Narrated Ibn `Umar:
The Prophet (ﷺ) said to Ibn Saiyad, "I have kept for you a secret." Ibn Saiyad said, "Ad-Dukh." The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Keep quiet, for you cannot go beyond your limits (or you cannot exceed what has been foreordained for you)." On that, `Umar said (to the Prophet (ﷺ) ), "Allow me to chop off his neck!" The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Leave him, for if he is he (i.e., Ad-Dajjal), then you will not be able to overcome him, and if he is not, then you gain no good by killing him."
حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ حَفْصٍ، وَبِشْرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، قَالاَ أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ، أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنْ سَالِمٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ ـ رضى الله عنهما ـ قَالَ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم لاِبْنِ صَيَّادٍ " خَبَأْتُ لَكَ خَبِيئًا ". قَالَ الدُّخُّ. قَالَ " اخْسَأْ فَلَنْ تَعْدُوَ قَدْرَكَ ". قَالَ عُمَرُ ائْذَنْ لِي فَأَضْرِبَ عُنُقَهُ. قَالَ " دَعْهُ، إِنْ يَكُنْ هُوَ فَلاَ تُطِيقُهُ، وَإِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ هُوَ فَلاَ خَيْرَ لَكَ فِي قَتْلِهِ ".
Isnad
7 transmitters- 1'Ali bin Hafs al-Mada'iniMada'in,Baghdad
- 2Bashr bin Muhammad al-SakhtiyaniMerv · d. 224 AH
- 3'Abdullah bin MubarakMerv · d. 181 AH
- 4Ma'mar bin RashidBasrah/Medinah/Yemen · d. 154 AH/770 CE
- 5al-ZuhriMedinah/Syria · d. 124 AH/741 CE
- 6Salim bin 'Abdullah bin 'UmarMedina · d. ~106 AH
- 7ibn UmarMakkah/Medina · d. 74 AH/693 CE
References2 variants
- In-Book Reference
- Book 82, Hadith 24
- USC-MSA web (English) reference
- Vol. 8, Book 77, Hadith 615 (deprecated numbering scheme)