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He resembled in his features (10) the former American President (Obama).
The beginning of the acquaintance: His general appearance was striking, so Abu Abdullah approached him and introduced himself as the Imam and preacher of the Saad bin Abi Waqas Mosque in Hodeidah. This mosque was famous for the frequent disputes over it between the Salafi current and the Muslim Brotherhood current, as Abu Abdullah was the balance between the two currents, as both parties agreed for him to be the mosque's preacher.
The man's reception of this introduction was a denial of knowing the mosque, as if he had not heard of the problem.
"Anyway! It was the other person's turn to introduce himself, so he said his name was Abdul Qadir Muhammad Haid Baqasi, and he held Yemeni nationality.
Abu Abdullah asked him for help when he traveled and to carry some honey, and he agreed. Then they exchanged phone numbers - and these were home phones at the time, as mobile phones were only in the hands of those who could afford to buy them - and Abdul Qadir gave the phone number of one of his neighbors.
The meeting ended, and they parted ways to communicate by phone. Abu Abdullah later tried to call that number, and every time he called, he only heard a sound like a tape recorder playing at a fast pace, close to cats hissing. Finally, a woman answered, speaking Arabic with an Ethiopian accent.
She said: She had no knowledge of Abdul Qadir, nor did any of her neighbors have that name!
Until the day of departure came, and Abu Abdullah went to the airport.
He stood at the end of the queue with his sister. The queue was long and stretched due to the large number of travelers. Suddenly, without any مقدمات (preliminaries), a person approached from inside the airport administration, wearing the popular "izār" (a type of Yemeni garment), but the pistol he was carrying suggested he was an airport security officer.
He stood before Abu Abdullah, asking him to follow him with his family and luggage. This worried Abu Abdullah, who, given the circumstances, expected to be summoned for questioning on a security matter or an investigation into a suspicion.
But the surprise was that it was nothing more than stamping his passport and exempting him from standing in line. Abu Abdullah felt a sense of shame and embarrassment from the rest of the travelers as he bypassed them while they were looking at him. The officer addressed him: "Aren't you Saleh?"
Abu Abdullah replied: "I am Saleh's brother."
It is narrated in the hadith that the Dajjal (Antichrist) "ate food and walked in the markets" (narrated by Al-Dani). And the Prophet, peace be upon him and his family, said: "And on that day, he ate food" (narrated by Abu Ya'la and Al-Hakim). He was not yet able to establish his kingdom and build his state, but he was content with instigation and sedition. The island remained for him like a dwelling and a refuge, which he frequented whenever he wanted to settle for a period of time.
This understanding is supported by Noah's warning, peace be upon him, at the beginning and end of time. Likewise, seeking refuge from his evil in every prayer for fourteen hundred years, which indicates the existence of the temptation of misguidance and deception before the greater appearance. Reading Surat Al-Kahf every Friday, which protects its reader for a full week from his temptation, indicates that he has a temptation before his appearance. And in the hadith: "And there is no temptation except that it is made for the temptation of the Antichrist," and in another narration, "it lessens" (Musnad Ahmad), which is a great indication of the connection of temptations to the temptation of the Antichrist.
It is also taken into consideration that the Antichrist has the capacity for change, as in Sahih Muslim: "Ibn Umar met Ibn Sayyad on one of the roads of Medina, and he said something that angered him, so he swelled until he filled the street" (narrated by Muslim).