They brought him from Taif to Jeddah, and they had summoned Abu Abdullah to the same place on the seashore there. About thirty people attended. Then they asked him about his vision, and whether the image of the one he saw in the dream telling of his meeting with the Dajjal was still etched in his memory. He replied that he could recognize him if he saw him. They asked him, "Do you see anyone among the faces of those present who resembles him?" He scanned the faces of those present, and his eyes fixed on Abu Abdullah's face. The attendees exchanged smiles as he tried to confirm Abu Abdullah's face. He broke the silence and declared: "This is the one I saw in the dream, except that his eyes were a little wider."

:A vision for Abu Abdullah pulling a ship. Several months later, a dispute arose between Abu Abdullah and one of those who attended this session. He was a Yemeni who led the prayers in Hamdan Al-Ghamdi's mosque in Al-Hafayer, and he was of the methodology of those called the Jamiyyah. This Jamiyyah himself had seen a vision and asked Abu Abdullah for its interpretation. The vision was as follows: He saw himself on an island, and around the island was a sea with very high, fierce waves. In the vision, his eyes fell on Abu Abdullah swimming in those high, fierce waves with skill and ease. The seer was trembling while on that island. Then a sailing ship approached from the east, its black sail extending to the sky, so its end was not visible. It had a blue or sky-colored line running along the entire sail from top to bottom, until this ship reached Abu Abdullah.

The seer said to Abu Abdullah: "I saw you trying to get me to enter the sea to teach me to swim, and I was afraid and trembling, so I refused." The ship reached Abu Abdullah, and he grabbed a rope from it and began to swim, pulling it until he took it away.

The seer said: "Then after that, the vision faded a little and then returned. He said: I saw the island had risen high, and I was still on its deck, trembling, and I saw the waves below, very far away, as the island had risen a great height."

He said: "And I was still trembling on that island. The vision ended there. The vision occurred approximately in 1119 AH, before the events of September 11. There was no clear presence or overt appearance of black banners as there was later."

Abu Abdullah said: "I interpreted it for him that black banners would come from the east from Khurasan, from Afghanistan, and would enter the Arabian Peninsula and would have significance, perhaps opening Jerusalem, and so on." He did not interpret his trembling above.

And perhaps the vision refers to the hadith of Ibn Mas'ud, in which he said: While we were with the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, some young men from Banu Hashim approached. When the Prophet, peace be upon him, saw them, his eyes welled up and his color changed. He said, and I said: We still see something in your face that we dislike. He said: We are a family whom Allah has chosen the Hereafter over the world, and my family will face after me trials, dispersion, and expulsion, until a people come from the east with black banners, and they will ask.