, and the Dajjāl will not enter it. When that happens, Medina and its inhabitants will be shaken by three tremors. No hypocrite, male or female, will remain; all will go out to him. Most of them—meaning those who go out to him—will be women. That will be the Day of Deliverance, the day when Medina expels its impurities as a furnace removes dross from iron. With him will be seventy thousand Jews, each wearing a mantle and bearing an ornamented sword. His neck will then be struck at this hill beside the confluence of the floodwaters.”

Then the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:

“There has never been a trial—and there will be none until the Hour comes—greater than the trial of the Dajjāl. No prophet has failed to warn his people about him, and I shall tell you something no prophet before me has told his people.”

He then placed his hand on his eye and said:

“I testify that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, is not one-eyed.”

Recorded by Ahmad (3/292) and his son in al-Sunnah (138).

I say: Its transmitters are trustworthy narrators used by both al-Bukhārī and Muslim, apart from Zuhayr—namely, Ibn Muhammad al-Khurāsānī—who has some weakness. Ibn Kathīr said (1/127):

“Its chain of transmission is good, and al-Hākim graded it sound.”

An abridged version is also transmitted through another chain in al-Ihsān (6616).

The fifth is from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:

“The Dajjāl will come and traverse the earth, except Mecca and Medina. He will approach Medina and find ranks of angels at each of its passes. He will then come to the salt flat of al-Jurf and pitch his tent