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BIOOD OFTHE ZOMBIES ADVENTURE sH'ETS

FOREWORD

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hope it's a woithy .ddition to the s€ries.Thanks ro Twitter I had a lot of encou.agefrentalong the way, and I would like to thark aU those p€opl€ who spured me on. espe.iallywhen I lost a chlnk ol lhe book to . .ompnrcr .rnsh. I would alsolike to thank Simon Flym md tne team at lcon for thcir continued fa h in l,ii8htinS r'antas), Greg Staple for the amtzing cover, I(ein Crosslcy for thc inc€dibl€ int€lnrr ilhstrations, Andi Ewington 10. his invaluablehclp with pmduction and, ol.oursc, SrevelacksonJor a lllelonElriendship olkillinS monst rs togcth..

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COMBAT COMBATta*esplacein a eries of,4ftr.t Rolds. Most of tne €nem'es)ou wr ra
to Sive you a rmdom rcll of two dice) Add 20 to the number rolled and mter the bral in th€ sr MN^ box on lour ,4dr.rr!E sfteer.srNrN^ will go !p and down durint lhe adventuF. For exampleit wi]l increa* when usinA Med Kits (which can only be used on e) and ir will d€Fas due to injunes dd wouds, It you! sr M'NAfallsto zero,you die md you adv€nture is ov€. Note that Zonbi€ only have I sraMrNApoint €a.h. D.MGE rd!.es sr MrNA.When fiShtinS enemies, DIMGE is calculated by mUing dice a.cording to weapon t'?e. The numbe. rclled ddides tn€ num ber of zombies (or other eneniet killed, as they only have I sraMrNt point each. Whilst lhey may be easy to kill, Zofrbies often attacl( in la€e numbe6, nakinS it difficult to def€at th€m all in a single Arfa.t Rofid. Belore combat begins you must deide which weapon you aF 6oing to use.A dagge. causes id6 oAM^cE(a d6isa si:-sided die).A ma.hine 8un caus 2d6+5 DAM^cr. Renmber to note down di.e on yot AdrentuP sheel a weapon's DAM^GE Afte. you. tust attacL, any sureivinS zombies will each reduce your srAM'NAby I point b€fore the neat Attack Round begins.Amed Zombies may innict more thm 1 point of D^MGE. Attack Rouds continue until you have deleated all oI you enemies or you have di€d in cofrbat. I{ yo! do not have a weapon,you must 68hr barehanded(rd6 t. Exdple to! enrer a r@m to face a pack ol 14 Zombies. You. current sraMrNA is 15 You selet a shotgun which inflicis Gd6+5) D^M^ctrto starr rhe

riBtAtracl Roud YourcU.I and add 5, Eutrhs inSZombie killed Youe!ffer rhelos oI6 sraMN; IDnts (r DAMAGE lDint taken fon eachof the sur_ vivint 6 Zohbie), educing your cuiqt sr^MrNA 1o 9 points. You kill ofi the Fminins 6 Zonbis automri@lly in ihe sond A$ack Round bmuse the shotgun.a@s a minimum D^MAGE of 6 points (1d6+5).Note that yd mut fin.t ammmftjon b€fore hrcams cd be used,bur one found it is udimrted. Hopetully you wil d€feat the hordes ot Zombies you are about to m.ounrer and escapero teu ihe talel Good luck - you'll need itl

BACKGROUND Wasit the cold iron sha.klesbiting into your bl€€ding wrists that wok! you, or was it the tenible hmgd in your bely? It d@sn't matier You arc awake again tor at ledt th€ tenth time tonitht, if in fa.t ]t i3 night. It is not easysleepin8on a cold.onrete il@r at the b6t of tim6, but when your wnsts re cluired to a wall ft;s virtually ihP6ible. The would be gl@my ceUh wtuchyou ae imPrisoned in iotal darlnes hee rt nor for th€ baP lighl bulb fixed to the ceilinE aboveyou; a small Elob€of Pale, llickering light. Coclma.hs {urry adoss the noor but you don't €vd carc. How lonE have you been held prisoner?Is il live or six days sinceyou were thrcwn into the ell? lt is imposible to tell, Time pases slowly. Th€ only brcak fom your slitude com6 when you hear th€ grating sodd of the boh on the healy st€€l d@r slidinS ba.k. That siSnals th€ dhde of a thiclsel prison Suardwho staEgeF into the cU limpina from an old womd dd usually drunk. It you 6re lucky, he wil tc canyin8 a small bowl of loul tasting stew thai slops over the dm as he hrches alory. r you are very lu.ky, he wil al$ brin6 a chunl of stalebrcad md a tuug of pale.otree made faomdress. He always plaes the f@d on the n@r just out of you reach,his .tuei, Pekmdked Iacemoment{ily smiling as he enjoysthe nonent He knows ttEt if he d6 this y@ have to stretch io reachthe bowl with your fet, maldng lhe shack16 bite d@ply into you bledinS wrisls. He never 6peaks,but aiways rj.k you hard in the nbs m his

way uut.bcforeshnm,nBtnedsr behindh,mand boltingit shur.Heden rscemioare h herhervou live or dic It waslErd to cometo re.tu with the fa.t ttDt you are a pnsonerAs. seconJytar \tudentormvth;b4 at Bolingbrore Cotleg<, ii h,d ben s*"rj,--;r.. you Dtil nnw You had spenr"s;i wets of vou. holidrv' ird!eulrg thrcugt SouthemEureDe'rn hE ro rindevidencofte8enddrybea\6.)ou srarted you! guet by fllng to Crete in *aEh of Minoraur bon6 md the ove of rheCyclop, alaswirhout sue ce$. Frch L'rere )ou sent by bcr to Srctv l@ths ,or cvidene of weEwohes agrn wrrrroui*
ir open. lou shone a iorh down the sione srans and made yolr wly Blowly down to a danp .hanb€r. Bn6hinS ba.k ihi.k .obwebs, you sw an ancieni dst-.overed .offin st on a stone plinth at the ba.k of tl€ .hamber With your heart poudhg, you clept fotrard nd lifted the lid. But rhe.offin .onrained a yelow boned steleton, not the sl@ping vampire you had hoped ro nnd. You wor back ourside to 6nd th@ burly thuAswaiting aoryou.Aded with .lubs, they sel upon you as you lried to make a run for it. You stru8gled, but barehanded it was a fiSht yo! w€re always 6oin8 to tose.You wer hfldcufied and gag8ed, befoe beinS bmdl€d inro the back of an old black car and driven lor hil6 alona a narcw road rhat caiv.d irs way through a dose fo6 o a rangc of hills. I€E you sw a forcbodinalookins castle builr oi dark stone nsded in a valley betw@n rwo hills. The thugs grimed at each other, aSreing that you wodd b€ eld lor a Eood pnG al ihe caslle. You ealized you wse in grave danger; not dly ha.l you ben kidnapped but you were about to be eld to a modemJay slave trader or perhaps woe. The or sped on up the hil mtil it reach€d the high-waU€d osrle, where it ere.hed to a h,lt outside arched entran e d@s. The thugs dragg€d you out of the cd as the castle dms siowly reaked op€n to Fveal a .ourtyafd with rome people milling about in it. You ws€ blindfolded dd hdded over to m uns@n perm who led yo! into the cofityard. Yor heard 8rcmin8 voices aI arcud you. Dogs brush€d against you le8s, snilfinS cuiorsly. Somebody bumped into you. The strange Aurgling $unds eruptin8 fron

th€u rhroaE w€F lLl€ norhm8you hd head bebe. Youw€e jos ed and p6hed areud mrrt thecra.k ora h h p dd a.o@ding \ore drevettE unnnv nob away Mulh to you reti€fyou wee rak; In d m 6 o u ror $€bumi n* ,u,,nd t u r h e d a lo n a wh.t husr haveben a t6sordor DoorsoDenei dd sramfredshurbehindyou.dd itbe(ame;otice. lbry
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Yotr kick rhe.dkrca.h6 away fld stretchto rea.h the bread with your f€et. You drag it towards you, grabbinE it w h ore hmd. You break off shall piee, dicki.g them or at a timr inro yorr mouth. You makea stupid Promie to your*ll that one day you will do this as a pariy trick for your friends, iI you live to tell the tale.Youbreathein befoe strt hin8 evm turther this time to rea.h th€bowl. Thepain c sbearable as the sha.kles dig even depei inro your laerated wrisk, causin8ft6h blmd to trickle down your a6' A few week ago, you .orld not have inaSined putting yoursell thrcuah $ much aSonyjust to eat a bowl of old stew,bur now hun8er dnves you on. With one last excruciatingeffort, yo! jat manageto get both fer ammd the bowl, lifr inA it up .areIully and pasing it to your shackled hands. You tip rhe contenis of the bowl into your mouth,gulpinA down the foul-smellinSslop.1ftasres so bad that for a mom€nt you thinl you aE going to be si.k, but you are $ hun8ry thar you devour every morsel,8ristle dd all. But a few chunksof rctten meat are nor enough to kep a mbSy do8 alive, lei alone a starying p.isoner Something has to be done beloe you die oi hun8.r And if n is true thal cingich Yur is going to kill you, thee b nothing to lose You are Soing lo have lo lry to escap€Lon If you wdt to call out to Otto, tlm to 59. Ir you would rath€r wait to tall to him when he next enters

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4You land in a heap on rhe hallway floor below, i n i u r i n gt o u r\h o u l d e r q u i teb a d l y Lo{ t sr ^M r NA points. The hu8e Zombre who anacted you ti6 mohonles nearby addng b ihe pite ofdead Some or the bo\e\ and suirc&salso fettsro th€ h. wa\. jf If you wanr ro iearh th'ough rhem, tum ro 3t5. you would ratt\er wa I on ro rhe | fi . r rhe end 01the

3 The shay bullet whizzes pasr you. ear and hits rhe wall b€hin.l you. Any suddenly comesto her senses and ealies rharyou realy dc rryus ro helDh€r she is sBcled w,th glih ror n@rtyshtutin; y.u ano aporoSrzes ovcrdd overagaii. you Eply dEr I wasyou. ohn rautrand.SivenrheLt
4 You walt der to the edEeof the rcof and Srabhold of tlE drainpipe s you cd lower youself down. As you beSinyour desl€nt.the zonbi$ in the court y,rd be.ome e\tkmcly dSrtaredThet begin lo u.onttul' by a seemin8ly rrech loudly,consumcd Inble rag€.You begin to qu€slion whether this was sucha g@d idea the momentyou seeGing.ich Ylrr srride out of the garaSeholding a sniPerrifle wirh a tcles@picsiEht. He is very annoyed lhat you have erap€d hom your c€[. He tak6.im and tiFs. RoU onedie. If lhe nudbe. rclled is I l, tufr to 389 It rhe numberolled is 4{, tum to 58.

5 You pick your w.y @retully betwen the hanSin8 carca$esas you make your way lowdds the ba.k of the rdn, Yo! @n s@ you own beath .rystal liE in rhe iiezing air Without waming one of the hanginSpig car.as swings towards you, Push€d by an ulrFn hand. You are nomentarily clught off balan@as a youn8 f."mle Zonbie dessed in a tat teredbeigejmper and tom blackleggingsilmPs

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out hom behind a hanging side ol bet wicldinS. chainsaw Could it be Amy? You hav€ no time to thinl befoe lhe Zombie tirus op her chaiNaw and atacks you. Theinitialive is h€$. Roll onedie. If you rcll rl, tum toljo.Ifyou roll4{, tumto93. ,

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A quicksearch of theZonbies'poctersrveals noth' in8 ol use.Ahead,in an aicovein the right hand wall, thec is. l,rge yellow wh..lic bin. Thcr. are bloodyhandpdnls on thelid and fteshblooddnppinSdo$n rhetionr of t. Ii you want ro lill the lid up to takea kDt insidethe bin, h,m b 197 lr you wanrb k ep walliinS,tum to 155 7 Halr*ay along rhc hallwry, yo! noti.. i lonS woodd pole.lippedto a b.ackelon thewall. It has . snall brasshookat oneend.Lookingup, you see a t apd@rin the c€iling At the end of the hallway thercis a lift wirh polishcdmeraldoors It you want io pullthe trapdoo.openwith the pole,tlm to 46. Ifyou want lo uk theliIt, tum to 157.

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A larSe pa.k of Zombies appears frcm out oI Lhe 8loom. running towa.ds you at sPeed Thee ae a lot oI th€m, twenty four in total. There is lime ro use a genade if yo! have one, whi
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9 Mu.h to your etisfa.iion, the lGy tum in th€ ldk. 'Ihe hearl' d@r ftar.s ope, Ieadinsinto a old oal stoF. Ihee is a shovelon rop of rhe pite of @l but nothins elscof inte€r The€ is a bl&t imn ddr in thefar wau anda key hdginS on a h@k @rby. II you want to seanhttLtuuAhrhepile of oal with rh€shovel, hlm to 17o Ii you would .ather try to opd the dmr s ith thekev hanglnSon the h@k, rum ro t2r.

You lu lor you liJe towards the d@rs with the speding car bearinS down on you, hom blaring loudly Yurr stahps down iftpatiently on the acelefator, tryin8 to 80 faste! sri[. The car is almost at full speedwhen itploughs into yourback,.atapult in8 you into the air You land on your head,b€aking yourn€k. Yuf cadjeson dnvinS arcund the courtyar4 pm.hing the air t iumphantly and waving k) an invbible crowd, as though in an ancienl arena. Your advmture is over

You smn arive al anotherdoo. in the .ighrhand wall, aSainpainted whfte. There is a siSn on t in red l€ti€rin8 which sys C/unging Rdors. Il you wanl to 8o in the chnging r@d, rtm ro 54. ll you would rathe. walk on, tum to 20,

ldth wepon hdd. you op€n rhc dm, stshttv. 'n rhe zombks inned'ateL) draBr bd8,rg thelo;r ops and *ndin8 you ny'nB You 6re at rhm Js thet surSeinto lhe oom, bur thel l.eeponns \ou r € p .n firin8uhry ou M out"r b u le h r o ; s b e , 8er back as the pack .lo*s in on you, drmlins with excnemdt. Stdding amongsrthd is a man arinq oranscorerall5whoserJe you r{ognize. rhoughji 6 nos coveR.d s ops komd\ and wepds eos. 8016hasb@n tumedhto a ZombE,and s;n vou will b€ome one to. Your adventuE is over

Without waminS, lhe doubl€ doors of th€ bust open. Two half-dead hlmanlike ripped cloihin8 leap out and try to Erab

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their bl€din& blisteredhmds. One hasbrot€n fin gerssti.tinSout at strangcrnglcs.Th.n skin is Srey and pallid, coveredwithopenwounds and iestering sres. Ihcy hJve thin, Eieasy hair and thei! 8ap in8 mouths reveal broken, blackenedteeth T|en sunken,bloodshot€yes@z€ yellow gunk. Ahori bl€ gurglingsound etupts rrom thcirthruatsas thcl cbse nr on you. They arc Zonbisl You must light them barchrnd.d, oi $ith a r{.apon it yor have one.If you $in, tlm to 235 \4 You reach tne door and lind lhat il isn't ldked. Yo! stcp orrsid. onto th. gr.lcllcd cnkan.c ol th. .ourtyard Beyond the entran e, diHtly opposite you, th.rc is.noth$ door $hich leadsinro ih. hallway on the olhe. sid€ of the south wing To lour right arc the manr gat.s ot the .astle;huge wmden doublc doob ben€athd tallstone ar.h$rI Th€y are padlockedshut.The Zombiesin the courlyanl calch sight.f you .nd frov. t.Nards you.n mN., b.yinA Ior blood. They sp{rd up as they g€t closer,somc fillinS o!$nr thc msh asyct motuofth.m porr into the courtlad Thereare e many lhat it is imposs ible ro .omt them. You must decide .luickly what k) do.lt you wint to fight them, tlrn kJ 1o7.lflou wnnl to try to open the padlock on lhe main gate,

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You pi.k a brick up ofi rhc floor and hut it.r rh€ Slassiace of rhe cldk. lr shaftcrson imDa.t. smd ing a showe. of rhousan.lsol shardsot g-ta$onro a ro.tt.p lome twehe m.fts beloq tr )uu pn.\4s a lenxih nf .l mbin8 rup€ and J Srappl,n8huut tt,m to trt.lt you do nothale any rope,tun to 91. Yo! walk .mund tne com€r to rh. easrwing, pick ,ng vour h,ay thmrgh the bodiesof d..d Zombies. on rh.li6r fltur you find a Eren,de (2d6+1)in a 4etal box in one ol the moms but there is a no sim of Gingri.h Yrii anlaneE. Sudd.nty you herr lie c.ufd or . lrr s enEin. slarrinAup \,ru nAr J wddu! Jnd l6t tnrulxh to..r ihai rhe Ba.aA.JG 6 bclowarc op.n. Cu in hmd yoo tundown rhestairs inlo th. coutyard and head io. the g.nag. Tm r. 169. 17 It'skillo.bekilled in lhisclosecombatsnuaionyou choc€ your $ eaponand, with adrenaiinpunping, \ o u L h r r S ei t th e s.re a mi n gZ o mb,c\ ttsir Ahtto t h c d e i t h . I r l u u sm tu m ro !rt

r8 The n€wbladesaws throuShtuo nonbaB in just a tew minutcs,allowing you to squ@?ethrcugh the 8ap. As you s alt turtner along the path, you cat.h sight oI somethinSflo.rlng in thc*wagc water lt's r sm.ll t\rttl€ n.deolgren glass.Ifyouwanr ro lish the botle our ofthc watcr, trm ro 61.lf_\'or would hther walk on, tum to 278. 19

Tle giganticbeastciashesto rhe 8rcund, makinE the wooden noor shake. 'we ned to escapelrcm the .astle ghl now.Yurr is EoinElo flip $hen hc finds out that we hav. trkcn down his lavourite Zombie,'Amy saysanaiouslyYouiell her tharyou wiU help her to escap€. 'Bot whrr.bout you?'she asLs.Y.u ePlv thatvou cannotl€ave thecasllemlil aUthe Zombieshav€beenkillcd.'Butthafs.r.Tvl' 'You will hale to Ao backdown into sheexclaims. thebasem€ntbecaus rhat'swher mostof th.n aic, holedup in thcir stinkingrooss. Surelyyou don't wantto gobacl dom there?'Nod.linSyourhcadto say ys, vou walk our oi the office into th€ hallway. lf you want b Aoleit, tu.n ro 156 Iiyou wdt to go

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You Eiv€ Orb the choice oI him tellin8 you abodr Gingrich Yun o. you EivinS him a very hard kicl in the .ibs. He qui.kly agres to tell you all he *nows. He .laihs that h€ has neverm.t Yu.i He wasbrou8htto thecastleby two m6 who Hruited him frcm his home town, promisi,rg hin work as . prison 8uard. Th€y ofered good pay, too good to turn dosn Th.t w,s rwo yearsago.Now he i.cls like a prironerhimseltashe is notallowedto leave thep.isonquarteisotnerthanto tate.har6eof new prisoncrs.Onll, a handfulot popl€ e!.r tllk€d to him. lt wasbesllor him not to askquestions about why peoplewe.e beingkidnappedand bronghtto thc .astle He tnows lhat GinSiichYu.r is a terrilv ing man. H. lcrfrcd lron the old man { ho brolght hin his food suppliesthat Ynrr is plinninA some thing unspeakablyredblei Somethingthat involv.s thc prisoncrs.Rut he hasno idea u'harthat hight be as his rcle is sinply to grard n€w pnson€rsuril lheyarehauledofftoanotherpart ofrhc..stle.Otto t lls silent,sta.inEblanklyar the floor Thereis no time to lo*, you h.ve ro escape.Tum to 7j TneZombieswho sunite thelirst deadlyrclnd oI bull€tsclimb up the ladderand junp onto thebalconyto aftack.Redu.eyour sr^MrN^bvthenumber ot zonbi€ lelt ah e If you aie still alive,you must fiAht th€m wnh yorr handgun. lf you win, turn ro

The srft ot arhour does indeed lit you pe.fectly You walk u! th€ cor.idot renlizing how hard ir nust h.ve b€en to be a kni8ht back in the Middle Ages.Plate mtril amour is v.iy h..!y ..d makes walkinE slow and very tidng Loser srAinNApoint. Hosever th€ s{ord (1d6) is a tnre weapon with a keenblad€and you cut it thruugh the nir withgieat lnthusi.sm. Tum to 243 24 Th€ old lift descendsslowl, juddennE and rum blin8. It finally grinds ro a halt at the brs.ment, whe( thc doorsslidc sloe ly opcn Th€reis anoL\er st of sliding doors which you step throuSh. Yo! tind yolrscli standingin a.old corridor lil by ceil ing lights with squ.rc shapedrrost.d ghss shrd.s. The ceilinS is painted a cheerlessmustard colour The walls arc the same clloui above a wact-hiEh strip of dark Ereentiles,many olwhich a.€ njssing The paint.n lhu walls is.ld and.ra.ked, smeared with bl.$d in severalpla.es.Yousniff the airsha.ply, noticingan acrid chenical smell To )'our ri6ht some twenty mehes awat, thee ar. shing doo$ madc ot vrlcanizd rubber acrossthe corridor Suddenly you hear the sound of footstepscominSdown the coddor to your left.lfyou wmt to find outwho is omingdo*n th.coriidor, turn to 45.If yotr want to walk tttrough the swing doo$, tum to 3r.

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You ops rhc door . rraction,jusr enou8hto see thattheloom is fuu [email protected] Do8s, BNwtinS and barkinS loudly Theremust be at least ten oI them Thee is a b!.ch or kcys hanSin8on a hail at thebackof rhe rDom.Theslaveringbeasts .rc frantically trying to 8et out. Someof th.m b.8in .h€win8ar rhedoo. f.ame.lf Fu want to go insidc the roofr kr gct the keys/trrn to 14t.If you wotrld rath€r shul the doo. and walk on/ brn to 276 Tnes.ientistlunSesat you but you manag€lojump oul of the way jusi jn time. The syrinS. fl.shca throuShthe an, narrcwly mnsinE your ne.t. You fire youf 8un at thc c.ilinSand shoutat rhescientistto drop thesydngeon theflmr andcrushit und.ifoot. He obeys,albe rclud.ndy. Y.u motionwilh your kr halk on until theycofrekJ 8un for th€sci€ntists fi6t open @ll, which you tell them to enrer You lhe .le the ell door behindth.m rnd lock it, t.king out rhe key and purtina it in your pocket.Th€ scien tistsstartshourinS,tyou,sayingthdt{h.n rheyare tred from ihe cell you will be tumed into a Zonbie. Yo! wave Soodbyc,prcmisinS rhcm that soonth€re willbe no norc Zombi€sleft aliv€ in the castle.You

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J2 walk bn.k thrcugh the swihg d@6 dd arnvc at a dNr in the right-hand wall. ll's not lftled so you decidet(l opm it. Tumto:rr. !3

'Wehaven'tgotany provisionsfor sale,butCr€gof and I would be very happyto shr( with you whnr meagrcsuPplieswe have,'Bodssavs,hnndingyou a bar of cho.ol.r. ind a boltleofwater Y.lu devofi lhecheolatemd gulp down the waterAdd I srAMrNA points You thanL th€ men for thcir help, say goodbye, and walk over to the dor nr the tar s,.ll sith Boris'swords ringing in your.rs, 'Ki[ them all. You'v€gotto kill themallt'Tum to r5Z. 29 Yor d€al with your.nrckers quicklt wthout my Problen. Th€ two Zombies drop to the groud riddled with bullers.Iiyou wanr to read Amy's di!r, turn to rl. If y.! hant to search rhough the pdk ets oi the zombi€s' tatlercd .lothin8, turn to l3t. Jo 'I he doo. opens onto . narrcw spnal srone stair.a* thar winds its way up insidc a.ncubr tower With youi wcapon in hmd ready for my suddm atr..ks ftom above, yor beSin the climb up it. Tum to 322. You are about to go thrcu8h the swina d@F whcn you hea. son€body shouting ai you from behind. It's a voice that vou rcogni7.. Then you hear rtre

'4 sud oI a Eunshot.Roll onedie If you anl r l, txm b r8a. lfyor roll4-6, tum to lj5. 12 The d@r is lNked and is tai to. stlidy to brcak open. You could try a key in lhe lock if you have one. If you do have a key, tum to the number which is stampedon it.llyou do not have a key you haveno choice but to go b..k down rhc narrow passageaay and tum righl into the main co.ndo. Tum to 185.

31 You prcss button G but nothina happens. The lift doors remain open. Il you wmt to walk down the hallway to open ahedoor,tum to 177.Ifyo! would .aiher stay in lhe lilt and press button I, tum to r47. 34 You np th. packi.g rape otf rhe cardboardboxes and loot inside. Most of the boxes contain mdgazines and auction .atalogue for larS€ colkliom of toy soldieN, tin toys, .omics, tnding crrds md musi. trom lhe 196os.Behind lhe box€s you find a small black netal box that has a print d Iabel on the lid: 'Dm8er'. ll you want to open it.lum to:91.

15 17 If you would ralhe.leave it untouch.d *hec it is and opcn the d@r oppcite,lurnto 2& lf you want to walk on lo the 6d of the corndoi, tlm to 31.

35 You fumble throlgh you. possessions,desperarely sea(hing for th. k€y whilst Amy sh@ts at the Zonbi€s to k€€pthem at bay 'Hurry upl'sh. s.reamsarthetopof hervoice.Withsconds to sparc you etneve the key tron yori bag rnd op.n th. let Thedoubl€ d@E swiry open and you Iu into ihe outsidewo.ld. with Amy alonEsideyou, you sprintdown lhe rcad as fastasyou! lcaswiil.any yotr. Your lunSs feel likc they are aboul to bu6t. Suddenlyyou hearthe.oa. ofa car enginerndthe eud of rre€.hin8 tyres. You look behind you to seea sporb ca. sp(ding towdrds),ou.lt'scinSnch Yur driving his Austnr Heal€y at tul1 [email protected]€ ot issi$in8in thcpas*nger*ar. He leans hisscientists out oi thewindow and beginsfi.ing a machinegun .t you.Rolloncdic If thentrmbcrrollcdis 1 :r,turn to 2o5.If the number rolled is 4 6, tum to 114 ')6 The pouch contains a small ley with the number 9 stamped on ir, a box of mrches and a marker pen. Take th€ items you want and ca.ry on down the co.-

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t&_4o d rh€ ZmDi6 de..sd urM D@ Bos. Ihe firtrt ! 9s @6 and then th@ ; silfte, but for lhe o.csidaf gnhti€ and sortins tuds coming from the Zoribi6 outside. Yd rcalia lhey ae not goiry to to .w.y whsr tlEy tagin to haD4er on the dmi l riUyou opn n to atta.k th@ (tm to !o), wedte s@e tuhitE uP agaiBt it to s6opthm Settins in (tum to o) o iup out of the b€dem wind@ into the olityard below (tu

Ille tul s@tu at you to 'E 8o away or eb€ 3h! win 3hoot.If yd wet boc.[ out the |1de Amt tm to 3a2.If y@ wdt to call out tlE lr.tr Asrida! tun to qZ, It y@ have a crEirEaw dd would ftthe! oi you way thbuSh the dd, tun to 19. lt It i! viltu'Iy ihpo$ible to M rni|st wedinA a h@vy dit of at!!N. B€foE y@ e able to M.h the door, the Atta.k Doas at the flona of the Pack l6p up and bowl y@ ovq. Y@ strugSleto sit up bul N pi.rEd doM by th. @rbin€d w€ight of the llE vicioa dimals howl .nd d@ dd the .dN. begin to grEw at you n€h wh@d it b erposed, You su$d . 1m8 and pahful d@th Y@r adventur€

lotr you berind rurptua€ dd potted aluubs, undd bendE dd odd lng of 5 oveFd

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9. lf you d6't hav€a puU€yor would laths climb ttE drainpip€, tui to t87. yq f,ick the swibdr up, you h@ a faint $md like that of a cat h b€ire r.Ias€d. Suddd'ly . whote stio ol the b@k@ pop! @t gret pasgsay ot th. wall to Real a behind it i[

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Youland efely in the niddl€ of the nattressand roll quicklyoftth€ bedto lookarornd Turnto 11. 41 Thereis a larg.bouldcrby thc sid. oI th. road whi.h you junp b€hind.The Austin Healey roars by and sc@che t. a halr somc to m$r.t fuither down the tuad.Ifyou want b tellAmr to nrn lor thecoverol lhe toresrand leaveyou shoot n out with Ylrr and his cront, turn to 128 It want to run into the ldesl with Amy to escap€,turn to 237. 44 You rak. nochan..snnd p1.k rp fof gun nJshoot Yu.r selefal times, to make sure he is no lon8er a lhreat to th€ world All you ..n ihink.bour is g.rtingawry tron lhe c.stle asquickly aspossible.You hu.ryinto the Baragelo tak€a look at th. vnn.lfy.u h.vc n sdof c,r heys in your pcket. tum b 2r7.lf youdonothav€ a selofk ey s ,tun to96

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It eon be.omesappar.nr who is comint dosn the coriido. A prck or nineteen Zombies is headin8 towa.ds you, led by snebody you r.co8niz.. It's a man with a bald head/oranaeoverausand black a.hy boots lt's Boris,bul nol asyou r€m.mbcrhin He is no long.r hun,n H. hnsweepingblistersand oPen so.es on his head His eyes are bloodshot and bulEins out of rheir dark sc..lets. His top lip has b€en npp€
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47-43 bsk6 ie€th. Bori has turEd into a Zohbie. He Itrhes towards y@ b6ndishinS a pislol, s@miryly lmwae that it i6 a w€pd, He !186 the Zombie behind him to attackyou, not thai ihey needm.our a8emmt, shoutr8 at th€ top d his voke, 'Got fi) kill thm all! Got to kiu them all!' over dd ovd agair You have no .hoi.e but to fight him and the oth6 nineteen Zombi6 behind him. If you wn! tm

46 The eiling b qurte low Md you have to st@P a little to avoid hi$ing yd head @ the be.tr as )ou floorboaids,You arc about walk a@s lhe caki( to start rummging ttuw8h the box6 dd suitcases when suddenly a huge f3t mash6 thmgh the @I tiles, reachin8doM to tlab you by tlE thtut. You 4 lified otr you H bi a rcugh hand that is mbs' ing on€ finger and is @veEd with red blot h6. If you have a 8un to hdd, tum to 36l. r you do mt 6. haveaerh,nmto

17 nE landing is @rpetedad ttu warb e @veEd wilh b.i8ht patlemd waUpaFr. TheE are som€ 8dn ffe paintings hanSinSd the walls, plus 6ome nim6 and €khin€s, but nothint of @ lo you- You walk 6 util yo! @me to a coro wh@ lhe oF ridor tllft sha+ly to dE ritht. Arcud the ct)l8 w a white d@ay in the left-hmd wall sde twaty metns atEad. Y@ w.lt LLpio the d@ dd '@ € a $gn pahted m it in black letterinSwNch eads CraB Night Club.U ytuwnt to op€nthe d@., tum io 342.ff Fu would Etha walk orr tm to a9,

18 lming as st€attNy 6 you @, lookiry arcud the time, y@ pa$ stids of ttp c6de which fmilid to y@. Yo! reachthe w6t wing wherc ie orpffi

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49 The g@de bo@c along the fl@r lowar& y@ ad alm@t irmediately therc is a dealdinS erplc sim which ech6l@dly dom the.onidor Y@ @ lnft€doff you feetby lhe blast dd thtt'M viol4dy aSaist the waU. Ilp eftu of the blsl @ mde woe by tlE g'€mde explodirg wilhin the cdnn6 of a @nidor smoke,dst .nd debris 6ll the aii Roll ore die. U you rcll a 1 d a 2, tum to tor. It you rcU a 3 qa4, hm to !r9. IJ you roll a 5 ora6 tun to !' 5o D$pite being i,1the.lo* .6ffne of the lift, the flal ia.ket tales thebmt of the qplGi6. Yd d hit by points iust two piee8 of BhrapEl. ttrs 4 sr.rN If you d still alive tm to rtit.

