Explanation of the author's statement: And from Abu Sa'id, marfu': "Shall I inform you of what is more frightening to me regarding you than the Dajjal?" They said: Yes, O Messenger of Allah
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The Shaykh : From Abu Sa'id, marfu'. Marfu' means attributed to the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). There is no harm in reminding you that what is attributed to the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) is divided into: explicit marfu' and implied marfu'. What is attributed to him directly is explicit marfu'. What is attributed to his era, or to his Sunnah, or to his implied approval—what is not observed approval—is implied marfu'. Is that clear?
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : Implied marfu' means it has the ruling of being marfu', but it is not directly marfu' to the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). So it has the ruling of being marfu'. That means, if the Companion said: "We used to do such and such during the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)," and he did not say that he looked into it, or "We were ordered to do such and such" or "We were forbidden from such and such." But if he said "The Messenger of Allah ordered us," then it is explicit.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : He raises it, yes.
The questioner : ... implied marfu'.
The Shaykh : They mentioned that this is from implied marfu'. As for when the scholars say, "From Abu Sa'id, marfu'," what is meant is that Abu Sa'id said, "I raised it." No, this is from the authors. Instead of saying "From Abu Sa'id," they say: "The Messenger of Allah said." They say "marfu'." And when the word "marfu'" is used in the terminology of the scholars, the explicit one is meant.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : That is, this is implied marfu'.
The questioner : But here, "Shall I inform you."
The Shaykh : This is from the saying of the Messenger
The questioner : This is from the saying of the Messenger
The Shaykh : That is, this is explicit, yes, and it is so.
He said: And from Abu Sa'id, marfu'. He said:Sunan Ibn Majah 4204Hasan (Darussalam) "A-la" here is a particle of presentation, and the intended meaning is to alert the addressee to what is being conveyed to him, so it is more eloquent than bringing the speech in a loose manner like this.
And his saying:Sunan Ibn Majah 4204Hasan (Darussalam) "Bi-ma" is a relative pronoun, meaning "by that which is more frightening to me regarding you than the Dajjal." More frightening to me regarding you, meaning: in the view of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), because he, may Allah's prayers and blessings be upon him, out of his gentleness and mercy toward the believers, fears for them all trials, and the greatest trial that occurs on the face of the earth is the trial of the Dajjal. This is known and established. But the Messenger, may Allah's prayers and blessings be upon him, says this Sunan Ibn Majah 4204Hasan (Darussalam), and it was so because escaping from it is very difficult from this type that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) mentioned and which is hard. For this reason, some of the Salaf said: "I have not struggled my soul for anything as I have struggled it for sincerity", and this is the correct view, because sincerity is not an easy matter. For this reason, the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Sahih al-Bukhari 99 "La ilaha illa Allah" is not merely uttering it; it must have rulings and conditions, requiring that all deeds by which you worship Allah be pure from your heart.
And his saying: The Messenger, may Allah's prayers and blessings be upon him, described him with two things: that he is a Messiah, and that he is a Dajjal. So he described him with two defects: one is physical, and the other is conceptual. The physical one is the Messiah, because he is one whose eye is rubbed out, one-eyed, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Sahih al-Bukhari 7407. As for the conceptual defect, it is his being called , which is a form of exaggeration, and if we wish, we can say it is an attribution. Yes, meaning that the description that is constant with him is deception, and deception is lying and delusion. There is no one who lies more or deludes more than this man, the Dajjal. So he is a man from the children of Adam, but Allah, Mighty and Majestic, for His perfect wisdom, sends him to try people, and his trial is great. There is nothing in the world since Adam was created until the Hour stands that is more severe than the trial of the Dajjal. We seek refuge in Allah from it.
Now, and his saying: In "Messiah al-Siddiq," who is he?
The student: ...
The Shaykh : The Messiah is the son of Maryam (peace be upon him). The Messiah al-Siddiq kills the Messiah al-Dajjal. Some of the people of knowledge said: It should be called "al-Musakh," from "miskh" (transformation), but this is from the category of... As long as the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) named him with this name, we are not more reverent to Allah and more deterred from worshipping other than Him and claiming divinity for other than Him than the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), and he named him the Messiah.
Now, the Messiah al-Dajjal is feared because his trial is great.
