Chapter 13: Descent of Prophet Isa (AS)
Abdullah ibn Amr reported that he Prophet Muhammad ﷺ said: The Dajjal will appear in my Ummah, and will remain for forty.
However, Abdullah ibn Amr said: I cannot say whether he (the Prophet) meant forty days, forty months or forty years.
Abdullah ibn Amr then continued to narrate what the Prophet said: Allah will send Isa, son of Maryam who will resemble Urwah ibn Masud. He will chase the Dajjal and kill him. Then the people will live for seven years during which there will be no hatred between any two people. Allah will then send a cold wind from the direction of Syria, which will take the soul of everyone who has the slightest speck of good/faith in his heart. Even if one of you were to enter the heart of a mountain, the wind would reach him there and take his soul. Only the most wicked people will be left and they will be as careless as birds, with the characteristics of beasts and they will have no concern for right and wrong. Shaytan will come to them and say: Don’t you respond. The wicked people will reply: What do you order us to do? Shaytan will then order them to worship idols.
The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ said: The trumpet will be blown, and everyone will tilt their heads to hear it. The first one to hear it will be a man busy repairing a trough (container) for his camels. He and everyone else will be struck down. Allah SWT will then send down rain and the bodies of the people (the dead) will grow out of it. Then the trumpet will be blown again and the people will get up and look around. It will be said: O People, go to your Lord and account for yourselves. It will be said: Bring out the people of Hell and it will be asked: How many are there? The answer will be: Nine hundred and ninety-nine out of every thousand. On that day, a child will grow old and the shin will be laid bare. (mentioned in the Quran, 68:42) (Muslim).
Hadith of the Prophet about Prophet Isa:
Abu Hurayrah reported that the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ said: The Prophets are like brothers, they have different mothers but their religion is one. I am the closest of all people to Isa, the son of Maryam, because there is no other prophet between him and myself. He will come again, and when you see him, you will recognise him. He is of medium height and his colour is reddish-white. He will be wearing two garments and his hair will look wet. He will break the cross, kill the pigs, abolish the Jizyah and call people to Islam. During his time, Allah will end every religion and sect other than Islam and will destroy the Dajjal. Then, peace will prevail on earth, the lions will graze with camels, tigers with cattle, and the wolves with sheep. Children will be able to play with snakes without coming to any harm. Isa will remain for forty years, then die and the Muslims will pray for him. (Ahmad)
Hadith of the Prophet on the Night Journey:
Abdullah ibn Mas’ud reported that the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ said: On the night of the Isra’ (night journey), I met my father Ibrahim, Musa and Isa and they discussed the Hour. The matter was referred to Ibrahim and Musa and they both said: I have no knowledge of it. It was then referred to Isa who said: No one knows about its timing except Allah, what my Lord has told me was that the Dajjal will appear, and when he sees me, he will begin to melt like lead. Allah will destroy him when he sees me. The Muslims will fight against the disbelievers, and even the trees and rocks will say: O Muslim, there is a disbeliever hiding beneath me, come and kill him! Allah will destroy the disbelievers and the people will return to their own lands. Then, Yajuj and Majuj (Gog and Magog) will appear from all directions, eating and drinking everything they find. The people will complain to me so I will pray to Allah and He will destroy them, so that the earth will be filled with their stench. Allah will send rain which will wash their bodies into the sea. My Lord has told me that when that happens, the Hour will be very close, like a pregnant woman whose time is due, but her family do not know exactly when she will deliver. (Ahmad, Ibn Majah)
Description of Prophet Isa from the Prophet:
Abu Hurayrah narrated that the he Prophet Muhammad ﷺ said: On the night of the Isra’ (night journey) I met Musa, he was a slim man with wavy hair and looked like a man from the Shanu’ah tribe. I also met Isa, he was of medium height and of a red complexion, as if he had just come out of the bath. (Bukhari, Muslim)
The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ said: Whilst I was asleep, I saw myself (in a dream) making Tawaf around the Kabah. I saw a brown-skinned man, with straight hair, being supported by two men and with water dripping from his head. I said: Who is this? They said: The son of Maryam.
The Prophet ﷺ continued: I turned around and saw a fat, ruddy man, with curly hair, who was blind in the right eye, his eye looked like a floating grape. I asked: Who is this? They said: The Dajjal.
The one that most resembles him is Ibn Qatan, who was a man from the tribe of Khuza’ah. (Bukhari)