Youleep teling Any dEt degahint i5toint ro be

dri8ht but y@ @ @bl,s to ovift. hs, Sheb%s , you to 8o with hs to fi^d help,arEuin€that it would tE tEtter if the aurhonri€ @t in the a6y to deal with the Zonbi6. You teU hd dEt by the time the lmy ari€, it miSht be tm late. You sy ifs time 'for you 60to back to the 6stle, advising her to fol low the Gd e shedcnl get lct in the forestad lo malG s@ sheslays out of sitht of anybody drivthe ed. You wave goodbye,eyinE th"t ltt.lont will calcll htr up s.n

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fnd that the min satesar€sdl uileked, You {m of the double d@F and sudethbueh the p lmotied, clGing it b€hind you. You hh left lodg the south win& and th6 walk rctth along the win8 beforc Mching the staitue at the iucwith the north win6. You @ about to to doM siaiMe to ilP basrtMt shd,ou at h siEht lhe t€l4ope n{Md d the table rhead. Ih

5a You induce youslf to the neir teling thd hM y@ .a@ ro be Kdnapped- "IeU Mebody who (}B,'Bori6 ets, shrugginghisshorddeF,indiffest to yN hdd luck slory 't-i5im, we cd lclp you. V\iC havethings that,ou Eed which w n*ht tE wininS ro s€I to )ou. But dly at a Prie, And tlEt Piie is dollas, Takeit d leaveit' If y@ rwe eme do[,$ dd wish to buy mthin& tm to rr!. It y@ do mt have ay dolc, y@ @ 6thd had wd to the far dd (tun 60157)d fight dr mm (tm to ,8{).

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53-4 Y@ walk thMgh the swint d@6 dd se sit murdercBloking Zmbi6 baraing arcund the H|t)m. They s you and su8e fotrad togethq, intent m tearingyou limb fI@ limb. Y@ mct fiEhl tho. If you win, hn to r6a,

4 1@ take a l@k arc6d ihe door ard swey a sMe of dwasiatim. Both the nale and 6emle ch6gIlE mift6 e aI ins !@N have been wEcked. T sn6hed, as d the sinls. he bencheo4 splint€red 6d b@kenas thouah $mebody hd taka a sl€dca\ffier to them. TIE leks d@6 have all bei ripp€d o{ thei hing6, as have the show6 dbide d@s. The Dic haveben wrenchedoff the wal md water is Bushiia trcm them-The Zombi6 who mct likely dGtroyed lhe.hdging mre did a vtry Soodjob, If yd wdt to takea l@k insde the open lel6, hrm to 26t- If y@ would rather d@ ttu d@r md walk on, t@ to ,I.

the simtist istinctively ducls down to avoid DeinSshot,@blhg yd and Amy to M sfely past the window, tmin8 lelt doM the halway of the north wiry. T@ to &7. 5o You dpty th€ flask md put it in you ba.k peket. Yd *ath quickly thsugh the tattecd clothing of the otha Zoobi6 dd nnd a total of $? and a Dairof suvd @rre d ft tuF or bag rou bd rcuF ing ebe of inleEt e you walk b.ck to the stafte. Yo! areabourto .linrb it who you notie smething tEffilh . ft ir a Lee cat iM efe ttEt is .mdt6l into the fld. It hasl .onbitutid lml o th€ d@r Yo'l try a few rmdom st ings of nmbea, alaswithdt sEs' Y@ Falize that it is too elid to prie or .hoot opd hd woder if you have 6)1hii8 ele lhat }!u @uld u* to 8et into it U you hare a pi* of yeud note pap€r, tum to 85. U y@ do not have mte p.p€r, thee is nothing you 6 do othd clinb back up th€ stai6 to ttu libra. Y@ @ |lmled at not b€iry able to op6 the efe but try

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53-59 Therc are smau glass pancls in thcm whi.h yo! peer lhrou8h to R a Ercup of Iour men standin8 u'h1tc bgethcr Thcy.rc.ll wcaiing blood-spatrercd laboratorycoatsand appearto be having a heated iryiment One p ticobny elil-lookinS nan sc.ms bbe very annoy€daboutsomethingand keps tapping at his clipboard whilst shotrrinSat the other hen He hasa shav€dhead,a patchover his left eye ind a dcep scar runnin8 down rhe left side of his trce. Th.rc is . badgc scwn onnJ his bust pock.t with the nameRoznik embroi.leredon it The thrce drhersarc Cober,Sren.nd LJnge.8!t crcn thorgh lh€se a.€ the evil {ientisls Fsponsible Ior creat in8 Yurr's zombies,yoo know you can'tiust run n and shootthem Ifyou wantto try tu anest th. hen and lock them in the.ells, tum to:4. It you have a laboranry coat and want to tlll b them whilst pretending Iou are a new assistanl sientisl r€ently hired by Yuir turn to 33o.

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(:inSrichYur.is an exelldt marksmanHe dc not usually miss his tarEet.But beinS angry he rushs his shot.The bullet fta past your head,hitting th€ waU.You waste no time ard haul yomer back up thedrainpipe to .limb mto the r@i beto( hc .an rir osddshot. Rollonedie.Ifthenumberrcll€dis ! r, tum to 2r lt thc numberrolledis 4-6,rurnro151. 59 Youshout,t the top of your voi.e for severalftin utesbut nobodycomes.Ev€ntuallyyou hear rhc

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bookawayandwalk 6. Tum to rt5. Yd foe it into dE 8ap b€twq the sliding d()6, I'uhiry upsdds util y@ l@te the @tch.It pops op 6ibr Yd sudethe doo6 opa and fnd yo'elf .brdin6 in a old (@idd lil by eilint lithb that h.ve squaestaped frGted gra$ 3had6. IIE eiltng is painted a cheerl€66nust rd colou. Ile wals @ the @Lou abovea waist-hi8h sbip of dark '@ til6, I!@)r of which e nisin6. Ihe paint @ ttg the walb b old ed da(ked dd smatEd with blood *vdal Dlac, You sifi the an and notie a vet Dl@i [email protected] smen.su
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. r y@ would rather kep walking aldg the cs A! you 6i.n io dE6 the tumituE away fim the dei, the sftltna dd banging b%is atah. You l@k th@th rhe sack in the ddtuay and e that the haltway is jmed tuI of zobbis. r yN wmt to attact theE! tuh to id If wo!.ld raths tMp dt of the b€dll)m window 'ou inlo lhe @urtyad

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65 You @ about halavay d()m lhe drainpipe whd it bsm6 obvious that th@ @ j6t i@ my Z@rbi6 b€low for you to be able to saiv€ if tlEy atta.t at re whm you rcachthe 8Dud. Hogut 6 to the &.inpipe with onehand, yd begin sh@ting at thd, hopFt to dilpeM rh€m. But rhjs only .alls morc of thd to flood into the ouward. You kitl ssal but it b imposble !o stop the re6t pull ing ai the diainpipe to rip it ofi lhe wall. You t y to hdt on bui N unrbb ro do s for lmE. Ile drainpiF 6m€s away fton the wal dd faUinto the zodbi6. €agq clukhs of the Clawed 'ou and bitten by then! you quictly be(!re intusl by thei.on t miMiedblood. Slnyouwillbeltrre m of them. Ydr advdtun b ov6.

6a bu rcach into your p@k€t dd give Amy the gold dd .hain. 'Mv ldketi Wheredid vou 6nd it?' ,!ts *iiedly. "You don't wdt to loow!' you lt "Thanl you. IlEl yd. Ihant yo'r,' sheeys ppily, a beaMg $i le tShbnt up her f.e Ior the time sine vd met h6. You tell Amv iys time to / advisinE hd to folow the rud so she d()d't

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t of dybody &ivin€ .iong lhe @d. You wave ye,eyint thary@will eherff.Itdcnt yd long to rctuh to the dsde where, much ro 3u+.ie, }!u 6nd that the min Irtes are still

cked. You opd de of the double d@6 dd e thrcu8n the E p llmtied, dcjn6 it behind

, You tum left along dP $uth wh8, dd then north aloi8 the west wint befoe eadnng the .* at the jmction with the north win8, Y@

6r?o aE abDui to Eo down rhe stai(ase to th€ b.smenr wh6 y@ @t h sight of the telescop€ nounted on lhe table ahead. Tum to 2ro.

@ There G a smll, r€d-painted.upboard fiied to the left-hdd wall that youhadn't notied earlierasit was hidden from view by oneof the boile6. On openin8 it you tind $me bandag6 and antrsephc.aam that you useto bind your wouded wrists, sincethey are still in bad shapef.om the sha.kles.Ad.i : srAMrNA points. Suddenlyyou hear a nois€overhead.Slidin8 doM the air vent are thre Zombi$ who land on d'e n@r in a @npled heap. They stand up awk wddly and step fotrard to atiack. You mst fighr thd barehandedor with a weaponif you hav€de. tf you win, tum to 2D. 70

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You jlnp backwafds to give your*lf time and rpa.e to take aim at the zohbie. A sinSle shot is rU that it rakes ro brint her down. The chainew continuesto tur dtil you puu it out of h€. hmds to switch it ofl r ir was Amy thde is nothinS tou .an do for her now. You thank her for the daiMw (2d6+l) which should be a very eff€' dve Zombie+ropper if you a€ happy to ca(y the laavy weapon. Reduceyour sr MN^ by 1 point iI you take it. Afrer deiding what to do, you leavethe tlfrigerad en dd td nght along th€ conidor

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72 Rabing her 8m at y@, Amy backs away and s@ms, 'You E @ of th@ a@'t )ou? You'rc de of thdl'lf yo wet to reply that you w@ orny toking and thal you realy had read rE diary md dedu.ed she must to be Amy, t@ to 193. r you wdnt to tell hs to put d{]m htr Eur! tuft to 9{. As you rm to l€ave,Otto bet8 you io rcl@s him, but istead you take hjs key ofi its chain dd rlww it into the .olM of the ll)@, bellin8nin that you hoF sonebody wil s
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Th€ d@mmt opeE up to rv@l d€trib of d ffi gqEy ent that Yun had bu r s he ould €@F nom the @stle if evd the poli.e wee to mive Morc he had b€t.ble to rel@* his Zorr'Iie any on the w6ld. You di*ovd thlt th@ is d eletrcni. disrlav Ddel at tn€ back of the stnk mm in the soJth ;inr which wil open Emr dd if you rey " on,lels 80 to tlE r tlF.ode nuhler 16r. 'Cme ster mm nowl I I@w where it i5,'Amy e'6 ex.it edly. U you have not dom e alre.d)t yd m try io mle a .all d the telephoft (tum !o 3tl). U you don't wdt io makea 6ll, tun !o ri8.

blrst aid thsM aditut the wall. Ih€ etu of blast@ mde wde by ihe 8@de explodhg in @nfG of the Mltw halwav Smke, dst dd ebr! zu theair. U )ou m weanr8 . 0.k jacler. hh :75. Uyou N norwdir8 . flar ,acket,tum to 2:8,

76 The tuils @ak 6 you pne th€ lid ofi the date lt is full of ba6sof end 6d @mdt, You t le out two to reveal a pla6tic lmh box- Th€ bad rews is that it d€n't Mtain any food- The Sood nss is rhat it d@s .@tain two hdd 8@ad€6 (2d6+1). You .lip th€m on to y@r belt, feeliiS vsy Plea*d with ,ou [email protected] @uld Pmve to !e vety u6e to ct@ them otr ydr tul in combatbut |umler Advntue slL".t dhq yN @ rhd lf y@ wmt to lift the mrnhole .ovd, tum to 2ao. If you wdl to cary on dom the @ddor, tum to 337.

4ter the basenent.ff y@ po3ss a @wbar, tum j. If you do not pr]6s6 a @wbd, rm to 3oo.

wiF c.ble i5 @eed

in black g]€*,

dd

irha bumpbut luclily do noriniue youeu. Ihe ond-Eriued slidint.iooE dt the bottom of the aF shut and y@ ae @ble to pull thd

n

The ZonDie holding the g'wde push6 hj! my to thefMtof the lirE, rtmbl6, ard lets Eoof it lt rclls aloltg th€ fl@ loward5 you. AltMt i|mediatell thtr is a dedlennS qPl6im whjch dhes lNdy

B

'r i.ult to sroPydrell frDm stdf8 doM it mop icuv thd vou would like. You land d the 0@r

dpart

bu @n arive at a jurrid at the end of the .or idoi To you l€ft it .ontinuer straight on befoe ing shaply left,backin the diFction you h.ve t .ome fbn. To you rEht n @ntinues shaight bdorc iming sharply right, also bacl in tE

32 +l dnfftion you have j6I ome frcm. DiRdy anead tha is . wide, ca.petql stai(a* going down. Tture is a lot of bdgin8 and shouring cominEfrcm downsraiF. You deide to inv6tiSate/ weapon in hand and ready for combat.Tum io 126.

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Youpla@ boL\ k€ys in ihei Fspecxve keyholesand tum the onestampedwith a number8 fist, followed Ity the one stmp€d with a 2. The padlmk nips open. Youslide backthe metal bolt in the door the grating loud remi.din8 you of the dark c€ll in which you rvde so rec€nriy imprlsoned. Yor suddenly heai tEnging and shouting comna from the other side of rh€ door You.heck your gs and push the d@r open, ready ht fa.e wh@ver is on the other sid€. Ir opem inro a ulnir rcm. Th€ briSht light frcm the Lboratory c6ts a long shadowot your bcdy onto the A@r A terrible stenchwaJtsout of rhe mn makinS y@ rcich. Yor seeli8ures moving abolt in the semi ttarknss, somemomin8, orh€F shourinEin eEer The rcom is tull of Zombies, wall(ing towards you a $ lid b lo c klf y o u wa n tto l e l a r o u d fo r al ,Eh r rwitch on the wall, turn to j1o. Ii yo! want to sta.t &ing you. weapon,tuh to 179.

aJ You *arch the r@m but Iind norhinS morc rhan a

ro biU stufied down the brct ol lhc sofa ftere are io otlp. doo6leadina out ol the room s you wallr cf doM to the other end of the oridor the d@r thft(tum to 3o).

[-:l F-l

to op€n

i

II

8F88

84-{6

q dbIhe ddi oFns into a snarl nstyfleling dis8ctinSly u!€d for stonS€. lt b byhole wNch E 6lrhy iffid€, with rats droppin8s derinS the fl@r dd @bw€bs hanging d@n in the c()ffi. TheF ae two larye pl.snc siqa8e bd6 tucked away at and the b.ct. IIE fst bor is tull of old |lr*PaFs mea2in6. Ihe *(ud .ontaitu old b@ks, . warl€t with 92 iside dd a smal csrdterd box tuU oI bullets. You pur ttu items y@ wdt into you t€8 befoE .lGing the dbbyhol€ dmr to .arry on walkin8 ar6t ih€ oFidd. Tm to @. 85 beEin youi long walk back to civ Y@ stdd up and iltation. You eh@e a path lt@ugh tte tl6 tfdt is cl@ to the @d bur which stiU keps you ot of sight in @* Yur
@thin6 you cd do other thd climb ba
t it w6 prcbablydpty d bmby-tnpd

uy-

y. Yd deide not to sp€nd dy soE tift

in dE

.nd headout inlo the c@idoi Tm to fio,

&7 d6Fration you thbw cuhioc, beddinSdd pil@t of the window, hopinE to land on them ro

ydr faU,You tie a shet altMd the window , .Unb out of the window ard lowe. youF doM 6 fd 6 o6ible You tal€ a d@ bMth let go. You fajl h@d over hels dd aash onto outard below Unfdt@tely t!.vel
yd M a
a shot dnSsout lt

frm CingrichYu's sip€r rifl€. Heis tuin8 from fiEt O@rwindow in thew6t wine Ro[ onedia you bU 1-4,tm to 174.ff y@ o[ a 5 or 6, luh

r9t.

6 Yo! tdre the pi{€ of pape. out of you Pcket, ldebeiry that it had the numbo ol..ombina tion ldk Eitten on it. Y@ .tecideto lry this nmber to open the 5.I€. Tum to the number that js Mit_ ten on the papq. If y@ aE leble to do this, thse

r-l FJ

8t9o 39 Ihe dd op* to aeal a smaU,ddk opb@id. As y@ Ea.h for lhe li8ht sibdr, a drcolin& meyed Zombie imps @t ftm behind a p \e of 3tor.Ee bo$, sttering thd aery*h@. Caught ofi $a!d, you @ plrbd b the St1)ud by the udad fidrd, who lamche a tuMied atta.k on y@, $ree.hint l@dly. Ioe 1 srMN Point. You 6tru88le to thrcw the h€ary ZoEbie olf you io defmd yol$|I as it tri6 to bite you with the ia88ed,virusinffi teethpetrudina fiom it! tui.s. r you win,

ipl:Mt.

(2d6+r),

You abo find two tllDd6

bor of bulets dd a Med Kit icide a metal box aw.v at the back of the dDbord.

Satidied

ith the resultsof ydr $botage, y@ walt ovn to p.dlocked iron d@r Tm to t:o,

Zombie looks at you intently, attempting to in spibeof rfie fa.r thar its lips .ppear to have ddely *M tog€therwith twine, Bl@d ttickd@n from ils truth 6to its chin. Stin holdine bming dlltmite sti.ls, it .limbs the last fa

s

into lhe rlat

tow€r r yd wdt

to shmt the

bie. tum to ,{1 lf yd want lo,ump thDugh hole in the bmkfl

You pi.k up the bra$ weights ttm the sleo md, st ndiry aEfar away 6 p66ibl€ from the @biftt so as not to 8et splaohe4 thiow th@ s hard 6 you cm at the ias. The is a dash oI brcaring 8lass,and you wat h with eddach@ 4 blood Pous our of the brctd is dd doM onto tlE fl@r You walk ova to the oeboard at the bacl of the laboiatorv and slide the d(|F ops to fird morc $imtific

6ndblou*8,

cldk fac, tm

dll]€s,

to ,68.

t*hino, iumF@ and j(\4

aing up on c@t hdge6 iGide the wardbbe, E.E weral hadbats on the top slElf. Iruide e of then you 6nd a @laa wlich appeaF to in working ordd but is our of battery You put it you bag md @ntin@ y@r earch. The dE6t of wed B aalmed tull of duvet .oveE, blanl€tB

*

dd piuoM. IlE beddide@birEt 6taic a l@ded hddSu (idtr2t a haibrush/ d enpty pui6e, eme letteF, a pan dd a diary If you wdt to rcad the l€tbeEmd the diary, tum to 279.f )ou wmt to go thrcugh the swing di)c opposite,tum to 4, 95 I@ ar tdpted to go ba.k into youi e[ to give Otto a kick but dcide .gainst petly Ev6ge. You hurry doM the conidor, th€ smoth cmrcte fl@r u.onlortably .old m )ou baE fet. Alter some dbtare y@ s som€ m€sages sawled on the w6[ One s]$ 'They'r .oning to 8et a'. Another in sys 'WeE doom€d-' IlreE d oth6 @st6 langugB you ddt unddtand. You I@p wallting util you cometo a black .sv6 pouch haging frcn a hek in the walL ff y@ wdt to op6 the [email protected], iuh ho36.r y@ would rathq keep@ w.rking d()M the onidor, tm to 39d. 94 Quivdn8 with fer, Amy drcF hs Eu onto the fld, .a6inA it to fa. RoUore die. If y@ rcU r-1, tm ro 3oa.If you rcll 4-{, tm to 3. I5 You aE lucky !o h.ve swived the oiElaueht of the Attack Dogs.You unlock ihe dm! and walk out into a oEidd. Th@ is a teEible stenchsmins fron the left ad of th€ .oridor $ yd
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tE earch the Sege frm top to bottom but do find a set of keys ior th4 va. You dd't want to d a rout€

lmEq in the @stle th{

you hive

- tou @ eaSerto leav€this tmible Plae of {il neel up with Amy in the viIaEe shew6 headtowad!. Ihre G e old bike uder a shet at the of the 8e8e wNch yd ddde 6 good muSh get you 6r@ b€forenigl'daU, Y@ whlel it to the in dtrdce Bat6, blalhE the padlock oFn with rcund oI Eunfre. You itew doq your weapor! the d@B b the outsde wodd dd .f.Ie as fast you cm .rd8 fte @d $su8h tlE f@3t. AbNt hoq later you G . 6rrl ah@d of y@, walkinS the md. Evd frcn a dbtane [email protected] @ I she has log blonde han md is w@ring ie$ a t+hin, s you EoSr'i4 $ai it is Ahy at me. bu .rI out t€r m€ and slE turo arcund od v6 frdtidUt jmping up ad doM with qcitet. You ride up to hd and stop. 'l{hat toot you ldB?' she Bk, silin6. You reply sEdtkaly you stopped for a @ff€" dd lell he. to 6it d

crcbar. Slp lauths, dd 6aF, 'No, l'[ .ycle aid u 8it on the (Icbdl

You 4

t@ tiEd to ar8u€.

y is so@ peddlin8 hard, listsinS to the gru+ a
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I

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irtv ret6 turther on, vou s a white marble t of a md Ft againsttlE wall at the point wherc coridor t!@ left, behind which stmds a mas@t suit of Dlatemail amola iuuminated bv a Ithr in th€ ceilinE. Ille anou is about your , lfyou EBh to try it on, tum to:1.lfyou wish leav€ the amou but tale the sword, tm to 7t, yo! w@ld rathef walk 6 without sroppin8, hm

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98

Zombie thruis the rMine .haisaw lowards . You t y to junp out oI the way of the ot.tinE

de but are caudt on the am by the slurp teth, I srAM poinB UydaFsdlalive, 'NA

hm ro 70.

vt

lding ytu am overyourey6, you c6h thrcugh dek fae, sadiry mo4 El6 flyin8. YoudrDp a stone,whirling y@. aI@ and legs arcmd in an, hying to kep yolreff upriSht, As you ldd rcll in d attempi to brcal the hll. But twelve E a lon8 way to fal onto a $lid mf

I

Roll two

dd r"due you sr MrN^by ih€ roi.l rcl€d. r d still alve, tum to r59. rea.h into y(u

pdket md Eive Amy the gold

dd chain. 'Mv l6ket! Wha did vou 6nd sle tuLs€rc €dly,sGppins out of her dotu* 'Youdont want lo tnow!'y@ r€ply.'Thanl

t r8 3

you.Ihank you.Thant you,'sheeys happilt grinnin8 for the fiFt tihe sin e y@ met hq. You pi.k !p the pae ard hury oo hopng to Mch a village beforeilgoerddt Tmto4o.

oridor

ads at a eudl@kin&

: YouPt5s you e. to it but h@! nothing.If

wdt to oFn the dd, tun to 3F, ff y@ woltd

tlE tuh mund

oPP@itedifttid, You Each
Y@ @ h'app€dat lhe bottdr of the lift shnn and cmot find a way to g€t dt If y@ wdt to call @t for help, tuh to 37i, If )ou wdt to .linb up tlE lift

white-paind

ed wall al(ro the coFidor in

hrm to:65,

@ srrftkby the MI( with su.h feMity thatrou lno&el otr you feet. You d@p to ttE 8rcud BioB. All the Zombie pile on top of yd, de nppinE at y(M neh. You do not retain ioess uril y@ have trarofomed into a

ie v(relJ, dootud to the litu of the ddead-

oDm the violin (a dd smile. lt 6ntii6 a ift Eu (zd6+j) .nd sveDl @s or bulleB. If have nor done so alrEdy you cd Fy to oFn

flrght ca6e(te to 2Zr)-ff you would laths tun dt of thercm dd imediately riShtdoM the

F;I F:l

ro6 You @ very badly injured dd aI€ ble€dint pG 6El). Your b6t w@pon hasabo ben d6trcyed by the er?lGioiv deleteit fbh you AdMtur Shet. ll you have a Med Kil you sh@ld @e it now Tun to 267.If yd do not have a Med Kit, y@ d in 8reat da6er of bl€€din8 to d@th. Unlss you 6nd a Med Kir in 6e of the next th@ mm3 you .he* to dter, you advdtut wil be ovs, r€ep r qord or you rext the rcom choie. Clutching your wouds w h both hdds, you sta88eroff dom the

t. IlEy de in o you ad you puX the pin out of the 8|eMde dd attempt to thbw it s the heaals01the lrcnt l$e o1Zombies.Roll 6e e. ff the nmber rcled G 1-3, tum to 18a,If the rou€d i! 4-{, tuh to 25r. mint down the coridor lowads you with air t lMb€ring skid6 arc fou Zmbies. TlEy w panid trey srin @veFd with gapinS wouds festeringffi. Th€ir hair hdgs doM in gray P3.Theyhaveqacked liP3.ndbleediry [ongG t 6tick out of their oen mouths. Their Mkd, rftr eye ae bloodEhotdd Fd-rinm€d but

get very diMd

wh{ tEy *

you,making

fiing dd guSlinS tu{ts a tl€y hy to w.lk : You mut li€ht th@ b.ahdded o! with a

iI you hav€ore. If you win, tm to ir6,

107

As the sethiry ma$ of Zombia bem dom upon yoq y@ realiz the @ fd too mdy of thm to l.te on. If you srill wdt lo Ey sh@til8 the Zosbi6, tum to :66. If you wmt to try to op€n the main dtrdce gateboe6@pe,tln !o !9r4.

ra Eme€ug &om @t of the smoke and dst the Maining Zotr$ies step ovd thei falen undead .onado tud statgd towar* you s(Mnint dd

battle i5 @e. No no€ Zombi$ c!)m into @utyard. Thean raid sim js tu longerble .nd it m llmhrally quiet without ttE

deafening .at-a+at tat of rhe BroMinE, which still has wisps of shoke
.g

The efe door .liclc opfl md you lind a sall stack of dolar bils inside, $45in total, You also find a *t of car klys whi.h you put in you pmk€t. Finding tbthing else oI inleHt, you leave the gamesr@m lnd walk turthe. up the conidor Tlm to 1,

{

You climb the ladder slowly uniil your head pokes thFu8h the irapd@r You p€ into a loft. Th€ dark es within is pierred by shafis of .layliSht .heamin6 thrcud cracksin the roof til6. There G a litht swit h on the frme ol the trapd@r which ou flick m. The floor of old wooden flerbcrds piled hrgh wrth rtoraa€bo\6, old suikises.nd

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dwdted fmit@ and belonairys. EverlthhS h @veEd in a thict lnlq of dut If y@ wmt to dimb into the loft, ttlm to 46, ff you wodd nth6 dimb br.k d()M $e ladder and w61l bothe lft at the end of the halwat tm to 56t. f3

You p.a3 by a nrfrr on the wall and @ shdked n) € h@ au.hwei8ht y@ havel@t in rh€strort tinc si@ being lr-ked up in the pris eU. You hufty 6 6til the h.lway turnt shaiply left, bringing yo! to a dotrav in the left-hand wall. ff vou wdi to op6 rhe dqj4 tun lo 295.If y@ wornd rathq walk

1 fNM ooinrs The zornbie is @t e fornr, It li6 motimlGs m the stre fl@r, shr€dded explo6i@ Yd wa8te no time and hu.!y 6 the <$ridor mln you come to a d@ay in +B!d wau. Ai yo! w,lt up b it yd hd

the

oI l@d b.rking coming flom AE othd side of q. IJ y@ 96t to op{ the d@, nn to 26.II would rathd pe$ or! tm !o rt.

old lift dercend!slowly,tun ,In8 andjuddeF beforcSrindinAto a halt at the 6st dd- Y@ buttm C again but nothins lEppea. TIE lift Blideop6 !o seal mothe! 169 lDUway lik€

on these
the dury.rd.

