The second: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mughaffal narrated that the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) said:

“Allah Most High has sent down no trial to the earth—from the creation of Adam until the coming of the Hour—greater than the trial of the Dajjāl. I have said something about him that no one before me has said: He is dark-complexioned and curly-haired, his left eye obliterated, with a thick fleshy growth over it. He will heal the blind and those with leprosy and say, ‘I am your Lord.’ Whoever says, ‘My Lord is Allah,’ will not succumb to his trial, but whoever says, ‘You are my Lord,’ will have succumbed to it. He will remain among you for as long as Allah wills. Then Jesus son of Mary will descend, believing in Muhammad (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) and following his religion, as a rightly guided leader and a just judge, and he will kill the Dajjāl.”

Al-Hasan used to say: “We think this will occur near the Hour.”

Al-Tabarānī recorded it in al-Kabīr and al-Awsat. Its narrators are trustworthy, and the disagreement concerning some of them does not undermine it, as stated in Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid (7/336).

The statement about his eye is corroborated by a hadith narrated by Anas, with the wording:

“The Dajjāl is blind in his left eye, which has a thick fleshy growth over it. Between his eyes is written: ‘Disbeliever.’”

Ahmad recorded it (3/115 and 201) with an authentic chain of transmission.

The third: Hudhayfah said:

The Dajjāl was mentioned in the presence of the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), and he said:

“I fear the trial posed by some of you more than the trial of the Dajjāl, and no one will escape what