Who Was The Dajjal? The false messiah in Islamic History
Before the worldBefore Adam
The first nationsAdam to Ibrahim
Egypt and Bani Israilc. 1300–1000 BCE
Arabia before Islam523–570 CE
Enemies of the Prophet ﷺ610–632 CE
After the Prophet ﷺ632–1260 CE
The end of timeStill to come
Ten signs before the Hour
Isa ibn Maryam descends
A landslide in the east
A landslide in the west
A landslide in Arabia
The smoke
The sun rises from the west
The Beast of the earth
A fire from Yemen drives people to their gathering
Sahih Muslim lists ten major signs before the Hour without fixing their order. This follows a common order given by the scholars. Sahih Muslim 2901a ↗
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المسيح الدجال
The Dajjal
The false messiahBefore the Hour
Relied onFalse wonders: rain on command, a paradise that is fire
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Undone byIsa ibn Maryam
One-eyed, with 'kafir' written between his eyes for every believer to read. He will claim to be lord, bring a false paradise and a false fire, and cross the whole earth except Makkah and Madinah.
How it ended
Isa ibn Maryam will descend and kill him at the gate of Ludd.
…The Day that some of the signs of your Lord will come no soul will benefit from its faith as long as it had not believed before …
Every villain in Islamic history, from Iblis to the Dajjal
Each entry is drawn from the Quran, authentic hadith (with links to sunnah.com), the classical commentators and the historians. Companions who fought Islam and later became Muslim are not included, nor are figures Muslims disagree about.