Th!rc is a,L$ a dtr-

tlE right at the far dd of the halway U you

to walk doM the lu wav lo oDsr the door, io 12. ff would Elh6 stay in the lift you buttm c a6ain (tum to t ) or pls thE prBs'ou

B (tum to qZ).

at4 Bdleb whlz thbuth the air but ll@ of th€m hil you d Amy. lf )u wat io st nd tou 8trMd and 6e b6.1, t6 to 39o.ff )reu wnt !o M Io. @ven a5 MiIel@lt m6t of ttp stEFel nis€€r yo4 aparl floh or|esrall pi@ which is dbedded h you. lc8.

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417

The noi* ol the blazing inf€.no inside thc car bltrl\ out the $und of t@Nreps on lhe E.avel behind yon Suddenlyyou hearan aaoni2.d{rean assomebod\ junpson your b.ck. Itt Yutr,his ta..bla.k&ed if.l bliskred hom the fire and hjs chnrredbody waml on yourback. Despit€beinAshot,bu.ncd and badl\ injured from the car .rash, lhe undead madmin is still nol detcatcd Hc tightcns his 8nP nround your ncck .nd wrcstles you to the Around, mrl in8 you drcp your gun.You n6t liSht lor your lin' points and is.Lni baehanded. Yurr has 7 STAMINA fi8hting barchand{!. Iry.u win, turn to44.

aa9 As you apprcachthe door yo! heai music, |!d voic$.hatting in a lanSuaSeyou don .tand. Il souds lile rhe nois could be

ftoma telcdsionor a radio.Ifyou stillwish to op€n lhe door, tum to 29o.It you would .arher go back md openthc door at the otherend of th€ .orndot

You Iu p6t two non doors in rh. righr-hrnd |rd on !p the cor.idor as fast as you can util aohe to a Iire door at the end. You donl srop, ushdnbn on thchandlcT um ho17:

113

Elen thouShhe tried to till you, you.ic saddcncd by h.is sdcdrh.I lc was simplyavjclimofCingri.lr Ytrr's insaneplanr h€ didn't knoh that he'd beef tufred innr. Zombie md wasn't awat of whnt hr was doin8. ApologiTing to Boris for the intrusn)n, y.u .arry ort a quick searchof hjs po.kets whi.h yields a shall torch.You stmd up, lowing to hun! down Yulr to aven8ep@r Boris Il you want to of'.n the stel dNr, turn ro r94. If you want to wau<.r Past the dmr, tum to 141

e phoneings just on.ebeloresomebody picksit , Youhearnothin8 bui slow,he.vy breathinguntil .EePy voice finally says/'Who said an isi8nin t diseasenddo parasitic worm like you could my olfic? You and that dumb blonde friend of uf areabout to die. l'm sendin8somebodyroond ey hello.Cot to kill them alll Cot to kill then t 1 t l .i

l' !!ith that, the line g@sdead,You tell Amy what t sid md shescrems that vou reed to leavethe dy imnedGtely. Tun to 158. stinldng *wer inlEbited by rats is not a place u would noImly choF to be and it tak6 some e b qer u*d to the foul smell,You walk on until ft etopFd in you tracks by the siEht of two dowy fig! es ahead,sloshrg aomd in the hlth. o mal6 in raSged.lothing .ome into view, wad-

slowly thrcughthedar}"srinNnt sJudte.OE or

til,l

is ch* in6 on a rat dd the other C ca.ryin8 a k*. Tha b@me verv animted when thev R

, pointing at you dd hNling with rage, they Zombiesl You mu6t fiehi tho with whatever pon you have.If you win, tun to d7. pick up the diary and K that it is this year's, tbat the ldt enby wa Mde jGt a wek a8o.

t inJa^uaryAmy wnksabouthowAciledshe io be in Ro@nia dd how she is sjoyint lile 6 cook in the castle,It is bitterly sld but she lov6 b€auty of the eow{overed hiUs ad rugaed tnside. Th@'s morc snow in Februaa. and i(s er,but life is areat.Her mod stdts to chanaein rch when she hea6 bad I@ous

abolt Ghsi.h

, In ADnl sh€write that sh€is cmcem€d bv the val ot white@ied $i$tists. Two wets tater aftietv tum to fear on leanins that the kililrs m .arryirE out e\perih6ts - on humml

she hed teniue rrcams and .ri6 for help .on ing fron the ba*mmt, althou8h shewrites that shr is not brave eough to go down theE ro find oul what is goin8 on. A month lat€r shewrites about thr oretmt flow of peple adivinS aEaict their will, raliendoM io the bMent @11s, neverto be sf again.A.lB one double pate oh€sdawls in lars. capital leit€E, 'I m sred out of my mind-'There is m 4try in late ,!ly whi.h simply sys, 'OMC thefu ar€ Zombies in the baemdll!!' She asb Gin8rich Yun mdy times if ohemay leav€but he will not lt l her on 2A luly shehies to e@pe durinE the nishl but is .au8ht and brcudt ba.t, Her last 4try rca.ls, 'I am Soingto try to sape afin toniEht.I will die il I stayherc.Gin8rich Yur is ilrse. He is building atr amy of Zombi6 and intendsro rakeover the world Bur wherr H€ m6I be stopped.' It all mak6 rc. is Amy now? Did shetm8e to escap€?At the b..r of ihe dnry therc is d 6try whrh eads, 'Noie n) elt The dckety old lifts buttotu are faulty. For C, pr€s 2 and C togethei For B, press2 ed B togethor - not that I ever wouldl' You put the diafy down md wall ba.k to tt€ lifr, thinking about the fale ol Amy Flet her If you want to pressbuttons 1 an.l ( , to 8o to the gound floor, iurn io 257.If you wdt hi peos buttoN 2 dd B to 8o down ro rhe bement, l mb2 {.

bra$e in deeplymdJUmp,bend'ngyourle8s you hit the mattess. Roll one di€. Il the nmb€r l€d is I t, lurn to 42. r the numbs rolled is 4-6,

you lEve a ctwbar, you.an slide it b€tween lhe .U€ on the outsrdeof th. ne d@r to gle )ou

e time to think Tuh to 3o5.If you do nor havea bar you will have 10face them on the rcoa Tuh

im 8 . . r Y u d h o ld in8a d b b ,t l u o l sq u i r esu r I a8a'nstthe bacldrop of tlle rges l'8ht bluc and m Auslin Healey spnri( c,r that hc is strdr8

frcnt of \ou noti.c rhai the pantn8 is r,lrm6 tly lo one side. If yo! want to l@k behind th€ ait, turn to 186.Ir you wmt to 60 leh alonErhe way,tum to zl. lf you wmt to go right along

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The cupboa.d hits you sma.k in the middl€ ol your .hesr. The force of the imPact lnocks yot back a8aitut the showerwall but doesnot causeyou rz8 You wait mtil Amy disaPPearsfrcm view in th. foHt b€to€ standing up and walking out into th. !oad. You are sho.k€d to see the rienhst iniecting himself and Yurr wiih what nust tE zombie blood At the em€ time Yurr Pres*s down on the car hom reFat€dly. The noise athacts hundreds oI Zonbirs who swarm down the hill towalds you Yurr raises his ans and r@rs en ouraSementto his undcad army as he besins to trasfo.n into a Z)mbie hin self. 'Let it b*inl' h. scrams. 'The 6dead shall liv€.Mankindwill diel'Youmanageto ftea rcund of bdlets befoe being bowled over by the oncom ing swarn. You are soon coveed in zombie blood and becomeinfected.In a matter of minlt6 you tdl becore a zombi€ and Sive cha* to pdr Amy as shefleesihrcugh the lorest,sh.ieking in ierrcr Your 129

A few metresfurthe. orl you arrive at anotherwhit. door in the l€lt-hand wall. You lislen at ir md heal shouting voics and banging and oashin& PerhaPs the sound of a frghi. lI you want to oPd the d@r, tum to 65. If you would raiher walk on by, tum

130

The Zombie thrusts the rcaring chainsaw towards you. You try to jmp out of the way oI th€ rctalin8 blad€but are.aught in the sldeby its sharpteeth, $hi.h infli.t a dep wound. t k 6 srAMrNApoints If you are still alive, turn lo Zo. rl1

decision,'Boris eys with a smirk on his '@ ,!ce. 'You prcbably wmt to know what's Eoin8 lrBidethis.astle!l'U tell you for $ro.' If you want b pay for the infomatid, tuh to 229.lf you do not dt to Eiv€ Boris lhe money.you.an e'thcr h.,d

e, to the r,r door (hrrn ru r5Z, or fi8it the m€n

rc.F bodies of de.d Zombis everywh*

but

ingrich lur is nowhrro tu be ftn n tne nodh E Sudd€nlyyouh€artheeund ofa ar'ssg'ne ftint !p. tou l@l thrcuSha window ed seethat

garag€dmF in the est winE are open. Gun in d you Iu into the ouityard and head for th€ rll you poses a crchbar or a sword rr should be a ple tasl to pn* the lftl op6 Tum tu 162. lf u do not have either of thes€ irems dd wmt to

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734-115 to 30)or head.idt alon8rhe.o.ridor to openrhe other dmr {rurn ro fl9). 414 CinSd.h Yur lalghs at you. stupidiry H€ takes caen aim dd squezes the t.ig8€r of his rine a Rond rime The shot is perfect.Youae dead befoe you hit the grcund You. adventureis over

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7ta You tiptc alon6 tlE corridor dd t isn'r Iong beforeyou 6nd out whois spillingthe blmd. A tall Zombiewearingan old [email protected] dnty jeans is sta8Eeringalong rhecorndor aheadof you, grcan ing wilh pain, Its entrails are han6in6 out, @zin8 dark blood whi.h is tumin8 down its legso.to the fl@r It is very badly injured, perhapslrom beinSin a li6ht with another mbie. Suddenly it stops in its tracks and tuns atuund slowly. It staE at you blariJy. Its ey6 arc sunten and 8rey,and s mouth G @vercd in fr6h blood. Yo! .at.h sight oI some thing it is g.ippina ti8htly md fteze. The Zombie ls holding a grmde in one hdd and the pin in the othq. With no efression on its vacant face,it casu6lly toses the gremde towards you, ln.on.emed by the pNibly fatal out ome. lf you are wearin8 a 0ak ja.ket, tum to ]4o. II you are not wearing one,

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You rcti€ that m ot the Zombies is duicnin8 a pistol {rd6+21,holding it by the barrel. You Prie il out of th€ 6dead mNtrGity's fat 6ngs and dis @€r thai ihe dip hasm buuel6,.fthough dP Piliol .pps6 to be i^ tuI wolhng ord4 rf you hnvebul_ Letsin yN bad9a.*, y@ wrtlle ableto fit ttP 8u Furihd doM the cqrido. you € a large wooden .rate @t to a b6d mshole 6vd in the d@r If wdt io p!i* the lid otr the @ie, turn to 152 |t you 'ou Mnt to hy to lift th€ h.nhole covd, tuh to 21o. IJ you wdld Ethd walk d! tun to ,!7 tt1 Y@ tip out all thec@tentsof the draweF in th. dest dbo iie tEd. You find p@, pencils,.heque b@Ls, old bils, eiting pape4 stdPs dd oveloF but nothina of ie.I @, Y@ oP6 the Hside cattftts .nd 8nd a Med Kit (+4 srAMrNA)in one, dd two h6d sMad6 (2d5+1) h the oth6. You woder how long it wil be before 'ttun drc dlling with hi! Zonbier lf y@ wdt to cdtinue *arlring the beddm, hh ro tt9, If you wet to walk thuth the ryin8 d(ffi, tm to 76.IJ Y@ wdi io oPd the bed@m d@r, rm to d'

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.oldy, *ying. Cnd. lrs abouttime Yur paid . N@. sin.e you arc ne arcud here, you d rt by washingout all the equipmt in the labora . we a€ toing for lunch. Ille l.aboraloly is the ircn d@r on the .i8ht, But dd't op6 th€ d@r th€ back ol the lnborato4. Ir leads into n @m

t we call tlp Slab R@m, lts where we mnvqt into mbt6 dd tl€y never wm to tE pleasedwho it h,pFrs to thm. Fmy that, be wded

- donl Eo in. They mdy not idle rm

ly to youl Roail lddmly rcars w h lar€hter waks off dM the .orido. thhugh the swnt with his tulow sistilrs. You ae debermined hate Roaik pay for his evil deeds,but nght now tEv€ to deal with the Zombi6. Tun to :5r. ae hudr&

rl9 of!@ts on lhe shelv*j old clas-

|weh. Ffe6@ books, arlarc. hErory boob Dd huc€ stion @ bdead @dtuB, Iherc is evd a

k of iol6 about the uded enntted Dmu at Chorls Bdt Frcnd.IIEE arc b@ks dedi€ted to dbie.t of vampi6, wercwolve, ghosis,shouls, letdb andMaiths but th€re@moE book about bi$ than d aU th€ oth6 undead catms Dut e. As a student of mlthologi@l be6ts, you 'I have lound a better coUatid oi b@k. |I y you .ould sPsd a wek in the libr.ry ro aad . 8ut lirtdng herc b a ddgetu option if hope to eope from the crsde alve. U you sbll

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44n46 w6t to Md one of ihe boks about Z@tn6, tum to r8A. If you wdt to l6ve the littary and w.rk on,

aro SomeMy is sh@titrt ai Y@ th@Eh a tull, Dortholelike windd in the wal behind you. The alambell MiGcuro"dtdl thebux.l'misyou stoF riryht md all i5 quiet aEain li yd wut tn M otr doM the ea6twinE hallway, tun to !89 1, you wdt to hm altMd dd ft bdk, hE to 156 t41

behind the tuttrs' TIEF is a ll,ruw Pas84.y e nalry it would Equift you to w.& 6ideway\ You pei dom it but ii is t@ ddk tu to io doM 't. *-very iai U yotwnt to tquse youEelf alona it, tum to:44. lJ you would rsthq keP on walkinS, 112

The rrDd sunfiF leav€ u tmall buriei hol6 in thc DareI ;f th; d@. The tldo zombi6 who wc tying in wait ouiside drp to the 8rc6d with a th@P Ihey do rci m(re again,If you wdt to tad Amy's diary tun to 123.IJ you wdi to @ith th€ Pekets of the Zombiet tatteEd dothin& tm to !34, 4t aE stn s you opd the d@r, the d%3 imP uP b atrac&.ld mBt del€nd yot@U with whatever werpon you have to ted. ItEre @ 17Attack Dogs

the tum, @.h with 1 point of rrdN ad @ch sin8 1 point of D.e(d. r you wir! turn to 35r, i[

stnd you ttffid

t41 as the speedinS @r b@6

m m yd, brdnS.Nful aim nd 6rinE r.pidly I the qued undead dliva. Ys is hit and the @r d{ly swerus Left,dashing h@drn into rhe ildinE at hi6h sp€edb€IoE buFtinA into fld6, petrol tanl ignite, @using a hu8€ explcion hjch totauy destro)€ the u. As y@ wrtch the nint vBk, y@ feel n incrediblese@ of relief. i in you ('m thou8hts, y@ w.lk b.ck tow6.ds

r45 step over tlE lM€led

badi6 of the Zomb€

take a l@l icide the bunr tt)@. FeatheBftom old mtEEss d fl@tinc artMd in the 6hote Mh, (mtins a very 3urE6I 3
duintniun raddq which is fixed to ttu iGide th. Eapd@i lf you wdt to ure the h@t to pull tlE laddd, tun ro !1 If vou wodd nttEr

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a4r14a walk ovs to the lift ar rhe end of the hallwat tum 147 Y@ pls buttd B but nothinE happeE. The lift d66 remin ops. lf y@ want to walk doM the hauway to opd the door, tln io 12. lf you w@ld Erho siay in ihe lift and pressbutton C, tum

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You start to walk up th€ stai@se and slM find oui who was making the noie. Twelve Zombies ar€ @ming down the staiF, stumblin8 inro eachorher .5 they do- When they catch 3ight of you they yel l@dly and push fotuad in a mindle$ ra8e.Two of nm fau doM rhesrats, rcling past you, but srand up ad climb ba.k up the staiE to attack. You arc almmd€d md mst fithi them aU. Ihe Zombies .re all .arrying ode weapotu which make them r'l@ F@dtul in attacl. Som€ oI them are b.andishinE .han bgs and pi.k are hddl6, whilsr arc wiel
rt@dy ot off, but the Zombie seem ucmemed t blood is pouinE frcm rhe st!6p. Its .i8ht hdd holdinB its *vered left hand which. brzarely, ish6 d a\e liEhdy.iYoubea the in dR?ly dd

aw yN weaPon. After your initial altack, ay piving Zombieswil ea.h inflici double damage 2e MtN pojnB aSaist you. r you win, tum

r5t-t56 t49 you * rtEt the @Eidor the pile of bodi6 B€y@d (fri6 on into the distare, Not fd ahed yd F a polish€d shel d@! h the right-hand w.n' II you wdt to open lhe d@4 lum !o 294,lI you wst to *alth thsugh Bo.is's Pek€ts, hn to t!8. If you wet to w.lt Pastthe sleel door, tun to 341. 150

You attad! th€ gapplinA h@k to ttF tE k of th€ .lock nd thrcw the $pe thrc$h the hole in the .lck fae. Aftei breakiry away nc of tE dass, you srep tlmuth tn€ hol. aid alPil doM the wall of tlp clcl iowd, TIE rcF it tut ldE 6@En to Ea.h the aU the way .LoM and y@ hi* to let 8o of it !o dltrD the last @ple of met6 0o UreMIbopbebw Vou t!'i6t yN skle at you land. l]F 1srrJN Point Tato rt. 15r Yd h@r ihe zodbid @ing uP the staiF .nd steP back fion the d@r, i€ady to fae OE dElauthr' Momab larer twsty four of thm Pou out onto with ra8€. Ch@se yM waPon lhe tut tsdk and fuht tlEm. If yoe wnl, tum to {c rtl Ihe Ud is lird y Miled
t5t bing op the drainpipe is hard work but you c€ ro F.hble

@bo the @f beforE YUE lE8

!o ta&edoth.r shot at you. fceping you h6d you walk quicLly aaGs th. roof stil )ou the op6 skyUtht, thuth which you €

hat apFs to be a lacitNy-tumishedbedtuo. js a Llae rou-p@rerbed diFuy uda the id sofu five metresbelow.Youhaveno (hoie

r to jdp

d{lm dho dE bed, tln

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r55 you warr .ron€ tu ffiido. yd bsm aw* of badsmu in thean Ttu turttErm yd Eo.th€w(E

8!b, bothepoint that y@ haveto hold yM n@ bo the sickeninSrterrh fom ma-kingyd ekll lou

iG a tt_anof dart blood @ tlE fi@ ledht up tie llidoi Yd sod mive at a iffitid,If v@ wdt to

tlE b-ailof bloodsEaithl o, hF to rr5. Uy@ d Eths hn ri8ht, t@ ro 97, !56

m ba.k, tuing you w@pd repeadly at the bdd wind@. The hrlway b 6ned with urd of bullets rich€tine off the walls in d 8e of raPid EU fiE. Rox lm di€. u )ou o[

nh b t9. If you rcU5 or 6, tum to 55,

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r57 The dmr opensinto another white-walled conidor lllminated by brighr stnp liShrs.You seethe words 'Help M€' wlitten in dried blood on the lefthand wall. Yo! donl stop to think aboul it dd caEy on until you dire at a T-junction where rhe cofiidor brm.hes left md ri8ht 6 fd as you can see.If you want to go left, tum to ro3. If yo! want to 80 ri8hi, r 58 you hear the sound of fisrs hamering Sudd€nly m th€ offi.e d@. outside. You walk olt of Yurr's dy md inro his olfice in rim€ to *e the far d@r 6h down onto the fl@a A giant apelike Zombie, ell over two metFs ral, stoopsits h€ad md€r the of the door frame b 6ter the offi.e, bellowinS {[y. You tell Amy to back you up while you face monsterZombie headm. 'I'm rjghr behind you. is must be Zombie Kong an mdead mutant t Prcfssr Rozn'k (e.ted. tD in8 to breed the timte Zombie. Amy shouts.pistol in hand Io feat Zombie Kong you need lo rcll a total of 20 or

re by combnin8therollrofbuthrourand Amy s

eapore. Add th€ total rclled from you we.pon ro

y ! p b lo l( r d 6 + r . I f yo u r a ' lr ,o ,o l l ,co m b h e d lal of 20 or mor€, Zombi€ KonE will redu.e you. b' 6 pooF. eachAhac t R oLnd.If) ou q In, ^MNA

459 The old lifi lu.hes into acti6, ruDiblins dd jud derin8 6 it d*ends slowly, tafde $inding to a halt at the fi6t fl@i TIE iift dm6 slide open to revealanother l@E halway like the @e on the sec_ ond n@r, mdinS at a window that l@ks out onio the courtyard. There is also a dootray on the riSht at the lar dd of the hailway. II you want to walt doh the hallway to op6 the dmr tm to lz li you would ratherstay in the lift, you .e either Pre$ 6utton G (tum to ,t) or pls button B (tum to r47)

fio I6t be6orcthe conidor tums ri8hl, th€e is a white d@trav in the left-h.nd wall. You walk up to the d@r a;d K a sisn painted on ii in blaci l€tt€r ins whi.h rcads M,sr Ret. You tisth at the d@r and hear the emd of ilrum being played. IIE dluming is totaly out of time and awtul to listen to. Wh@ver is playjng ha5 ab$lutely no ese of rhythm, If y@ want to oPs the dmr, tum to .o4- If you would raiher walk past the door and tum nght

You hear a Sratin8 sosd as a stio. of wal at the backof the rcom st d$ back,leaving a 8aPjut larSe @u8h for you to squ@e *eugh to reachthe out_ .ide world. Amy imps for joy. 'Yesl' she shours, clappinE scitedlt Once outside Amy pleads with younot to go bacrDro rherastl€ lou rePlyth. t you luv€ to slop \ur beforehe urJ€i+€s his Zombict on the world. Youreassu€ he. that it won,r rak€vou long to deal with the eminh8 Zombie and that yo!'ll cat h up with her in no time at all. Amy slares |t the 8oud, a single ted ming down her .hek. U you pos*ss a gold tcket on a gold .hain, ru.n to Z:,Ifyou do not ha\e th€lekel, tm to 285. Th€ ldk 1li6 open with hanUy any elfort. You lift up the lid of th€ chestand find thee ae th@ el} .rate .ompartmmts, one contains two smll Med Xits thar will each 6toe 2 sraMrN^ points when !ed. The sond contaiN six lox€s of bulleh and .hot8un cartndges.The third contaiN a snall 6as linder for r c.hp,n8 stole. lou help youElr to l'hat you wmt dd look !p dd doM th€ coEidor If you wmt to head left along it to ope the door, nrh to 30.lf you want to head ndi alon8 it to oPen the oths d@r, ilm to n9. 161 Y@ l@k out of rhe ledrcom window dd w that the.ourtyard is about twenty met6 below In d* Fration, you ihDw ruhios, beddinS and PiUows

out of the window, hoPing to lrnd on them to stren your fall. You tie . sl@t dud the windm han_ youM|J down as lai as dlq .limb out dd lower po$ibl€.lou rakead@p bFathand let Eo.You falL head over h€ls and dash onto dP grrvcl{vered .outyard below. unJorhfat€ly you land on your head6d bMl your ne.k. Your advent!rc is over

they a@unter. Evmtually they will reach M€1i5, liost likely in the middle of the night, where they iL ti.cl ed inJftr o erybody ir the villaE€whilst theyslep. includnSyou B) daybrealyou wrllb. ruminE alon8sideth€m.a mindlessZombiein m y ofunde,d YouradvstuE ir over sn

t66 as you tt?e in the .at's nahe/ the scllf

edi.t€ly freea up rd rh€ l.ptop shuts doM. bu slan the scr€d doM out of ftushation. Amy i6 to calrnyou down, syinS trDr not Eint the prop nSht now is not the6d of the borld Tum 154. 164

To your left you * the tring d6s and to youf right you e dother ircn door in the ri8hLhand wall. Beyondthe doot the conidor cdtinuF on to. eme distane. YouL7 io oPenthe iron door but find it is lcked md therc is no keyhole m ttE ouisid€ You walk up the @rido. to wherc il ends at a rn d@i Thee is nowhereelseto ao e you Pushdown on the met l bar to op€n the fire d@r Tm to 17! a95 Yo! failed to kill a[ ihe Zombi€ in Goraya Casd. Nol longafteryou&Ped, theZombiesyou fail€d to find bu6t th@E| the mainItt€s rhathad ben l€fl open. They e now rdPagin8 rhrou8h the @shyside, biiinE and infeting dy Poo. vi.tims

darf tuespastyourhe.d$d lodgesrrelfharmslv in a b@k on one of th€ sh€lvesb€hind vou. A

v saDe! Youexaminethe switchcarctullvand that there e a.tually tle pGitiotu it .an be TheF n a cmir l'otr' D6ition, a down Fsirion hich ets of{ the trap, dd an up position, If you wi5h io flrck the swikn up. tum to 41. lf you uld rather not tale he chane dd would pFfer lele the lib.ary medid[el]

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thou8htherei5cna8e,thatdernor stopthenert ave of Zombi6 frDm beins dram into the courtrd by dE rallyinS caUof the atr raid 5rEn. Tney

b{ over the bodies of thtu falen (otuad6, ch one of them desperareto ffr ro you tusr. You

*g-av slide anorherbelr of cartndge into the ammunition chanber of the heavy nachine gu. You are about to fire, whd you hear the bal.ony doors bursr open behind you. Two scientists,one of then with a bald head dd an eye pakh, jump out onto rhe balcony wielding axes. Their grey ta.es are coveed with open wounds and weeping sor€s.They have both tnmed into zombi$l Thereis no time tor you to 86b your handSunandyou will hav€to fi8ht th€mbare handed(rd6 l). The axe-wieldingZombis atta.k fist, ea.h.ausing2 pointsof DAMAGE Rdu.e your slaMrN^ by 4 points. If you win, rum io t5o. a69 If yo! want to go bacl into thc b.drcom to read thc diart tlm to ?3. If you want to searchthe pckets ol the Zombi6' .lorhes, ttrm to 134. 170

It C dirty wo.k and you are soon .orered in c@l dust.You are just abourro Eiv€up diEEinEwhen yoff shovelhit somethingsolid. Youclearaway the coal to di*over an old plasti. sact ti€d with nylon twine. You unrie the sackand find a grapplinS h@L attached toa amd lenAthofclimbingrope.Youfas ten it to your ba6, rhinkinS rhat it miSht be ne€ded later, and 80 over to the d@r to trl' to ops it with the key hagin8 on th€ hooli. Tum lo lz1. 17r jump MisjudtnS your slightly,you lahdheavilyon the edge of the matb€s md fal ofI the bed. Youf

174-475 h€ad hits the marble d@r, .ausin6 you cotuider able pain and mking you dizy. Lr* 2 sr^MrN^ points. You shakeyour head lo lry to ftrus but the dizzinesscontinus. You ae slightly concuss€dmd duing you. nexr.ombatyou must dedu.t 4 lrcm your D^M^cr rclls. Your head is still pounding as you stand up to look arcmd. Turn to 221.

smll @m with bare,white-paintedwalls.Thee is a whit€ doo. in on€ waU with a key in the lock. Th€ key tums and the dmr op€6 into a main.orridor exa.tly lilc the one you Ieft to go down to the sMer Goin8 left would or y rate you backro where yo! havealreadyben $ you deidc to headright towards a flight of a{endinE srans.Turn ro :5o.