And know that the Messiah al-Dajjal has had hadiths established about him and they have become famous until it became known by necessity, because the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered his Ummah to seek refuge in Allah from him in every prayer, until it has now become a necessary matter. And some people, may Allah protect us from them, have tried to deny it, and they said: This is not possible, and what has come in the hadiths about his description contains some contradiction and some violation of nature, so we cannot believe in it. But these people, may Allah protect us from them, are the ones who measure the hadiths with their minds and their desires, and they also measure the power of the Creator with their own power. They say: How can one day become a full year, and the sun has a system and a law and a statute that it cannot exceed? And this undoubtedly calls out their ignorance, may Allah protect us from their ignorance of Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He. Who established this system and these statutes for the sun? Allah. And the One who established that for it is able to change it whenever He wills. So on the Day of Resurrection, it will be rolled up, and the stars will burst, and the sky will be peeled off. All this that we see now will change with one word from Allah, Mighty and Majestic: "Be, and it is." And our refuting what has been established by hadiths and is famous among the Muslims with such justifications is evidence of weak faith and of the human being's underestimation of Allah, Mighty and Majestic[Al-An'am 6:91]. So what we believe is that this Messiah will be sent in the end of the world, and everything that is established from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) regarding him will occur, and we believe that Allah is able to do all things, and that He is able to send one who will try people regarding their religion so that the bad is distinguished from the good, and the believer from the disbeliever. Just as Allah tries the servants with something other than this matter. He tried the believers by sending upon them game while they were in a state of ihram, which their hands and spears could reach, so that Allah would know who fears Him in secret. And Allah tried the Children of Israel with the fish that came to them on their Sabbath day, and on the day they did not observe the Sabbath, they did not come to them. And Allah, Mighty and Majestic, also tries individuals of people with things by which He tests them [Al-Hajj 22:11]. A person may be tested with things in a calamity that befalls him in his self, or in his family, or in his wealth, or in his mind as well. Things may be unleashed upon a person that affect his heart. If he remains firm upon faith and is guided to this, he remains firm. Otherwise, what happens to him is what happens to one who deviates, may Allah protect us from that.
So the result is that we say: We believe in this Messiah al-Dajjal, and that his trial is the greatest of trials, and everything that is authentic from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) regarding his description, it is obligatory for us to believe in it.
The questioner : But O Shaykh, is he sent in the end of times or...?
The Shaykh : No, he is sent in the end of times, yes, and he is sent in his time.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : No, he is not...
The questioner : They say he exists?
The Shaykh : He does not exist, because it is established in Sahih al-Bukhari from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) at the end of his life that he said:.
The questioner : The hadith of al-Jusayrah?
The Shaykh : The hadith of al-Jusayrah means the answer can be given to it, in order to reconcile with this hadith, that the Dajjal may be applied to one who possesses deception, it may be applied to this.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : Allah knows best, because the hadith in al-Bukhari is authentic and explicit, and the hadith of al-Jusayrah, but I do not trust, meaning regarding the criticism of the later scholars, otherwise some of the later scholars criticized it, saying that it is not authentic, even though it is in Muslim.
The questioner : Shaykh?
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : Reconciliation is simple, because the calamity intended is what a person is afflicted with in his religion, such as harm and refuting the call and the like. As for the general doubt like this, there is nothing more severe than the Dajjal, and the hadith is established from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) regarding him.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : Implied marfu' means it has the ruling of being marfu', but it is not directly marfu' to the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). So it has the ruling of being marfu'. That means, if the Companion said: "We used to do such and such during the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)," and he did not say that he looked into it, or "We were ordered to do such and such" or "We were forbidden from such and such." But if he said "The Messenger of Allah ordered us," then it is explicit.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : He raises it, yes.
The questioner : ... implied marfu'.
The Shaykh : They mentioned that this is from implied marfu'. As for when the scholars say, "From Abu Sa'id, marfu'," what is meant is that Abu Sa'id said, "I raised it." No, this is from the authors. Instead of saying "From Abu Sa'id," they say: "The Messenger of Allah said." They say "marfu'." And when the word "marfu'" is used in the terminology of the scholars, the explicit one is meant.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : That is, this is implied marfu'.
The questioner : But here, "Shall I inform you."
The Shaykh : This is from the saying of the Messenger
The questioner : This is from the saying of the Messenger
The Shaykh : That is, this is explicit, yes, and it is so.
He said: And from Abu Sa'id, marfu'. He said:
‘Shall I not tell you of that which I fear more for you than Dajjal?’
