1809 – Rabiʿ ibn Ḥirāsh said: “I set out with Abū Masʿūd al-Anṣārī to Ḥudhayfa ibn al-Yamān (may Allah be pleased with them). Abū Masʿūd said to him, ‘Relate to me what you heard from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about the Dajjal.’ He replied, ‘The Dajjal will emerge, and with him will be water and fire. What the people take to be water will in fact be a fire that burns, and what they take to be fire will be cool, sweet water. Whoever of you encounters him should plunge into what he perceives as fire, for it is cool, wholesome water.’ Abū Masʿūd added, ‘I, too, heard this from the Prophet.’ – Agreed upon.

1810 – ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ (may Allah be pleased with them) reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “The Dajjal will appear among my community and will remain for forty—I do not know whether forty days, forty months, or forty years. Then Allah, Exalted is He, will send down Jesus son of Mary ﷺ, who will pursue him and destroy him. People will then live for seven years during which no two persons will harbor any enmity. After that, Allah will send a cold wind from the direction of Syria; it will leave no one on the face of the earth who has so much as an atom’s weight of goodness or faith in his heart without taking his soul—even if one of you were to enter the very core of a mountain, it would reach him and seize him. Only the most wicked of humanity will remain—light and reckless like birds, with the minds of predatory beasts. They will neither recognize virtue nor denounce vice. Satan will come to them and say, ‘Will you not respond?’ They will ask, ‘What do you command us to do?’ He will order them to worship idols. While they are doing so, their provisions will be ample and their lives comfortable. Then the Trumpet will be blown, and no one will hear it without inclining one side of his neck and raising the other, and the first…"