172

Openina the fie d@r tri88€B a red lidt lo sta.t nashinSand m alan to sta.t rinSinSlotrdly.You are at the botton of a fire erape which hous a windin8 ircn staircas€leading up cveral fli8hts of stai.s to anotherIire dsr at the top. ll you want to u up the stair.as, tuh to tZ. If you wmt to stay where you ae ro *e iI dybody com6 to investiSare,tum a73 You .limb up the ircn Mg: mtil you reach th€ manhole cover at the top of the shaft. Yo! Push on it and are relieved to seethat it lilis up. You clifrb out oI the shafi and 6nd youMlf standing in a

174 At such.loserd8e is very lnlitely thatan er.el l6t turlshan like Yur. would miss such an easy tal8et. Thebullet hits you in the side oi the headand you aredeadbeforeyou hit the ground. Your adven

Th€.orn€r of the cupboardhts yo! on the forehead causjng you to scream out in pain You fall back a8ainstth€ show€r wall dazedand.ontused, bl@d pounng down you. fae. LGe 4 srAMrNApoints. If you e stil alive, rln to ,75.

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a76 The stafta* leads dom to a wide coridor with a lih6rone flmr You s@ w where the noi* md colmohd is coming ftum. Sone twenty metrs aheadlh.rc G a SrouPof Zombic fighting over the caMs ot a do8.Theyae all trying to Srabthe .auss io tale a bite out of n; oblivious to the fact rhal it is dawling w h mggots. Thebrawl Eetsrealy viciors md out of contrcl, with sme of the zombie biting eachorhe6 ans and legs,whilst two othe.s try to pol€ €ach other's eyesout. But when ihe staNing Zombic .at h sight ot you, rh€y stop fighting and ld.h towards you alru outrrer.hed, drmlina and bayinE fo. bld}l. Thered€ snted zonbiB in total dd you wil hav€ to fidt them.lf you win, tm to 6.

an You hury down th€ hallway until you rca.h th€ You d@rlr'ssolidwhitewith a silverplatedhandle. p€ss yorr eara8ainstit but do nor h€ar$y nois. @mins frcm the other side. Arm€d a.d ready for ombat, you tum the handle slowlt open the door ,nd ran th. rcom. It's mother bedroom simnar in ria b rhe one on the n@. above.The e$trePiee ir d erpensive-lokin8 bed with a Pl$h mttre$ .!d a white [email protected]€xr to it stands a bcdside cdbineton whi.h th€reis a.lear plaslictablelanP with a vivid yellowshade.Th€bed.@n alsohasa white wardrobe and a ch*t oi drawers. On the tar wall thereare whitepainred swing doorewhnh )'ou p6ume lead into a bathrcom. You ter out or rhe ii.dow and seea nunber of zombi$ wmderins

aroud air 6sty. If you wdt to exmine the H mm fumitue, tum to 92.lf you want to 8o tsugh the swing d@rs oPPGii€, tum b 4 174 The box c@laic a 5m[ P€nknife GdG2), $15 and eme shing. You take what you wnt, Puttina the items inro the ba& which you slinE over yout shoold€rbefore leaving the r@m to head down the 179 you how mry ZDmbie thee to s Ir is im dark fd ae in the tum e You fie Y@t 8m rddor Y at the otuoming Pack. Ihey oiinue to Prs to a.d you mdetefted,evo thoughmbyaEotdoMby hjt o wming you aN 3ldd€nly bdleis Wthout the side oI the headbv a lump of dl wield€d bv a zohbie who laps olit ol tht slEdows to y@r left te 3 srNNA poinrs.If y@ @ stil aUvercI onedie 11you oll r-3, tm to 1o4.ll you rcu 4-6, tm to 195 o Youpush the heavyfou.Poster bed again6tthe door and;rballthe Hrcom fumitureon boPof it The no;ouls'd€ is E€ttingloudetasmorcZombiesare attracredby the comotion. Th€y (ontinue to hm_ mer aeairot lhe d@r and You s that the fta@ is begi;ng to comeaway ft;m the wa[, beakng thc ldk. If you wdt to stay wh@ you e, tum to 327 If you wdt to jumP out of the tEd@m window into the courtyard below,tum to 231

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chemical sfrell. Sudd€nly you hear the somd oa I@tst€ps .omin8 down rhe .oridor to your left. To your right some twdty netc away, th€r ar swin6 doo6 amss the coddor made of vulcanized rubb€r If you want to 6nd out who is comin8 dom the conidor, tum to 45.If you wdt to walt thr@gh th€ swin6 d@6, ium to 11.

186 Whever is on th€ r@I is v€ry strcng and has no trouble in lifrinS you !p by you. thmt. You gasp fo. aif, legs wnggtng, as you srruEEleto fie your self ftum th€ iron Srip on your throat. But you are umble to pd* opd the Zombie'sEianI fingeE and it d@s not take lon6 befoe your body 8@s lihp. Your adventrre is over a87 Yo! * that the bucket conraire nothinS but dead rats. However, you also e a gold lck€t attached to a gold chain that is hanging around the porpleveined n{k of one of the Zombis. Lu.kily the Zombie landed on the path md you aF abl€ b

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d8_189 pull the l@ket f.om its @cL. You open it to Feal a photo of a pEny blondehaiEd Eirl who lmks to b€ eithto or hinetM yeas old. Ihe other side of the leket has the nme Amy Flekher mElav€d on it. You pur it in you petet and walk 6, evstualy .ming to another verti.al shaf! similar to the one you .limH doM earlier Ah@d you cr seeihat ahetl)lftl is blcked by an iion ba.€d gnll pEventhB you lrom walkin8 alonE rhe parh. lf you have ! ha.k saw and want to try to cut through the ion bas, tm to 18.If you would rath€r climb out of th€ laa A stray buuet fired from the gu of you adve.sary hits you in th€ thi6h, causin8 a bad n€sh woud. l]e I sr MrN points. If yd are still alive, tuh r89 The siaire takesyou down to a windowls.oncte tuml. Ahead you hear the somd of loud voices dd srebody or somethinE ratrling ihe d(m of a metal .age. lou walk slowly doM the t'llml towanls where the noie is coming from. It endsat a larye, ircn-bared cell that is full of si:rghing Zombies.They go berrerk wh€n they see you - in a blind ra8e, they $row thel@lve violently €aiNt the ircn bars of the .ell de. Sudds y the F
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and you The thick.able is coveEdin bla.k Srease ro enabl€ find it impossiblelo Srip it firmly soogh you to .limb uP it. lf you havea sword or a €owb.r you .ould try lo prise open the tteel sliding doors (umto62).Altemativelyyou couldcalloutfor help /94 You feel a wet, slaverin8 mouth on yoli

comon memy a humanlYou omt s€vented in toral as rhey rush rowards you, arms outsrretched. I1 you poses a hand genade, it might be a good time to $e it now Tum io l5Z If you do nor hav€ any Sreades you will n@d to u$ anotherweapon.

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As you t y to fore the ldk oPen,the crowbar sliPs, trappin8 your fingds Painfully a8aitut the
191 The tuar and a.Soish that was et hed on Amy s fa.e slowly drains away dd she erlEl€s a huge siSh ol relief, sayinErharshestill cd'i quile believeyou are Youtcll hq.bout how yor he@to helphc. cscapc. were on€ of th€ p€ople who w€rc kidnapped and brclghtto the@sdeto betumedintoa Zombic.You explain how you nmged to €sape by overpow erhS your pnson guard and how you have ben I]ming fo. your lif€ sin e, killing Zombis at every iln'GinErichYurhasrobestoppedlTheonlyway is to kill all his Zo(bies, Any saysurgentlyYou reply that she is not the first p€son to say thar, and rclate the tale of poor old Boris. You tell her not to worry md that you will get her out of the castlealive - 6d 3hll humanl Amy managesa tiny smile and

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195 You are dzed by the blow but manage to stay on your feL You tum to shmt the Zombie who .ttacked you and watch him fall to the Brcund, twitching, Head spimin& you stmble back aaaiEt th€ wal dd imdvertendy hii the lithi switch with you head.The @m is imediately lit up by rcws of n6n lthts fixed to the low cnin8. It io devoid of dy turniiup. Thereis just a bl@dstainedslab of polished stoneon a plinth in the middl€ which has nmacle dd chais aftachedro eachcomei There aE nine Zombieslying d€d on the nmr md nin€ teenleft alive, mosi shieldinS their eyesagai.st the ddden bright light You*ize you .hec md start [email protected] you win, tln lo 298. afi You takeceful aim ai rhel@l dd squ@? the t igta of your gu. Ihe qplosion that folows n both
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ff you have a .haitew md would rather ot your way thrcugh the dM, tum to 2or, 93 The halway tum left on e moe md you walk abmd the cmer, miving at a wide, carPet€d stairce on the right, aSaintoinE uP. The haUway entinuB on bey6d the staira*. Suddenry you h€ara noi* oming ftom the top of the staftae and 8et rcady to detund youkll Tum to r48. 19 You take the puUey out of you ba8 and cliP it @ro the zip wire, tying a sho.t lnt$ of ro!€ to it frcm which to hang. You sit on the edge of the mf dd push otr, nyinE ihbugh the air asthe Zohbi6 watch frcm below srcaminE dd shouting at you- Ihe tp wire dr@Ps mdd youf wei6ht, slowin8 you down the cour whd you are just Ner half way ffi ydd. Luckily you momenhm keepsyou 8oin8 and you each the edge of the tuf of the eastwin6. You srab hold of the metal ladd€r md climb dom to the balcony d f6t as you.an. At the s,ft ttu, td of the Zonbis in the courtyard start to climb uP the ladder IrEy rca.h the fiFt fl@r b.Lony at the em time you do dd you have to fight them.If you win, tun ro 2ad Y@ pu[ oui the pin hd thmw ihe tEnade down the halway into tte Path d tl€ d.oming Zombi6. Y@ d.op to lhe floor ndt to Bo.jsj$i s it explod4

apn€l dd debris ny d@n the oEidor iearing lo AE Dact of Zohbi6. Led(e tt€ir nuhb€r by

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tlEt is PoPPed uP lou p# by a di.ty old mths wau. to havekn the ddFhand lt aplEaE $ai$t @ped in the @ridor long a8o. Brekd sPrirF dick out thsu8h its tom, 8rubby cover If you want to lmk behind iL hh to r-41.If you wolld Elher lep d wahin& hrm to J85.

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You pull the.ord.nd thc ch.ins.n s nutor bursts noisily to litc. You drrust the rubti.g chrnr of lnr) blades at the Llood.n door, cul|nr8 a circulnr h.l. tluotrEhiheoakFanellikn lnin thr.u8h b!ltcr But th.gnl yo! ar. trying to help is hlsloi.nl, b.lirvnA you area ZomLrieShr h.s i Pistd and be8insfirnr8 Lr ndonshotsatlhedoofi nthem i s t.k e.b.l i c l th.l touar etr ying( ,li11h.i l {ol l or .r l i ..T ty ou{,11, l , nr 165 turn to154 If l,o! dl4+,ruh 204 Y(r op.^ th. door slosly, peering r.und t. se $ho is playinS th. dtuns so badlt: The roon is a wr..k. T|.rc are smashedup guitars wiih bmken bent in llo, a flatt€ned necks,a hombone rhich 's s.lophone an.t a piano on its sid. {ith.rll its kcys and strings.ipp.d o{tand scatleredover th€ iloor Anidst rhe pile ofbrckn instrum.nrs an.l torn ut pagesol shc.r .rus1., you seea Zombie sitting .n a st@1,bashingauny at n s.t ol dilms $nh a flute rnd i hrmmer insteadot drum sticks Th€ zombic appeab tobe in n hi..c, its blank starin8eyeslN* in6 straighi lhrouSh you, obljrn,us b .vcrythnrB Suddenlr,rhr skin.f th. sniro drum G rippld open bl the lore of the hanncr Ponndmg do$n on 't This n.l.s th. ZombF ny into a rage, scpa ing loudll Snappedout ol its tn..c/ it.at.hcs siSht ol vdu and lmmediately throws the ham.rer at lou Rollonedie llth.nr mb.r r .l l c di s l :r ,tui nto75.tl thc number rclled is 4 6, tum b 217

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Tte b@k is an illustrated refereme wort on Zombi6, Eivin8 very detailed d*riptioB of their histo.y dd habits. The book claims tlat Zombi6 were first createdby witch d@to6 oI the Caribbem. On one small island, ihe Zonrbie population gew ucontrollably dd had to be hmted dowr and slatrShteied. Bul befoF thei. corp*s werc all buhed, blood Ircm slain zombies was ialo away and sld io lmmpulous t ades. They eld ft on to evil megalomaniacawho wmled to expe.iment in iminE humans into Zonbies. Any human who hasblood-ro-bl@d .onracr wirh a zombie wil tum into one thtuLves. Ihe book gives a stem wam ing to be very careful whd .omin8 into cdiact with Zonbi6. You @ke a mstal nole oI the advice beforedRidin8 what to do neit, U you want to flick the brassswitch, tlm to 324.If you wmt to leav€the library ed walt on, tuh to 160.

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208 Some of the suitcas contain old.lothes and shoes which appear to be your si4 iI you want them. Another.dtains a brck€n old oicket bat and some mouldy cricket balls. Yet mother su caseon lhe bottom shelf h tull of plasti. soldie6, hodel tanks and senery 'Ite fi8ures are beautifully hmd-painred but dlsty and lonS-torgotten by whoeve. on.e played war Eams with drem. The linal suitca* you ops contains smethinS moe immediately usetuI. lt is a Med Kit, l41m you use it, Sain 4 s.^MrNA points. You take tlE Med Kit and shufthc cupbo.rd d@r It you havenotdone salready, you may open th€ d@r oppcite tum to :45. If yotr woold rarher walk on ro the end of the coridor, tum to 81,

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You run down th€ north-win5 hallway, past the dmrs in the middle, to the stan as frcm which you emerS.d not lona a8o whd lealing the ba*moi You ae tempted to go back down the stai6 to finish off ihe Zombi€sin the baeoent but ddide that .m wait until yo! havehelpedAmy daPe from the

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Climbing !p th. diainpipe is hard work. Cingri.h Yurr hasplenty oilime to seltledo$ n m.] takecare ful a1m.H. do.s not niss his t.rg.r r wond tinc. The shot dngs outand darkn€senvelopesyou. You l€t Eo oI the drainpipe and lall headlonS inro the baying rhrcng of zonbi.sbelow You. adventureis

Do you know the young girl's nahe? It yor wanfto ..ll out th. nam. Afrt tu.n to lc.Ifyou {ant to cali out the nameAmcli., tur. to 33.It you want n) .ail oufthc n,nc Ah.nda. turn to 197

Thctu isa handleon th. mannol€covoand you lift n up quit€..sily. You ate inmcdiately engulled by a terrible sten.h, so bad thal it makes you retch.It is the lorl smell ol.aw ses.8€. Th€rc is a narro$ shatt thardrcps lerticaly down to !n oPenswage tuMel bclow. There ae iron rungs fired to the wall all lhe way down the shaIt.Yo! droP a stonedown and hear n hnd with a duU 'PloP into the sewage water beloh lf you want to clinb dom th€ shafr, turn to t79 Ifyou would rathe..losc th€ manhole coverand .onturuealon8 th. corridor,turn to 337

21t The.hesl isn'l lo.ked. You lift the lid and tind lhr€ boxesol bollets,throc boxcsof shotgun .nrtridg€s, an cmPty plistic bottle and Sr5.You lake whal you need and leavcthc bunk room to h.Jd ofi along th.

2r4 The scimtists e .awhl @npletely by surpri* when you ba$e thbuSh the d@s with y@r 86 poind at them. They itrmEdiat€ly rai* then alm in the air to surendei Y@ tell then to walk ihDuEh the swiry d@6 and into ttu tust ell past the lift. As you pa$ by the lift, the &i6r6t with the shaved head drcps his .lipbcrd, petending it was by accidmt. As he bends doM to pick it up, he sudds y jmps up md tdes to inject you with a syrinSecdtaining .ontdinated blmd. Roll one die lf you rcll I 3, tlm to ,53, ff y@ rcll 4-6,tum to 27.

You l@k doM the coriior moMtarily to yiew rhe cdmSe beforc kl@lin8 to help Botu who is lyinS fa.e down, SroninE in pain-You * that he is very badly ini@d. Y@ tum him over and seeblmd hickline out of the @m of his mouth, He aaches up md gEbs you aIG,'SrippinE them ti8htly. He sta@ at you with pleding eyes,€tranger, it's down to you now' he whispero slowly, couEhi.g in 8@t dieonfori. 'Otto is d@d. GEgo. i3 dead-TheriF of the Zombiesh3 b m. You have to stoP Gingrich Yu. You have to kill his Zombis, You have to kiu

them alll' Borisbrcathe out slMly ashis ey6 cl@, He loces hj5 Erip md falb baclghis headslumped to @ Bid€.Th@ dl)d't app€r to be dything that y@ 6 do ror him. Y@ stand up ud w.lk slowly doM the haUway,picking yor way thbugh tE pile of Zombie orps. Tm to Z.

2a6 You fdl thrcu8h a trap .l@r and ldd paintuly m the fl@r below. You legs are bmlq in *veEl pla.e€, dd you pa66oui rroh the pain. t{h6 you w.*e up, y@ @tmt beliae you ey6. You arc in a laBe, windowless mm lit by lre6 eilint lithts. You @ chainedto a smoothstore slab,surbdded by *ree.hing zotribiB who b@me very ei@ted *hm they se you eyes flick op{. Ihey shuffle d(g to watcha tau,thi&lespetacled ma wearinE a ldg while laboratoayc@l 6d rubba glov6 injet y@ Ek with Zd$ie bl@d, The kidtist sni66eE dd tells y@ that aI€ about to beome the l.test (|)t@ipt in Gi$rich Yun's amy of Zonbi6. Ytu 'd

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You *6rch through you. pekets and 6nd the kers you are lookins Ior You opd th€ vm dmr, jump inio the driver's seat and tum the ley in the igni tion. Tle start€f motor whirs for what eems like a6€s before the €n8ire Iinally splutiers into life, backfirin& dd beLhing thi.k blact smoke our of th€ exhaust.You pur the van in gear and press down on the a.ele.atoi The van lurchc fotra!.I into the courtyard, €n8im misfirin8. TheF b a sudden loud bang,ca!*d by smeL\ing landing on the .abin mf. A hidss faceappearoupside down in frcnr of you, presd agaiGr the windscreen A lone Zombie has jumped down frcn th€ irst floor win dow abovelhe garageand onto the r@f of the van, It tEgins hammering on the windscrem. You poinl your gu aboveyou and shot thmrgh the .oof. The Zombie scrshes in pain, olls off the mf and hits the 8romd. Thmu8h the rear-view mirror you see aitempt to stmd !p a8ain,You stop th€ vm and 8et out, leaving th€ en8ine rljmin8. The bleedinS Zombie stumbles towards yo!? ams outstEtched/ uttennS the wonls 'the enemy' in a low, raspinS voice.You shoot aEainand watch it drcp fac+down onto the 8oun.t, this time for good. You appruch the body cautiously and slowly rurn over with you r@t. Its jaclet flops ops and you see a ta8 *wn on the inside pock€r,with ihe name Higson €mbrcideredon ft. $iU alert, you *an the ar€a,but *ing no more Zombies,you iump ba.Ii in the van dd dnve up ro the min gateg blasting the padlock off with a bubt of 8ufire. You tcs your tun out

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gets the b€tt€r of you, and you pull Ih€ drawer opo ruther, to tind a loadedhandEun(1d6+,), d enpry Pu6e, eme leli€$/ a p6 and a diary. The l€tt€6 ar€ all addessed b a gi.l by th€ nameof Amy Flekhei They wee wntten by her Aunt Helen who has a New Yorl addess. The ea.ly letteF write of her disapprcval or Amy Eoin8to worl as a Mk for a ftan of qu€stiombl€ .hi.acte. in a castlein a remotepart of Romania,Sheaslc if Amy is bebg well l@ted after, and when shewill be retuning home to New York. Her later letters be8her to ome home.As the months 8o by her .ombications b(ome more f.mtic; Aunt Hels eys sheis'woried si.k'atDut the rhings Amy has writren to her, su.h as her hav rng sm men in shite.cts'and GingnchYlr acting totally weini'dd thar shehashead 'tmible *rcafu' cominSfrom the basement.You pur rhe lerteF down bd are about to pict up the diary when slddenly you hear a noi* oliside, lt's the eud oI footstepscoming doM the halway. If yo! want to investigate,tuh to loj. lf you want to .lok the b€d, tuh clmr dd lock it, tun to 258.

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Yotr pas by an orMtely-caNed mahoganyrable on whi.h standsa large, pat€med vat and two 3mall oo(elain fiqlrines. The va* has a striking desiSn iI interwoven blue flowere paind on it You look inside it but t is ehPty. There is a smal dra{er at the end of the tabl€. You slide it oPen and find a tape measuie,a Pair of rcading gla$ee a Peket RomnDn EnglChdkhonart .nd . calolaior You tale wh,r you hanr dnd wall on Th€ hallwal make6a sharp right run and you gs arive at a dmmay in the riSht-hmd wall whi.h has a hand_ painted sisn with ihe word 'Cleane6'@ it srewed io the doo; If you wmt to oPenthe door, tum to 89 It you would rathe. walk on a,head,turn to 3i. 2t4

You iump off th€ balcony, landin8 Painfully but u umed on ihe pile of bodi6, which brcaks your fall. Thereis a huge€xplosionov€rheadasa baDok shell blows the bal.ony to Piees You rcll away to avod beinShrl bl lallin8 rubbleand debris You stdd up dd run Jcrc$ th€coutlard and thrcuEh the doo;s in the no.th wing b€toreGingrich Yur. h.s tifre to lire another sh€ll. All is deathlv quiet in the corridor, but you know thar Yur in his Zorbie state will b€ desDeratelo hut yotr down. You suddenly remenber ;ith horrcr th,r ydr ba8 was on the bal onv Evervthinq that was inside it is now lost. Al' yJhave [It is your hand8unand dy smallitems vou haveinside your pockelsto takeon Yurr m
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The.ert norninSAmy wakesea.lyto theemd of birds singingoutsideher window Thesu is shining and all is qliet and peacefll h the pi.tueque vil la8e oI Melis. Sheopss the ruraiN md looks our onlo the villaSe sq@e. Peopleae busy settina up their fra.ket stals, uaware that you hav€ averred the apcalyp* or the unilerd. You,however,did not slep e well in you. tiny b€drum in the attic. Al night you thouSht about the {enrs ot the pcvious dat Soing though everything in your mind over md over a8ain. You are posiiive ihai you cheke.l all the @ms, but somethinSh still bugging you. Sudddly it dawns on you the skip in the.ourtyardl You didn't l@k under the .ovei You try trJ .onvin.e yMelf that it was very unilely that ihee were any Zombie hiding in a skip. Betoe long you

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want to h@d left alonS the (o idor to open the dor, tlm to ,o. If you wdt to head n8ht aron6the @didor to op6 the other d@4 tlm to fl9. If you wdt to prise opd the ldk on the ch6t, ium to r3r. The.astl€ is eon lefi fd behind. Yd walk alon8 in silen e,both .onsumed by you oM thoughtsabout the tenible eventsof th€ day.But it d6n1 takelon6 for yotr both to cher up, as you eali4 how hcky you arc to have e*aped. You pick up the pae and hurry on, chaiiinS a8ain, hoping to reach a village tEfore darl(, Tum to 4@. 224

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contaminatedwith this sene For the lastvea. Yuri s hcncnm€nh.!c kidnapped hundredsot vi.tims who wet lo.ked uP and stared until they wer. weak enouAh to bc translorocd The Zonbie ar€ kePt ude4romd in scmidartness,ldked uP incidP huBecllars Som€areecasionallyrUow€dour to ni; arcund the castlefor Yrir's amu$menl He

You'v. gorto kill thcmall.Ilyou don't kill thcm.ll, we are dmmed. And e areyou. Boris'sdesp€raIewords rinE inside your head.Wlat he'stold you aboutYuf sccnsoazy,butniybc it is true?Could it haveb€€nZombieswho jostledyou in the colrtyard when you arrived?Hare you nonically found the mythological beastsyou havespent so long scar.hinSfor? Or ar. tn.y abotrrb iind you? You smil€ at Borisand t€ll him you havenothing to lo$ md that you will do it or die tryinE. Bolh men .h.rr loudlvand give tou. big slapon the ba.k in

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Rr would ||lc ro lea\€ b.rnre Nol 'uDris'nq\, B .n s sa vs h rrh a rnisn W e \€ rh a t d , y L o m i .: e.med decrst non€y he€ but rle rr. not alLowed to le.!c, so it's all be€n a bit Pointless teaUy Gregor and I are hopins to bnbe on€ ol the scientists to 8et us out or dri; hallhole as ;oon as Possiblc lr will be Aimae€ddonday $ hen Yurr unleasheshis Zombies on th;wo.ld. B;t maybe you can stoP him? lt/s a monudental task brt not imPossible You wiU luve to kill his Zonbi€s, ea.h md eve.y one ol them

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2to 2to C@ching down ro avoid bein8 *n by the Zombi* in the ourtyaid, you tipt@ doM the hallway lo each ihe ielsope. Pointing it at the baLony on the filst doo. of the east wing, you per inro the lens, ftuing on ihe hevy m.hine gun mouted on the wall. You aoSrize it 6 a .lo calibrc Brcmin& m iMly powertul rapid-finng na.hiDe B@ that fires belt-Ied hi8h{alibrc bul€rs. If ody you .ould get your hands on it to mow down rhe Zombies. The Frcn h windows on th€ balcmy sudds y open. 'I'lte familiar fiBUe of Gingrich Ytrrr appeaB as he walks to rh€ €dge. Holdina a sy.inge tull of bl@d in one hand and a gla$ of bl@d in the other h€ *rcm mdically at his Zombies below They all and I@k up. Yur stopsshoutinE.He simds in t@ siloce fo. a few noments Mpletely still, beiore injecling hi@lf in the neck with th€ syinge dd drinkinS the gla$ of blood.Yolr wo6t 6ea6aresoon realiz€d as Yu starts to transform into a Zombie. Hb skin tums 8ry and etupts with $r€s and blisters. His red nmed ey6 tm milly white, sinking dep into iheir o@k€ts.His lips split and begin to bleed,He .tush6 the glassin hb hand, dttin8 his 6nBeBbadly, but d(H't wm to carcas he beuows at the sky. No longer human, he is a man posss€d, spittinE blood as he calts on his fellow undead to mroack the world. With the d€afenin8 $und of Keahing Zombies ringing in your ears, you rush back along ihe ha[way ro saIE down the

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Somehowyou suNive the o$laught ol the Zombis fd step over the twitching bodies to take a l@l icide the .ell. One of rh€ prcn€ Zombie has a silvd ndk stickinS out of the iop pclet of ils blmd+tained shi.t. You tale the flask dd Sive it a shake-IrEE is liquid inside. You lllrs{]fu the toP to talG a snift lt tE a strdge smell which Eminds you of bitter alnonds, If you wmt to tale a swiS ot the liquid, tum io 376.II you would rather Pour the liquid away,tun to 56.

2t3 You lmk out of th€ Hmm window dd K that the .ourtyard is abolt twdty metres below It ij v6y unlikely that you .ould jmp that far down withoui faially injuin8 youell r you .dI wilh to clhe jt, tum to 87.If you w@ld rather staywh*

2t4 Th€ dm6 hav€ been blown out, w€d8in8 the lill tight a8airot the wall of the lift shaft,dd pFenting it frcm movinE. You cm hed the lift's motor hmminE loudl, Btraining ro lowef it. A hole has also ben bloM thbugh the fl6r of the lift, which lmks jusr aboui bE enough to. you to sque4 th.ough. Y@ per into the glooh dd Gtimte tlEt it is about a five metF drcp to ihe baem€nt fl@r lf you wdr !o slide down rhe lift @ble,tum to 80,If you want to jmp dom to th€ flmr, tln to j43. Deopatchintthetwo slow Zombi6 waseasy6@9lr but you know that ur 6s you find youM|I a tu, you wil have @ cha@ agaiGt a ho.de of them.

2)Z+39 You step over then bodies to loot in the.upboard. I$ide you find a smaumetal tEr wiih a Elm ctls printed on the lid. lt G a Med Kit, which wiU add 4 points to your srAMrNAwhen you deide to useit. 'lh@ areabo two cardboardboE of bllers whi.h you put into your bat ioaelher with the Med Kit. At le6t you now havealmdition, if not a gr)n.Thee is no othd way @t of the rcom s you 8o bac! ihe way you cme. Tm to .65.

2t6 You M sildtly alonS the @rido6, 8u in tmd, 6til you Each the euth Mn8. You @rn a[ the Il]{ft but find no ira@ of Gingrich Yur, In ore @m you 6nd a loclGr which y@ mmage to prie openwith a rewdnver you 6nd on the fl@i Inside you find a sM{ff shot8u Gd6+4) ad a box of carbidgee Suddeily you hear the eod of a @r's mEire starting up, You l@k thrugh a window dd * rhat the gete doo6 in the e6t wing are oFn. cm in hdd /@ u inro the coutyard md head for the tdaEe. Tlm to 369.

