the narration of Ibn Jābir.” al-Nasāʾī related an abridged form of it in “The Virtues of the Quran” from ʿAlī ibn Ḥujr. Ibn Mājah transmitted it from Hishām ibn ʿAmmār, from Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamzah, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir with his chain, saying: “People will kindle fires for seven years from the bows, arrows, and shields of Gog and Magog.” He had earlier cited it in full from Hishām ibn ʿAmmār without mentioning this episode and without including Yaḥyā ibn Jābir al-Ṭāʾī in the chain (7).

There is also a hadith from Abū Umāmah al-Bāhilī Ṣudī ibn ʿAjlān conveying the same meaning as the report of al-Nawwās ibn Samʿān.

Ibn Mājah said: ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad (8) narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Muḥāribī narrated to us from Ismāʿīl ibn Rāfiʿ