Sunan Abi Dawud 4326

Translation

I heard the crier of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ calling: Assemble for the prayer. I Then came out and prayed along with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ: When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ finished his prayer, he sat on the pulpit laughing, and he said: Everyone should remain where he had said his prayer. He then asked: Do you know why I have assembled you? They said: Allah and His Messenger know best. He ﷺ said: I did not call you together fors some alarming news or for something good. Rather, I called you all because Tamim al-Dari, a Christian, who came and accepted Islam, told me something which agrees with what I was telling you about the Dajjal. He told me that he sailed with thirty men of Lakhm and Judham and that they were storm-tossed for a month. They drew near to an island when the sun was setting. They sat in a boat nearest to them and entered the island where they were met by a very hairy beast. They said: Woe to you! What can you be ? It replied: I am the Jassasah. Go to this man in the monastery, for he is anxious to get news of you. He said: When it named a man to us we were afraid of it lest it should be a she-devil. So we went off quickly and entered the monastery, where we found a man with the hugest and strongest frame we had ever seen with his hands chained to his neck. He then narrated the rest of the tradition. He asked them about the palm-trees of Baisan and the spring of Zughar and about the unlettered prophet. He said: I am the messiah (the Antichrist) and will be soon given permission to emerge. And the Prophet ﷺ said: He is in the Syrian sea or the Yemeni sea: No, on the contrary, it is towards the east that he is. He said it twice and pointed his hand to the east. She said: I memorized this (tradition) from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and she narrated the tradition.

Notes

• حَدَّثَنِي أَنَّهُ رَكِبَ فِي سَفِينَةٍ بَحْرِيَّةٍ مَعَ ثَلاَثِينَ رَجُلاً مِنْ لَخْمٍ وَجُذَامٍ فَلَعِبَ بِهِمُ الْمَوْجُ شَهْرًا فِي الْبَحْرِ وَأَرْفَئُوا إِلَى جَزِيرَةٍ حِينَ مَغْرِبِ الشَّمْسِ فَجَلَسُوا فِي أَقْرَبِ السَّفِينَةِ فَدَخَلُوا الْجَزِيرَةَ فَلَقِيَتْهُمْ دَابَّةٌ أَهْلَبُ كَثِيرَةُ الشَّعْرِ قَالُوا وَيْلَكِ مَا أَنْتِ قَالَتْ أَنَا الْجَسَّاسَةُ انْطَلِقُوا إِلَى هَذَا الرَّجُلِ فِي هَذَا الدَّيْرِ فَإِنَّهُ إِلَى خَبَرِكُمْ بِالأَشْوَاقِ قَالَ لَمَّا سَمَّتْ لَنَا رَجُلاً فَرِقْنَا مِنْهَا أَنْ تَكُونَ شَيْطَانَةً فَانْطَلَقْنَا سِرَاعًا حَتَّى دَخَلْنَا الدَّيْرَ فَإِذَا فِيهِ أَعْظَمُ إِنْسَانٍ رَأَيْنَاهُ قَطُّ خَلْقًا وَأَشَدُّهُ وَثَاقًا مَجْمُوعَةٌ يَدَاهُ إِلَى عُنُقِهِ فَذَكَرَ الْحَدِيثَ وَسَأَلَهُمْ عَنْ نَخْلِ بَيْسَانَ وَعَنْ عَيْنِ زُغَرَ وَعَنِ النَّبِيِّ الأُمِّيِّ قَالَ إِنِّي أَنَا الْمَسِيحُ وَإِنَّهُ يُوشِكُ أَنْ يُؤْذَنَ لِي فِي الْخُرُوجِ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ وَإِنَّهُ فِي بَحْرِ الشَّامِ أَوْ بَحْرِ الْيَمَنِ لاَ بَلْ مِنْ قِبَلِ الْمَشْرِقِ مَا هُوَ مَرَّتَيْنِ وَأَوْمَأَ بِيَدِهِ قِبَلَ الْمَشْرِقِ قَالَتْ حَفِظْتُ هَذَا مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَسَاقَ الْحَدِيثَ

  machine translationHe narrated to me that he had boarded a sea vessel with thirty men of Lakhm and Judhām, and the waves toyed with them for a month at sea. They then came ashore at an island at sunset, and sat down in the smaller boats and entered the island. A beast met them, thick with hair, with much hair. They said: "Woe to you, what are you?" She said: "I am al-Jassāsah. Go to this man in this monastery, for he is longing for news of you." He said: When she named a man for us, we feared that she might be a female devil. So we hurried off until we entered the monastery, and there was the largest human being we had ever seen in build, and the most firmly bound, with his hands gathered to his neck. Then he mentioned the hadith: he asked them about the date palms of Baysān, the spring of Zughar, and the unlettered Prophet. He said: "I am the Messiah, and it is almost time that I will be permitted to emerge." The Prophet ﷺ said: "And he is in the Sea of Syria or the Sea of Yemen — no, rather from the direction of the east, he is from the east," twice, and he gestured with his hand toward the east. She said: I memorized this from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. And he related the rest of the hadith. Report a problem

