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[7386] 119 - (2942) 'Âmir bin Sharâḥil Ash-Sha'bî, a man from Hamdân narrated that he asked Fâtimah bint Qais, the sister of Aḍ-Ḍah-ḥâk bin Qais, who was one of the earliest Muhājir women: "Tell me a Hadīth that you heard directly from the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ.” She said: “If you wish, I will do that.” He said to her: “Yes, tell me.” She said: “I married Ibn Al-Mughīrah, who was one of the best young men of the Quraish at that time, but he fell as a martyr at the beginning of Jihād with the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ. When I became a widow, ‘Abdur-Raḥmān bin ‘Awf proposed marriage to me, so did a group of the Companions of Muḥammad ﷺ, and the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ proposed to me on behalf of his freed slave Usāmah bin Zaid. “I had been told that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ had said: ‘Whoever loves me, let him love Usāmah.’ So when the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ spoke to me, I said: ‘My affairs are in your hand. Marry me to whomever you wish.’ He said: ‘Go to Umm Sharīk.’ Umm Sharīk was a rich lady of the Anṣār who spent a great deal in the cause of Allāh and entertained many guests. I said: ‘I will do that.’ He said: “Do not do that, for Umm Sharīk is a woman who has many guests, and I would not like your head cover to fall down or your calf to become uncovered by your garment, and the people to see something that you do not like them to see. Go instead to your cousin, ‘Abdullāh bin ‘Amr bin Umm Maktūm.’ He was a man from Banū Fīhr, Fīhr of Quraish, and he was from the same clan as mine. So I went to him. "When my Iddah ended, I heard the voice of the caller, the caller of the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ, saying: 'As-salātu jāmi'ah (prayer is being gathered for),' so I went out to the Masjid and I prayed with the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ. I was in the women's row that was closest to the people. When the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ had finished his prayer, he sat on the Minbar and he was smiling. He said: 'Let each person stay in the place where he just prayed.' Then he said: 'Do you know why I called you together?' They said: 'Allāh and His Messenger know best.' "He said: 'By Allah, I did not call you together for something good, or for some alarming news. I have called you together because Tamīm Ad-Dārī who was a Christian, and he came and swore allegiance, and he became a Muslim. He told me something which agrees with what I was telling you about Al-Masih Ad-Dajjāl.' "He told me that he sailed in a ship with thirty men of (the tribe of) Lakhm and Judhām and they were tossed by the waves of the sea for a month. Then they came to an island at sunset. They sat in a small rowing boat and landed on that island. They were met by a beast with a great deal of hair, and they could not distinguish his face from his back because he was so hairy. They said: "Woe to you, what are you?" It said: "I am Al-Jassâsah." They said: "What is Al-Jassâsah?" It said: "O people, go to this man in the monastery for he is keen to know about you." He said: When it named a man for us, we were afraid of it lest it be a devil. Then we set off, rushing, until we came to that monastery, where we found the largest man we had ever seen, bound strongly in chains with his hands tied to his neck, and his legs bound from the knees to the ankles with iron shackles. We said: "Woe to you, who are you?" He said: "You will soon find out about me; tell me who you are." They said: "We are people from Arabia who embarked on a ship, but the sea became wild, and the waves tossed us about for one month, then they brought us to this island of yours. We took to the rowing boats and landed on this island. We were met by a beast with a great deal of hair, and we could not tell his front from his back, because he was so hairy. We said: 'Woe to you, what are you?' It said: 'I am Al-Jassâsah.' We said: 'What is Al-Jassâsah?' It said: 'Go to this man in the monastery for he is keen to know about you.' So we came rushing to you and we fled from it because we could not be sure that it was not a devil.” “He (that chained person) said: Tell me about the date-palm trees of Baisân. We said: What do you want to know about them? He said: I am asking you whether these trees bear fruit. We said: Yes. He said: Soon they will not bear fruit. He said: Tell me about the lake of Tabariyyah (Tiberias). We said: What do you want to know about it? He said: Is there water in it? They said: There is a great deal of water in it. He said: Soon it will dry up. Then he said: Tell me about the spring of Zughar. They said: What do you want to know about it? He said: Is there water in the spring, and do the people grow crops with the water of the spring? We said to him: Yes, there is plenty of water in it, and the people grow crops with its water. He said: Tell me about the Prophet of the unlettered; what has he done? We said: He has left Makkah and has settled in Yathrib (Al-Madînah). He said: Do the Arabs fight against him? We said: Yes. He said: How did he deal with them? We told him that he had prevailed over the ‘Arabs in his vicinity, and they had shown obedience to him. He said to us: Has it really happened? We said: Yes. “He said: If it is so, that is better for them, that they show obedience to him. Now I will tell you about myself. I am Al-Masih Ad-Dajjal, and soon I will be given permission to emerge. So I will come out and travel in the land, and will not spare any town but I will stay for forty nights, except Makkah and Taibah (Al-Madinah). They are both forbidden to me; every time I try to enter one of them, I will be met by an angel with a sword in his hand, who will bar my way, and on every route there will be angels guarding it.” She said: “Then the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ struck the Minbar with his staff and said: ‘This is Taibah, this is Taibah, this is Taibah,’ meaning Al-Madinah. ‘Did I not tell you this before?’ The people said: ‘Yes.’ (The Prophet ﷺ said:) ‘I liked the story of Tamīm because it agrees with what I used to tell you about him, and about Makkah and Al-Madinah. But he is in the sea of Ash-Shām or the Yemeni sea. No, rather he is in the east, he in the east, he is in the east,’ and he pointed towards the east with his hand.” She said: “I memorized this from the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ.”