so Noah and the prophets succeeding him warned that he...

so Noah and the prophets succeeding him warned that he (al-Dajjal) will rise among you. Whatever is unknown about his affair it will never be concealed for you! Three traits of those hidden from you are never ascribed to your Lord! Your Lord is not one-eyed while he (al-Dajjal) is right one-eyed. Allah has verily tabooed for you your blood and properties as the inviolability of this day in this country, in this month. Have I conveyed the message!

They said: Yes, He said: O God, I give witness thrice. Woe to you, be careful: never return after me disbelievers, killing each other. In expounding this hadith, Ibn Hajar said: This sermon (Khutbah) was stated during the last hajj by a group of the , with no one of them implying the story of al-Dajjal in t except Ibn Umar. Ibn Hajar may have forgotten that this Ibn Umar being one of the disciples of Ka'b al-Ahbar.

Following is another strange hadith on al-Dajjal: In the two Sahihs, a hadith reported by Anas ibn Malik from the Prophet that he referred to al Dajjal saying: He is verily one-eyed and your Lord is not one-eyed.

In his commentary on this hadith, al-Fakhr al-Razi in his book Asas al-taqdis said: "This hadith is indistinct, as its exterior shows that the Prophet disclosed the difference between Allah, the Exalted, and al-Dajjal, through indicating al-Dajjal being one-eyed and God not being one-eyed! which is far from belief.

And when khabar al-wahid reaching this degree of feeble meaning, it should be believed that the speech was preceded by an introduction which had been mentioned, this ambiguity would have been removed. There are other traditions about this al-Dajjal that are ascribed to the Prophet, we abstained from citing for sake of brevity.

In order to instill this tenet and belief in the minds of Muslims, they (narrators) cited a hadith ascribed to the Prophet that he said: "Whoever denies al-Mahdi has denied God, and whoever denies al-Dajjal has denied God (turned an infidel)." 448 Age of the World In Tafsir al-Alusi, al-Suyuti reported several traditions stating that the age of the world being seven thousand years.

He indicated that the life of this Ummah will exceed one thousand years, but the excess never amounting to five hundred years. For proving this, he deduced reports stated by al-Suyuti in his treatise which he named: "al-Kashf’an mujawazat hadhihi al-ummah al-alf." 449 (Exposing of this Ummah exceeding thousand years).