The Messenger of Allah ﷺ addressed us and said, "Take heed, every prophet before me warned his nation about the Dajjal. He is one-eyed, blind in his left eye, and his right eye has a thick growth covering it. Written between his eyes is the word 'disbeliever.' Two valleys will accompany him, one a paradise and the other a fire, but his fire is actually paradise and his paradise is actually fire.With him will be two angels who resemble two prophets. If I wished, I could name them and name their fathers. One will be on his right and the other on his left, and that is a trial.The Dajjal will say, 'Am I not your Lord? Do I not give life and cause death?'One of the two angels will reply, 'You lie.' But none of the people will hear this except his companion angel, who will then say to him, 'You have spoken the truth.' The people will hear this and assume he is confirming the Dajjal, and that is a trial.Then he will travel until he reaches Madinah, but he will not be permitted to enter it, so he will say, 'This is the city of that man.' Then he will travel on until he reaches Sham, where Allah will destroy him at the pass of Afiq."
خطبنا رسول الله ﷺ فقال: ألا إنه لم يكن نبي قبلي إلا قد حذر الدجال أمته، وهو أعور عينه اليسرى، بعينه اليمنى ظفرة غليظة، مكتوب بين عينيه كافر، يخرج معه واديان: أحدهما جنة، والآخر نار، فناره جنة وجنته نار، معه ملكان من الملائكة يشبهان نبيين من الأنبياء، لو شئت سميتهما بأسمائهما وأسماء آبائهما، واحد منهما عن يمينه والآخر عن شماله وذلك فتنة، فيقول الدجال: ألست بربكم؟ ألست أحيي وأميت؟ فيقول له أحد الملكين: كذبت، ما يسمعه أحد من الناس إلا صاحبه فيقول له: صدقت فيسمعه الناس فيظنون إنما يصدق الدجال وذلك فتنة، ثم يسير حتى يأتي المدينة فلا يؤذن له فيها فيقول: هذه قرية ذلك الرجل، ثم يسير حتى يأتي الشام فيهلكه الله عز وجل عند عقبة أفيق.
Imam Ahmad narrated it (21929), and Tabarani in Kabir (98/7). It was also narrated by Ibn Abu Shayba (137/15-138), Abu Dawud Tayalisi in his Musnad (1202), and Ibn Adi in al-Kamil (846/2), all of them through the hadith of Hashraj bin Nubata, from Saeed bin Jumhan, from Safina, and he related it.Some scholars added, after the statement "until he comes to Sham," the words, "Then Isa will descend and kill him at Aqabat Afiq." They attributed this addition to Ibn Abu Shayba, but I have two printed editions, the Dar Salafiyya edition from Hind, and the Dar Fikr edition edited by Ustaz Saeed Lahham, and I did not find this addition in either of them. Perhaps it is found in other manuscript copies. Allah knows best.As for the isnad, it contains Hashraj bin Nubata, and some scholars have noted that his narration from Saeed bin Jumhan contains strange and objectionable reports.Bukhari said, "Hashraj bin Nubata, from Saeed bin Jumhan, from Safina, that the Prophet ﷺ said to Abu Bakr, Umar, and Uthman, 'These are the caliphs after me.' This has not been corroborated, because Umar and Ali said that the Prophet ﷺ did not appoint a successor."Ibn Adi said, "This hadith that Bukhari objected to regarding Hashraj has been narrated through a different isnad." He then cited Ibn Main, Ahmad, and others confirming Hashraj's reliability, mentioned the hadith of this chapter, and said, "As for these hadiths of Hashraj from Saeed bin Jumhan from Safina, I have already excused him regarding the hadith that Bukhari objected to, and I brought another chapter for that hadith and that text, and apart from that hadith there is no harm in him."He then also said, "Hashraj has other hadiths besides the one I mentioned, and his hadiths are hasan, with some solitary and strange reports. I have excused him regarding what they objected to in him, and in my view there is no harm in him or in his narrations, given that Ahmad and Yahya have both confirmed his reliability." Al-Kamil (2/846-847).Although the hadith's isnad is hasan, it contains some strange and objectionable words, and perhaps Hashraj bin Nubata erred in them. Among them is his statement, "with him are two angels," which is not found in any other sahih hadith. Another is his statement, "at Aqabat Afiq." This is a well-known pass in Hawran, on the road toward Jordan, a long pass of about two miles.The correct view is that Isa bin Maryam will kill him at the gate of Lud, as in the hadith of Nawas bin Saman and others. For this reason, Hafiz bin Kathir said in Nihaya fi Fitan wa Malahim (164/19), "Its isnad is acceptable, but its text contains strangeness and objectionable elements."Haythami said in Majma (340/7), "Ahmad and Tabarani narrated it, its narrators are reliable, and there is some criticism of a few of them that does not harm it."