Do the narrations indicating that the Mahdi will lead Jesus (peace be upon him) in prayer, that they will fight the Dajjal, and that the Mahdi’s caliphate will last seven years, mean that the Dajjal’s tribulation will occur before the Mahdi’s caliphate, and that the Mahdi will live through the Dajjal’s tribulation before Allah guides him? And does the Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) saying, "Between the great battle (Malhama) and the conquest of Constantinople is six years, and the Dajjal will appear in the seventh," mean that the descent of Jesus and the fight against the Dajjal will be in the seventh year? And is there a connection between the young man who comes out to confront the Dajjal and Al-Khidr mentioned in Surat Al-Kahf, based on the order of the stories therein and the story of Dhul-Qarnayn?
The Caliphate of the Mahdi will precede the Dajjal. The emergence of the Dajjal and the subsequent major signs of the Hour, which are authentically established in the Sahih narrations, will follow his appearance. And Jesus, peace be upon him, will descend after him and kill the Dajjal, or he will descend after him and assist him in killing him, and he will pray behind the Mahdi. The young man whom the Dajjal kills is not Al-Khidr, and there is no connection between Surat Al-Kahf and the story of the young man, except that the young man would have read it. For it has been mentioned in the hadiths that reciting the opening verses of Surat Al-Kahf or memorizing ten verses from it protects one from the Dajjal.
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