impurities just as the bellows expel impurities from iron. He will be accompanied by seventy thousand Jews, each of them wearing armor and carrying a decorated sword. His tent will be set up at the place where the torrents meet. Then the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: There has never been a trial—nor will there be until the Hour is established—greater than the trial of the Dajjāl. No prophet has ever warned his nation more, and I will tell you something that no prophet before me has told. Then he placed his hand on his eye and said: I testify that Allāh is not one-eyed. It was narrated by Imām Aḥmad (3/292): Abū ʿĀmir ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAmr narrated to us: Zuhair narrated from Zayd ibn Aslam from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu) who said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) looked out over a part of the volcanic rock area while we were with him and said... and he mentioned it. I said: This isnād is authentic, its men are trustworthy, the men of the two Shaykhs, and Zuhair—who is Ibn Muḥammad al-Tamīmī, Abū al-Mundhir al-Khurāsānī—the preferred opinion is that the narration of the Basrans from him is reliable, as Imām Aḥmad and others have said, and this is one of them. For this reason, Ibn Kathīr said in "al-Nihāyah" (1/127): "Aḥmad alone narrated it, and its isnād is good, and al-Ḥākim authenticated it." Al-Haythamī said (3/308): "Aḥmad and al-Ṭabarānī narrated it in 'al-Awsaṭ'... and its men are the men of (al-Ṣaḥīḥ)." I said: This suggests that the isnād of al-Ṭabarānī is like the isnād of Aḥmad, but it is not so; for it is in