The Messenger of Allah ﷺ came in while I was weeping and asked me, "What is making you cry?"I said, "Messenger of Allah, I remembered the Dajjal and began to weep."The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "If the Dajjal appears while I am alive, I will deal with him on your behalf. If he appears after me, then know that your Lord is not one-eyed. He will emerge from the Jewish quarter of Isfahan and travel until he reaches Madinah, where he will camp on its outskirts. Madinah at that time will have seven entrances, with two angels guarding each pass. The worst of its inhabitants will go out to him, and then he will proceed to Sham, to the city of Palestine, to the gate of Ludd."Abu Dawud said, in another narration of Farah, "Until he reaches Palestine, the gate of Ludd. Then Isa will descend and kill him. Isa
will then remain on earth for forty years as a just leader and an equitable ruler."
دخل علي رسول الله ﷺ وأنا أبكي فقال لي: ما يبكيك؟ قلت: يا رسول ذكرت الدجال فبكيت. فقال رسول الله ﷺ: إن يخرج الدجال وأنا حي فسأكفيكموه، وإن يخرج بعدي، وإن ربكم ليس بأعور، إنه يخرج في يهودية أصبهان، حتى يأتي المدينة، فينزل ناحيتها، ولها يومئذ سبعة أبواب، على كل نقب منها ملكان، فيخرج إليه شرار أهلها حتى يأتي الشام مدينة فلسطين باب لد. وقال أبو داود فرة: حتى يأتي فلسطين باب لد، فينزل عيسى عليه السلام فيقتله، ثم يمكث عيسى عليه السلام في الأرض أربعين سنة إماما عدلا وحكما مقسطا.
Imam Ahmad narrated it (24467) from Sulayman bin Dawud, who said, Harb bin Shaddad told us, from Yahya bin Abu Kathir, Hadrami bin Lahiq told me, that Zakwan Abu Salih informed him, that Ayesha informed him, and he related it.Ibn Hibban graded it sahih (6822), and he narrated it through the route of Hadrami bin Lahiq with his chain in similar wording, and in it, "forty years, or close to forty years." Its chain is hasan on account of Hadrami bin Lahiq, for he is one whose hadith is hasan. Haythami mentioned it in Majma (3387) and attributed it to Ahmad, saying, "Its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih except for Hadrami bin Lahiq, and he is trustworthy."As for his saying, "Abu Dawud said," Abu Dawud here is Sulayman bin Dawud bin Jarud Tayalisi, the author of the Musnad, a teacher of Imam Ahmad, who died in the year 204 AH. This hadith is not found in his printed Musnad.