Musnad Ahmad 3546

Translation

✧ The Prophet ﷺ was taken on the Night Journey to Jerusalem, then came back that same night. He told them about his journey, the signs of Jerusalem, and their caravan. Some people said - Hasan said: 'Should we believe Muhammad in what he says?' - and they apostatized as disbelievers, so Allah struck their necks along with Abu Jahl. Abu Jahl said: 'Muhammad frightens us with the tree of Zaqqum! Bring dates and butter and let us eat.' He saw the Dajjal in his form with the eye of certainty, not in a dream, and 'Isa, Musa, and Ibrahim (peace be upon them). The Prophet ﷺ was asked about the Dajjal. He said: 'He was fair-skinned and light.' - Hasan said: He said: 'I saw him as a tall, fair-skinned, light-skinned man' - 'One of his eyes was protruding like a brilliant star. His hair looked like the branches of a tree. I saw 'Isa as a young white man with curly hair, sharp-sighted, and well-built. I saw Musa as dark-skinned and brown, with abundant hair' - Hasan said: 'hair' - 'strongly built. I looked at Ibrahim, and I saw no limb of his limbs except that it looked like mine, as if he were your companion.' Jibril ﷺ said: 'Greet Malik,' so I greeted him.

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• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  رجاله ثقات إلا أن هلال بن خباب قال يحيى القطان إنه تغير قبل موته وقال يحيى بن معين لم يتغير ولم يختلط ثقة مأمون

  in مسند أحمد, p. 3597

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 3355Sahih al-Bukhari 3438Sahih Muslim 166c

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās

   One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   ʿIkrimah mawlá Ibn ʿAbbās

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), knowledgeable in Qurʾānic exegesis; the claim that Ibn ʿUmar called him a liar is not established, and no innovation is established from him.d. Ibn al-Madīnī said: 104 AH. Abū Saʿīd b. Yūnus and others said: 105 AH, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Abū ʿUmar al-Ḍarīr: 106 AH. Abū Maʿshar al-Madanī and others said: 107 AH. Also reported from al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī, and Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn: 115 AH. And that is a mistake
   عِكْرِمَةَثقة ثبت عالم بالتفسير ، لم يثبت تكذيبه عن ابن عمر ، ولا تثبت عنه بدعة
   عن
3. 3
   Hilāl b. Khabbāb

   truthful (ṣadūq), his memory changed at the end of his lifed. 144 AH
   هِلَالٌصدوق ، تغير بآخره
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Thābit b. Yazīd

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 169 AH
   ثَابِتٌثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
5. 5
   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
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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