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Allah be upon him, was interrogating Ibn Sayyad, Hazrat Umar Farooq, upon whom be peace, lost his patience and sought our beloved master's permission to kill Ibn Sayyad whom he believed to be the Dajaal in person. . One particular opponent of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad who proposes to expose the alleged fallacy of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's interpretations of the Holy Prophet's Traditions, narrates this incident of. Ibn Sayyad in one of his anti Ahmadiyya tirades and states: "In connection with the episode of Ibn Sayyad, Jabir bin Abdullah relates that 'Umar bin Khattab (may God be pleased with him) submitted: 'O Apostle of God (peace be on you) allow me to slay him. '. In reply the Prophet of God (PBUH) observed: 'If indeed this man is he (referring to the Dajaal), then he shall be slain by Christ son of. Mary. You should not slay him. But if this man is not he (Dajaal), then you have no right to kill the individual from amongst those to whom we have guaranteed protection (dhimmies). ' (Miskat, Kitab ul Fitan;. Bab: Qissa Ibn Sayyad quoted by Shara al Sunnah al "'16. Baghawi). "'. Now, if one was to be guided by the insistence of the anti Ahmadiyya elements to the effect that the Traditions of our beloved Prophet are not subject to interpretation and the Dajaal with its distinctive peculiarities has to appear before the Promised Messiah, then this episode of Ibn. Sayyad, acknowledged as authentic by the anti Ahmadiyya author,. Maulvi Abul Ala Maududi, would raise some very pertinent questions. . The unmistakable physical traits of the Dajaal and his surroundings have been explicitly mentioned in the Traditions of our beloved Prophet, peace be upon him. Ibn Sayyad did not appear to display any of these peculiarities in his person nor is there any indication that he was surrounded by any of the other signs so numerously recorded by our master's Traditions. . The question which arises now is: Why did our beloved Prophet's 16. Maududi, A. A: Finality of Prophethood: pg 53 243