‘I testify that my father related to me the same account that Fātimah related to you, except that he said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “He is towards the east.”’”

He continued: “I then met al-Qāsim ibn Muhammad and mentioned Fātimah’s hadith to him. He said, ‘I testify that ʿĀʾishah related to me the same account that Fātimah related to you, except that she said, “The two sanctuaries—Mecca and Medina—are forbidden to him.”’”

Recorded by Ahmad (6/373–374 and 417–418), through Mujālid, from ʿĀmir.

Mujālid—namely, Ibn Saʿīd—is not a strong narrator. He failed to retain the mention of Mecca in Fātimah’s hadith and therefore presented her hadith as differing from that of ʿĀʾishah. In fact, the two agree, since the mention of Mecca is also established in Fātimah’s hadith as recorded by Muslim and others, through several chains from ʿĀmir, from her, as noted above.

In an abridged version recorded by Ahmad (6/241), through Dāwūd—namely, Ibn Abī Hind—from ʿĀmir, from ʿĀʾishah, who attributed it to the Prophet, the wording is:

“The Dajjāl will enter neither Mecca nor Medina.”

I say: Its chain of transmission is authentic and meets Muslim’s criteria.

Ibn Mandah also recorded it with similar wording.

The fourth is Abū Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:

“At the approaches to Medina are angels; neither plague nor the Dajjāl will enter it.”

Recorded by al-Bukhārī (4/76), Muslim (4/120), Ahmad (2/237 and 331), and al-Dānī (128/2), through several chains from him.