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Is the Hadith that mentions a group of companions who got lost at sea and reached an island where they found a beast, and then they found a one-eyed man chained in a cave, and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, informed them that he was the Antichrist (Al-Masih Ad-Dajjal), authentic?

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The Hadith is narrated by Muslim from Fatimah bint Qays, in which the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, gathered the people to inform them about the story of Tamim al-Dari, who embraced Islam. His account corroborated what the Messenger had said about the Antichrist (Al-Masih Ad-Dajjal). Tamim embarked on a sea journey with thirty men, and the waves tossed them for a month until they reached an island. They were met by a hairy beast called "Al-Jassasah" (The Spy), which guided them to a man in a monastery. They entered and found the largest and most strongly bound human they had ever seen. They questioned him, and he informed them that he was the Antichrist. He then asked them about the date palms of Baysan, Lake Tiberias, the spring of Zughar, and the Prophet of the unlettered people, and about the state of the Arabs with him. Then he told them that he would be permitted to emerge and would travel throughout the entire earth except for Makkah and Taybah (Madinah). Then the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said that the Dajjal is in the sea of Syria or Yemen, rather from the direction of the East. This Hadith is one of the signs of prophethood and was the reason for Tamim al-Dari's conversion to Islam.

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