Abī Ṭalḥah, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
‘The Dajjāl will range over the whole earth except Mecca and Medina. When he reaches Medina he will find, at every one of its mountain passes, ranks of angels standing guard. He will then come to the salt-marsh of al-Jurf (1) and pitch his pavilion there. Medina will quake three times, and every hypocrite, man or woman, will go out to join him.’
Muslim likewise reported it through Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah, from Yūnus ibn Muḥammad al-Muʾaddib, from Ḥammād ibn Salamah, with similar wording (2).
[Another route from Anas ibn Mālik (may Allah be pleased with him)]
Aḥmad said: Yaḥyā narrated to me; Ḥumayd narrated to us; from Anas, from the Prophet ﷺ, who said:
‘The Dajjāl is blind in his left eye; over it is a thick piece of skin. Written between his eyes are the letters “k-f-r,” or the word “kāfir.”’
This ḥadīth has a three-link chain and meets the conditions of the two Ṣaḥīḥs (3).
[Another route from Anas ibn Mālik (may Allah be pleased with him)]
Aḥmad said: Muḥammad ibn Muṣʿab narrated to us; al-Awzāʿī narrated to us; from Rabīʿah ibn Abī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
‘The Dajjāl will emerge from the Jewish quarter of Isfahān, accompanied by seventy thousand Jews wearing sijān (cloak-like garments).’
Aḥmad alone transmitted it (4).
[Another route from Anas (may Allah be pleased with him)]
Aḥmad said: ʿAbd al-Ṣamad narrated to us; my father narrated to me; Shuʿayb—i.e. the son of al-Ḥabḥāb—narrated to us; from Anas that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
‘The Dajjāl is one-eyed; between his eyes is written “kāfir.”’ He then spelled it out so that every Muslim can read it: k-f-r.
Aḥmad said: Yūnus narrated to us; Ḥammād—meaning Ibn Salamah—narrated to us; from Ḥumayd and Shuʿayb ibn al-Ḥabḥāb, from Anas ibn Mālik, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
‘The Dajjāl is one-eyed, whereas your Lord is not one-eyed. Between his eyes is written “kāfir”; every believer, whether literate or illiterate, will be able to read it.’
Muslim also reported it through Zuhayr, from ʿAffān, [from ʿAbd al-Wārith], from Shuʿayb with similar wording (5).