• حَدَّثَنَا حَجَّاجُ بْنُ أَبِي يَعْقُوبَ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الصَّمَدِ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي قَالَ، سَمِعْتُ حُسَيْنًا الْمُعَلِّمَ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ بُرَيْدَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا عَامِرُ بْنُ شَرَاحِيلَ الشَّعْبِيُّ، عَنْ فَاطِمَةَ بِنْتِ قَيْسٍ، قَالَتْ سَمِعْتُ مُنَادِيَ، رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم يُنَادِي أَنَّ الصَّلاَةَ جَامِعَةٌ. فَخَرَجْتُ فَصَلَّيْتُ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَلَمَّا قَضَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم الصَّلاَةَ جَلَسَ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ وَهُوَ يَضْحَكُ قَالَ " لِيَلْزَمْ كُلُّ إِنْسَانٍ مُصَلاَّهُ ". ثُمَّ قَالَ " هَلْ تَدْرُونَ لِمَ جَمَعْتُكُمْ ". قَالُوا اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَعْلَمُ. قَالَ " إِنِّي مَا جَمَعْتُكُمْ لِرَهْبَةٍ وَلاَ رَغْبَةٍ وَلَكِنْ جَمَعْتُكُمْ أَنَّ تَمِيمًا الدَّارِيَّ كَانَ رَجُلاً نَصْرَانِيًّا فَجَاءَ فَبَايَعَ وَأَسْلَمَ وَحَدَّثَنِي حَدِيثًا وَافَقَ الَّذِي حَدَّثْتُكُمْ عَنِ الدَّجَّالِ حَدَّثَنِي أَنَّهُ رَكِبَ فِي سَفِينَةٍ بَحْرِيَّةٍ مَعَ ثَلاَثِينَ رَجُلاً مِنْ لَخْمٍ وَجُذَامٍ فَلَعِبَ بِهِمُ الْمَوْجُ شَهْرًا فِي الْبَحْرِ وَأَرْفَئُوا إِلَى جَزِيرَةٍ حِينَ مَغْرِبِ الشَّمْسِ فَجَلَسُوا فِي أَقْرَبِ السَّفِينَةِ فَدَخَلُوا الْجَزِيرَةَ فَلَقِيَتْهُمْ دَابَّةٌ أَهْلَبُ كَثِيرَةُ الشَّعْرِ قَالُوا وَيْلَكِ مَا أَنْتِ قَالَتْ أَنَا الْجَسَّاسَةُ انْطَلِقُوا إِلَى هَذَا الرَّجُلِ فِي هَذَا الدَّيْرِ فَإِنَّهُ إِلَى خَبَرِكُمْ بِالأَشْوَاقِ. قَالَ لَمَّا سَمَّتْ لَنَا رَجُلاً فَرِقْنَا مِنْهَا أَنْ تَكُونَ شَيْطَانَةً فَانْطَلَقْنَا سِرَاعًا حَتَّى دَخَلْنَا الدَّيْرَ فَإِذَا فِيهِ أَعْظَمُ إِنْسَانٍ رَأَيْنَاهُ قَطُّ خَلْقًا وَأَشَدُّهُ وَثَاقًا مَجْمُوعَةٌ يَدَاهُ إِلَى عُنُقِهِ ". فَذَكَرَ الْحَدِيثَ وَسَأَلَهُمْ عَنْ نَخْلِ بَيْسَانَ وَعَنْ عَيْنِ زُغَرَ وَعَنِ النَّبِيِّ الأُمِّيِّ قَالَ إِنِّي أَنَا الْمَسِيحُ وَإِنَّهُ يُوشِكُ أَنْ يُؤْذَنَ لِي فِي الْخُرُوجِ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم " وَإِنَّهُ فِي بَحْرِ الشَّامِ أَوْ بَحْرِ الْيَمَنِ لاَ بَلْ مِنْ قِبَلِ الْمَشْرِقِ مَا هُوَ ". مَرَّتَيْنِ وَأَوْمَأَ بِيَدِهِ قِبَلَ الْمَشْرِقِ قَالَتْ حَفِظْتُ هَذَا مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم. وَسَاقَ الْحَدِيثَ