ألا أخبركم بما هو أخوف عليكم عندي من المسيح الدجال ؟And his saying:
of that which I fear more for you
بما هو أخوف عليكم عنديI fear more for you than Dajjal
أخوف عليكم عندي من المسيح الدجالThe luckiest person who will have my intercession on the Day of Resurrection will be the one who said sincerely from the bottom of his heart "None has the right to be worshipped but Allah."
أسعد الناس بشفاعتي من قال لا إله إلا الله خالصا من قلبهAnd his saying:
the Messiah al-Dajjal
المسيح الدجالNarrated `Abdullah: Ad-Dajjal was mentioned in the presence of the Prophet. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Allah is not hidden from you; He is not one-eyed," and pointed with his hand towards his eye, adding, "While Al-Masih Ad- Dajjal is blind in the right eye and his eye looks like a protruding grape."
إن الله لا يخفى عليكم، إنه ليس بأعور، وإن الدجال أعور العين اليمنىthe Dajjal
الدجالNow, and his saying:
the Messiah al-Dajjal
المسيح الدجالThe student: ...
The Shaykh : The Messiah is the son of Maryam (peace be upon him). The Messiah al-Siddiq kills the Messiah al-Dajjal. Some of the people of knowledge said: It should be called "al-Musakh," from "miskh" (transformation), but this is from the category of... As long as the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) named him with this name, we are not more reverent to Allah and more deterred from worshipping other than Him and claiming divinity for other than Him than the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), and he named him the Messiah.
Now, the Messiah al-Dajjal is feared because his trial is great.
And know that the Messiah al-Dajjal has had hadiths established about him and they have become famous until it became known by necessity, because the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered his Ummah to seek refuge in Allah from him in every prayer, until it has now become a necessary matter. And some people, may Allah protect us from them, have tried to deny it, and they said: This is not possible, and what has come in the hadiths about his description contains some contradiction and some violation of nature, so we cannot believe in it. But these people, may Allah protect us from them, are the ones who measure the hadiths with their minds and their desires, and they also measure the power of the Creator with their own power. They say: How can one day become a full year, and the sun has a system and a law and a statute that it cannot exceed? And this undoubtedly calls out their ignorance, may Allah protect us from their ignorance of Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He. Who established this system and these statutes for the sun? Allah. And the One who established that for it is able to change it whenever He wills. So on the Day of Resurrection, it will be rolled up, and the stars will burst, and the sky will be peeled off. All this that we see now will change with one word from Allah, Mighty and Majestic: "Be, and it is." And our refuting what has been established by hadiths and is famous among the Muslims with such justifications is evidence of weak faith and of the human being's underestimation of Allah, Mighty and Majestic
And they did not appraise Allah with true appraisal
وما قدروا الله حق قدرهAnd of the people is he who worships Allah on an edge. If he is touched by good, he is reassured by it; but if he is struck by trial, he turns on his face [to the other direction]. He has lost [this] world and the Hereafter
ومن الناس من يعبد الله على حرف فإن أصابه خير اطمأن به وإن أصابته فتنة انقلب على وجهه خسر الدنيا والآخرةSo the result is that we say: We believe in this Messiah al-Dajjal, and that his trial is the greatest of trials, and everything that is authentic from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) regarding his description, it is obligatory for us to believe in it.
The questioner : But O Shaykh, is he sent in the end of times or...?
The Shaykh : No, he is sent in the end of times, yes, and he is sent in his time.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : No, he is not...
The questioner : They say he exists?
The Shaykh : He does not exist, because it is established in Sahih al-Bukhari from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) at the end of his life that he said:
No soul that breathes on earth will remain for a hundred years after that
ما من نفس منفوسة على الأرض تبقى مئة سنة بعد ذلكThe questioner : The hadith of al-Jusayrah?
The Shaykh : The hadith of al-Jusayrah means the answer can be given to it, in order to reconcile with this hadith, that the Dajjal may be applied to one who possesses deception, it may be applied to this.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : Allah knows best, because the hadith in al-Bukhari is authentic and explicit, and the hadith of al-Jusayrah, but I do not trust, meaning regarding the criticism of the later scholars, otherwise some of the later scholars criticized it, saying that it is not authentic, even though it is in Muslim.
The questioner : Shaykh?
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : Reconciliation is simple, because the calamity intended is what a person is afflicted with in his religion, such as harm and refuting the call and the like. As for the general doubt like this, there is nothing more severe than the Dajjal, and the hadith is established from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) regarding him.