and he is Qatādah ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Qatādah al-Anṣārī; his father is a reliable transmitter accepted by the two Shaykhs, and al-Ḥāfiẓ, in the son’s biographical notice, records those who narrated from him. And Allah knows best.

Third: Through Muʾathir ibn ʿAfāzah1, from Ibn Masʿūd, from the Prophet ﷺ, who said:

“I met—on the night I was taken on the Night Journey—Abraham, Moses, and Jesus. They began discussing the Hour and referred the question to Abraham, who replied, ‘I have no knowledge of it.’ They then referred it to Jesus, who said, ‘As for its fixed time, no one knows it except Allah. Yet my Lord has informed me that the False Messiah will indeed emerge. I will have with me two staffs, and when he sees me he will dissolve just as lead melts. Allah will destroy him so completely that even the stone and the tree will say, “O Muslim, there is an unbeliever beneath me—kill him.” Allah will annihilate them, after which people will return to their lands and homelands.”