Sahih Muslim Hadith 7386 – The Story Of Al-

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[7386] 119 – (2942) 'Amir bin tijLi.:;. ()- [vrM] SharâhIl Ash-Sha'bI, a man from Hamdân narrated that he asked Fâtimah bint Qais, the sister of Ad- Dah-hâk bin Qais, who was one of the earliest Muhâjir women: "Tell Tribulations & Portents Of The Hour 346 AJl me a HadIth that you heard directly from the Messenger of Allah " She said: "If you wish, I will do that." He said to her: "Yes, tell me." She said: "I married Ibn Al- Mughlrah, who was one of the best young men of the Quraish at that time, but he fell as a martyr at the beginning of Jihâd with the Messenger of Allah . When I became a widow, 'Abdur-Rahmân bin 'Awf proposed marriage to me, so did a group of the Companions of Muhammad , and the Messenger of Allah proposed to me on behalf of his freed slave Usâmah bin Zaid. "I had been told that the Messenger of Allah j4 had said: 'Whoever loves me, let him love Usâmah.' So when the Messenger of Allah j spoke to me, I said: 'My affairs are in your hand. Many me to whomever you wish.' He said: 'Go to Umm SharIk.' Umm Sharlk was a rich lady of the Anâr who spent a great deal in the cause of Allah and entertained many guests. I said: 'I will do that.' He said: "Do not do that, for Umm Sharlk is a woman who has many guests, and I would not like your head cover to fall down or your calf to become uncovered by your garment, and the people to see something that you do not like them to see. Go instead to your cousin, 'Abdullâh bin 'Amr bin Umm Maktüm.' He was a man from Banü Fihr, Fihr of Quraish, Tribulations & Portents Of The Hour 347 and he was from the same clan as mine. So I went to him. "When my 'Iddah ended, I heard the voice of the caller, the caller of the Messenger of Allah (), saying: 'As-salâtu jâmi'ah (prayer is being gathered for),' so I went out to the Masjid and I prayed with the Messenger of Allah . I was in the women's row that was closest to the people. When the Messenger of Allah had finished his prayer, he sat on the Minbar and he was smiling. He said: 'Let each person stay in the place where he just prayed.' Then he said: 'Do you know why I called you together?' They said: 'Allah and His Messenger know best.' "He said: 'By Allah, I did not call you together for something good, or for some alarming news. I have called you together because TamIm Ad-DârI who was a Christian, and he came and swore allegiance, and he became a Muslim. He told me something which agrees with what I was telling you about Al-MasIh Ad- Dajjâl. "He told me that he sailed in a ship with thirty men of (the tribe of) Lakhm and Judhâm and they were tossed by the waves of the sea for a month. Then they came to an island at sunset. They sat in a small rowing boat and landed on that island. They were met by a beast with a great deal of hair, Tribulations & Portents Of The Hour 348 and they could not distinguish his face from his back because he was so hairy. They said: "Woe to you, what are you?" It said: "I am Al-Jassâsah." They said: "What is AI-Jassâsah?" It said: "0 people, go to this man in the monastery for he is keen to know about you." He said: When it named a man for us, we were afraid of it lest it be a devil. Then we set off, rushing, until we came to that monastery, where we found the largest man we had ever seen, bound strongly in chains with his hands tied to his neck, and his legs bound from the knees to the ankles with iron shackles. We said: "Woe to you, who are you?" He said: "You will soon find out about me; tell me who you are." They said: "We are people from Arabia who embarked on a ship, but the sea became wild, and the waves tossed us about for one month, then they brought us to this island of yours. We took to the rowing boats and landed on this island. We were met by a beast with a great deal of hair, and we could not tell his front from his back, because he was so hairy. We said: 'Woe to you, what are you?' It said: 'I am Al-Jassâsah.' We said: 'What is Al-Jassãsah?' It said: 'Go to this man in the monastery for he is keen to know about you.' So we came rushing to you and we fled from it Tribulations & Portents Of The Hour 349 X&WI jiIj because we could not be sure that it was not a devil." Wt "'He (that chained person) said: ' Tell me about the date-palm trees of Baisán. We said: What :JU do you want to know about them? He said: I am asking you :jULJL S1: whether these trees bear fruit. We said: Yes. He said: Soon they will not bear fruit. He said: Tell me about the lake of Tabariyyah (Tiberias). We said: What do you :J want to know about it? He said: Is there water in it? They said: There is a great deal of water in 1. :J .I a :l,i L it. He said: Soon it will dry up. j LaL Then he said: Tell me about the spring of Zughar. They said: Li : What do you want to know about it? He said: Is there water in the L :J spring, and do the people grow crops with the water of the spring? We said to him: Yes, there is plenty of water in it, and the people grow crops with its :J water. He said: Tell me about the Prophet of the unlettered; what has he done? We said: He has left Makkah and has settled in Yathrib (A]-Madinah). He said: :J Do the Arabs fight against him? Wij çLii We said: Yes. He said: How did he deal with them? We told him that he had prevailed over the 'Arabs in his vicinity, and they had shown obedience to him. He il L1 :JU said to us: Has it really happened? We said: Yes. '"He said: If it is so, that is better for them, that they show ) 3' L,i JL JL-JI Tribulations & Portents Of The Hour 350 L1J iI obedience to him. Now I will tell you about myself. I am A1-MasIz Ad-Dajjâl, and soon I will be given permission to emerge. So I will come out and travel in the land, and will not spare any town but I will stay for forty nights, except Makkah and Taibah (A]- Madinah). They are both forbidden to me; every time I try to enter one of them, I will be met by an angel with a sword in his hand, who will bar my way, and on every route there will be angels guarding it." She said: "Then the Messenger of Allah struck the Minbar with his staff and said: 'This is Taibah, this is Taibah, this is Taibah,' meaning Al-Madinah. 'Did I not tell you this before?' The people said: 'Yes.' (The Prophet said:) 'I liked the story of Tamim because it agrees with what I used to tell you about him, and about Makkah and A]-Madinah. But he is in the sea of Ash-Sham or the Yemeni sea. No, rather he is in the east, he in the east, he is in the east,' and he pointed towards the east with his hand." She said: "I memorized this from the Messenger of Allah