English
Fatimah bint Qays (may Allah be pleased with her) narrated in the hadith of Tamim ad-Dari: She said: He said: “Then I came upon a woman dragging her hair. I said: ‘What are you?’ She said: ‘I am the Jassasah. Go to that palace.’ So I went to it, and there was a man dragging his hair, chained in fetters, leaping between the sky and the earth. I said: ‘Who are you?’ He said: ‘I am the Dajjal.’”
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Commentary and footnotes (2)
Note 1
(1) His statement: “then I came upon a woman”: In the previous hadith, it is stated: “They were met by a hairy beast,” and here: “Then I came upon a woman.” It is said: It is possible the Dajjal has two Jassasahs, one a beast and the other a woman. It is also possible that the Jassasah was a devil who appeared at one time in the form of a beast and at another in the form of a woman, as devils can take any form they wish. It is also possible that a woman is metaphorically called a beast. (As stated in Al-Mirqat)
Note 1
(۱) قوله: فإذا أنا بامرأة قال في الحديث السابق فليقتهم دابة أهلب، وههنا فإذا أنا بامرأة، قيل: يحتمل أن للدجال جساستين، أحدهما: دابة، والثانية: امرأة. ويحتمل أن الجساسة كانت شيطانة تمثلت تارة في صورة دابة، وأخرى في صورة امرأة، وللشيطان التشكل في أي تشكل أراد، ويحتمل أن تسمى المرأة دابة مجازا. كذا في «المرقاة».