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Abd al-Razzaq told us, on the authority of Muammar, on the authority of Ayyub, on the authority of Abu al-Dif, on the authority of Ka’b, who said: “If when Gog and Magog emerge, they dig so that those next to them will hear the beating of their axes. Then, when night comes, they say: Tomorrow we will open and go out, and Allah will repeat it as it was. Then they will dig so that those next to them will hear the beating of their axes. Then if night comes, they will say: Tomorrow we will open and go out, then Allah will repeat it as it was, so they will dig so that those who come next will hear it as it was. They are colored by the sound of their axes, and when night falls on the tongue of a man of them, on the third day, he says: We will go out tomorrow, Allah willing. They dig the next day and find it as they left it. They dig, then go out. The first group of them passes by Lake Tiberias and drinks its water, then the second group and licks its mud, then the third group says: There once was water here. The people flee from them, but nothing can happen to them. He said: Then they throw their arrows at The sky returns covered in blood, and they say: We have killed the people of the earth and the people of heaven. Then Jesus, son of Mary, calls upon them and says: Oh Allah, we have no power over them, nor do we have any power, so suffice them with whatever you want. Then Allah will set upon them animals called gnats, which will peck at their necks, and Allah will send birds that will seize them with their beaks and throw them into the sea, and Allah will send a spring called life, which will purify the earth and make it grow, until the pomegranate is filled with habitation. “Kaab said: And the people of the household reside.”