3080—Seventy thousand Jews of Isfahan, wearing tayālisah (hooded cloaks), will follow the Dajjal.

It was recorded by Muslim (8/207), Ibn Hibban (6760), and Ibn Asakir in Tarikh Dimashq (2/250, Madinah photographic edition), through two routes from al-Awza'i, from Ishaq ibn Abd Allah ibn Abi Talhah al-Ansari, who said: Anas ibn Malik narrated to me that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him, said it.

Muhammad ibn Mus'ab differed from them in the chain of transmission, narrating: Al-Awza'i narrated to us from Rabi'ah ibn Abi Abd al-Rahman, from Anas ibn Malik, with the same report. It was recorded by Ahmad (3/224) and Abu Ya'la (6/3639).

Ibn Mus'ab is weak on account of his retention; therefore, his contrary report cannot be relied upon.

The hadith has also been narrated with the wording: “Seventy of my community will follow the Dajjal...” This report contains a narrator accused of lying; for that reason, I included it in al-Da'ifah (6088). On its apparent meaning, it contradicts this authentic hadith, unless it is given an alternative interpretation. See the source cited.

The hadith has a strong supporting narration from Jabir, which follows:

3081—How excellent the land of Medina will be when the Dajjal emerges. At each of its mountain passes will be an angel, preventing him from entering it. When that happens, Medina will shake its inhabitants with three tremors. No hypocrite, male or female, will remain without going out to him. Most of those who go out to him—meaning—will be women. That will be the Day of Deliverance; that will be the day on which Medina expels