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RIYADH AS-SALIHIN 307 stand in rows on it guarding it. The Anti-Christ will arrive at Sabakhah and Medina will be shaken three times whereby Allah will expel from it every disbeliever and hypocrite (Muslim). 1818. Anas relates that the Holy Prophet said: Anti-Christ will be followed by seventy thousand Jews of Isfahan who will be clad in robes of satin (Muslim). 1819. Umm Shariq relates that she heard the Holy Prophet say: People will fly into the mountains for shelter against the Anti-Christ (Muslim). 1820. Imran ibn Husain relates that he heard the Holy Prophet say:. Between the creation of Adam and the Judgment Day there is no affair greater than the mischief of the Anti-Christ (Muslim). 1821. Abu Sa'id Khudri relates that the Holy Prophet said: The. Anti-Christ will appear and a believer will set out towards him and will encounter his guards. They will ask him: Whither are you bent? He will say: I am proceeding to this one who has appeared. They will ask him: Do you not believe in our Lord? He will answer: Our Lord has no secrecy. Some of them will say: Let us kill him. Others will say: Has not your master forbidden you killing anybody without his orders? So they will take him to the Anti-Christ. . When the believer will see him he will call out: O ye people, this is the. Anti-Christ who was mentioned by the Holy Prophet. The Anti-Christ will then direct that he should be laid out and should be beaten on his belly and on his back. After such beating he will ask the man: Do you not believe in me? He will say: You are the Anti-Christ. The Anti-Christ will then order that he should be sawn through from the top of his head to the joining between his legs. The Anti-Christ will then pass between the two parts of his body and addressing them will say: Rise up. Thereupon the man will become whole and stand up. The Anti-Christ will say to him: Do you believe in me? And he will answer: I have only increased in my intelligence concerning you; and will say to the people: He will not be able to do anything now to anyone. The. Anti-Christ will then seize him that he might slaughter him but Allah will make his neck from its base upwards as if it was made of brass and the. Anti-Christ will not find any space in which to insert a weapon to cut off his neck. He will then take hold of his arms and legs and throw him away. People will think that the Anti-Christ has thrown him into the fire and he will in fact be thrown into Paradise. The Holy Prophet added: This man will have the highest grade of martyrdom in the estimation of the Lord of the worlds (Muslim). 1822. Mughirah ibn Shu'bah relates: No one inquired from the Holy. Prophet about the Anti-Christ more than I did, and he said to me: He will not harm you. I said to him: It is said that there will be a mountain of bread and a stream of water with the Anti-Christ. The Holy Prophet said: The affair is easier for Allah than that (Bokhari and Muslim). 1823. Anas relates that the Holy Prophet said: Every Prophet has warned his people against the one-eyed liar. Hearken, he is one-eyed and your