- (O ʿĀʾishah! The Arabs on that day will be few. (Meaning: in the time before the Dajjāl). So I asked: What will suffice the believers on that day in terms of food? He said: What suffices the angels; glorification, magnification, praise, and declaration of Allāh's oneness). Narrated by Aḥmad (6/75-76 and 125), and Abū Yaʿlá (7/78/4607) through the route of Ḥammād ibn Salamah from ʿAlī ibn Zayd from al-Ḥasan from ʿĀʾishah: that the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) mentioned severe hardship that will occur before the Dajjāl, so I asked: O Messenger of Allāh! Where will the Arabs be on that day? He said ... and he mentioned it. He added: So what wealth will be best on that day? He said, "A strong servant who provides water for his family, but as for food, there will be no food." I say: Its narrators are trustworthy, the narrators of Muslim; except for ʿAlī ibn Zayd—who is Ibn Judʿān—and he is weak. And al-Ḥasan—who is al-Baṣrī—is known for much tadlīs, as al-ʿAlāʾī said in "Jāmiʿ al-Taḥṣīl" (p. 194); and if what he narrated (p. 198) from al-Ḥasan that he heard from ʿĀʾishah (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhā) is authentic, it does not benefit with the ʿanʿanah. However, the ḥadīth has supporting narrations or a supporting narration that strengthens it, except for the addition at the end of Abū Umāmah's long ḥadīth about the trial of the Dajjāl with Ibn Mājah (4077) and others, and it is extracted in "Ẓilāl al-Jannah" (391). And I add here by saying: Al-Ḥākim narrated (4/536-537) its first part, and said: "Authentic