Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَوْفٌ عَنْ أَبِي نَضْرَةَ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ قَالَ أَقْبَلْنَا فِي جَيْشٍ مِنْ الْمَدِينَةِ قِبَلَ هَذَا الْمَشْرِقِ قَالَ فَكَانَ فِي الْجَيْشِ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ صَيَّادٍ وَكَانَ لَا يُسَايِرُهُ أَحَدٌ وَلَا يُرَافِقُهُ وَلَا يُؤَاكِلُهُ وَلَا يُشَارِبُهُ وَيُسَمُّونَهُ الدَّجَّالَ فَبَيْنَا أَنَا ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ نَازِلٌ فِي مَنْزِلٍ لِي إِذْ رَآنِي عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ صَيَّادٍ جَالِسًا فَجَاءَ حَتَّى جَلَسَ إِلَيَّ فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا سَعِيدٍ أَلَا تَرَى إِلَى مَا يَصْنَعُ النَّاسُ لَا يُسَايِرُنِي أَحَدٌ وَلَا يُرَافِقُنِي أَحَدٌ وَلَا يُشَارِبُنِي أَحَدٌ وَلَا يُؤَاكِلُنِي أَحَدٌ وَيَدْعُونِي الدَّجَّالَ وَقَدْ عَلِمْتَ أَنْتَ يَا أَبَا سَعِيدٍ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ إِنَّ الدَّجَّالَ لَا يَدْخُلُ الْمَدِينَةَ وَإِنِّي وُلِدْتُ بِالْمَدِينَةِ وَقَدْ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ إِنَّ الدَّجَّالَ لَا يُولَدُ لَهُ وَقَدْ وُلِدَ لِي فَوَاللَّهِ لَقَدْ هَمَمْتُ مِمَّا يَصْنَعُ بِي هَؤُلَاءِ النَّاسُ أَنْ آخُذَ حَبْلًا فَأَخْلُوَ فَأَجْعَلَهُ فِي عُنُقِي فَأَخْتَنِقَ فَأَسْتَرِيحَ مِنْ هَؤُلَاءِ النَّاسِ وَاللَّهِ مَا أَنَا بِالدَّجَّالِ وَلَكِنْ وَاللَّهِ لَوْ شِئْتَ لَأَخْبَرْتُكَ بِاسْمِهِ وَاسْمِ أَبِيهِ وَاسْمِ أُمِّهِ وَاسْمِ الْقَرْيَةِ الَّتِي يَخْرُجُ مِنْهَا.
English Translation
Muhammad ibn Ja'far narrated to us: 'Awf narrated to us, from Abu Nadrah, from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, he said: "We set out with an army from Medina toward the east. In the army was Abdullah ibn Sayyad, whom no one would walk alongside, or accompany, or eat with, or drink with, and they called him 'the Dajjal.' One day, while I was stopping at a place of mine, Abdullah ibn Sayyad saw me sitting and came and sat by me. He said, 'O Abu Sa'id, don't you see what the people are doing? No one walks alongside me, no one accompanies me, no one drinks with me, no one eats with me, and they call me the Dajjal. You know, O Abu Sa'id, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said that the Dajjal will not enter Medina, and I was born in Medina. And I have heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say that the Dajjal will have no children, yet I have had a child born to me. By Allah, I have been so distressed by what these people do to me that I have thought of taking a rope, going off alone, putting it around my neck, and hanging myself, to be rid of these people. By Allah, I am not the Dajjal, but by Allah, if you wished, I could tell you his name, his father's name, his mother's name, and the name of the town from which he will emerge.'"