Majma al-Zawaid — Hadith 12525

Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The Dajjal will emerge at a time when religion has weakened and knowledge has departed. He will have forty nights, in which he will roam the whole earth. One day of those will be like a year, one day like a month, one day like a week, and the rest of the days will be like your ordinary days. He will have a donkey, the width between whose two ears will be forty cubits. He will say to the people: 'I am your Lord,' although he will be one-eyed, and your Lord is not one-eyed. Between his two eyes will be written 'Kafir', that is, K-F-R, spelled out in letters, which every believer, literate or illiterate, will be able to read. He will come to every water and watering place, except that he will not come to Madinah and Makkah, because Allah Almighty has made these two cities forbidden to him, and angels are standing at the gates of these cities. With the Dajjal will be mountains of bread, and the people at that time will be suffering starvation, except for those who follow him. With the Dajjal will be two rivers, and I know more about them than the Dajjal does: a river about which he will say: 'This is Paradise,' and a river about which he will say: 'This is Hell.' Whoever enters the one he calls Paradise, it will in reality be Hell; and whoever enters the one he has called Hell, it will in reality be Paradise." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Devils will be sent with him who will talk with people, and with them will be a great trial. He will command the sky and it will send down rain, which the people will see. Then he will say to the people: 'O people! Can anyone but the Lord do this?'" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The people will flee to Jabal al-Dukhan in Syria, and he will besiege them. Their siege will become severe, and those people will be struck by severe hunger. Then Sayyiduna Isa bin Maryam (peace be upon him) will descend and will call out loudly, saying: 'O people! What is preventing you from going out against this wicked great liar?' The people will say: 'This man is a jinn.' Then those people will go, and there will be Sayyiduna Isa bin Maryam (peace be upon him). Then the prayer will be established, and it will be said to him: 'O Spirit of Allah! Come forward.' He will say: 'Your imam should come forward; let that imam lead you in prayer.' When they have performed the morning prayer, he will go out towards him." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When the great liar sees him, he will begin to dissolve just as salt dissolves in water. Sayyiduna Isa (peace be upon him) will walk to him and kill him, until even the trees and stones will call out: 'This is a Jew (hiding behind me),' and he will kill every one of his followers." Ahmad recorded it with two chains, the narrators of one of which are the narrators of the Sahih. (Al-Haythami says:) I say: a hadith narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) has already passed in the Book of Hajj, in the chapter on the virtue of Madinah.