Attributes of the Antichrist..
عن أنس بن مالكٍ قال : قال رسول الله ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم" الدَّجَّالُ مَمْسُوحُ العَيْنِ مَكْتُوبٌ بيْنَ عَيْنَيْهِ كافِرٌ، ثُمَّ تَهَجَّاها ك ف ر يَقْرَؤُهُ كُلُّ مُسْلِمٍ."
Anas Ibn Malik narrated that the prophet said:
"Dajjal is blind of one eye and there is written between his eyes the word" Kafir". He then spelled the word as k. f. r., which every Muslim would be able to read." Sahih Moslem.
عن عبد الله بن عمر " أنَّ رَسولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عليه وسلَّمَ، قَالَ: بيْنَا أنَا نَائِمٌ أطُوفُ بالكَعْبَةِ، فَإِذَا رَجُلٌ آدَمُ سَبْطُ الشَّعَرِ يَنْطُفُ - أوْ يُهَرَاقُ - رَأْسُهُ مَاءً، قُلتُ: مَن هذا؟ قالوا ابنُ مَرْيَمَ، ثُمَّ ذَهَبْتُ ألْتَفِتُ، فَإِذَا رَجُلٌ جَسِيمٌ أحْمَرُ جَعْدُ الرَّأْسِ أعْوَرُ العَيْنِ، كَأنَّ عَيْنَهُ عِنَبَةٌ طَافِيَةٌ، قالوا: هذا الدَّجَّالُ أقْرَبُ النَّاسِ به شَبَهًا ابنُ قَطَنٍ رَجُلٌ مِن خُزَاعَةَ."
Abdullah Ibn Omar narrated that the prophet said:
"While I was sleeping, I saw myself (in a dream) performing Tawaf around the Ka`ba. Behold, I saw a reddish-white man with lank hair, and water was dropping from his head. I asked, "Who is this?' They replied, 'The son of Mary.' Then I turned my face to see another man with a huge body, red complexion and curly hair and blind in one eye. His eye looked like a protruding out grape. They said (to me), He is Ad-Dajjal." The Prophet (ﷺ) added, "The man he resembled most is Ibn Qatan, a man from the tribe of Khuza`a. "
If the Prophet peace be upon him, had seen the Antichrist in a dream in Mecca, this does not mean that he (Antichrist) had entered it inreality, even if he was seen in Mecca, he would not enter it when he comes out in the last time
عن النواس بن سَِمْعَان قال : ذكر رسول الله ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ الدجال " ..... إنه شاب قططٌ عينُهُ طافِئة ..
Nawas Ibn Sama'n narrated that the prophet said:
".. He (Dajjal) would be a young man with twisted, contracted hair, and a blind eye" Sahih Moslem.
عن أُبيّ ـ رضي الله عنه ـ قال : قال رسول الله ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم "الدجال عَيْنُهُ خضراء" .
Obai narrated that the prophet said: "the Antichrist has green eye"..
Ahmed and Abu Naeim.
"إحدى عينه كأنها زجاجة خضراء"
"One of his eyes is like a green bottle".
عن أبي سعيد ـ رضي الله عنه ـ قال : قال رسول الله ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم " الدجال لا يولد له ، ولا يدخل المدينة ، ولا مكة.
On the authority of Abu Saeed, may God be pleased with him, narrated that the "The Antichrist neither begets, nor does he enter Madina or Mecca".
Ahmed and Moslem.
The temptations of the Antichrist
From the temptations of the Antichrist, he is with him water and fire, his fire is cold water, and his water is fire.
عن عقبة بن عمرٍو وأبي مسعود الأنصاري ، قال : انطلقت معه إلى حُذيفةَ بن اليمان . فقال له عقبة : حدثني ما سمعتَ من رسول الله ـ صلى الله عليه ووسلم ـ في الدجال ، قال " إنَّ الدَّجَّالَ يَخْرُجُ، وإنَّ معهُ ماءً ونارًا، فأمَّا الذي يَراهُ النَّاسُ ماءً، فَنارٌ تُحْرِقُ، وأَمَّا الذي يَراهُ النَّاسُ نارًا، فَماءٌ بارِدٌ عَذْبٌ، فمَن أدْرَكَ ذلكَ مِنكُمْ، فَلْيَقَعْ في الذي يَراهُ نارًا، فإنَّه ماءٌ عَذْبٌ طَيِّبٌ
Uqba b. 'Amr Abu Mas'ud al-Ansari reported:
"I went to Hudhaifa b. Yaman and said to him: Narrate what you have heard from the Prophet pertaining to the Dajjal. He said that the Dajjal would appear and there would be along with him water and fire and what the people would see as water that would be fire and that would burn and what would appear as fire that would be water and any one of you who would see that should plunge in that which he sees as fire for it would be sweet, pure water." Sahih Moslem.
From the temptations of the Antichrist is his speed in the earth..
