Narrated to me 'Amr al-Naqid, al-Hasan al-Hulwani, and 'Abd ibn Humayd — their wording is similar, and the context is that of 'Abd. He said: narrated to me, while the other two said: narrated to us, Ya'qub — that is, Ibn Ibrahim ibn Sa'd — narrated to us my father, from Salih, from Ibn Shihab: informed me 'Ubaydullah ibn 'Abdullah ibn 'Utbah, that Abu Sa'id al-Khudri said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, narrated to us one day a long hadith about the Dajjal, and among what he narrated to us was that he said: "He will come, and it is forbidden for him to enter the mountain passes of Madinah. He will stop at one of the salty tracts of land adjacent to Madinah, and on that day a man will go out to him who is the best of people — or among the best of people — and will say to him: 'I bear witness that you are the Dajjal about whom the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, told us a hadith.' The Dajjal will then say: 'Do you see, if I kill this man and then bring him back to life, would you have any doubt in the matter?' They will say: 'No.' He said: So he will kill him, then bring him back to life. And when he brings him back to life, the man will say: 'By Allah, I have never been more certain about you than I am now.' He said: Then the Dajjal will want to kill him, but he will not be given power over him." Abu Ishaq said: It is said that this man is al-Khidr, peace be upon him.