English translation
4329. It was narrated from Sālim, from Ibn 'Umar that the Prophet ﷺ passed by Ibn Ṣā'id with a group of his Companions, among whom was 'Umar bin Al-Khaṭṭāb, while he (Ibn Ṣā'id) was playing with some other boys by the battlement of Banū Maghālah, and he was still a boy. He did not notice until the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ tapped him on the back with his hand, and said: "Do you bear witness that I am the Messenger of Allāh?" Ibn Ṣā'id looked at him and said: "I bear witness that you are the Messenger of the unlettered." Then Ibn Ṣayyād said to the Prophet ﷺ: "Do you bear witness that I am the Messenger of Allāh?" The Prophet ﷺ said to him: "I believe in Allāh and His Messengers." Then the Prophet ﷺ said to him: "What comes to you?" He said: "A truth-teller and a liar come to me." The Prophet ﷺ said to him: "You have been confounded." Then the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said to him: "I am hiding something in my mind for you," and he was hiding (the Verse) "the Day when the sky will bring forth a visible smoke (Dukhān Mubīn)".[1] Ibn Ṣayyād said: "It is Ad-Dukh." The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "May you be disgraced and dishonored, you will never go beyond your station." 'Umar said: "O Messenger of Allāh, allow me to strike his neck." The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "If he is him (meaning the Dajjāl), you will never be able to overpower him, and if he is not him, there is nothing good in killing him." (Sahīh)