its isnād is weak as he said, but rather it is ḥasan as we stated, and this supports part of it. It seems he was misled by Fuʾād ʿAbd al-Bāqī attributing it to the two Shaykhs in his extraction for "al-Adab al-Mufrad" (p. 304)! This is the opposite of its commentator (al-Jīlānī), as he attributed it only to al-Ḥākim!

"Indeed, after you there will be the lying deceiver, and his head after him will be like tightly curled hair—three times—and he will say: 'I am your Lord.' Whoever says: 'You are not our Lord, but our Lord is Allāh, upon Him we rely and to Him we turn in repentance, we seek refuge in Allāh from your evil,' he will have no power over him." It was narrated by Imām Aḥmad (5/372): Sulaimān ibn Ḥarb narrated to us, Ḥammād ibn Zayd narrated to us from Ayyūb from Abū Qilābah who said: I saw a man in Medina around whom people had gathered, and he was saying: "The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said, the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said," and it was a man from the Companions of the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam). He said: I heard him saying, and he mentioned it. I say: This isnād is authentic, its narrators are trustworthy, the narrators of the two Shaykhs, and the anonymity of the Companion does not harm as is established in the science of terminology. His saying: "after him": meaning behind him. "Tightly curled": meaning his hair is curled from tight curls like still water or sand when the wind blows over them, they become curled and form paths. As in "al-Nihāyah." The ḥadīth is an explicit evidence that the great Dajjāl is a person with a head and hair, and it is not a metaphor for corruption as some of the weak in faith like to interpret his numerous authentic ḥadīths from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) transmitted by tawātur, as stated by the imams of ḥadīth, so do not be deceived thereafter