Mujahid said: “We were with Ibn Abbas, and they mentioned the Dajjal. He said, ‘Written between his eyes is: disbeliever.’” Ibn Abbas said, “I did not hear him say that; rather, he said: …” and he then related it.

(Note): Al-Suyuti cites the hadith, through Ahmad, al-Bukhari, and Muslim, from Ibn Abbas, with some changes in its order that do not accord with the context of any of their versions. *

3493 — “As for the first of the signs of the Hour, it is a fire that will emerge from the east and drive the people to the west. As for the first thing the people of Paradise will eat, it is the extra lobe of the fish’s liver. As for a child’s resemblance to his father or mother: if the man’s fluid precedes the woman’s fluid, the child takes after him; and if the woman’s fluid precedes the man’s fluid, the child takes after her.”

Ahmad recorded it (3/108), saying: Ibn Abi Adi narrated to us, from Humayd, from Anas, that Abdullah ibn Salam came to the Messenger of Allah upon his arrival in Medina and said, “O Messenger of Allah, I will ask you about three matters which none but a prophet knows.” He said, “Ask.”

He said, “What is the first of the signs of the Hour? What is the first thing the people of Paradise will eat? And how does a child resemble his father or his mother?” The Messenger of Allah said, “Gabriel has just informed me of them.”

He said, “That is the Jews’ enemy among the angels!” He said: … and then related the hadith. He said, “I testify that there is no god worthy of worship but Allah, and that you are the Messenger of Allah.” He also said, “O Messenger of Allah, the Jews are a slanderous people. If they learn of my embracing Islam, they will slander me before you. So send for them and ask them about me: what kind of man is Ibn