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244 Th€ corndor tutr sharply lelt onc€ more. You tum the comer and walk towa.ds a doorway at the end ot the conidor Suddenlyyou hearrhesound of dogs barkin8 loudly bchind you. A largc p.ck otviciouslooking Altack DoAs .ouds the comeL wild-eyed and slaverhS. The sleeklookinS and llrra a88res-

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250 Thr d.lett staiF lead uP ro th.Smud flolr.f the dayli8ht after .asrlt \ou ,re relie\rd t^ be ba.t 'n da!s rn near dark be'n8 held .apr,v. ror so many ness Y.ur eyes hatcr as the) Jd u+ to lhe bnght liAht 01 the sun's rays PourinS throuAh a win.low high up in the wall oPPcit€ the toP of the stai6 Therc are sevcml lifesize Portraits h.ngrnE on the brishtlv patted
Arolnd the .oms, you son arive at a jun.tion. To your nAht thereis moL\er.orndor leadin8 bacl the way you havej6t comelroh. DiFrly ahead the conidor continue strai8ht on belore tuminS stErply righi. To your lefi th.rc is . wide, carpeted stair a*, this time Soing down. There G a lot ol banging and shoutin8 cominSfrom downsraiE. Yotr ddide to investignt., weaponin handandrcadytor

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251 One ot rhe Zombie rea.hes !p and tries to grab the genadeas it fliesoverhead. But he tumblesthe .akh and clutch€snothin8 bur air S€rondslater the Zombies 8renadeexplodesamid3tthe.lose-packed who takethe tull forceoI th€ blasr,blowin8 many of th€mro piees. Reducetheirnumberby 2d6+r.You jump up to fight thosethat remin with your chosen

25tu57 254 You decide to poke yorr head throoSh the hol. in the d@r to show hcr that you are not a Zombie Whnsi you arc doinS this, a lall n.n with an unusuallv l.rs. headwrlLssilentlv donn thc h.llwav towards y;, armed with a rine. Gingrich Yurr looks at vou with vourhead thruush the ddi and laughssilentlv to hi;*lf. H€ beeinsliring and doesn'tstoPuntil he hasrun out of bullets.Youadventure is olei 255 As you appr6ch lhe d@tray, the strcng sm€ll of cmked food fills your nostrils and ar'akens volr hlnser. Consumed by the thought ot eatinS,you dasli throuEh th€ doorway into a smaU,Poorlyiit room which aPPeas to be otto! livinS quarte6. Crubby sh€ts cover a thin ma(ress on a wrcoght ircn b;d in one comer,md sct againstthc iar w.ll theie r an old 8as cookei that hts a saucePanof poraroes{mmerinS on the hob AboLe th€ cuoter ih c r c a r e t u n cb a d b p r'n te d 8 kn s he[es h\ed to th€ wall. One shelf is.ranmed sith cooking uten sils and crectcrt and the other is iad€n with bags otveset bles,n;st 01which are.ott n on the floor vou seea briAht red shoulderbngthal hasrhe $o ;Hendrix'pr;tcd on it in ornatelettcring Yo! oP€n L\e bas and lind it conlainsnothin8more than som. dic., thre€pen.ils,a feh cois, a b@kwith h.lflhe r cor ditin\' P r g r ! n F i n a a n J J ru B Jz.e a b i{ t \one o{ rt F nf intrbt to )uu dnd \u! umPr\ tnc contots onlo th. floor and k.ep the bag ln the mi.l dl. of the room th€( is a rickety table with a white

lminated top on whi.h lic t paperbackb@k a platc of nalt eatenm€atloafdd potatoes.lt want to finish ofr Otro s meal, lum to 117. lf would rarh€r leave the rcom a.d hetd down

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256 The Zombi6 who s!ruive $e tust rcud of bullets climb up the ladde. and jump onnr the balcony to atta.k. Redu.e your SUMINAby the numbs ol Zombiesl€ft alire. lf yo! ae snll alive, you mul fiEht them with your hand8m. ll you win, turn to t82. 257 'Ihe old lift dercnds slowly, judderin8 dd noisy, Dtil it Erinds to a halt at ahegiound tloor where the doo6 slide slowly open. You are not expetin6 rhe K€ption thai is waiting tor you. Stflding behind a shield of four screamingZombis, you see the madmm himself,CinSrichYurr,whD is laugh in6 mnically and shaking his fist ,t you. One ot rh. Zombiesis holdinS. 8rcnadein its hand.Youtry to shu he lifi door by pressingbuttons 2 and B repeat edly, at thc aametime tuinA al the Zombies.All folr bLt Yud crouches dom ar€hit by thehaiI or buuers, b.hind the Zombi€sand is left unscathed He shoves the Zombieholdjng the genade in rhebacl asit falls,

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4v2r9 pushinA it into the ljft iust as rhe do6 ae closinE it d.opa 6to the lilt floo., letnng 80 of the aMadc jrst asthe lilt sta.ts its rumbling slow de{ent to the basemst. I}|er€ G a massiveexPlosiontrom which ther€ is no escaPc.If you ale w€aring a flali ja.k€t, tum to 50 If you are not wearin8 a flak j..kct, turn

ztu \^u pres' )our eJr iSainsl the d.ur ind hear thc fdl:teps lome io a halt .uh de il. Tnln \ou hear rhe all too tamiliar grunl oI a Zombie. Ii you want to shoot throuAh th€ door, tlm to 42 Ii you want to keepquiet and stay where you .rc/ tum to l1a 159 Yo! take aim and tire several shots, sending lhe locl( flving off lhe splintecd door ll swings oP.n to reveala large,dimly lir, windowlessroon $ hich lmts like it was a bunk reom.Therearesix $ood.n bunk beds lininS rhe watls, their dntv mattresses npp.d open and \inB,bandoned afound rhc room fte mrshrr nl th€ scufflLnB\oLnd\ F immediatcly solved AArouP ot tngry Zombi6. sode with bro ken limbs,.lhos with AapinAwounds, are lightinS eachoths insidethe rcon.Onseeing yo!, they sloP fighting- rhey now hav.a mrtual€nemy.Youcount *v€nten in total as they rush towaids you, arms ourstr.t hed lI you po$s hand Srmades, now might be a good time to usethem.Tum to 157.lf tou do not hav€any hand Srcnadesyouwill ned to use another wcaPon. Turn to 27o

264-257 25o Poor Amy is wra.ked with Suill and aPolo8izes over

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md over asain for ac.identally shootinA you She pull( a emall Med Krt oul or her ihoulder ba8 Jnd helps brndag€ t,'ur woud The N'ledrit renores : lrAMrN4 Poinls 5he €alDes thJr you kally are trv'nA lo hrlp her You ft?ly rhar Lt wr\ you ohn r a u l t ; d . s ^ e n th e c rcu m''a n (e sy.uehouldhar r said straishtawaythat you had readher diary Turn

'That'san easyo.e, saysAny 'Yun drives an Austin Healey.You pmbably knew fiat alrcadl' As soon as you type in the words Austin Heal€y,the sceen imediately b@ls up and you w a number of icos m lhe desktop.'Thcre isn't an intmet .omection. How moying,' *ys Any. But there is one d(n ment which l@ks inrercsrin& labelled 'Emergency Exit. lf you want to open this d(um€nt, tum to 7a, Alrernatively,ii you have nol don€ e alFady, you (tum to3:l). ould hy to makea.all onthetelephone

26a you hed a faint clict lollowed you lift the lid, i{ho 8€foF yuu hrve rimc t' b) , raprd trclint sud €act thee r
265 You noti.e a small door no nore than a metre high in theright-handwall of rhccorridorAsimplelatch keepsitclos€d.lfyou wanl to op€nit, tum to 84.Ii you wodd rather k€ep walkinS alonS the .oridoa

262 Ch@sins whi.hev€r weaPon you thint best for close combat, you st€p into the ()6 lo fi8ht the twenty eight Zo;bi6. Ile odds are not in your fdvou! but if you wir! turn to 298. 263 Most of th€ ldkers are emPry sav€ lor one in which vou find a leather wallet. lt contairo sme reeiPls, iwo club n€mbe6hip.ads, a.redit card,$4 and n pre.eofpaper sith lhe numbtr llJ {ribbld on ii in the walLd dd the PLdeof PaP.r iendl. G;pcret Tum to 20 the rcom belor€ leaving

,66 You empty th€ chamb€rof your Eun into the blood crazedhorde.Sohc drep to the 8rolnd screaming, iAnored by otheF who step ovd th€m to attack yotr. BeIoreyou can Fload, you are $t upon and be.ofre.overedin zonbie blood.Quicldyinlect€d, you becone a zombie, jainin8 the vreechin8 pack to Sivcchasc to poorAny Nho tunsawayshrieting in terrcr Your adventureis orer 267 The pain liom your wounds is tefible and your hands shake as you try to open the Med Kit.

,64-271 Fortmately theie is eterything in it you need to ban.lageyour*li !p and slop the bl.cdins Add 4 srAMrNApoints still reelinglrom L\e effectsof thc .xplosion, you strgger oli down thc c.rridor' Tum

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You car.youta quick *arch olth.Zonbi€s' tattered .lothing md lind a box ot matchesand $7 belorc op€ningthc bcdr@n door b l.ave. Tum tu tsl t69 ftc .scap€ mrl .ounr Menty tour You look dow. th. Znnbie .lambeing uP the staicas€ U yo! h.vc a Ernad€ and sani to useit now, tlm to l31. li you do nor haveo. want to u* a 8r€Mde, tum to 1t1 270

All sevent.en oI the Zonbics Pour out of the bunk qlickly sele.t aPa.t.You room,intentonriPPinEyou your$erponro fi8ht th€m.lt you win, tur nr 45. 274

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Aman suddmly app€aE at the far end of the hall_ wrt ruming towardsyou asfastashis s({ky hane sill cary him, vreaming at thc toP of his voi.e He lools lil(e a normal human beins, ceitaidy noth ing likc thc Zombies you have had lo fa.e 'llclPl Helpl Theyl€ .omingl Helpl' he shoLts in a terrified voice. As he gets .l(Rr yotr Rognize his ha.temalt shav€dh..d, orangeovenls and bl.ck arm-vbdts It's Boris, on€ of the n.n you met in the stoi.room.

274475 (tumblin8 Behbd hLmrou *. Pacl or Zombie do$n rh€ coitrdorBvna chaR They ae hthting ea.horherto srt to thefronlot thePa.t KmnS ror hr5hre,exha;ledandout of breaih,BorF3uddenlv hiDs over his own feetand tumblesto the fl6r eme td nehes in front oI you You m$t qui.kly deide w h a tto d o lfy ou w anrto60bac ki ntot h eb e d r c o m a.d lea\e Bonslo lendforhilNlt tum io t7 u you want to stand and figh he zombi4, tuh to 3r9

so yo! d{ide lo try to opes the d@r in the far wal with the IGy hangrnSon the h@k Tm to lo9. 274

You try sv€.al conbinatioE of th€ dilieent keys bufthe padlock ddsn't open. In the lasl fnslratinA attenpt, yo! foEe the smallestkey td har.t, snaPpinS ir ofi iside the lock. Jou camol get it out and have no optlon bur b leav€ the laboratory and 60 back out into the .oridor tum io 164.

272 Y.u Doooo€n the tlvolat hes on the fLghl ca*dd

Irt ;ft ihe l,d to, are vsy Pl€aqedto frnd a flak E.ler and a Med (it nsidc Wnenyou u* theMed n o ld o n ' s o lrt,sa n 4 sra MrN A P onts l l v ouha \ e (tum to ro5) a[ca{tv \ou m.v opcn$t \rolin Gr rr vou w'nuUottrei tum tettoulofthe dom and60 i;mediately ri8ht down the .orndor (tum to 25')

y.' the boiler mm and y"* ,"..:f"r uP crcwbarGd6)PrcPPed againstsomePrP_ fnd a -",.". ing. Iherc is nothingele in the mm or much6e

275 The nak ,acl€t tates mosr oI the impact of the shrapn l rhat ili6 towards you. You aie hit by just a smallpieccot jaggedmetalwhich lodgs in your le8, reducingyour sraMrNAby 2 poinrs.TheZombie who was holding lhe Eremde was not so rortrnate dd neilher w€re his fellow Zombies.They take the frll iorce ol rhe blasl with frany ot thcm blown to pi{es. Red!.e their numb€r by 2d6+r. You jumP up to fiEht thosethat are left with anotnerweapon.

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2n 27. You s(n dive at a d@r in the n8ht hdd walL Y@ try the hddle but it is frrnly lclld. Ahead the.or .ido endsat a T-jucto wl€re ther is a lar8e @k dBt on th€ lloor, *t agai8t the fd wa[. lin to 25. 277 r you wmt to .arry on lrming towdds rhe ladd€t tum to 134.If you want to rctreat back tttough the double de6, tm b 2{9.

llE letteE ae aUaddrssed boa gnl by the nameoI v netche. Thq werc writien bv her Amt Helen who ha a New Yort add€$. The ea.ly lett6 w.ite her dispprcval of Any going to work as a @k r a tl@ of quetiouble chrractd in a catle in a ote part of RoMia. She 6ts if Amy is beina U lmked aft€a and wh6

she will be eltmins

re to N€w York. Her later letteb beeh6 to .ome . As tte tunths Eo by h€r commication5 @ mo€ frdtic, with AutHds'wonied

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in6 froh lh€ basemol. You pul the Lefterr dom

arc about to pi.k up the diary wha suddenly lM a rci* outside. Ii's the slud of f@tsteps ing dom 0€ hallway.It you wdt !o inv*hte, tuh to to3. r you wmt to clc the HEm r .trd lGl it, t@ l,o258.

273

The *wd com6 to d drd ar a Point wrEe it Hs into a wage pipe in the bnck wal. Ihe pipe i5 too mmw to aawl into, not that you would wnt to my wayl Tha is no altemativebut to ao bac&to the8h,ft yN passedand cumb out oI th€ we6. Tum to 17r.

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280 pushinA zombies off the balcony, Iou lhe dead After iump-b.hind the Browning n..hin€ gln and ch.ck it fo; amunition. Therearc sever.l casesor bclt red ca.t jd*es, cert inly enough ior the .oming battlc \ou put your bas dos n io Aiv" \oubelf m.re iree_ dom l^str inBthr hea\\ 8un fr ums i J ctos i dr s i tl i nq ready for action with -vour iinger on the tr188et vou relea;e the safety cakh, cock ti. handle dd take aim at the Zombics b€low. There are twentv rour in total. They swarm iowards the ladder, tighting each other to climb up it 6rsr' You sqleez€ the tri8_ ser dnd rmptl th€ belt ol .aLtridScsinn' the horde ;r un.lead the d€adlv frrepobtr ur the Brown'ng machinesun inflicts (2d6+15)damaEeIl you kiu aU of the Zombics in th€ first altack tuund, tum to 132 lI you tail to ldll them all, tum to 256

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You pull the sriety pin our belorc tossin8 the genadtthroughth€grP inlhedoomay Se.ondslate. there is a loud exPlosion The bmginS on the d@r iMediately stops nnd all you cd hear is Sming dd dd whimpcrint.r you havea seond Erenade

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:34-28t wish to toss it inb the hallway, turn would r.ther Pull thc tumrture away ro yo! .8 oP€n it/ tun to 64

leavethe stck mm and tur riSht lo oPenthe door at the cnd of the hallway Tum to 14

2E 263 Th.door rsn tleted and vouenr€t' smallroom thJt wrh 6 fittcd out Rrth.uPboards dd shehes hlled bo \ 6 o f r o o l : i i n
'l wouldn't do that if I s€rc yo!,'says Borisaslou steptowardshim.'l6sue you I amverv.aPable or loo|ins Jttcr m]sclf. lr y ou
'at and braA that you are Yotr t€ll Amy not to wory no$ r rerer;n Z.mbF \ldler, Pcrl€dly ablc to fin ith off the rcmaiMB ZombF\' This.umm€nt
288-289 eo down it to lhe basemcnt

momtea on i,r trretetescope

her oM to wam the authorities whilst you rctum to the caslle to linith your mission, tum to 333.

288 There is a nus€ leatheFbomd book .n one of the shelves fiied io the end w.ll betwen two boot .ases.Ir n entitled ririfl8 Dedd:Thel'lorld ol Zonbl6 On rcmoving the book from th€ sheu yo! noti.€ a snall brassplat€ on the sall b.hind it. There is a switchin themiddl€ot rheplate.Ifyouwanl lo rerd the bool. tum to 2o5.lI you would rather ti.k the switch, turn to 324 lf you want to leavern€ lb.ary andwalk on,tum ro 160. 236

B€forethe Z)mbie.an rcachthe toP or the stePsvou slamthe rrapdooron toP of its headand slidethe locl:hur. su.ldenlythse rsa ma$Ne$Pr'ton ano v.u aroblohn ofr !our re(l The traPdor benearh you n blown ru 'mrthereensd is the clcl tuw€r no tt.'" tuL .uul d s udi re s u ' h a t e r i' Dr c ",r '" exPl6ion Your advdture is over

249 The peson shNtins at you is onc ot lhe
247 \ou dab Anv s ha.d and run off towardsrhe 'over t of lh"efoEt \ou hear m,Lhine Eu 6r bxt don stop tn loul ba.l as you seJre )our kJy betwftn thJ ral tre6 Aftrr ten m futs5 run'n8 hard vou stoodd itdown on a lo8 c\nau\t'd Now what A ; v r + s b e.rh 'n g h ca v'l ) l rl o u wnnt t' *88€{ rhriyou should 8o t(,Eethtrto wam th' authonrres tum to 35 ll tou d.nt to suBS$t thrr Am' Eoes'n

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Th€ door is unhkcd and oPensjnto a living rmm thar has bcm knally trashed A light grcy sora h.s upsid. dokn r \ nen (n\.r and !L!hi nn\ r PPc 'l !;cn,,pill.A loim .hlrr i nSJ l l .\er th" n" r T ( o r ht s h'r c pl tr s ln u ,i- .t' uu..,i 'tur eJ nd ' ' .' .' iic collcc tabl€ has been jlmP.d on altt flatr.ncd. All th.pi.tureshavebc.n riPPedofi lhe t'alls, thejr fram€ssmashedt. pie.es o. the flo.r amidst bils ol brok€n gliss and pottery A r.d Plasticrndio has beenstuffedinto a Plantt1.r' It i5 still workinS,blar ina our sone dr.mn it hdl rolume. A n'lcvisionon itisid.a8ainst thc lar sall hasan lmbielli srickng our of its rh.rtleredscr€n. N.ttto it bd huSere.trn sular lish lankon a $toughl i.on standthat hashad ; hole Dnnchedthrotrsh the front SlnssPanelfion which water is still pourin8 out ,^ Zombie is Picking up rh, r \h rhrr Jr< umP nA ab"ul u. lhe flum rn.l ( r r mnr dE r hemint t t
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You unzip _. th€ ba* and find sonc nustv old sPofts pin oi giev s$.at Pants,d l:shi.t nnd .lorhes a Dair.flraine$. EYelvthinaseds to b€ lorr slze sut the most excihng thing vo! u"t tt ;t v"" " "fi;d nr rhe baE is a ba*'ball bat (1d6) whkh could seNe as a very usciul r'€.ton Sudd.nllr vou h'ar

sdakhing souds coming from inside the cuPbdftl 292

Y.u do not hare time to reload the Brow.ing b€tore yotr arehit by the tuU for.e of an exPlodingbazooka ;hell The i;pact is devastatinsThe balconvis blown to pi€is and you wirh it. Gin6rich Yorl olan! to conquerthe qorld mJ) be ^\er ror nob, Lur t'. r"rs ith raz.d hushlcr ar rhes,Shrofthe 'i snokin8 hole in the wall Your advent!rc is over

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As you opm th€ stel door you are met bl, a blast of 6ld air Youpeekinlo oE refriSeratedmn and see lorsof animalca(asseshangin8on but her'sh@k, atta.hed to chains 6xed to the ceiling There must be at least thirty half-sidesoI frozen bef and Pork suspendedlrcm the eiling. If you wdt to takt a Lookinside the rcom, rum to 5, If you would rathe. closethe doo. and contjnuealon6the.oddor, turn 295 The d@r opss inro a small washrcom. Theie is a w.ist watch and a pair ol reading Slass on the basin that somebodymst have left bchlnd by mis t.ke. You rakethe oPPoitun y to have a Soodwash, the first in days,and you lel nuch better IDr it as a Fsult. You also take a lonE drink of watei irem the tap. add 2 sraMrNApoints. You may take lhe wat.h md the glas*s bcfore leaving to tum left back into the hallway. Tum to 198.

291 p r o a l rh e n i i o n , n r fav !o u .a re tu l l ) L' If uP lh€ I' d of t h ; b o ' ; n d h n d a sro i Jd er2 d b +rrr nsdeYou !i8h wrth rLief rh.r ir hJ\ nolset uP a5a b'obl traP Yuu . l i p t h ( 8 r en a d eo n to ,o u r b e l ta n d.on\iderwhar l' du ne^t lf vnu ha\e not d.ne so Jrread) y'u mav oDm fhe d;or oppuite (lum lo 28rr lf you wnuld r ; r h e r w a l r o n to th e e n do , rh e .o iir dor tum r oSa

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294-299 296 J ln lhr ton dr.w'r vuu iind Pens PaPcr a rurcr and a D o . r e r ! : , l c u l a t., J sra l l cr J h o l e PUlh ; h , , ". . h J e € r In rh s n e 't Jra $ 'r du*n ) ' u m o a r,me nmrci.as or the t"nlt One of lh"m h'< s h u r t b r L t h d aS ! re tto E o n th e b a tb llnur dljr r s I t n m p \ s r \ . H JP I) l n th Z rE U rnd bsr sn' o Dv \.," i 'l \m\ fsh 'rn 'rtr <( h' zaAor \,- i;\lr' nLrht bc, hutshr \hale\ her hcad lrclin8 Puzled u u th i n Bbur i n' tehn' l L c t o t t r m a o .s." n tl n ' w,ih the w.rds lmportJnt l'jodation writtcn U' read thc co\.r luu flcl thruu8h th' nuieboor and t s o . n t f l e . trh .h .u L l d b . u stfu l The h^L on' wlxie RJbbit Tl'' s6'nd m€ b i, u*mamr 'r R , ' / n t l . , ! . s.J $ 1 o ro rb l @d A mv tellsy' u th' l he PrcI€ssorRoznit is Yutr's head s'ientist rnd that a v c r v , l d ci rn u s md Y 'u P l h e tsu PJAesnut 'ol r th€ notebonl,nd r\l Adv 'i rf tn^w! whlru 'he s lhe door rt thc bacl !ead
with which to open thc saie,you will h.vc to L€lve the room fld ;all< turthe! up the conidor Tu.n

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You look areund at the camag. nr the tuom You thesehelPlsslost almostf..l sory foi lheZombies, souls r'€rc once hunrn beinss before bein8 t.ans_ fom€d bv Ginsrich Yun and his elil s.rvmt' lhere is anoth; iron doo. in the left-hand wall of rhe Nom whi.h is alsotadlocked and bolted Using thc number€dteys y;u arc soonableto oPenit You find yourselfbackin rhe gloomy.ofidor' Theentrance io $e hboralor-ison yourlcftwilh theswing
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walkinS up the conidor to wherc ir ends at a fit d@i There is nou'here elsc io Ao so you Push down on th€ metal bar to oPcn th€ fire d@r Turn to 172 299 and $eak ifoh hmge., shacklcs by Hampcred vour you ;il h, g;r iuur l.qs h,x h r nouEh r heai r Li ttn 'n ca:,lv lend" off vour Jft.mFt to qnarehrm YouI D.\ htr th.r t,ht sy' n a d.;p tr hez i ng r or .t r 'Ll in;.\cr lur r bohl nr tood ur nnger s i i l l c fr as td h;then kicks vo! viciously in th€ nbs *leral times The pain is terribl€ and you P.ss out when vou wake !p, you camot believ. you. eys You!r. 'n a larse, ;jndowl6s r@n lit by neon striP llShts. You arc chained to a smooth stone slab, surrodded bv scree.hinE Zombies They b..one very anrdatc'1

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3oelo2 when rhey see your eyes rlick oPen Thev shulBe.loser to watch as a ia[, thin, bespsta.led man weairns a lung hhrie lrborarory cort and rubb.r sr o\$ i;Fis ) ;ur nc.r hi th z um b€bl ( 'd T he!.i _ ;nhn sni8B(^ a< h€ cll' y^u lhJt \nu are abuul to becom. rhe latestcon{.ipt in CinS.ich Yuir'satmy of Zombies.Your advNture is over

too iorsomethi.E YousearchthrcuEhyour baS,lookinS a that.ould openthe slidingdoors ll tou Possess hact hacksaw,tum to t55 Il you do not Pos€s a

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301 and oPens into a iarge room

that is tut€d out Nilh rcws and rcws of bmkca*s Ihde is a nusty smell in th€ ,ir createdby all the d ove! tomestharhavedeteriorat old leathe.-bound time, sittin8 unread on the shclves Without wam_ hg lwo ZombiesjunP out lrom behindoneot the to att6.kyou.If you win, tum to 365 bookcases 302 d'rly Laundry.tnwel! sh€tsand rs rull of The ha'L.t Drlloh ca:e! \ou empry th€.ontYn[ onto rhe tloor ;d are surp.ised to rind a caidboard bot .t rhe bot_ r.m .f the basket. You rmove thc lid to lind thr€ hand grcnades(2d6+t insjdethe box Arter mak'ng sue the tuin8 pins arc secue, you Put tne Srenades in yourbag whi.h liih yoursPiritsand Puls a sP.in8

in yolr step as you walk down the hallway {turn

open.It you want ro standyorr 8.ound and fight the Zombies,tum to ?4 lf you wanl to l@k down into the courtynrd, run to 40

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Yor scak a look thrDuSh th€ doorwav and see two Zomba aDqoa.nrnP,Ih€v
304 a narow cuPboard scl into ro reveal The .loor oDens th€ wall. Inside the cuPboard vor are ovc4ove't to find th. Derf6t Zonbi. slopp.r; a shor8u (1't6+5), rolr boi.s of shorsu ca idS.s dd two boxe oI bullets.You lake evervthing md close th€ 'loor dur(lv- mo\inc the nr'nnns ba.l t' its uri8inal ro so Lel,Jl.nE tht halltrrv, .1."in,1" U r". ' l r "."t Lnr n, ,2r \o u \Jn l l o g ' n E h t 'lonE thc hall_

th. ;;5.r th. stai(asc md besin rhe z.dbi". -"ch lhe 6re door It shakesunder th'tr hamn.rine on wcighl an; it wonl be long b.for€ they snash it

l05 You pushdown on thewlter.oolertaP and lill youi .up. Th. warer is i.c-.old and rcfehing dnd you take your tim. to drht as much as Possible Yo! hadni r.alized iutt ho{ thirst,v you were and teel much betteralter drinting your lill Add2srAvIN,{ points.A qui.k *rr.h ol the g\'m rveals nothing ot inrerestso you makea quickexitand lvalk on lurn

)07 Takins no chances,you toss th. second 8renade into the h.llNay Yo! brac€louMlf for the crPlo sion but are hor;fied to seeth. Srenade ros*d ba.I r laouBhth€doo ar lJndur Bunth€bedT n.r .i r a n.r5thc open by a horde ot Zombies. Stmding ov$ you s a

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locatinSit hi6h and to the .i8hr of the doorway You llick the switch dom and the @m is imm€diarely illuninared bI tuws of neon lights fired to the low ceilin8. Il\e rcom n devoid ol any fumitue. l her€ js iusr a blood-staincd slab of polishcd ston€ on , plinthin th€middlewhi.h hasmanacl6andchains .hach€d to each corner Tle Zombies mod an.t grcan, shielding their ey6 from th€ briSht liSht You @mt hdsty-o8ht in rotal. Ii you Poses any 8rc_ nad6 you my want to u* one of thd now whilst 0E Zombies arc stiU blinded by the non liShis If yotr wmt to lob a 8rcnade at the slow moving Zombies, tum ro:o9. 11yo! do not have any, turn

man wPrruu ordEe o\eralls wh@ f.ce vou ie.oa m qounds and DPen n'2e,thoush it isn.w.olred
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Unllckilv lor vou, the strav bullet hits you in the rh,Rh \; drci tu rh€ floor
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The hallway turc .ight once mor and you walk a@ud the comer, arriving at a wide carPeted stair.a* on tt€ left, again Eoing uP The hallway Mtinues on b€yond th€ staircase.Suddenly yo! heara noisecoming frcm the top of the stancar dd Eetrcady to deiend youselt. Tlrn ro 4&

rne kv turm in tnetocJfra vouIin.l vourselfback in. n:in coridor tumins left lo riSht You lock lhe dmr behind you and thinl about which way to go The ddision is soon madc for vou There is somebody coming aLongthe riSht-hdd .orndo. Turn

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Wrth thr zombics.losinS 'n, you tumblearoud lrdh(ally in th. shadow(rorthcl'Shlswitcnfinally