عن النَّوَّاسِ بن سمعان قال : ذَكَرَ رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عليه وَسَلَّمَ الدَّجَّالَ ذَاتَ غَدَاةٍ، فَخَفَّضَ فيه وَرَفَّعَ، حتَّى ظَنَنَّاهُ في طَائِفَةِ النَّخْلِ ............... قُلْنَا: يا رَسُولَ اللهِ، وَما إِسْرَاعُهُ في الأرْضِ؟ قالَ: كَالْغَيْثِ اسْتَدْبَرَتْهُ الرِّيحُ، فَيَأْتي علَى القَوْمِ فَيَدْعُوهُمْ، فيُؤْمِنُونَ به وَيَسْتَجِيبُونَ له، فَيَأْمُرُ السَّمَاءَ فَتُمْطِرُ، وَالأرْضَ فَتُنْبِتُ، فَتَرُوحُ عليهم سَارِحَتُهُمْ، أَطْوَلَ ما كَانَتْ ذُرًا، وَأَسْبَغَهُ ضُرُوعًا، وَأَمَدَّهُ خَوَاصِرَ، ثُمَّ يَأْتي القَوْمَ، فَيَدْعُوهُمْ فَيَرُدُّونَ عليه قَوْلَهُ، فَيَنْصَرِفُ عنْهمْ، فيُصْبِحُونَ مُمْحِلِينَ ليسَ بأَيْدِيهِمْ شيءٌ مِن أَمْوَالِهِمْ، وَيَمُرُّ بالخَرِبَةِ، فيَقولُ لَهَا: أَخْرِجِي كُنُوزَكِ، فَتَتْبَعُهُ كُنُوزُهَا كَيَعَاسِيبِ النَّحْلِ،…
An-Nawwas b. Sam`an reported that the prophet made a mention of the Dajjal one day in the morning. He sometimes described him to be insignificant and sometimes described (his turmoil) as very significant (and we felt) as if he were in the cluster of the date-palm trees
"We said: Allah's Messenger, how quickly would he walk upon the earth? Thereupon he said: Like cloud driven by the wind. He would come to the people and invite them (to a wrong religion) and they would affirm their faith in him and respond to him. He would then give command to the sky and there would be rainfall upon the earth and it would grow crops. Then in the evening, their pasturing animals would come to them with their humps very high and their udders full of milk and their flanks stretched. He would then come to another people and invite them. But they would reject him and he would go away from them and there would be drought for them and nothing would be left with them in the form of wealth. He would then walk through the waste land and say to it: Bring forth your treasures, and the treasures would come out and collect (themselves) before him like the swarm of bees". Sahih Moslem.
Among the temptations of the Antichrist is that he has two angels with him.
سفينة مولى رسول الله ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ قال :خطبنا رسول الله ـ صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم ـ فقال"....... معه ـ أي الدجال- معَهُ ملَكانِ منَ الملائِكَةِ يُشْبِهانِ نبيَّينِ منَ الأنبياءِ لَو شِئتُ سمَّيتُهُما بأسمائِهِما وأسماءِ آبائِهِما واحدٌ منهُما عن يمينِهِ والآخرُ عن شمالِهِ وذلِكَ فتنتُهُ فيقولُ الدَّجَّالُ ألَستُ بربِّكم ألَستُ أُحيي وأميتُ فيقولُ لَه أحدُ الملَكَينِ كذبتَ ما يسمعُهُ أحدٌ منَ النَّاسِ إلَّا صاحبُهُ فيقولُ لَه صدقتَ فيَسمعُهُ النَّاسُ فيظنُّونَ أنَّما يصدِّقُ الدَّجَّالَ وذلِكَ فتنةٌ
Safina, the Prophet's Mawla narrated that the prophet made a speech in which he said:
"The Antichrist comes with him two angels who resemble two prophets, if you wish I can tell you their names, one of them is on his right hand and the other is on his left hand. The Antichrist tell them: Am I not your Lord? don't I give life to people and cause others to die? One of the two angels tell him you are a liar, but no one hears him except the other angel, who tells him (to the other angel) you are right, so people hear him (saying you are right) and they think that the angel is telling so to the Antichrist, and that is a temptation". Imam Ahmed.
We must arm ourselves with knowledge to face temptation, for this is a righteous man who faces the Antichrist with what? With the following hadith..
He says to the Antichrist: I bear witness that you are the Antichrist whose hadith the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, told us.
