Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2248
حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُعَاوِيَةَ الْجُمَحِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ زَيْدٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي بَكْرَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " يَمْكُثُ أَبُو الدَّجَّالِ وَأُمُّهُ ثَلاَثِينَ عَامًا لاَ يُولَدُ لَهُمَا وَلَدٌ ثُمَّ يُولَدُ لَهُمَا غُلاَمٌ أَعْوَرُ أَضَرُّ شَيْءٍ وَأَقَلُّهُ مَنْفَعَةً تَنَامُ عَيْنَاهُ وَلاَ يَنَامُ قَلْبُهُ " . ثُمَّ نَعَتَ لَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم أَبَوَيْهِ فَقَالَ " أَبُوهُ طِوَالٌ ضَرْبُ اللَّحْمِ كَأَنَّ أَنْفَهُ مِنْقَارٌ وَأُمُّهُ امْرَأَةٌ فَرْضَاخِيَّةٌ طَوِيلَةُ الْيَدَيْنِ " . فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرَةَ فَسَمِعْنَا بِمَوْلُودٍ فِي الْيَهُودِ بِالْمَدِينَةِ فَذَهَبْتُ أَنَا وَالزُّبَيْرُ بْنُ الْعَوَّامِ حَتَّى دَخَلْنَا عَلَى أَبَوَيْهِ فَإِذَا نَعْتُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم فِيهِمَا فَقُلْنَا هَلْ لَكُمَا وَلَدٌ فَقَالاَ مَكَثْنَا ثَلاَثِينَ عَامًا لاَ يُولَدُ لَنَا وَلَدٌ ثُمَّ وُلِدَ لَنَا غُلاَمٌ أَعْوَرُ أَضَرُّ شَيْءٍ وَأَقَلُّهُ مَنْفَعَةً تَنَامُ عَيْنَاهُ وَلاَ يَنَامُ قَلْبُهُ . قَالَ فَخَرَجْنَا مِنْ عِنْدِهِمَا فَإِذَا هُوَ مُنْجَدِلٌ فِي الشَّمْسِ فِي قَطِيفَةٍ لَهُ وَلَهُ هَمْهَمَةٌ فَكَشَفَ عَنْ رَأْسِهِ فَقَالَ مَا قُلْتُمَا قُلْنَا وَهَلْ سَمِعْتَ مَا قُلْنَا قَالَ نَعَمْ تَنَامُ عَيْنَاىَ وَلاَ يَنَامُ قَلْبِي . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ لاَ نَعْرِفُهُ إِلاَّ مِنْ حَدِيثِ حَمَّادِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
‘Abd Allāh ibn Mu‘āwiyah al-Jumaḥī narrated to us; Ḥammād ibn Salamah narrated to us, from ‘Alī ibn Zayd, from ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakrah, from his father, who said that the Messenger of Allah said: “The Dajjāl’s father and mother will remain for thirty years without a child being born to them. Then they will have a one-eyed boy, the most harmful thing and the least beneficial. His eyes sleep, but his heart does not.” The Messenger of Allah then described the boy’s parents to us: “His father is tall and lean, and his nose is like a beak; his mother is a stout woman with long hands.”
Abū Bakrah said: We heard of a child born among the Jews in Madinah, so al-Zubayr ibn al-‘Awwām and I went to see his parents. They matched the Messenger of Allah’s description. We asked, “Do you have a child?” They replied, “We remained thirty years without a child being born to us, then we had a one-eyed boy, the most harmful thing and the least beneficial. His eyes sleep, but his heart does not.” We left them and found him lying in the sun, wrapped in a velvet covering, murmuring. He uncovered his head and said, “What were you two saying?” We said, “Did you hear what we said?” He replied, “Yes. My eyes sleep, but my heart does not.”
Abū ‘Īsā said: This is a ḥasan gharīb hadith; we know it only through the report of Ḥammād ibn Salamah.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The term فرّاخية describing the mother is unusual; “stout” is tentative. The Arabic says that she had long hands, whereas the English witness says “long breasts.”
وَأُمُّهُ امْرَأَةٌ فَرْضَاخِيَّةٌ طَوِيلَةُ الْيَدَيْنِ
The rare adjective فرّاخية is rendered tentatively as “stout”; the Arabic phrase says long hands, not the “long breasts” found in the English witness.
What is the most accurate English equivalent for فرّاخية?
قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ لاَ نَعْرِفُهُ إِلاَّ مِنْ حَدِيثِ حَمَّادِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ
Al-Tirmidhī’s grading and note about the only known route are not in the English witness.
Should another English witness be consulted for the closing grading?