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As tun as you.all out the nameAn, the rEaminA srops.You hear fmtstePs aPPrmchingand steP bek as the door ors6. A yomS gitl's head aPPears frlm behind the door she has a terifie.t erPl6 sion on her lace and tears are streamin8 down her .he!s. Shebecl
you land. Lose 1 5TAMINAPoint Above you iherc is a huee exDlo6,mas the @l of the (lml tower i5 bbm;ff bt the d'rumit€. Debro ralh on toPol you - ftaqmen6 of stone,wood, cldk Partsmd evo the 16r;l ihe zombie that is no more-Tun to 359 l,'loreand moe zonbiB;ather below-Hangin8onto ftedrupipe withonelEnd,youlrll11m8ethouth you ba8 r;r a Srenade.You SriP th€ Pn with v-our bee$md puu, dFPPinB trE 8raEde o tne zoturd b€low. ftere is a loud exPlcion .aurinE .amage mbi6 to surge lelow, but trs caus {en norc inio the .ourtyard. Sddblin8 over the Pile of bod6, th€y qrab hold of rhedninPiPe and srtri Puling ar fr;tiGllv lr shak$ and 6hudde6.ma*os it diffi.ult for y;u to hold on, beforc comin8 awav frcm rhe wall @mpletely-You tumble h@dfiFt into rheoutst!€l.hed ars oathezonbie below clawed 6d bitter! you b@re infe.ted by their c6ramituted bt@d. S@n you will b(ome one of them You adrenture is over ta6 Zombie to set into ihe lift. rhe slah You sreDover You *;there @ fou buttos you @n Pre$; 2, 1, G and B which vou 6s@€ ftlate to tr@6 z 1,Ebmd a.d basreni. You a€ on the sond n@i WiU vou pressbutton I {tm to 159),button G (tun io d6) or

347 Eve thouth plain mead@f i,s @t you favMiie di5h, nEht now it ta6heslike the bet mal you have aer had in you life, Youh.lP yolelJ to sde Pota to6 dd *off thm doM util you 6 €at no morc' Y@ pat you tull stomach.ontentedly and let out a l@d belch. Add 2 sT MINApoinb. You m about to leave the rllm when you sPota sMll @tal box tu ked away under the stove. lf you wmt to oFn lhe box, tum to 17a.If you would clhe. leave ttE !06 and t€ad doM the @ridor, tm to 93. 3 nErc is a lord Gcl( of splintering wood as the d@r js suddenly kicked ops by iwo la$e Zombie You nust fight theh. If Y@ win, tuh lo 29tt9 md legs by shraPnel but You a€ hit in rhe tu y@ hdd dd.hest mira.ulously scaPe inury lrR 6 sr^rrN^ points. If you surive, tum to 2d. 320

'ne large padl@k on lh€ dmr is Mde of tou8hen€d steel-There is no way you @uU Pn* it oPenwen with a @wbar lf you have a bunch of kets num 1 io 8 md want to rry to openthe d@r, tum to M 396,If you do not have thse keys d do not wmt to try to opd the door, you m6t go ba.k out into lhe

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324-12 J2a T1E key lnl@ks thc d@r, which opss into a boilcr tuoh housing fou larAe, mblinA boileF with out

let valves tussing sream.GorglinS hot wato pipes lead up from the boilers, disappeannginto the low ceiling.Thereis a largemetalan veni in the.eiling, yet it is still ve.y hot inside the mm. At the far md ol OE rcom there is doth€r ircn d@r and a liey hanSingo. r hook .ext to it. lf you want to *!(h the boil€r ruom, tum to 69. If you would rarher rry to opd th. door in the far wrll with the key hanging on the h@k, tum to 1o9. j22

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You climb up the steps at a brisk pacc. You a.c abolr halfway up the tower wh€n you hea. a noise.om in8 from below Somebody .ls. is .omin8 !p th. staiese behind you You huty up th€ steps mtil you arriv€ at a lrapdoor in the wmden nmr above you. It is not l@ked and you areableto push it open You climb lhrcugh it to fmd you!*lf in a square @m at the rop ot a clock rowe. A huge brcnze bell i3 suspended from the cilin8. Thele are lour larEe mechani.rl .locks, on. @ crch of th. toui walls, fa.in8 the outside world, all whirinA dd ti.king loudly LookinE throuSh the traBparenl laces ot the .locls you are able to k forcsts and mountains ln the disranceandyearn to cs..pcto tr@dom. Bur !i8ht now tou have othe. mo.e prcssing mattes to deal witb the footsteps on lhe slaircase are 8et' fDg loldcr Wl1@ver ft is desnl tus to .!e that you can hear thm coming You h€ar a sniSSerinS

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3'4-?6 voie, a voie thar i5 noi quite human. You Erab a weapor ready to fight whrer it hi8ht be. I\e snigSeringstops ad you hear a rePeatedclickin8 emd that minds you of somebodytrying to get d empry uEht€r io work. You l@k doM rhbugh th€ trapdoor and se a burly Zmbie standing on the staircar holding th@ sticksof d)mmit€ in d. €nodous hmd, their blminE tus fizzing loudly. If you arc amed with a 8un md wanl to sh@t the zombie, tun to 2{2. ff you wolld rather slam the bapdor shut, tum to 286.If you want to smashlhe glN faceof one of the dtrl6 and atremPtto.limb oursidead doM the clck tow€r, tuh to 15.

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You lift the reiver and by diallinS home but the tel€phore line b not com€t€d to the oubide world All you are able to do isPhme exie$ion nmbers itride the .astle. If you know Gingrich Yuir t nm ber and wmt ro dial it now, tum to that numbei If you do not t@w ihe nmba and wish io tuh on

324 When you fli.k the sit.h dow4 you hear a faint clicking sud like that of a .atch bein8 Eleased. Y@ have*t oft a irap. Without waminS a small dart sh@lsout ol a nearinvbible hole in the wall lqeath the switch. Roll one die. If the number roll€d is r l, tum to 167.If the number roled is 4 6, tum to 331 125 TheZombie who sdive the deadly salvoof bullets l!a.h the top oI the ladd€r md climb onto the balony to attack befo€ you cd reload the Brcwning. REduceyour srAMtN^ by the number ol Zombies Lft. If you are still alive, you mBt fiEht then with you handgs. If you win, tum to flo. t26 find it is ldked. Thse is a rca.h the d@r bui You key in the lftk but you do not have time to tum it befoe the Attack DoEsare uPon you. The the at lhe front of the pack jump up ai yorl' mouths oPen .nd snarliry. You must defend youf*lf with whaf .ver weapon you have to hand. Th@ are 17Atrack Dogs in total, ea.h with I srAMrNApoini fld ech .ausing 2 D^MAGE Poinrs.If you win, tun to 95.

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127 Ihe loud banginSon the dmr ontinu6 dd slowly it startsto inch its way open,the @mbinedstrenSth of the .nzd Zombi6 puhing ba.k the heary turnitue. A Erey, skimy am covered with festenng wosds squezes ihrcugh the d@tray, qui.kly IoUowed by two otheF. There is no stoPPinglhe zombie now If you wdt to jmp out of th€ b€d@m window into the.our9ard bel@, t@ to 87. If you posss a Eremde tum to 232. 3r8 The u*Ilrme is coEet dd you arc now sted to type in a p6sword, You tel Ahy that yd have no idea what it b. she asts if thereis a minder PbmPt 60rihe passwoid,You tel her there arc two oPtiom, 'My Ca( or'My Cd'. ryou wat ro9?€ in thename of a cat, tm to 165.r yd want to R?e in ihe nEl(e ed model of a .d, tum to 164. 14 havenl pt much in stek at the motunt but arc w€lcome to what we have. l'm sorry, but

'e3t7 I'm Soing to have 1o chr€e you. r ihft is my srck mi$in6 md YuE finds out, we will be tumdl into Zombies jmmediately-'Boris lmlc at his .lipboard md ra
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The old lift des@ds slowly, lmbling ud judds' ir& befoE gindin8 to a halt at the 6ftt fl@i You pre$ button B again but nothinS hapFns. Ihe liit d@6 slide opfl to ftv@l dothe long halway like the de on the sond fl@r, endint at a window that looks out mto th€.ourtyard, Iherc is ale a d@F way 6 the right at rhe fd end of th€ hallway. If you wdt to walk dom the hallway to opst the d@i, hn to 12. If you would rather stay in ttE lift, you @ eithe. p6s butlon G (tu to 33)or pls butron B re more (tuh to q7).

tat

Y@ pdl the pin @t H@ dnppn8 the ErsEd€ .LoM tl€ staituell. You hear it cladlr doM the

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112-'tt stai6 and sNnds later ihere is a mi8hty explciDn which ehcs loudly ituide the.on ete shaft ot the fie lsF. Ihe tudry iou Zombie e reduc€d in ndbq by (2d6+r. Th@ that are left Bo aazy md ra.e up the slaiE as f6t as lh€y calr' lmking for ev68e. You step back lrem the dmr and 8et ready to faG th€ orelaudt of Zonbi6, Mommts later they pou. out onto the @f, berrk wiih rage. Ch(re you w€aponand fi8ht theh. If you win, tun to 40 J32 The Imding G .arped md th€ walls ffe covered with b.ight patemed wallpaper Thee aft some still life paintings and nido6 hanSingon the walls, but nothi.g of u* to you. Y@ walk strai8hl alEad mtil you cometo two white deMays oPPcite ea.h other Youpres you ear againsirhemin tuh bur do not hear anything. If you want to 6ter the d@r on your lefi, tum to 246-If you want lo op€n the dmr on your nght, tum to 28r. If you would ralher walt on to lhe end of the coridor, tum lo 81.

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Amy l@ks ar you iniently as you recomr all rhe battle one dore time. satislied that you earched €verywhere inside th€ castle dd left no Zombies standing, you amounce that you are certain you tilled thm all. 'I Gitainly hope so,'shereplies,smilin8. 'lf nor, Melis w b€ the fiBt villaSe the Zombies .ome to and they will atta.k during the night. If I wake up in ihe momin8,l'll know you did kil ihem

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314ai6 3t4 Nqt to th€ falld Zonbie, you find a $j bill d the floo. that wa3nrck€dinto the baseballcap it was wearinE.All the instrnors arc smashedto Piees, but at the backoI the bom you w a violn careand a larye black fli8ht ce for m amPlifiet which is coveredin anlne sti.kes. lf you wet to oPd the violin.a*, tum ro 1o5.U you wdt to oPs the nighi cas, tum to 27r, If y@ would rather tlm left out or the em dd immediately nSht down the oEidor

Yd wonder who she miSht b€ and if sh€ has bm

hurpd into a Zombie,Ihe suit as areemptybut one contaiN costum6 md prcps which m6t have ben !*d for drsing !p by childen lon8 since grcwn up and departed, IheF is a.lown @tfit, a cowboy hat, a policeman'shelner, a fairy prin e$ stune a spa.e helfret, a sailor's uniform, sme false beards md mousta.hes. If you want wi8s, io take an,,thing, help y@self. Eager to leave the 3cme of the cam6e, you hurry towards the Mt at the 6d of the hallway. Ttn to 357.

535 A shay bullet fr€d from the 86 oI you adversry ohinS dl)m the @idor fli6 Past your head, pis.int the rubber d@. Tum to 45.

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bu wall ,onE dE lon8 dart coridor util

$6 The storageboxs contain nothing but maguin6, b@k rnd old phok€raPhs- On€ Photo is of an intelligdt-t@king wolld with lmg dark han who is standing in ftont of a pnvate jet. The tum TheI@ Clark is wntten on the back of the photo

you

ive.r a wluted@r n the nght-hdd w.U.Youtry hddle but the d6r is lo.ked. You l6k thbush keyhole and F that tha is a key in the lock the inside. Ahead you w staiF aoing upwa.ds hich app€ar to be th€ best way to 8et our of th€ qSsdd
tt3'340 3t8 Amy l@k5 at you imploringly and begFyou not k, go b..k io tn€castle.Youreplythat you haveto sroP Yuii belor he ur eash6 hB Zombieson the wotld Yotrress@ her that ir wDn't take long to deal with the Imainin8 Zombie and that you'll catth her uP in no time. Shesta6 at the 8tuund, a tear rminS down hd dwk. If you p(res a 6otd Ldket @ r Eold .hanr tlm ro 53.II you do not have rhe ldket.

339 Wnh you weapon at th€ rcady, you sieP fotrad to def6d Bons.Your heart pounds when you comt the sheer number of $reechin8 undead charSing doM the halway towards you. Ihere are twoiy_ wen Zombiesin toial. If you PGst my Erenad6 you may u* one of then now, tlm to [email protected] you do not have any temdes, tum to 173{o oortowddslou and The6retudebounce5alongthefl almcr rlmediatell thee 6 a deafflinS e\Plotion

thich echc

loudly down the coridor

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@, the flak iackettakesthe bMt of tne impact.The y injury you r*eive is a shal pid€ of shrapnel beddedin your le8 wh,ch reduceeyour srAMNA by I points. The Zombie is not so fortumte It 116 notionl6 on rhe srone flooi blom to Dides. You waste no time dd hurry on doM the.onidor iil you slop ourside . dooMay in ttE l€ft-h.nd all. You liito at the d@r and h€tr loud barljn8

(bming ftufr th€ oiher side. r you want to open the @i turn ro 15 if you would larherpprs on, tum

yr bu 5oonarri\e ar . rcw or ellq running alonS th sid6 of the
imn bars with dm6 builr in. All of

m .re hangingop6. Tnse ir a tdible stench in6 from the ceuswtu.h you reogru4 .s rhe t id mdead stinl of Zombi*. But thee i5 rc sid them. PdhaDs thev wee released bv Boris? Y;u

alt on dd dive at a slaircae going up. Yo! climb dd find vo$elf on the @ud fl@r of the north

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342 win6 of th€ .astle. You @ at one 6d of a long half way whi(h tuN riSht at the far end. I}lere e two
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t42 The doo. op4 into a briEhrly lit rcom that is laid out with srated-the-art $m equipmdt There arc t1aing machin6, rowinE machins, treadmills, e'ftie bikes, w€i8hts md ttfuhe' But there is a loi oI rubbishon the fl@r dd noneof the equipnot l@ks lilG it hasbffi @d in a long time. Th@ is a wat€r cooler in rhe fa..oner of ttu mm, iis paper ops .ipped out of the hold€r and strewn ad6s the .ltiny black floor If you want to pi.k up a cup and drink the water tuh to 106.lf you wodd rather shlt tlE der md tep Soin& tun to 12.

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343-344 341 You dimb dom though the hole, Ietiin8 Eo of the lift fl@r at the last pGsibl€ mondt. YoudrcP down and hit the ba*m€nt fl@r ha.d, twistin8 your ankle ttrE r rrAMrN^ poini. The bra* dimond-SriIed slidiry d@rs at the bottom of the lift are shut and you are uMble to pull them aPart to enter th€ base_ ment. If you Possessa crcwbar,tum to i85, lr you do not Pcss a c@wbd, tum to 3m. 344 You step into the shower md Pull the yelow cur tain shui behhd you, Therc it a lot ol noi*.oming non the Hrcom- Thereis shouting and *rcding, bantinE ad dashinS, and the smd of tumitue being thrcM aNud dd glass bein8 ffished. no doubt TheE must be Zombie in the bedffi, the shower about it Will you stay hidd6 behind rutain, amed and aady to fi8ht (tum to 313)or Eo to attackthe zombi€s (tum to 53)? inb the Hmh

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Otto's rea.tions arc slow and your quick movem€nl calchG him olt guard. You manageto w.ap you legs arcund his nidritr md haul him scremin8 to the Arcund. He tries to Miggle fr& but yoL hold m to him, wrapping me of your.hains arc6d his rKI(. He gaspsfor brearh and lashesoui,.atching you in the facewith his elbow but causingno real damaSe.You hana on to him and pull harder 6 the in util h€tive5 up rhestruggleandpass6 out. He slumps down on top of you but you arejut able reach his bell. Your *arching 6nges tind a ley Ibched to a rhin chai^ on his b€h Tne cha,n 6 just dough for you to be able ro pur the key in the of your shackls. lt fits dd the ld( pops opo, uch to your rcliet You unlmk rhe other shacHe d mp ir shut over the lnconecious thug's wnst. *arch of his pckets yields nothin8 more than a hoto of a plmp, middle-aged woman whi.h you w to the fl@r You rub your injured wi,srs dd

ink about what to do nexr. You arc baefoot dd @int theeme t-hirt dd
ould b€ w€lcome but otto's snell woe

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146148 t16 Rohik staresat you @ldly dd eys, 'Well, I sugSest you nm arcmd, go back and 8et th€ money fioh Yun' If yo! want to pul oui you 8un to arrestihem ad ldk them h the.elL, rum to ,64. If you wanl to push past ihem md tu down ttE coridot tum 347 The door opsE into a windowles mm that has a.ircula. table and six dEi6 in the ceftre. A1l rhe wals e lin€d from floor to ceilinEwith shelv6 thal are crammedtull of board Aam6/ .omPute. Eames, boots ad eva 25 i$ue of an old gamesmagazind with the slrm8e name Oui & Wedel.On€ sheuhas a row of b@ks with distin tiv€ 8ree sPins dd fantastical-souding iitles lile TheWa ockoJFnehl, Molnd,r, but mosi shelvd display ow upon rcw of b@rd Emes. On a high shelf,n€srledbehvd a Pil. oI b@rd gamesand a box 6le labeuedG,m N'8r, Nruilelrds, y@ seea lilver two handled .up. You lift the trophy dom md seeit is ins.rib€d with thr words 'Ite Pagod. Cup'. Iher€ arc six nameseiched on the back of the.uP over a Period of 27 yeaa. Il you want to oPeneme of the boxed gam6, turn t() .97. If you would iaiher leav€ the room dd walk turthd up rhe.orridor, tum to 19.

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The 8las-panelled double doo6 leading into ih! .ou.tyard are not locked. Ihere arc a lot of Zombics wandenng arcund in ihe .ouryard l@kin8 ver!

.gitatet. Yd €

a baLony 6 the fi6t doof of the

ast winSwhi.h hasa h€vy m.hine 8u mout€d

on it. TheF i5 a meial ladder attadEd io the wall by the side of th€ baleny whi.h lrs from the tuf doM to the courtyard. lI yo the
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of ihe Zombie's .loih6 plodue A qui.k *ath brass key and a waUet. The key has the number r t1I stamPed on it. The waUet is empty apart iiDm a

cncked plasti. drivinS licen e in the tume of Tom Watson.Thephoto on the.aid is of a smilinS,rcund taed I)u with black hair and Elass. You stareat the photo lor a few moments,wonderinq whai fate lad led hin here, to be ru.ned inb a tmbie. You t6s the wallet aw.y and look in the dpboard. The .to.age boxes arc full of household ju& which i6 of no u* to you. You p@tet the key dd .a.ry on down the hallwa)4Tlm to nr. F':I F-TI

t50 With the hlge numberof Zombi€sclosinEin on you, Amy s.eams at you to huy up dd open the padldk. U you posss a larEebrN k€y, tlm io 35- If you do not have this key,tum to r43.

151 You arc relided to have sureived the mslaught of the Attack Dogs.You walk to th€ ba.k of the room dd tate the b6.h of keys off the hook. Ilrere ar etht in iotal, eachdillerent in sizeand ea.h stanped with a numbe. betwM 6e and eight. Ihe m[6t key G No. I and the larget ley is No. 8, You h@k them onto your belt, hopnr8 ihey will be of uselater on you wat you notie a rnall cupb@rd 6 the left-hand wall. You open ir to Iind two Med Kits

i.te lhe tull force of the blast, with blown to piec. R€du.e their nmYou jmp up to 88ht the IsaininE yolf ch()@ weaPon.Tln to 17,

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fhe *idtist mmg6 to plsSe the syrin8€ into you tuth. You rrcu in teftr, rcalising that y@ wil s@n bdome dother member of Ginsri.h Yw s .my of zombi6. The hdiormation begins ost imediately. Yo! 6r you Em rfldon y b€foE dmppin8 it on the ground, @able b rhink for yo@li YN advotuF is ovd.

Secondslater therc is a hige explosim. Fo.tfately you are only hit by a smll PiG of shraPnel which lodg€s in your l%, edudng yu sr^MrNA by 2 poinrs. But the ZDmbi€who was holding the Eremde was not so fortmate and neither weE hn

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t54-355 t5l Thepaintings are all porlraits of fonnjdable-lmkinS rEntlemen who have lived in th€ cdtle down f,bugh the ages.Th€y aft a[ nameddd dat€d.All of them havethe s1rmme Yur Eachhasa sren lmk @ hb la.e, ercept for one - a shtrP featured man with lon8 hair a piercinS starc and a sly 8rh who 16l€ more mean and evil than a[ th€ others. His nme is Cinsri.h Yur He is the .u@nt oM€r of the casdeda the man Otto said want€d to kill you. &spite wearing a yellow waist @r and holding a r6alt white rabbit in hjs ams, he stmds theE conlidtly as a ma io be feared. If you wanl ro iNP
ihe portrait more d@ly, lum to i26. If you want to $ left ronE th€hallway,tum io:21. If you wantto o ri6htalongthehallway.tum to trl, It d6 not tale r{y log to cut ttuou8nthe mei.l tch k@ping the sliding doos fasised. You slide the d6s opd and 6nd yot|tru standing in a.old .lridor lii by ciling lights that h.v€ squaeshaPe
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t56-157 If you want io 6nd out who is comin8 down the orrido., tlm to 45- r you wmt to walk thtough the swinEdoo6, tum to 31. 355 You # that tlse are still plenty of Zombies mill_ inE arcund in the cofftyard ouiside md whisper to Amy that you will deal Mth them alt€r you have helped her to sape. You tipt@ uP the hailw.y, @uched dom sononeof them cd * you thrcu8h the windowg You reachthe end of the halway md peer rcud the riSht-hand comer lo tmk down the eastwing hallwaJ.Youwalk about6v€ mer6 doM the hallway whe^ sudderLlyan alam tEll 8G olf, emitting a shrill, deaiding noi*. This is quickly followed by the .at-a-tat-ial bust of m.hj@ gm Iire coming from behind you. Roll one die. li you rcll r 3, tm to qo. If you rcll 4 {, tum to .19.

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You wast€ no time dd pull th€ Pin olt of the 8re tude, tossin8it hto the domitory beforeslming the dmr shut. You drop io th€ fl6. to avoid rhe

impact of the erplosion. Seonds later th@ is a Loudb@m 6 the Eremde explod6,.asinE 2d6|1 DAMAC..You open what's left of the d@f and per into the smole6lled tum to vis the cam8e. Th€ Zombie l€ft srddin8 statger foMard to atta.k od you must *let another weapon to 6nish thd off.

358 What u*mahe will you mter? ff you wat ro i]?€ jn the words 'White Swm', t|m ro 50.If you want to tt?e in the words 'White Rabbit',tum to ,28. You are in .osiderable pain but pick youMr up .nd i@k around. Youarc standinSon the flat mf of the w6r win& high aboveth€ Eravel-coveredcourtyard below The quadrmgle is forpd by the imer walls oI the sdstone buildings that make up the castle.Sudd€nly a blue md cream sports car r@B th@ughthe @in gatesin the $uth wing and into the ourtyard, 9res rlRhinE on the gravel. ln a lDndbrale tum, the car com6 to a halt in a .loud of d6t in front of a Edage dmr in ihe eastwint. The w,rh ronSh.,red an unusuallrlaJEe driver. 'lw jumps head. out of the car dd u d|5 rh€saraBe

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dooa He jumps backinto the driver's *at, slamslh. .ff into gear and reveRs it inro the Sarage,wheels spimin8 h must be none other than Gingnch Yurr himelJ! Zombies fl@d inlo the courtya.d bur thc mn dG not reappear Two of rhe Zombie belolr tud their headsand lok uP. They Point uP at yor and b€gin
160 You lok ovd the edge of rhe balcony and e thrl the ladder is iamed with noe Zombies climb int up it. Somefalloff dd olheF losetheirlootinE, dangling by on€ hdd hom the ladd€r PEhinS and shoving eachother, th€), aE slow to climb ut You scrambleback into P€ition behind the heavy mchine gun dd brcathe in d€ePly. You counl

lwmtygen Zombi6 in toral trying to aet onto the laddei You Srir your t@th, relea* the elety .atch dd fiF continully al the Zombie ulil the b€lt is dpry, carsing 2d6+r5 dam8e. If you kill all of the Zombiesin the first Atta.t Rodd, tm to uo. U you tail to kil rh@ aU,rln ro 325.

16r Whever is on the ef is very strcng and hs no tbuble in liftinS you up by your thrcat. You Easp fo. a4 le8swrigglin& struggling to poinr your 8@ rt the ceiling. You take aim dd fire, imediately the iron Erip on your thrcai i5 Eleased. You fal onto the loft fl@r landing heavily on your back.At lhe em€ time a hu8e Zombie oash6 rhrcugh the l@t continui.S shaiShtm thrcu8h the loft's .ottm 0@[email protected] to the coridor b€low, takinE you dom ith it. Roll one die. II the nmber olled is 1-?, tum 2r1 lf thenmbe rclledis4 6. tum to2. nush aEaiNt th€ wall md you leverageon it wfth the .rcwbai

36t364 You try ha.kin8 at the wal with the
tb3 You fel a slav{ing mouth on your ck bui beforc the Zombie has time to cl@ its jaws dd bite you with its brcks teethyou 8lab its am, bendfotrard, dd ftip it over your shouldd. lt lands with a thumP on its back on ih€ bmken dffee table and llld in pain. It stmalsup slowly dd both Zombiesclosein to attack.If you win the fi8ht tum to 83. ?64 The sidti.ts l@k sh{ked whm you point you. gun at them. They rai* then dm in the air to sur_ ender You tell them to wau( thrcugh the swing d@r6 nd into the fiFt cel pa6tthe lift. ,A3you Pass prtending it by thel'ft. Roaik d rcpsl$
36a-366 containing contamimt€d blood. RoU rcll r-1, tum to 153. r y@ rcll 4-6,

365 A quick *arch of the Zombie eveals nothjng but a note in the top pftket of the male. It simply et€, "rel hra I love hs.' r y@ want to stay in the library and take a l@k at the b6lis, tum to ir9. If )ou would rath€r coniinue walking along rhe coF t6 Six buuets fly thrcu8h the dmr in rapid suoession ad @e of th6 hits you in th€ leg, Lce 3 srAMrNA Points.If you e stil alive tM to ,54.

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357-169 367 Youpre$ thecallbuttonon thestainless steelpanel next to the lft door lhe lift stdts to hm as it rm bl6 up the lift shaft frcm the nooa below. lt stops with a thuhp and the ders slide open, Seven cru ed ZombieswieldinE kitchen knives pour oui oI the lift to atta.k you. You are stabbedin the arn by th€ firsl Zombie be{oreyou have time to r€a.t. lo* points.Thm thebattleis on.If yo! wjn, I srAMrNA

163 HoldinS your arm ovcr your eyes,yoL .rash throuSh the holc in the .lock fa.e, Mding nore glassflyins. You hurlle ihrcu8h th€ air, whirlinS you arms and legs around, trying to keep yolr*lf up.ight. You land h€avny dd paintuly on th€ rool, rcllinA over in an aftempt to be6k the fall. Above you rhee is a huae explosionasthe top of the clock tower is blown aparr by the dtnamite. Debris falls on top of yo! f.agments of stone,wood, .lo.k parts dd even the foot of ihe Zombi€ lhat is no mor€. You are nol in geat shape you$elt after the long iall down o.to th€ r@f. Roll two dice and Fduce you! STAMINA by the rotal rolled. If you ae srill alive, tun to 3j9.

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369 As you m ados the .ourtyard towards the open Eara8e, lhirteen Zombies .harEe our. They have ben locked up in a stoe em at the ba.k of the garagefoi dar€ and arc beBerk with !aEe. Ihey ar€ wielding largespanns and hammeB,making them

17\t74 norc powerful. You must fi8hl tlEm. EachZombie who swives your first attack will ca$e 2 points of If yotr win, tum to 247, DAMAGE. 170 As you sbide over to .tr,.k him with your .len hed fiots, Boris simply shtugs his shouldersatain l@k ing alnost bored and sayr 'crodbye!' He pulls i tever md a stion of stor fl@r drcps away frcm under your leet. Tum to 216-

t7L The Zombie'sbfte is painful (l@ I srNrNA point) but ils teeth do not pi*e ydr skin. Beforeit cm infe.t yd by bilm8 depd, you Srab its am, b6d fotrad, dd flip the zoi'hie @er you shouldei It ld& @ its backwiih a ihmp m top of the bol€n coffe tableand howls in pain. lt standsuP slowly to join the other Zombie who .l(g in to atta.k. If you defeatthe zombie, tlh to 83. t?2 You mch htd your pockel dd Eive Amy the gold l@tet dd chain.'My ldket! wha did you 6nd it?' she asks,suddenly ch@hn again. 'You dd't want to know!' you reply, 8iimh8. 'Thanr you. IlEnk you. Thant y@,' she et6 h.ppily, Sriming fd the

ftst time sine you mt her You tell Amy ir's time for her to Eo fld sugget that she walts along the edge of the foet, followinS the Md, bul making drivinS alonS s@ 5h€staysout of siShtof flt'My goodbye, yotr will * her wave sying tlut it You @n. You go back iBid€ rhe stdk @m dd clore the se@t d@r behind yd. Youeni th€ st€k r@m, tm left, dd then walk north ddg the wBt wing beloE rcachingihe staiM* at th€ jm.tion with the mrth wing. Y@ arc about to 8o doM ttE staircase wh6 you @tn sight of the telF !o the bMent spe mosted on the tablealEad. Tln to 2ro. You pi.t you way thouth the twitching @rPsesoi the Zombi6 that d Piled uP 6 th€ stai(ase, You pul the axe Gd6) oot of the hand of the one'med Zombie before clinbing rhe orainare to the cat fl@i You slep out onto a coridor landinE wherc you can 60 left (tun to 47),Eo ridt (tum h) 40) or go 3tidght ah€.d (tuh to 33:). 374 You hear a noi* lI@ above and l@k up to see GinSrich Yun's evil he starin8 dom at you thsugh the hole in the bottom of ihe bloM{ui lift. He drcps a small boHle down thbugh the hole whi.h shalieB m hitting the floor of ihe lifr shaft. It contains knoclout 8as ad you smn fall unconsious. lvho you wake up, you lind yowlf in a laige rcom with a hiEh ceilin8, .hained to a slab of polished stde. You are sumunded by s@dhing

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475 All the Zombies that w4 in ihe b€dmm Polr thftu8h into the bathmm, ea.h oneeagerto riP you apart. You try to standup io defend youself bur ae *t upon by 3ix of them. They havethe initiativ€ md yotr lo* 6 sraMrNApoinls in their initial oGlaught lf you ae siill alive, you mana8€ro.rawl out ftoF mdemeath the pile oI Zombiesto fiSht them asnor mal. If you win, tum to 20. J75 You@ quite thnsty and SulPdown the liquid whi.h r4res much benq than it smells.unfort@tely it is laed with a deadly lDison - .ydidel The Poison

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38' $1@ that Yur ow6 him fo. the lat batch of.on laminat€d blood. If you have fio dd wdt to Pay Roznik, tum to 118. r you do ncn rEve $ld or do not wdt to Pay him, nrm b 146.

