The Jassasa, The creature of the island
In the hadithThe creature of the island
The Jassasaالجساسة
Approximate date
A hairy creature on a far island who led shipwrecked sailors to a chained man.
Tamim al-Dari told the Prophet ﷺ how storms drove his ship to an island for a month. A creature so hairy they could not tell front from back, the Jassasa, led them to a man bound in chains. He asked about the palms of Baysan and the unlettered prophet, then said he was the Dajjal. The Prophet ﷺ had the story told from the minbar.
What does the hadith say?
The lesson
The Prophet ﷺ confirmed news that matched his warnings, from whoever brought it.
Who else is linked?
Who lived at the same time?
Muhammad ﷺThe Three Who Stayed BehindHeracliusAl-MuqawqisAbu al-Aswad al-Du'aliAli ibn Abi TalibSa'id ibn ZaydAbu Musa al-Ash'ari
Source: hadith
Everyone and everything in the timeline
People named in the Quran and the hadith, the Prophet's ﷺ family and Companions, scholars, rulers, the nations of the Quran, the world's empires and the places where it all happened. Where scholars differ, each entry says so.
People of the hadith
- Hajar
- Jurayj
- The boy of the trench
- The monk of the trench
- The king of the trench
- The three men in the cave
- The man who killed a hundred
- The leper, the bald man and the blind man
- The woman and the cat
- The woman who gave water to a dog
- The man who lent a thousand dinars
- The man who asked his sons to burn him
- The jar of gold
- The man whose charity went astray
- The merchant who forgave debts
- Barsisa
- The last man to enter Paradise
- The Jassasa
- Ibn Sayyad
- Adnan
- Fihr ibn Malik
- Amr ibn Luhay
- Qusayy ibn Kilab
- Abd Manaf
- Hashim ibn Abd Manaf
- Abd al-Muttalib
- Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib
- Aminah bint Wahb
- Thuwaybah
- Halimah al-Sa'diyyah
- Bahira
- Nastur
- Maysarah
- Zayd ibn Amr ibn Nufayl
- Quss ibn Sa'ida
- Waraqa ibn Nawfal
- Abu Talib
- Ashama the Najashi
- Salman's teachers
- Umayyah ibn Abi al-Salt
- Uways al-Qarani