  machine translationḤajjāj b. Abī Yaʿqūb narrated to us, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad narrated to us, my father narrated to us, he said: I heard Ḥusayn al-Muʿallim; ʿAbdullāh b. Buraydah narrated to us; ʿĀmir b. Sharāḥīl al-Shaʿbī narrated to us, from Fāṭimah bint Qays, who said: I heard the caller of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ calling that the prayer is being gathered for. So I went out and prayed with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ finished the prayer, he sat on the pulpit, smiling, and said: "Let every person remain at his place of prayer." Then he said: "Do you know why I have gathered you?" They said: "Allah and His Messenger know best." He said: "I have not gathered you out of fear or desire, but I have gathered you because Tamīm al-Dārī was a Christian man; he came, pledged allegiance and became Muslim, and told me a story that agreed with what I had told you about the Dajjāl. He told me that he had boarded a sea vessel with thirty men of Lakhm and Judhām, and the waves toyed with them for a month at sea. They then came ashore at an island at sunset, and sat down in the smaller boats and entered the island. A beast met them, thick with hair, with much hair. They said: 'Woe to you, what are you?' She said: 'I am al-Jassāsah. Go to this man in this monastery, for he is longing for news of you.' He said: When she named a man for us, we feared that she might be a female devil. So we hurried off until we entered the monastery, and there was the largest human being we had ever seen in build, and the most firmly bound, with his hands gathered to his neck." Then he mentioned the hadith: he asked them about the date palms of Baysān, the spring of Zughar, and the unlettered Prophet. He said: "I am the Messiah, and it is almost time that I will be permitted to emerge." The Prophet ﷺ said: "And he is in the Sea of Syria or the Sea of Yemen — no, rather from the direction of the east, he is from the east," twice, and he gestured with his hand toward the east. She said: I memorized this from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. And he related the rest of the hadith. Report a problem

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  أثر ثابت صحيح

  machine translationA firmly established, authentic (ṣaḥīḥ) report. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 4317
• Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

  روى عبد الوارث عن حسين بن ذكوان المعلم عن ابن بريدة عن الشعبي عن فاطمة بنت قيس عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم في ذلك قالا فأفسد هذا الحديث حديث بشير

  machine translationʿAbd al-Wārith narrated from Ḥusayn b. Dhakwān al-Muʿallim, from Ibn Buraydah, from al-Shaʿbī, from Fāṭimah bint Qays, from the Prophet ﷺ regarding this. They said: This hadith spoiled the hadith of Bashīr. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 4317

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 2942aSahih Muslim 2942bSahih Ibn Hibban 6788al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 2292

Narrators

1. 1
   Fāṭimah bt. Qays al-Fihrīyah

   well-known Companion (female), among the first women emigrantsd. She lived until the caliphate of Muʿāwiyah.
   فَاطِمَة بِنْت قَيْس الْفِهْرِيَّةصحابية مشهورة وكانت من المهاجرات الأول
   عن
2. 2
   al-Shaʿbī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), well-known, a virtuous jurist (faqīh fāḍil)d. 103 AH, said by al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Yaḥyā b. Bukayr, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, 104 AH, said by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, and Ismāʿīl b. Mujālid, and Abū Nuʿaym, and Muḥammad b. ʿImrān al-Bajalī, and ʿUmar b. Shabīb al-Muslī, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Idrīs, 105 AH, said by Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr, or: 106 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī, 107 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, or: 109 AH, said by Ibn Ḥibbān, 110 AH, said by ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī
   عَامِرُ بْنُ شَرَاحِيلَ الشَّعْبِيُّثقة ، مشهور ، فقيه فاضل
   نا
3. 3
   ʿAbdullāh b. Buraydah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 105 AH, or 115 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ بُرَيْدَةَثقة
   نا
4. 4
   Ḥusayn al-Muʿallim

   trustworthy (thiqah), though he sometimes erred (rubbamā wahima)d. 145 AH
   حُسَيْنًا الْمُعَلِّمَثقة ، ربما وهم
   سمعت
5. 5
   ʿAbd al-Wārith

   trustworthy and firm (thiqah thabt); he was accused of belief in qadar (al-qadar), but this was not established about himd. 179 AH or 180 AH; also said: 178 AH
   أَبِيثقة ثبت , رمي بالقدر ولم يثبت عنه
   نا
6. 6
   ʿAbd al-Ṣamad

   truthful (ṣadūq), reliable (thabt) in the narrations of Shuʿbahd. Ibn Ḥibbān said 206 AH or 207 AH
   عَبْدُ الصَّمَدِصدوق , ثبت في شعبة
   نا
7. 7
   Ḥajjāj b. al-Shāʿir

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 259 AH, also said: 257 AH
   حَجَّاجُ ج٤ / ص٢٠٨بْنُ أَبِي يَعْقُوبَثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
8. 8
   Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AH
   أَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء

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