Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 40298 — Reports on the tribulation

It is narrated from al-Haytham bin al-Aswad that he said: I set out as part of a delegation in the time of Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him). With him on the couch was a man of ruddy colour with many wrinkles on his face. Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah said to me: Do you know who this is? This is Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with him). The narrator said: Sayyiduna Abdullah said to me: Where are you from? I said: I am from the people of Iraq. He said: Do you know a land in your direction, with much salt marsh, which is called Kutha? He said: I said: Yes. He said: The Dajjal will emerge from there. He said: Then Sayyiduna Abdullah said: The wicked will have a period of one hundred and twenty years after the good, and no one among the people knows when its first (year) will begin.