and Aḥmad and his son (6/93), through Khālid ibn Salamah, from al-Bahī, from ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr, who said: ʿĀʾishah said:

“I was unaware until Zaynab entered upon me without permission, angry. She then said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, do you think that Abu Bakr’s little daughter can have her way merely by turning her little forearms toward you?’ She then confronted me, but I turned away from her, until the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, ‘Go on, defend yourself.’

“So I confronted her, until I saw that the saliva in her mouth had dried up and that she could say nothing in reply to me. And I saw the Prophet’s face beam.”

I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission according to Muslim’s criteria. Al-Būṣīrī likewise stated this in his Zawāʾid (125/1), adding that al-Nasāʾī recorded it in ʿIshrat al-Nisāʾ and in al-Tafsīr through this chain.

Regarding “her little forearms,” Ibn al-Athīr said: “Dhurayyiʿah is the diminutive of ‘arm’; it takes the feminine ending because ‘arm’ is feminine. It was then made dual while retaining the diminutive form, and what was intended was her forearms.”

1863 — “The Dajjal’s eye is green like glass, and we seek refuge in Allah from the punishment of the grave.”

It was narrated by Aḥmad (5/123 and 124) and Abū Nuʿaym in Akhbār Iṣfahān (1/247 and 294–495), from Shuʿbah, from Ḥabīb ibn al-Zubayr, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī al-Hudhayl, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abzā, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khabbāb, from Ubayy ibn Kaʿb, attributed to the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace.

I say: This is authentic. Its narrators are trustworthy narrators of Muslim, apart from Ḥabīb ibn al-Zubayr, who is himself trustworthy. This is one of dozens of hadiths transmitted concerning the Dajjal; therefore, belief in him is a duty.