‘Umar. He said: “The creature will emerge on a Friday night, while people are traveling.” He said: “Then the people will flee from its rear and its tail. There will not remain a hypocrite but that it will brand him, and it will stroke the believer, and the people will become worse than the Dajjal.”

His saying, the Exalted: “A creature.”

16595 - ‘Ali ibn al-Husayn narrated to us, ‘Uthman ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us, Abu Hafs al-Abbar narrated to us, from Layth, from ‘Abd al-Malik ibn Maysarah, from al-Nazzal ibn Sabrah, who said: It was said to ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him): “Some people claim that you are the creature of the earth.” ‘Ali said: “By Allah, the creature of the earth has feathers and soft down, and I have neither feathers nor soft down. It has a hoof, and I have no hoof. It will emerge at the pace of a fast horse in three days, and two-thirds of it have not yet emerged.”

16596 - ‘Ali ibn al-Husayn narrated to us, ‘Uqbah ibn Mukram narrated to us, Yunus ibn Bukayr narrated to us, Muhammad ibn Ishaq narrated to us, from Muhammad ibn Ka‘b al-Qurazi, from ‘Ali, that when he was asked about the creature, he said: “By Allah, it does not have a tail, but it does have a beard.”

16597 - My father narrated to us, Hisham ibn Khalid narrated to us, al-Husayn ibn Yahya narrated to us, Ibn Jurayj narrated to us, from Abu al-Zubayr, that he described the creature and said: “Its head is a head and its eyes are the eyes of a pig, its ears are elephant ears, its horn is the horn of a stag, its neck is the neck of an ostrich, its chest is that of a lion, its color is the color of a leopard, its waist is the waist of a cat, its tail is the tail of a ram, and its legs are the legs of a camel. Between every two joints is twelve cubits. It will emerge with the staff of Moses and the ring of Solomon (peace be upon him). There will not remain a believer but that it will mark his place of prostration with the staff of Moses with a white spot; that spot will spread until his face becomes white because of it. There will not remain a disbeliever but that it will mark his face with a black spot with the ring of Solomon; that spot will spread until his face becomes black because of it. To the extent that people will trade in the markets, saying: ‘How much for this, O believer?’ and ‘How much for this, O disbeliever?’ and even the members of a household will sit at their table and recognize their believer from their disbeliever. Then the creature will say to them: ‘O so-and-so, rejoice, you are of the people of Paradise; and O so-and-so, you are of the people of the Fire.’ That is the saying of Allah, the Almighty and Majestic: ‘And when the Word comes to pass upon them, We will bring forth for them a creature from the earth, speaking to them, that the people were not certain of Our signs.’”

16598 - My father narrated to us, Ibn Nufayl narrated to us, Zuhayr narrated to us, Qabus narrated to us, that his father narrated to him, saying: We asked Ibn ‘Abbas about the creature, and he said: “It is like a large spear.”