during which he will roam the earth. One day will be like a year, another like a month, and another like a week; the rest of his days will be like your days now.

He will have a donkey to ride, with forty cubits between its ears.

He will say to the people, ‘I am your Lord.’ Yet he is blind in one eye, whereas your Lord is not blind in one eye. Between his eyes will be written ‘kāfir’ (disbeliever)—spelled kāf, fā, rā—which every believer will read, whether literate or illiterate.

He will reach every water source and watering place except Medina and Mecca. Allah has forbidden him entry into both, and angels will stand at their gates.

He will have mountains of bread with him, while the people will suffer hardship, except those who follow him.

He will have two rivers with him—I know more about them than he does—one he calls paradise and another he calls fire. Whoever is made to enter the one he calls paradise will enter fire, and whoever is made to enter the one he calls fire will enter paradise.

(He said:) Allah will send devils with him who will speak to the people, and with him will come a tremendous trial. He will command the sky, and it will rain, as it appears to the people.

He will kill a person and then bring him back to life, as it appears to the people, but he will not be given such power over anyone else. He will say, ‘O people, could anyone but the Lord, Mighty and Majestic, do such a thing?’ He said:

The Muslims will flee to Mount al-Dukhān in Greater Syria. He will come and besiege them, and the siege will grow severe, causing them extreme hardship.

Then Jesus, son of Mary, will descend and call out before dawn, saying, ‘O people,