to fight. So take My servants to safety on Mount Sinai.’ Allah will send forth Gog and Magog, and they will swarm down from every height. The first of them will pass by Lake Tiberias and drink all its water. The last of them will pass by and say, ‘There was once water here.’

The Prophet of Allah, Jesus, and his companions will be besieged until a bull’s head is more precious to one of them than a hundred dinars are to one of you today. The Prophet of Allah, Jesus, and his companions will pray earnestly, and Allah will send worms into their necks. By morning, they will all lie dead, having perished as one. Then the Prophet of Allah, Jesus, and his companions will descend to a place on the earth, but they will not find a handspan of ground that is not filled with their putrefaction and stench. The Prophet of Allah, Jesus, and his companions will implore Allah, and He will send birds like the necks of Bactrian camels. They will carry them away and cast them wherever Allah wills. Then Allah will send rain from which neither a clay house nor a haircloth tent will provide shelter. It will wash the earth until it leaves it like a mirror.

Then the earth will be told, ‘Bring forth your fruit and restore your blessing.’ On that day, a group of people will eat from a single pomegranate and shelter in the shade of its rind. Milk will be blessed, so that one camel will yield enough for a large company of people, one cow for a tribe, and one sheep or goat for a clan.

While they are in this state, Allah will send a pleasant breeze that will touch them beneath their armpits and take the soul of every believer and every Muslim. The worst of people will remain, mating on earth like donkeys, and it is upon them that the Hour will come.”

Recorded by Muslim (8/ 197 - 198), Abū Dāwūd (2/ 213)—in a somewhat abridged form; the additional wording is his, and its chain of transmission is authentic—al-Tirmidhī (2241), Ibn Mājah (2/ 508 - 512), al-Ājurrī in (al-Sharīʿah) (p. 376), Ahmad (4/ 181 - 182), Hanbal (49/ 1 - 51/ 1), Ibn Mandah in (al-Īmān) (94/ 1), and Ibn ʿAsākir (1/ 606 - 609).