Riyad as-Salihin — Hadith #46643

On the authority of Abu Saeed Al-Khudri, may God be pleased with him, on the authority of the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, he said: “The Antichrist will emerge, and a man of the believers will go before him, and the armed men will meet him: the armed forces of the Antichrist, and they will say to him: Where are you going? So he will say: I will go to this one who has come out. Then they will say to him: ‘Do you not believe in our Lord?’ He will say: ‘There is nothing hidden in our Lord!’ Then they say: ‘Kill him.’ Then they say to each other: Has not your Lord forbid you to kill anyone other than Him? So they take him to the Antichrist, and when the believer sees him, he says: O people, this is the Antichrist whom the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, mentioned; The Antichrist will command him and he will appear. He says: Take him and stab him. He beats his back and stomach, and says: Do you not believe in me? He says: You are the false Messiah! He is commanded to do so, and he points with the saw from his side until it separates his legs. Then the antichrist walks between the two pieces, then says to him: Get up. So he stands upright, then says to him: Do you believe in me? He says: I have only increased insight in you. Then he says: O people, he will not do that to any of the people after me. Then the Antichrist will take him to slaughter him, and God will turn what is between his neck to his collarbone into copper, and he will not be able to find a way to it. Then he will take him with his hands and feet and throw him, and the people will think that he threw him into Hell, but rather that he was thrown into Paradise. So the Messenger of God said. May God bless him and grant him peace: “This “The greatest of people is testimony before the Lord of the worlds” ((Narrated by Muslim)). Al-Bukhari narrated some of it with the meaning of “the armed ones”: they are the guards and the vanguards.