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مسند أحمد
الإمام أحمد بن حنبل (ت ٢٤١ هـ)

Musnad Ahmad 2343

مسند عبد الله بن العباس بن عبد المطلب (1) ، عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم
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Musnad AhmadHadith 2343Ungradedمسند أحمدرقم ٢٣٤٣مسند عبد الله بن العباس بن عبد المطلب (1) ، عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم

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حدثنا إسماعيل، حدثنا مالك، عن أبي الزبير، عن طاوس، عن ابن عباس، مثله، غير أنه قال: " من فتنة المسيح الدجال "

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Edition Musnad al-Imam Ahmad, ed. Shu'ayb al-Arna'ut et al., Mu'assasat al-Risala, 1995-2001 (OpenITI Shamela0025794); numbering of that edition. Al-Arna'ut's grading footnotes are not in the digital text.

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[Collection & Reference]: Narration #2343 in Musnad Ahmad.

[Core Subject]: The Dajjal (al-Masih al-Dajjal, the false messiah) is a single man who will appear near the end and claim to be God. Every prophet warned his people about him, and the Prophet ﷺ called his trial the greatest from the creation of Adam until the Hour.

[Described Characteristics]: He is a young man, stocky, with thick curly hair, blind in his right eye, which looks like a floating grape. Between his eyes is written ka-fa-ra (kafir), which every believer can read, literate or not. He brings what looks like paradise and hell, but his paradise is fire and his fire is cool water. He orders the sky to rain and it rains. He stays forty days: one like a year, one like a month, one like a week, the rest like ordinary days. He cannot enter Makkah or Madinah.

[Timeline & Context]: In the narrated order he is the first of the great signs. He comes after the great battle with the Romans and the conquest of Constantinople, and Isa (AS) kills him at the gate of Lud.

[Prophetic Practice]: Memorise the first ten verses of Surah al-Kahf, read al-Kahf on Fridays, and in every prayer before the salam ask Allah's refuge from the trial of the Dajjal. Whoever hears of him should keep away from him.

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