I heard the announcer of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ calling out that the prayer was about to be held in congregation, so I went out and prayed with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ finished his prayer, he sat on the pulpit smiling and said, "Let everyone remain in his place of prayer."Then he said, "Do you know why I have gathered you?"They replied, "Allah and His Messenger know best."He said, "I did not gather you out of fear or desire for something, but I have gathered you because Tamim al-Dari was a Christian man who came and gave his pledge of allegiance and embraced Islam. He told me a story which agrees with what I had been telling you about the Dajjal. He told me that he had sailed in a sea-going ship with thirty men from the tribes of Lakhm and Judham. The waves tossed them about for a month at sea, then they landed at an island as the sun was setting. They sat in the small boats of the ship and entered the island, where they were met by a beast covered in thick hair, so much hair that they could not tell its front from its back.They said, "Woe to you, what are you?"It replied, "I am al-Jassasa. Go to that man in that monastery, for he is most eager for news of you."He said, "When it named a man to us, we feared it might be a she-devil, so we hurried off until we entered the monastery, and there we found the largest human being we had ever seen in build and the most tightly bound, his hands chained to his neck."He then mentioned the rest of the story, and that the man asked them about the date palms of Baysan, about the spring of Zughar, and about the unlettered Prophet. He said, "I am the Messiah, and I am about to be permitted to come out."The Prophet ﷺ said, "And he is in the Sea of Sham or the Sea of Yemen. No, rather he is in the direction of the east. He is in the direction of the east." He pointed with his hand twice toward the east.She said, "I memorized this from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ." And he continued the narration.
حدثنا حجاج بن أبي يعقوب حدثنا عبد الصمد حدثنا أبي قال سمعت حسينا المعلم حدثنا عبد الله بن بريدة حدثنا عامر بن شراحيل الشعبي
سمعت منادي رسول الله ﷺ ينادي أن الصلاة جامعة فخرجت فصليت مع رسول الله ﷺ فلما قضى رسول الله ﷺ صلاته جلس على المنبر وهو يضحك قال ليلزم كل إنسان مصلاه ثم قال هل تدرون لم جمعتكم قالوا الله ورسوله أعلم قال إني ما جمعتكم لرهبة ولا رغبة ولكن جمعتكم أن تميما الداري كان رجلا نصرانيا فجاء فبايع وأسلم وحدثني حديثا وافق الذي حدثتكم عن الدجال حدثني أنه ركب في سفينة بحرية مع ثلاثين رجلا من لخم وجذام فلعب بهم الموج شهرا في البحر وأرفئوا إلى جزيرة حين مغرب الشمس فجلسوا في أقرب السفينة فدخلوا الجزيرة فلقيتهم دابة أهلب كثيرة الشعر قالوا ويلك ما أنت قالت أنا الجساسة انطلقوا إلى هذا الرجل في هذا الدير فإنه إلى خبركم بالأشواق قال لما سمت لنا رجلا فرقنا منها أن تكون شيطانة فانطلقنا سراعا حتى دخلنا الدير فإذا فيه أعظم إنسان رأيناه قط خلقا وأشده وثاقا مجموعة يداه إلى عنقه فذكر الحديث وسألهم عن نخل بيسان وعن عين زغر وعن النبي الأمي قال إني أنا المسيح وإنه يوشك أن يؤذن لي في الخروج قال النبي ﷺ وإنه في بحر الشام أو بحر اليمن لا بل من قبل المشرق ما هو مرتين وأومأ بيده قبل المشرق قالت حفظت هذا من رسول الله ﷺ وساق الحديث