38: the alam hd stopp€d md you wasie no nme and M up the Iire €$ape, not stoppinSmtil you rca.h the toP of OE staiE. Breathin8hard, you reach the ffft dmr and push doM on the netal bai Ihe d@r is not lcked md opss out onto the r@f of th€ w€t winE where you lind you*U standing in brillidt

38t You take the tuI force of the bLlt in ihe .hest. Th* ir m way you @ su4ive su.h d qplosion. You 381 The dan thumps into you nel, pier.in8 th€ sbn with ease.The dart i! Poien-tiPP€d, albeit a mild poi$n. L@ 5 sT MINAPoints.lf you m stil alive, you pull ihe dart fton you IKk dd aPPiya mde bmdaBeto the wodd. Youer4im the sitch caretultv md * ttEt ttErc are a.tuallv thF Dositions it c; be in. Th€E is a middle 'off iGition, a down pGitid whrch setsolf th€ traP,and s uP P6ihon lfyou mw wGh lo fl(l' th€swikh uP,tm to41.lf you would rath€r not take ihe .hane and wdt kl bave tE library iIrrredr ely, tlm to 160.

,8{ You *arch qui.kly thrcWh iheir p@ketsand find @thing moe the a bottle oFnq dd a I]wtc pm which den't evd work, Not wishin8 to wasreay more tine lindhg uselss junk, you decide to read

Ary's diary Tumto ur. ,85 the coridor mak6 a sharpiln to the.i8ht, carri6 @ for ab@t 50 metres dd males dothd

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545-343 Y@ s@n arive at a black-paind ion d@. in thc naht-hmd wall ol the coridoi It b turily l(ted and you don't have a key whi.h can oPd it, Whilst you are thinkng about whal to do rxt, the d{ision is mad€ for you. Tln io 1o9.

lid whi.h sys 'Danger Do Not Open' in big red letters. If you want to iEnor€ the wminE and op€n the tdnk, tum to :61. If yo! would fath{ walk on,

336 You nove the painting to 6e side and *e that rhere is a naftw d@r in ihe wall that wasPreviGly con cealed.L you want lo oFn rr, hm to to4 If you wdt to go left.lona lhe hallway.tum ro 22t.If vou wanr ro Eo nSht alonSthe hallwat tum to !3.

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190 As the sports.ar .los h on you at high speed,you s Yur smiling in anti.ipatjd of ruming you dom. You empry your Eu at the omominE.ar uawar€ that it hasa bullet-p@f windscreen. Yun'r si.kly grcws you, whilst wider as he bem d()m on Srin the {ienrisr @nrinu6 to fie his machi.e gun. Y@ t6ve no chdce of swivin6 b€in8 hit by both bul lets and Ym's .ar Your advdtue i6 over

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192-391 192 You poinl your g6 at the nearst grcup oI Zombie and b€gin 6rin8. All rhe Zombies in the courtyard immediately fl@k towards you. Th€F m so |My of thd rhal you de unable to shoot them all beforc rumin8 out of blllets. You suriv€ foi a few minutes moF beloreyou arc draSgedto the t@und and *t upon. You ae @n cov€Ed in Zombie bl@d and beome inkted youf*lf. As the trareformation takeshold you turn and point to the double doors, and the dm beyond where Amy is hiding. You lead the scEanin8 Zombic acrcs the courtyard. It won't be long befoc Amy is tumed into a Zombie rN. Your adventureis ovei

t94 You ro back to the @in gatewith Amy reaminE ai you to oFn rhe Padldk. If you Poses a large brasskey,tun to 35.lf you do not havethis key,lurn 395 You step over the rwitching tDdies of the Zofrbies and iake a g@d I@l aromd the mm. The only thing ol inter€st you find is a pair of blackshith's rongswhi.h you put in you bag. Iherc b an alcove behind the clutain whee you find a black ion d@r that was p@iously hidden. If you want ro oPenthe door, tum to ,2. lf you would rather 60 ba.k down the namw pa$ateway dd tun riShl into th€ main 196 Yd se rhai th@ arc two keyhol€sin the lek, @e larger than the other Therc is a nunbn 8 $akned abov€ the laraer keyhole md a nuhber 2 kratched abovethe smaler k€yhole.lf you wdt lo try to oPen th€ padl(l with the keysnmb€red 8 ald 2, tlm to 82. If you would like to try a diifemt.ohbination

t9t Y@ walk acrcs the rcof util you ta.h the oPd skylight. You l@l down ioto what appearsb be a lavisNy-nmish€d b€dmm. ftere i5 a larEe fow p6ter tEd dir
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“My Lord! Increase me in knowledge!" - Qur'an 20:114” Allaah (subhaanahu wa ta'aala) said: "They ask you (O Muhammad sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) about the Hour, - when will be its appointed time? You have no knowledge to say anything about it, To your Lord belongs (the knowledge of) the term thereof? You (O Muhammad sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) are only a warner for those who fear it, The Day they see it, (it will be) as if they had not tarried (in this world) except an afternoon or a morning." [An-Nazi'aat (79):42-46] "They ask you about the Hour (Day of Resurrection): 'When will be its appointed time?' Say: 'The knowledge thereof is with my Lord (Alone). None can reveal its time but He. Heavy is its burden through the heavens and the earth. It shall not come upon you except all of a sudden.' They ask you as if you have a good knowledge of it. Say: 'The knowledge thereof is with Allaah (Alone) but most of mankind know not.''" [Al-A'raaf (7):187] There are many Ayaat and Ahaadeeth concerning this subject: Allaah said: "The Hour has drawn near, and the moon has been cleft asunder." [AlQamar (54):1] The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, whilst pointing with his index and middle fingers, "The time of my advent and the Hour are like these two fingers." [1] In another report he said, "The Hour almost came before me." This indicates how close we are, relatively speaking, to the Hour. Allaah said: "Draws near for mankind their reckoning, while they turn away in heedlessness." [Al-Anbiyaa' (21):1] "The Event (the Hour or the punishment of disbelievers and polytheists or the Islaamic laws or commandments), ordained by Allaah will come to pass, so seek not to hasten it. Glorified and Exalted be He above all that they associate as partners with Him." [An-Nahl (16):1] Page 2 of 69

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"Those who believe not therein seek to hasten it, while those who believe are fearful of it, and know that it is the very truth. Verily, those who dispute concerning the Hour are certainly in error far away." [AshShooraa (42):18] In Saheeh al-Bukhaaree, there is a Hadeeth which states that a Bedouin asked the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) about the Hour. He (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "It will surely come to pass. What have you prepared for it?" The man said, "O Messenger of Allaah, I have not prepared much in the way of prayer and good works, but I love Allaah and His Messenger." The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "You will be with those you love." The Muslims had never rejoiced as much they did when they heard this Hadeeth. [2] Some Ahaadeeth report that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) was asked about the Hour. He looked towards a young boy and said, "If he lives, he will not grow very old before he sees your Last Hour coming to you." [3] By this he meant their death and entering the Hereafter, because everyone who dies enters the Hereafter; some people say that when a person has died, his judgment has begun. This Hadeeth with this meaning is "correct" (Saheeh). Some heretics comment on this Hadeeth and give it an incorrect meaning. The exact timing of the Great Hour (as-Saa'at al-'Uzmaa) is something which Allaah alone knows and which He has not revealed to anyone, as is clear from the Hadeeth in which the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said: "There are five things which nobody knows except Allaah;" then he recited, "Verily, Allaah! With Him (Alone) is the knowledge of the Hour, He sends down the rain, and knows that which is in the wombs. No person knows what he will earn tomorrow, and no person knows in what land he will die. Verily, Allaah is All Knower, All Aware (of things)."" [Luqman (31):34] [4] When Gabriel (Jibreel) (alayhi-salaam) came to the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) in the guise of a Bedouin, he asked him about Islaam, Eemaan (faith) and Ihsaan (excellence of faith); and the Prophet (salAllaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) answered his questions. But when he asked him about the Hour, he said, Page 3 of 69

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"The one questioned about it knows no better than the questioner." Jibreel said, "Tell me about its signs." Then the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) described them, as we shall see later when we quote this Hadeeth and others in full. Hudhayfah said: "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) stood up one day to speak to us, and told us everything that was going to happen until the Hour, and left nothing unsaid. Some of the listeners learnt it by heart, and some forgot it; these friends of mine learnt it. I do not remember it completely, but sometimes it springs to mind, just as one might remember and recognise the face of a man whom one had forgotten, when one sees him." [Abu Daawood, Muslim] [5] Imaam Ahmad reported via Abu Nudrah that Abu Sa'eed said: "One day the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) led us in praying the afternoon prayer (Salaat al-'Asr). Then he stood and addressed us until sunset. He mentioned everything that was to happen until the Day of Resurrection, and left nothing unsaid. Some of us remembered it, and some of us forgot it. One of the things he said was: 'O people, this world is full of attractive temptations. Allaah has appointed you as vicegerents (Khaleefah) in this world, and He will see how you will act. So guard yourselves against the temptations of this world and of women.' Towards the end of this speech, he said, 'The sun is about to set, and what remains of this world, compared to what has passed, is like what remains of this day compared to what has passed.' [6]" 'Alee ibn Zayd ibn Jad'an al-Timi narrated some Gharib and Munkar Ahaadeeth - which could bring into question the validity of this Hadeeth. But there are some reports which are similar to this Hadeeth, and which were transmitted with different isnaads. Part of this Hadeeth is in Saheeh Muslim, through Abu Nudrah on the authority of Abu Sa'eed. This Hadeeth refers to something which is beyond any doubt: what remains of this world, compared to what has passed, is very little. In spite of that, noone can know exactly how much time is left except Allaah, and no-one can know exactly how much time has passed, except Allaah. Footnotes [1] Bukhaaree, Kitaab at-Tafsir, commentary on Surat an-Nazi'aat, 6/206. [2] A similar Hadeeth was narrated by Bukhaaree in Kitaab al-Adab. [3] See Bukhaaree, Kitaab al-Adab; Muslim, Kitaab al-Fitan wa Ashraat Page 4 of 69

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al-Sa'ah. [4] Bukhaaree, Kitaab at-Tafsir, commentary on Luqman 31:34. A longer Hadeeth is narrated by Muslim in Kitaab al-Eemaan. [5] Muslim, Kitaab al-Fitan wa Ashraaat al-Sa'ah; Abu Daawood, Kitaab al-Fitan wa'l-Malahim. [6] The whole speech is narrated by Imaam Ahmad in his Musnad, 2/61. Checker's Note: Da`eef, al-Musnad (3/61) [or 2/61 as stated in the book??], at-Tirmidhee and al-Hakim (4/505). Da`eef due to `Alee ibn Zayd ibn Jad'an. al-Mishkat: 5145 of al-Albaanee. Parts of the complete speech are authentic, see Ibn Kathir's comments. General Description of the Fitan (Tribulations) Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman said, "People used to ask the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) about good things, but I used to ask him about bad things because I was afraid that they might overtake me. I said, 'O Messenger of Allaah, we were lost in ignorance (Jahiliyyah) and evil, then Allaah brought this good (i.e. Islaam). Will some evil come after this good thing?' He said, 'Yes' I asked, 'And will some good come after that evil?' He said, 'Yes, but it will be tainted with some evil' I asked, 'How will it be tainted?' He said, 'There will be some people who will lead others on a path different from mine. You will see good and bad in them." I asked, 'Will some evil come after that good?' He said, 'Some people will be standing and calling at the gates of Hell; whoever responds to their call, they will throw him into the Fire.' I said, 'O Messenger of Allaah, describe them for us.' He said, 'They will be from our own people, and will speak our language.' I asked, 'What do you advise me to do if I should live to see that?' He said, 'Stick to the main body (jamaa'ah) of the Muslims and their leader (Imaam). I asked, What if there isno main body and no leader?' He said 'Isolate yourself from all of these sects, even if you have to eat the roots of trees until death overcomes you while you are in that state.' [1]" 'Abd Allaah ibn Mas'ood said: "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'Islaam began as something strange, and it will revert to being strange as it was in the beginning, so good tidings for the strangers.' Someone asked, 'Who are the strangers?' He said, 'The ones who break away from their people (literally, 'tribes') for the sake of Islaam.'" This Hadeeth was narrated by Ibn Majah on the authority of Anas and Abu Hurairah. [2] Footnotes [1] Bukhaaree, Kitaab al-Fitan, 9/65. Page 5 of 69

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[2] Muslim, Kitaab al-Eemaan, 1/90: Ibn Majah, Kitaab al-Fitan (Hadeeth 3988), 2/1320. Divisions Within the Main Religious Groups Abu Hurairah reported that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said: "The Jews have split into seventy-one sects, and my Ummah will divide into seventy-three." [1] 'Awf ibn Malik reported that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said: "The Jews split into seventy-one sects: one will enter Paradise and seventy will enter Hell. The Christians split into seventy-two sects: seventy-one will enter Hell and one will enter Paradise. By Him in Whose hand is my soul, my Ummah will split into seventy-three sects: one will enter Paradise and seventy-two will enter Hell." Someone asked, "O Messenger of Allaah, who will they be?" He replied, "The main body of the Muslims (al-Jamaa'ah)." 'Awf ibn Malik is the only one who reported this Hadeeth, and its isnaad is acceptable. [2] Anas ibn Malik said, "I shall tell you a Hadeeth which I heard from the Messenger of Allaah, and which no-one will tell you after me. I heard him say, 'Among the signs of the Hour will be the disappearance of knowledge and the appearance of ignorance. Adultery will be prevalent and the drinking of wine will be common. The number of men will decrease and the number of women will increase until there will be fifty women to be looked after by one man.'" This Hadeeth was reported in the two Saheehs from the Hadeeth of 'Abd Rabbihi. [3] 'Abd Allaah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'Just before the Hour, there will be days in which knowledge will disappear and ignorance will appear, and there will be much killing.' " [Ibn Maajah; also narrated by Bukhaaree and Muslim, from the Hadeeth of al-A'mash] [4] Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'Islaam will become worn out like clothes are, until there will be no-one who knows what fasting, prayer, charity and rituals are. The Qur'aan will disappear in one night, and no Ayah will be left on earth. Some groups of old people will be left who will say, 'We heard our fathers saying La ilaha illa Allaah, so we repeated it.' Silah asked Hudhayfah, "What will saying La ilaha illa Allaah do for them when they do not know what prayer, fasting, ritual and charity Page 6 of 69

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are?" Hudhayfah ignored him; then Silah repeated his question three times, and each time Hudayfah ignored him. Finally he answered, "O Silah, it will save them from Hell", and said it three times. [Ibn Maajah] [5] This indicates that in the last days, knowledge will be taken from the people, and even the Qur'aan will disappear from the Mushafs and from people's hearts. People will be left without knowledge. Only the old people will tell them that they used to hear people saying La ilaha illa Allaah; and they will repeat it to feel close to Allaah, so it will give them some blessing, even if they do not have any good deeds or beneficial knowledge. Knowledge will be taken away from men and ignorance will increase during the last days, and their ignorance and misguidance will increase until the end, as in the Hadeeth of the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam): "The Hour will not come upon anyone who says, 'Allaah, Allaah'; it will only come upon the most evil of men." [6] Footnotes [1] Ibn Maajah, Kitaab al-Fitan (Hadeeth 3991), 2/1321. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Saheeh Ibn Maajah: 3225 [2] Abu Daawood, Kitaab as-Sunnah, (Hadeeth 4572, 4573), 12/1340-2. "The main body of the Muslims (al-Jamaa'ah)" means the people of the Qur'aan, Hadeeth, Fiqh and other sciences, who have agreed to follow the Traditions of the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) in all circumstances without introducing any changes or imposing their own confused ideas. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Saheeh al-Jami as-Sagheer: 1082, the narration of `Awf ibn Malik is also reported by Ibn Maajah (no. 4992), Ibn Abee `Asim in as-Sunnah (no. 63) and al-Lalikai in Sharh us-Sunnah (no. 1492). [3] A similar Hadeeth was narated by al-Bukhaaree in Kitaab al-'Ilm, 1/30,31; and by Muslim. Checker's Note: Saheeh, al-Bukhari and Muslim. [4] Bukhaaree, Kitaab al-Fitan, 9/61; Msulim, Kitaab al-'Ilm, 8/58. [5] Checker's Note: Saheeh, Silsilatul Ahadeeth as-Saheehah: 87. [6]The first part of it was related by Muslim in Kitab al-Eemaan, 1/91, and the second part in Kitab al-Fitan wa Ashraat al-Sa'ah, 8/208. The Evils Which Will Befall the Muslim Ummah During The Last Days 'Abd Allaah ibn 'Umar said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) came to us and said, 'O Muhaajiroon, (emigrants from Makkah to al-Madinah) you may be Page 7 of 69

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afflicted by five things; God forbid that you should live to see them. If fornication should become widespread, you should realise that this has never happened without new diseases befalling the people which their forebears never suffered. If people should begin to cheat in weighing out goods, you should realise that this has never happened without drought and famine befalling the people, and their rulers oppressing them. If people should withhold Zakaat, you should realise that this has never happened without the rain being stopped from falling; and were it not for the animals' sake, it would never rain again. If people should break their covenant with Allaah and His Messenger, you should realise that his has never happened without Allaah sending an enemy against them to take some of their possessions by force. If the leaders do not govern according to the Book of Allaah, you should realise that this has never happened without Allaah making them into groups and making them fight one another.'" [Ibn Maajah] [1] 'Alee ibn Abee Taalib said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said: 'If my Ummah bears fifteen traits, tribulation will befall it.' Someone asked, 'What are they, O Messenger of Allaah?' He said, 'When any gain is shared out only among the rich, with no benefit to the poor; when a trust becomes a means of making a profit; when paying Zakaat becomes a burden; when a man obeys his wife and disobeys his mother; and treats his friend kindly whilst shunning his father; when voices are raised in the mosques; when the leader of a people is the worst of them; when people treat a man with respect because they fear some evil he may do; when much wine is drunk; when men wear silk; when female singers and musical instruments become popular; when the last ones of this Ummah curse the first ones - then let them expect a red wind, or the earth to swallow them, or to be transformed into animals.'" [Tirmidhee] [2] 'Alee ibn Abee Taalib said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) led us in praying Salaat alFajr (the morning prayer). When he had finished, a man called to him: 'When will the Hour be? The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) reprimanded him and said 'Be quiet!' After a while he raised his eyes to the sky and said, 'Glorified be the One Who raised it and is taking care of it.' Then he lowered his gaze to the earth and said, 'Glory be to the One Who has outspread it and has created it.' Then the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'Where is the one who asked me about the Hour?' The man knelt down and said, 'I asked you.' The Prophet (salAllaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'The Hour will come when leaders are Page 8 of 69

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oppressors, when people believe in the stars and reject al-Qadar (the Divine Decree of destiny) when a trust becomes a way of making a profit, when people give to charity (Sadaqah) reluctantly, when adultery becomes widespread - when this happens, then your people will perish.'" [3] 'Imran ibn Husayn said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'Some people of this Ummah will be swallowed up by the earth, some will be transformed into animals, and some will be bombarded with stones.' One of the Muslims asked, 'When will that be, O Messenger of Allaah?' He said, 'When singers and musical instruments will become popular, and much wine will be drunk.'"[4] Footnotes [1] Narrated by Ibn Maajah, Kitaab al-Fitan (Hadeeth 4019), 2/1332. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Silsilatul Ahadeeth as-Saheehah: 106-107. [2] Tirmidhee, Abwaab al-Fitan (Hadeeth 308), 6/4620-458. Checker's Note: Da`eef, Da`eef al-Jami as-Sagheer: 608. [3] al-Haythami, Kitaab al-Fitan. Checker's Note: al-Haythami, says, "al-Bazzar reports it and it contains narrators I do not know." We do not know the status of the hadeeth as no muhaddith (as far as we know) has given a definite verdict. [4] Narrated by at-Tirmidhee. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Silsilatul Ahadeeth as-Saheehah: 1604. The Greater Signs of the Hour After the lesser signs of the Hour appear and increase, mankind will have reached a stage of great suffering. Then the awaited Mahdee will appear; he is the first of the greater, and clear, signs of the Hour. There will be no doubt about his existence, but this will only be clear to the knowledgeable people. The Mahdee will rule until the False Messiah (al-Maseeh adDajjaal) appears, who will spread oppression and corruption. The only ones who will know him well and avoid his evil will be those who have great knowledge and Eemaan (faith). The false Messiah will remain for a while, destroying mankind completely, and the earth will witness the greatest Fitnah (tribulation) in its history. Then the Messiah Jesus (alayhi salam) will descend, bringing justice from heaven. He will kill the Dajjaal, and there will be years of safety and security. Then the appearance of Ya'jooj and Ma'jooj (Gog and Magog) will take mankind by surprise, and corruption will overtake them again. In answer Page 9 of 69

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to Jesus' faithful prayer to Allaah (subhanahu wa ta'aala), they will die, and safety, security, justice and stability will return. This state of affairs will continue for some years, until the death of Jesus. The Ulamaa differ concerning the order in which the other greater signs of the Hour will come about. They are: • The destruction of the Ka'bah and the recovery of its treasure. • The rising of the sun from the west. • The emergence of the Beast from the earth. • The smoke. • A wind will take the souls of the believers. • The Qur'aan will be taken up into heaven. • A fire will drive the people to their last gathering place. • The Trumpet will be sounded: at the first sound everyone will feel terror; at the second sound all will be struck down; at the last sound all will be resurrected. The Mahdee The Mahdee will come at the end of time; he is one of the Rightly-Guided Caliphs and Imaams. He is not the Mahdee who is expected by the Shee'ah, who they claim will appear from a tunnel in Saamarraa. This claim of theirs has no basis in reality nor in any reliable source. They allege that his name is Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Askaree, and that he went into the tunnel when he was five years old. The matter we intend to discuss has been proven by Ahaadeeth narrated from the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam): that the Mahdee will appear at the end of time. I believe that he will appear before Jesus the son of Mary comes down, as the Ahaadeeth indicate. Hajjaaj said that he heard Alee say, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "Even if there were only one day left for the world, Allaah would send a man from among us to fill the world with justice, just as it had been filled with oppression and justice." [Ahmad] [1] Alee said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "The Mahdee is one of us, from among the people of my household. In one night Allaah will inspire him and prepare him to carry out his task successfully." [Ahmad and Ibn Maajah] [2] Alee said, whilst looking at his son al-Hasan, This son of mine is a Sayyid (master), as the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) named him. Among his descendants there will be man named after your Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam). He will resemble him Page 10 of 69

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in behaviour but not in looks. Then he told them the report which mentions that the earth will be filled with justice. [Abu Daawood] [3] Abu Daawood devoted a chapter of his Sunan to the subject of the Mahdee. At the beginning of this chapter he quoted the Hadeeth of Jaabir ibn Samrah, in which the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "This religion will remain steadfast until twelve caliphs have ruled over you." (According to another report he said, "This religion will remain strong until twelve caliphs have ruled over you.") Jaabir said, "The people cheered and shouted Allaahu Akbar! Then the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) whispered something. I asked my father 'What did he say?' My father said, 'He said, All ofthem will be from Quraysh.'" Another report says that when the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) returned to his house, Quraysh came to him and asked, "What will happen after that?" He said, "Then there will be tribulation and killing." [4] Abu Daawood reported a Hadeeth from Abd Allaah ibn Masood: "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "If there were only one day left for the world, that day would be lengthened until a man from among my descendants or from among the people of my household, was sent; his name will be the same as my name, and his fathers name will be the same as my fathers name. He will fill the earth with justice and fairness, just as it will have been filled with injustice and oppression. The world will not end until a man of my household, whose name is the same as mine, holds sway." [5] Abd Allaah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'A man from my household, whose name is like mine, will take power.'" [Tirmidhee] [6] In another report, from Abu Hurairah, the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "If there were only one day left for this world, Allaah would lengthen it until he took power." [7] Aboo Sa'eed said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'The Mahdee will be one of my descendants; he will have a high forehead and a hooked nose. He will fill the earth with justice and fairness just as it was filled with injustice and oppression, and he will rule for seven years.'" [Abu Daawood] [8] Umm Salamah said, "I heard the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) say,'The Mahdee will be one of my descendants, from the children of Faatimah.'" [Abu Daawood] [9] Page 11 of 69

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Umm Salamah reported that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "People will begin to differ after the death of a Khaleefah. A man from the people of Madinah will flee to Makkah. Some of the people of Makkah will come to him and drag him out against his will; they will swear allegiance to him between al-Rukn and al-Maqam. An army will be sent against him from Syria; it will be swallowed up in the desert between Makkah and Madinah. When the people see this, groups of people from Syria and Iraq will come and swear allegiance to him. Then a man from Quraysh whose mother is from Kalb will appear and send an army against them, and will defeat them; this will be known as the Battle of Kalb. Whoever does not witness the spoils of this battle will miss much! The Mahdee will distribute the wealth, and will rule the people according to the Sunnah of the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam). Then he will die, and the Muslims will pray for him." [Abu Daawood] [10] Alee said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'A man named alHaarith ibn Hirath will come from Transoxania. His army will be led by a man named Mansoor. He will pave the way for and establish the government of the family of Muhammad, just as Quraysh established the government of the Messenger of Allaah. Every believer will be obliged to support him.'" [Abu Daawood] [11] Abd Allaah ibn al-Haarith ibn Juz' al-Zubaydee said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'A people will come out of the East who will pave the way for the Mahdee.'" [Ibn Maajah] [12] Abd Allaah said, "Whilst we were with the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam), some young men from Banu Hashim approached us. When the Prophet (salAllaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) saw them, his eyes filled with tears and the colour of his face changed. I said, 'We can see something has changed in your face, and it upsets us.' The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'We are the people of a Household for whom Allaah has chosen the Hereafter rather than this world. The people of my Household (Ahl al-Bayt) will suffer a great deal after my death, and will be persecuted until a people carrying black banners will come out of the east. They will instruct the people to do good, but the people will refuse; they will fight until they are victorious, and the people do as they asked, but they will not accept it from them until they hand over power to a man from my household. Then the earth will be filled with fairness, just as it had been filled with injustice. If any of you live to see this, you should go Page 12 of 69

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to him even if you have to crawl across ice.'" [13] This text refers to the rule of the Abbasids, as we have mentioned above in the text referring to the beginningof their rule in 132 AH. It also indicates that the Mahdee will appear after the Abbasids, and that he will be one of the Ahl al-Bayt, a descendant of Faatimah, the daughter of the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam), through Hasan, not Husayn, as mentioned in the Hadeeth from Alee ibn Abee Taalib; and Allaah knows best. [14] Thwaban said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said,'Three men will be killed at the place where your treasure is. Each of them will be the son of a Khaleefah, and none of them will get hold of the treasure. Then the black banners will come out of the East, and they will slaughter you in a way which has never been seen before.' Then he said something which I do not remember; then, 'If you see him, go and give him your allegiance, even if you have to crawl over ice, because he is the Khaleefah of Allaah, the Mahdee.'" [Ibn Maajah] [15] The treasure referred to in this text is the treasure of the Ka'bah. Towards the end of time, three of the sons of the Khaleefahs will fight to get hold of it, until the Mahdee appears. He will appear from the East, not from the tunnel of Saamarraa, as the Shee'ah claim; they believe that he is in this tunnel now, and they are waiting for him to emerge at the end of time. There is no evidence for it in any book or Saheeh tradition, and there is no benefit in believing this. The truth of the matter is that the Mahdee whose coming is promised at the end of time will appear from the East,and people will swear allegiance to him at the Ka'bah, as some Ahaadeeth indicate. At the time of the Mahdee, there will be peace and prosperity, with abundant crops and wealth, strong rulers, and Islaam will be wellestablished. Aboo Sa'eed said, "By Allaah every ruler we have had has been worse than the previous one, and every year has been worse than the year before, but I heard the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) say, 'Among your rulers will be one who will give out wealth freely, without counting it. A man will come and ask him for money, and he will say, "Take"; the man will spread his cloak out and the ruler will pour money into it.' The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) spread out a thick cloak he had been wearing, to demonstrate the mans actions; then he gathered it up by its corners and said, 'Then the man will take it and leave.'" [Ahmad] [16] Page 13 of 69

