And Yahya ibn Ayyub, Qutaybah, and Ibn Hujr narrated to us, all of them from Isma'il ibn Ja'far, who said: Al-'Ala' informed me, from his father, from Abu Hurayrah, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "The Messiah will come from the direction of the east, his aim being Medina, until he descends behind Uhud. Then the angels will turn his face toward Syria, and there he will perish."