فعن أبي سعيد الخدري ـ رضي الله عنه ـ قال حَدَّثَنَا رَسولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عليه وسلَّمَ حَدِيثًا طَوِيلًا عَنِ الدَّجَّالِ فَكانَ فِيما حَدَّثَنَا به أنْ قالَ: يَأْتي الدَّجَّالُ، وهو مُحَرَّمٌ عليه أنْ يَدْخُلَ نِقَابَ المَدِينَةِ، بَعْضَ السِّبَاخِ الَّتي بالمَدِينَةِ، فَيَخْرُجُ إلَيْهِ يَومَئذٍ رَجُلٌ هو خَيْرُ النَّاسِ، أوْ مِن خَيْرِ النَّاسِ، فيَقولُ أشْهَدُ أنَّكَ الدَّجَّالُ، الذي حَدَّثَنَا عَنْكَ رَسولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عليه وسلَّمَ حَدِيثَهُ، فيَقولُ الدَّجَّالُ: أرَأَيْتَ إنْ قَتَلْتُ هذا، ثُمَّ أحْيَيْتُهُ هلْ تَشُكُّونَ في الأمْرِ؟ فيَقولونَ: لَا، فَيَقْتُلُهُ ثُمَّ يُحْيِيهِ، فيَقولُ حِينَ يُحْيِيهِ: واللَّهِ ما كُنْتُ قَطُّ أشَدَّ بَصِيرَةً مِنِّي اليَومَ، فيَقولُ الدَّجَّالُ: أقْتُلُهُ فلا أُسَلَّطُ عليه
Abu Sa'id al-Khudri narrated that the prophet one day gave a detailed account of the Dajjal and in that it was also included:
"He would come but would not be allowed to enter the mountain passes to Medina. So he will alight at some of the barren tracts near Madina, and a person who would be the best of men or one from amongst the best of men would say to him: I bear testimony to the fact that you are Dajjal about whom Allah's Messenger had informed us. The Dajjal would say: What is your opinion if I kill this (person), then I bring him back to life; even then will you harbour doubt in this matter? They would say: No. He would then kill (the man) and then bring him back to life. When he would bring that person to life, he would say: By Allah, I had no better proof of the fact (that you are a Dajjal) than at the present time (that you are actually so). The Dajjal would then make an attempt to kill him (again) but he would not be able to do that.
The prophet, peace be upon him, said, “Then the Antichrist will take him to slay him, and what is between his neck and collarbone will be made copper, so he cannot reach him.”
The prophet, peace be upon him, warned against the trial and evil of the Antichrist.
قال تعالى " لَقَدْ جَآءَكُمْ رَسُولٌ مِّنْ أَنفُسِكُمْ عَزِيزٌ عَلَيْهِ مَا عَنِتُّمْ حَرِيصٌ عَلَيْكُمْ بِالْمُؤْمِنِينَ رَءُوفٌ رَّحِيمٌ". سورة التوبة / آية : 128 .
"Verily, there has come unto you a Messenger from amongst yourselves. It grieves him that you should receive any injury or difficulty. He is anxious over you (to be rightly guided, to repent to Allâh, and beg Him to pardon and forgive your sins in order that you may enter Paradise and be saved from the punishment of the Hell-fire); for the believers, he is full of pity, kind, and merciful."
The prophet, peace be upon him, did not leave any good but guide the nation to it, and he did not leave
evil except that he warned the nation against it, because of his eagerness for their happiness, prosperity, success and victory in this world and the Hereafter.
The prophet, peace be upon him, knew the evil of the Antichrist and the greatness of his temptation, so he warned his nation about it, and described him to them with an accurate description so that it would not be hidden from a believer, and a believer would not be tempted by it.
فعن أنس ـ رضي الله عنه ـ قال : قال النبي ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم " ما بُعِثَ نَبِيٌّ إلَّا أنْذَرَ أُمَّتَهُ الأعْوَرَ الكَذّابَ، ألا إنَّه أعْوَرُ، وإنَّ رَبَّكُمْ ليسَ بأَعْوَرَ، وإنَّ بيْنَ عَيْنَيْهِ مَكْتُوبٌ كافِرٌ."
Anas, may God be pleased with him, narrated that the Prophet said: “No prophet was sent without warning his nation of one-eyed liars, except that he is one-eyed, and your Lord is not one-eyed, and he is most blind. And between his eyes it is written an infidel.”
Al Bukhari.
The prophet taught us to seek refuge in our Lord, the Mighty and Sublime, in every prayer, after the tashahhud, from the trial of the Antichrist.
عن أبي هريرة ـ رضي الله عنه ـ مرفوعًا "إِذَا تَشَهَّدَ أَحَدُكُمْ فَلْيَسْتَعِذْ باللَّهِ مِن أَرْبَعٍ يقولُ: اللَّهُمَّ إنِّي أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِن عَذَابِ جَهَنَّمَ، وَمِنْ عَذَابِ القَبْرِ، وَمِنْ فِتْنَةِ المَحْيَا وَالْمَمَاتِ، وَمِنْ شَرِّ فِتْنَةِ المَسِيحِ الدَّجَّالِ."
Abi Hurairah narrated that the prophet said: "When one of you finishes the (last) Tashahhud, he should seek refuge in Allah from four things by saying: 'O Allah I seek refuge in You against the punishment of Jahannam (Hell-fire), the punishment of the grave, the trial of life and death and the evil of the trial of Masih ad-Dajjal (Antichrist)."' [Agreed upon].