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Footnotes [1] Ahmad, al-Musnad; similar Hadeeth in Abu Daawood, Kitaab Awwal al-Mahdee. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Ahmad and Abu Daud, Saheeh al-Jami asSagheer: 5305. [2] Ahmad, al-Musnad and Ibn Maajah, Kitaab al-Fitan. Checker's Note: Saheeh Saheeh al-Jami as-Sagheer: 6735. It has been mistranslated slightly, it should be "In one night, Allaah will prepare him," the mention of inspiration and the carrying out of the task is explanatory. [3] See Abu Daawood, Kitaab al-Mahdee. Checker's Note: Da`eef Munqati' (chain of narration is broken), alMishkat, 1st checking: 5462. [4] Checker's Note: "... returned to his house" is a da`eef addition. The rest of the hadeeth is saheeh. [5] See Abu Daawood, Kitaab al-Mahdee. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Saheeh Abee Daawood: 3601. [6] Checker's Note: "A man from my household ..." Hasan, Saheeh alJami as-Sagheer: 8160. [7] at-Tirmidhee, in his chapters dealing with al-Fitan. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Saheeh at-Tirmidhee: 1819. [8] Abu Daawood, Kitaab al-Mahdee. Checker's Note: Hasan, Saheeh Abee Daawood: 3604. Translation states, "... a hooked nose." Correct translation is "... an aquiline nose." [9] Abu Daawood, Kitaab al-Mahdee. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Saheeh Abee Daawood: 3603. [10] Abu Daawood, Kitaab al-Mahdee. Checker's Note: Da`eef, al-Mishkat, 1st checking: 5456. [11] Checker's Note: Da`eef, Da`eef al-Jami as-Sagheer: 6418. [12] Ibn Maajah, Kitaab al-Fitan (Hadeeth 3088). Checker's Note: Da`eef, Silsilatul Ahaadieeh ad-Da`eefah: 4826. [13] Ibn Maajah, ibid., (Hadeeth 4082). Checker's Note: Da`eef, Da`eef Ibn Maajah: 886. [14] See Ahaadeeth above. (Ref. 1, 2 & 3) Checker's Note: Footnote refers to hadeeth no. 3. [15] Narrated by Ibn Maajah, op. cit., Hadeeth 4084. Checker's Note: Da`eef Munkar (the isnaad is weak and moreover the meaning is wrong). In this case, the mention of "Khaleefah of Allaah" is munkar because Allaah cannot have a successor or vicegerent in His absence, Silsilatul Ahaadeeth ad-Da`eefah: 85. Page 14 of 69

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[16] Ahmad, Musnad, 3/98. Checker's Note: Da`eef. Its isnaad contains Mujahid ibn Sa'eed Different Kinds of Fitan (Tribulations) Zaynab bint Jahsh said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) got up from his sleep; his face was flushed and he said, 'There is no god but Allaah. Woe to the Arabs, for a great evil which is nearly approaching them. Today a gap has been made in the wall of Gog and Magog like this (Sufyan illustrated this by forming the number of 90 or 100 with his fingers).' Someone asked, 'Shall we be destroyed even though there are righteous people among us?' The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'Yes, if evil increases.'" [Bukhaaree] [1] Umm Salamah, the wife of the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "One night the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) got up and said, 'SubhanAllaah! How many tribulations have come down tonight, and how many treasures have been disclosed! Go and wake the dwellers of these apartments (i.e. his wives) for prayer. A well-dressed soul in this world may be naked in the Hereafter.'" [Bukhaaree] [2] Usamah ibn Zayd said, "Once the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) stood over one of the battlements of al-Madinah and asked the people, 'Do you see what I see?' They said, 'No.' He said, 'I see afflictions falling upon your houses as rain drops fall.'" [Bukhaaree and Muslim] [3] Abu Hurairah (radiallahu anhu) said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'Time will pass rapidly, knowledge will decrease, miserliness will become widespread in peoples hearts, afflictions will appear, and there will be much Harj.' The people asked, 'O Messenger of Allaah, what is Harj?' He said, 'Killing, killing!'" [Bukhaaree] [4] Al-Zubayr ibn Adee narrated, "We went to Anas ibn Malik and complained about the wrong we were suffering at the hands of al-Hajjaaj. Anas ibn Malik said, 'Be patient, "For no time will come but that the time following it will be worse, until you meet your Lord." I heard the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) say that.'" [Bukhaaree] Abu Hurairah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'There will come a time of afflictions when one who sits will be better than one who stands; one who stands will be better than one who walks; and one who walks Page 15 of 69

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will be better than one who runs. Whoever exposes himself to these afflictions, they will destroy him. So whoever can find a place of protection or refuge from them, should take shelter in it.'" [Bukhaaree and Muslim] [5] Hudhayfah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) told us two Hadeeth, one of which I have seen fulfilled, and I am waiting for the fulfilment of the other. The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) told us that honesty came down into mens hearts (from Allaah); then they learnt it from the Qur'aan, and then from the Sunnah. The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) told us that honesty would be taken away. He said, 'Man will be overtaken by sleep, during which honesty will be taken away from his heart, and only its trace will remain, like traces of a dark spot. Then man will be overtaken by slumber again, during which honesty will decrease still further, until its trace will resemble a blister such as is caused when an ember is dropped onto ones foot: it swells, but there is nothing inside. People will be carrying on with their trade, but there will hardly be any trustworthy persons. People will say, There is an honest man in suchand-such a tribe. Later they will say about some man, What a wise, polite and strong man he is! - although he will not have faith even the size of a mustard-seed in his heart.' Indeed, there came a time when I did not mind dealing with any one of you, for if he were a Muslim his Islaam would compel him to pay whatever he owed me, and if he were a Christian, the Muslim official would compel him to pay it. But now I do not deal with anyone except so-and-so and so-and-so." [Bukhaaree] [6] Ibn Umar said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) stood beside the pulpit, facing the east, and said, 'Afflictions will verily emerge from here, where the top of Satans head will appear.'" [Bukhaaree] [7] Abu Hurairah said that he had heard the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) say, "The Hour will not come until a man passes by someone's grave and says, 'Would that I were in his place!'" [Bukhaaree] [8] Abu Hurairah said, "I heard the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) say, 'The Hour will not come until the buttocks of the women of Daws move whist going around Dhoo l-Khalasah.'" Dhoo l-Khalasah was an idol worshipped by the tribe of Daws during the Jaahiliyyah. [Hadeeth from Bukhaaree] [9] Abu Hurairah also said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'The Euphrates will Page 16 of 69

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disclose a golden treasure. Whoever is present at that time should not take anything of it.'" [10] Abu Hurairah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'The Hour will not come before the Euphrates uncovers a mountain of gold, for which people will fight. Ninety-nine out of every hundred will die, but every one among them will say that perhaps he will be the one who will survive (and thus possess the gold).'" [Muslim] [11] Abu Hurairah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam)said, 'The Hour will not come until the following events have come to pass: two large groups will fight the another, and there will be many casualties; they will both be following the same religious teaching. Nearly thirty Dajjaals will appear, each of them falsely claiming to be a Messenger from Allaah. Knowledge will disappear, earthquakes will increase, time will pass quickly, afflictions will appear, and Harj (ie killing) will increase. Wealth will increase, so that a wealthy man will worry lest no-one accept his Zakaat, and when he offers it to anyone, that person will say, "I am not in need of it." People will compete in constructing high buildings. When a man passes by someones grave, he will say, "Would that I were in his place!" The sun will rise from the west; when it rises and the people see it, they will believe, but, "No good will it do to a soul to believe in them then, if it believed not before nor earned righteousness through its faith..." [Al-An'aam (6):158] "The Hour will come suddenly: when a man has milked his she-camel and taken away the milk, but he will not have time to drink it; before a man repairing a tank for his livestock will be able to put water in it for his animals; and before a man who has raised a morsel of food to his mouth will be able to eat it." [Bukhaaree] [12] Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman said, "Of all the people, I know most about every tribulation which is going to happen between now and the Hour. This is not because the Prophet (salAllaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) told me something in confidence which he did not tell anyone else; it is because I was present among a group of people to whom he spoke about the tribulations (al-Fitan). The Prophet (salAllaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) mentioned three tribulations which would hardly spare anybody, and some which would be like storms in summer; some would be great and some would be small. Everyone who was present at that gathering has passed away, except me." [Muslim] [13] Abu Hurairah said, Page 17 of 69

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"I heard the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) say, "If you live for a while, you will see people go out under the wrath of Allaah and come back under His curse, and they will have in their hands whips like the tail of an ox.'" [Ahmad, Muslim] [14] Abu Hurairah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'There are two types among the people of Hell whom I have not yet seen. The first are people who have whips like the tails of oxen, with which they beat people, and the second are women who are naked in spite of being dressed; they will be led astray and will lead others astray, and their heads will look like camels humps. These women will not enter Paradise; they will not even experience the faintest scent of it, even though the fragrance of Paradise can be perceived from such a great distance.'" [15] Anas ibn Malik said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) was asked, 'O Messenger of Allaah, (what will happen) when we stop enjoining good and forbidding evil?' He said, 'When what happened to the Israelites happens among you: when fornication becomes widespread among your leaders, knowledge is in the hands of the lowest of you, and power passes into the hands of the least of you.'" [Ibn Maajah] [16] Abu Hurairah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'Woe to the Arabs from the great evil which is nearly approaching them: it will be like patches of dark night. A man will wake up as a believer, and be a kafir (unbeliever) by nightfall. People will sell their religion for a small amount of worldly goods. The one who clings to his religion on that day will be as one who is grasping an ember - or thorns.'" [Ahmad] [17] Abu Hurairah said, "I heard the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) saying to Thawbaan, 'O Thawban, what will you do when the nations call one another to invade you as people call one another to come and eat from one bowl?' Thawbaan said, 'May my father and my mother be sacrificed for you, O Messenger of Allaah! Is it because we are so few?' The Prophet (salAllaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'No, on that day you (Muslims) will be many, but Allaah will put weakness (wahn) in your hearts.' The people asked, 'What is that weakness, O Messenger of Allaah?' He said, 'It is love for this world and dislike of fighting.'" [Ahmad] [18] The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "There will be a tribulation in which one who is sleeping will be better than one who is lying down, one who is lying will be better than one who is Page 18 of 69

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sitting, one who is sitting will be better than one who is standing, one who is standing will be better than one who is walking, one who is walking will be better than one who is riding, and one who is riding will be better than one who is running; all of their dead will be in Hell." The Companion of the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) who narrated this Hadeeth said, "O Messenger of Allaah, when will that be?" He said, "That will be the days of Harj." He asked, "When will the days of Harj be?" The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "When a man will not trust the person to whom he is speaking." The Companion asked, "What do you advise me to do if I live to see that?" He said, "Restrain yourself, and go back to your place of residence." The Companion then asked, "O Messenger of Allaah, what should I do if someone enters my neighbourhood to attack me?" He said, "Go into your house." The Companion asked, "What if he enters my house?" He said, "Go into the place where you pray and do this - and he folded his arms, - and say 'My Lord is Allaah', until you die." [19] Abu Bakrah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'There will be a tribulation during which one who is lying down will be better than one who is sitting, one who is sitting will be better than one who is standing, one who is standing will be better than one who is walking, and one who is walking will be better than one who is running.' Someone asked, 'O Messenger of Allaah, what do you advise me to do?' He said, 'Whoever has camels, let him stay with them, and whoever has land, let him stay in his land.' Someone asked, 'What about someone who does not have anything like that?' He said, 'Then let him take his sword and strike its edge against a stone, then go as far away as possible.'" [Abu Daawood; similar Hadeeth in Muslim] [20] At the time of the Fitnah of Uthmaan ibn Affaan's Khilaafah (Caliphate), Sa'd ibn Abee Waqqaas said, "I bear witness that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'There will come a tribulation during which one who sits will be better than one who stands, one who stands will be better than one who walks, and one who walks will be better than one who runs.' Someone asked, 'What do you advise if someone enters my house to kill me?' He said, 'Be like the son of Adam (i.e. resign yourself).'" [Muslim, Tirmidhee] [21] Abu Moosaa al-Asharee said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'Before the Hour comes, there will be a tribulation like patches of dark night. A man will get up a believer and go to sleep a kaafir, or will go to sleep a believer and Page 19 of 69

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get up a kaafir. The one who sits will be better than one who stands, and one who walks will be better than one who runs. Break your bows, cut their strings, and strike your swords against stones. If someone comes to kill any of you, then be like the better of the twos ons of Adam.'" [Abu Daawood] [22] Abu Dharr said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) was riding a donkey and sat me behind him. He said, 'O Abu Dharr, if the people were suffering from such severe hunger that you could not even get up from your bed to go to the mosque, what would you do?' I said, 'Allaah and His Messenger know best.' He said, 'Be decent and restrain yourself.' Then he said, 'O Abu Dharr, if the people were suffering from severe death (i.e. if a man were worth no more than a grave), what would you do? If the people were killing one another, until Hajarat al-Zayt (an area of Madinah) were submerged in blood, what would you do?' I said, 'Allaah and His Messenger know best.' He said, 'Stay in your house and lock the door.' I asked, 'What if I am not left alone?' He said, 'Then be one of them.' I said, 'Should I take up my sword?' He said, 'If you did that, you would be joining them in their activities. No - if you fear that the brightness of the shining sword will disturb you, then cover your face with part of your clothing, and let him carry his own sin and your sin.'" [Ahmad] [23] Abd Allaah ibn Amr said, "We were on a journey with the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam)...When the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam)'s caller called for prayer, I went there. The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) was addressing the people, saying: "O people, it has been the duty of every Prophet before me to guide his people to whatever he knew was good for them, and to warn them against whatever he knew was bad for them, but this Ummah has its time of peace and security at the beginning; at the end of its existence it will suffer trials and tribulations, one after the other. Tribulation will come, and the believer will say, "This will finish me", but it will pass. Another tribulation will come, and he will say, "This is it", but it will pass, and a third will come and go likewise. Whoever wishes to be rescued from Hell, and enter Paradise, let him die believing in Allaah and the Last Day, and treat the people as he himself wishes to be treated. If anyone gives allegiance to an Imaam, then let him obey him if he can (or on one occasion he said: as much as you can).'" Abd al-Rahman (one of the narrators of this Hadeeth) said, "When I heard that, I put my head between my knees and said, 'But your cousin Mu'aawiyah is ordering us to squander our wealth among Page 20 of 69

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ourselves in vanity, and to kill each other, although Allaah has said, "O you who believe! Squander not your wealth among yourselves in vanity..." ' [an-Nisaa (4):29] Abd Allaah (another narrator) put his head in his hands and paused a while, then he raised his head and said, "Obey him in that which is obedience to Allaah and disobey that which is disobedience to Allaah." I asked him, "Did you hear that from the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam)?" He said, "Yes, I heard it with my ears and understood it in myheart." [Ahmad, Abu Daawood, an-Nasaa'ee, Ibn Maajah] [24] Abd Allaah ibn Amr said, "I heard the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) say, 'If you see my Ummah fearing a tyrant so much that they dare not tell him that he is a tyrant, then there will be no hope for them.'" The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "Among my Ummah, some will be swallowed up by the earth, some bombarded with stones, and some transformed into animals." [Ahmad] [25] Footnotes [1] Bukhaaree, Kitaab al-Fitan. [2] Bukhaaree, Kitaab al-'Ilm. [3] Bukhaaree, Kitaab al-Fitan, 9/60; Muslim, Baab Nuzuul al-Fitan kaMawaaqi' al-Qatar, 8/168. [4] Bukhaaree, ibid. [5] op. cit., 9/64; Muslim, Baab Nuzuul al-Fitan ka-Mawaaqi' al-Qatar. [6] Bukhaaree, op. cit., 9/66. [7] Bukhaaree, Kitaab Bid' al-Khalq, 4/150. [8] Bukhaaree, Kitaab al-Fitan, 9/73. [9] Bukhaaree, Kitaab al-Fitan, 8/132 Daws: a tribe in Yemen; Dhoo l-Khalasah: a house full of idols - it is so called because they believed that whoever worshipped it or went around it would be purified (khallasa). This Hadeeth means that the tribe of Daws will become apostates from Islaam and will go back to idol worshipping; even their women will exert themselves in worshipping the idol and running around it, so that their flesh will quiver. [10] Bukhaaree, Kitaab al-Fitan, 9/73. [11] Muslim, Kitaab al-Fitan wa Ashraat al-Saa'ah, 8/174. [12] Bukhaaree, Kitaab al-Fitan, 9/74. [13] Muslim, Kitaab al-Fitan wa Ashraat al-Saa'ah, 8/172. Page 21 of 69

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[14] Muslim, Kitaab al-Jannah wa Sifat Na'imihaa wa Ahlihaa, 8/155, 156. [15] Muslim, ibid. [16] Ibn Maajah narrated a similar Hadeeth in Kitaab al-Fitan (Hadeeth 4015), 2/1331. Ahmad, Musnad, 3/187. Checker's Note: Da`eef due to the `an`anah (usage of the word `an (from)) of Makhool, Da`eef Ibn Maajah: 870. [17] Ahmad, Musnad, 2/390. Checker's Note: Saheeh. Weak isnaad but supported by other narrations similar in meaning. Musnad Imaam Ahmad, checking by Ahmad Shakir: 2/390. [18] Ahmad, Musnad, 2/359. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Silsilatul Ahadeeth as-Saheehah: 958. Wording should be "dislike of death". [19] Ahmad, Musnad, 1/448. Checker's Note: Saheeh. Musnad Imaam Ahmad, checking by Ahmad Shakir: [??] Ahmad's narration contains an unnamed narrator who is named in the narration of Abdur Razzaaq, no. 20727 and al-Hakim, 4/320, and he is reliable. [20] Abu Daawood, ibid. (Hadeeth 4236). Muslim, Kitaab al-Fitan, 8/169. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Saheeh Abee Daawood: 3580. [21] Tirmidhee, Abwaab al-Fitan, (Hadeeth 2290), 6/436, 438. Ahmad, Musnad, 1/185. Checker's Note: Saheeh, al-Irwa, no. 2451 of Shaykh al-Albaanee. It is saheeh but has not been reported by Muslim, as main text states. [22] Abu Daawood, Abwaab al-Fitan wa'l-Malaahim, (Hadeeth 4139), 11/337. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Abu Daawood and Ibn Maajah, Silsilatul Ahadeeth as-Saheehah: 1535. [23] Ahmad, Musnad, 5/149; similar Hadeeth in Abu Daawood, Abwaab al-Fitan wa'l-Malaahim, (Hadeeth 4241), 11-340, 343. Checker's Note: Saheeh, al-Irwa, no: 2451. [24] Ahmad, Musnad, 5/149. Muslim, Kitaab al-Imaarah, 6-18. Ibn Maajah, Kitaab al-Fitan (Hadeeth 3956), 2/1306, 1037. an-Nasaa'ee, Kitaab al-Bay'ah (shorter version), 7-152,153. Abu Daawood, Kitab alFitan (shorted version), Hadeeth 4429, 11-319. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Silsilatul Ahadeeth as-Saheehah: 241. [25] Ahmad, Musnad. 2/163. Checker's Note: Da`eef, Silsilatul Ahaadeeth ad-Da`eefah: 1264. Its isnaad contains the `an`anah of Abu Zubair, but its last part ("Among my Ummah ...") is supported. See Silsilatul Ahadeeth as-Saheehah: 1787 Page 22 of 69

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The Signs and Portents of the Hour 'Abd Allaah ibn 'Amr said, "I went to the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) one day whilst he was performing Wudoo' (ablution) slowly and carefully. He raised his head, looked at me and said, 'Six things will happen to this Ummah: the death of your Prophet - 'and when I heard that I was aghast,' - this is the first. The second is that your wealth will increase so much that if a man were given ten thousand, he would still not be content with it. The third is that tribulation will enter the house of every one of you. The fourth is that sudden death will be widespread. The fifth is a peace-treaty between you and the Romans: they will gather troops against you for nine months like a woman's period of childbearing - then they will be the first to break the treaty. The sixth is the conquest of a city.' I asked, 'O Messenger of Allaah, which city?' He said, 'Constantinople.' " [Ahmad] [1] Abu Hurayrah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'Hasten to do good deeds before six things happen: the rising of the sun from the West, the smoke, the Dajjaal, the beast, the (death) of one of you, or general tribulation.' " [Ahmad, Muslim] [2] Hudhayfah ibn 'Ubayd said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) came upon us whilst, we were busy in discussion. He asked us, 'What are you talking about?' We said, 'We are discussing the Hour.' He said, 'It will not come until you see ten signs: the smoke, the Dajjaal, the beast, the sun rising from the West, the descent of Jesus son of Mary, Gog and Magog, and three land-slides - one in the East, one in the West, and one in Arabia, at the end of which fire will burst forth from the direction of Aden (Yemen) and drive peopl eto the place of their final assembly.' " [Ahmad] [3] Footnotes [1] Ahmad, Musnad, 2/174. Checker's Note: Da`eef, Musnad Imaam Ahmad, checking by Ahmad Shakir: 6623. Weak hadeeth due to Abra Iamah al-Kalbi. [2] Muslim, Kitaab al-Fitan, 8/207, Ahmad, Musnad, 2/337, 372. [3] Muslim, Kitaab al-Fitan, 8/179. Checker's Note: Wrong spelling, Ibn `Ubayd should be Ibn Usayd. Reported by Muslim, not by Ahmad as main text states. The Battle with the Romans After the battle with the Romans, which ended with the conquest of Constantinople, the Dajjaal will appear, and Jesus son of Mary will Page 23 of 69

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descend from Heaven to the earth, to the white minaret in the east of Damascus, at the time of Salaat al-Fajr (the morning prayer), as we shall see in the Saheeh Traditions. Dhoo Mukhammar said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'You will make a peace-treaty with the Romans, and together you will invade an enemy beyond Rome. You will be victorious and take much booty. Then you will camp in a hilly pasture; one of the Roman men will come and raise a cross and say "Victory to the Cross", so one of the Muslims will come and kill him. Then the Romans will break the treaty, and there will be a battle. They will gather an army against you and come against you with eighty banners, each banner followed by 10,000 men.' " [Ahmad, Abu Daawood, Ibn Maajah] [1] Yusayr ibn Jaabir said, "Once there was a red storm in Kufah. A man came who had nothing to say except, 'O 'Abd Allaah ibn Mas'ood, has the Hour come?' 'Abd Allaah was sitting reclining against something, and said, 'The Hour will not come until people will not divide inheritance, nor rejoice over booty.' Pointing towards Syria, he said, 'An enemy will gather forces against the Muslims and the Muslims will gather forces against them.' I asked, 'Do you mean the Romans?' He said, 'Yes. At that time there will be very heavy fighting. The Muslims will prepare a detachment to fight to the death; they will not return unless they are victorious. They will fight until night intervenes. Both sides will return without being victorious; then many will be killed on both sides. On the fourth day, the Muslims who are left will return to the fight, and Allaah will cause the enemy to be routed. There will be a battle the like of which has never been seen, so that even if a bird were to pass their ranks, it would fall down dead before it reached the end of them. Out of a family of one hundred, only one man will survive, so how could he enjoy the booty or divide any inheritance? While they are in this state, they will hear of an even worse calamity. A cry will reach them: "The Dajjaal has taken your place among your offspring." So they will throw away whatever is in their hands and go forward, sending 10 horsemen as a scouting party. The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'I know their names, and the names of their fathers, and the colours of their horses. They will be the best horsemen on the face of the earth on that day.' " [Ahmad, Muslim] [2] Abu Hurayrah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'The Hour will not come until the Romans camp at al-A'mash or Dabeeq. An army, Page 24 of 69

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composed of the best people on earth at that time, will come out from Madinah to meet them. When they have arranged themselves in ranks, the Romans will say, 'Do not stand between us and those who took prisoners from amongst us. Let us fight with them.' The Muslims will say, 'No, by Allaah, we will never stand aside from you and our brothers.' Then they will fight. One-third will runaway, and Allaah will never forgive them. One-third will be killed, and they will be the best of martyrs in Allaah's sight. One-third, who will never be subjected to trials or tribulations, will win, and will conquer Constantinople. Whilst they are sharing out the booty, after hanging their swords on the olive-trees, Satan will shout to them that the Dajjaal has taken their place among their families. When they come to Syria, the Dajjaal will appear, while they are preparing for battle and drawing up the ranks. When the time for prayer comes, Jesus the son of Mary will descend and lead them in prayer. When the enemy of Allaah (i.e. the Dajjaal) sees him, he will start to dissolve like salt in water, but Allaah will kill him.' " [Muslim] [3] The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "The Hour will not come until the furthest border of the Muslims will be in Bulaa." Then he said, "O 'Alee!" 'Alee said, "May my father and mother be sacrificed for you!" The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "You will fight the Romans, and those who come after you will fight them, until the best people among the Muslims, the people of al-Hijaaz, will go out to fight them, fearing nothing but Allaah. They will conquer Constantinople with Tasbeeh and Takbeer (saying "Subhaan Allaah" and "Allaahu Akbar"), and they will obtain booty the like of which has never been seen - they will share it out by scooping it up with their sheilds. Someone will come and say, 'The Dajjaal has appeared in your land', but he will be lying. Anyone who takes notice of him will regret it, and anyone who ignores him will regret it." [Ibn Maajah] [4] Naafi' ibn 'Utbah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'You will attack Arabia, and Allaah will enable you to conquer it. Then you will attack Persia, and Allaah will enable you to conquer it. Then you will attack Rome, and Allaah will enable you to conquer it. Then you will attack the Dajjaal, and Allaah will enable you to conquer him.' " [Muslim] [5] When Mustawrid al-Qurashee was sitting with 'Amr ibn al-'Aas, he said, "I heard the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) say, 'The Hour will come when the Romans will be in the majority.' 'Amr asked him, "What are you saying?" He said, "I am repeating that which I heard from the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam)." 'Amr said, "If you say this, it is Page 25 of 69

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true, because they have four good characteristics: they are the most able to cope with tribulation, the quickest to recover after disaster and to return to the fight after disaster, and are the best as far as treating the poor, weak and orphans is concerned. They have a fifth characteristic which is very good; they do not allow themselves to be oppressed by their kings." [6] The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "You will fight the Romans, and Believers from the Hijaaz will fight them after you, until Allaah enables them to conquer Constantinople and Rome with Tasbeeh and Takbeer ("Subhaan Allaah" and "Allaahu Akbar"). Its fortifications will collapse, and they will obtain booty the like of which has never been seen, so that they will share it out by scooping it up with their shields. Then someone will cry, 'O Muslims! The Dajjaal is in your country, with your families', and the people will leave the wealth. Anyone who takes notice will regret it and anyone who ignores it will regret it. They will ask, 'Who shouted?' but they will not know who he is. They will say, 'Send a vanguard to Ilyaa.' If the Dajjaal has appeared, you will hear about his deeds.' So they will go and see, and if they see that everything is normal, they will say, 'No-one would give a shout like that for no reason, so let us go together to Ilyaa'.' If we find the Dajjaal there we will fight him together, until Allaah decides between us and him. If we do not find the Dajjaal, we will go back to our country and our families.' " [7] Mu'aadh ibn Jabal said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'The building of Bayt al-Maqdis (in Jerusalem) will be followed by the destruction of Yathrib (Madeenah), which will be followed by the conquest of Constantinople, which will be followed by the appearance of the Dajjaal.' Then he put his hand on the thigh or the shoulder of the one with whom he was speaking (i.e. Mu'aadh), and said, 'This is as true as the fact that you are here (or as true as you are sitting here).' " [8] This does not mean that Madeenah will be destroyed completely before the appearance of the Day, but that will happen at the end of time, as we shall see in some authentic Ahaadeeth. But the building of Bayt alMaqdis will be the cause of the destruction of Madeenah, as it was proven in the Hadeeth that the Dajjaal will not be able to enter Madinah. He will be prevented from doing so because it is surrounded by angles bearing unsheathed swords. [9] Abu Hurayrah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said about Madeenah: 'Neither plague nor the Dajjaal can enter it.' " [Bukhaaree] [10] Page 26 of 69

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Footnotes [1] Similar Hadeeth in Abu Daawood, Kitaab al-Malaahim, (Hadeeth 4271), 11/397/399. Ibn Maajah, Kitab al-Fitan (Hadeeth 4089), 2/1369. Ahmad, Musnad, 9104. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Saheeh al-Jami as-Sagheer: 3612. [2] Muslim, Kitaab al-Fitan, 8/177, 178. Ahmad, Musnad, 1/384, 385. [3] Muslim, Kitaab al-Fitan, 8 - 175, 176. Al-A'mash is a place outside the city, and Dabeeq is a market-place in the city. "The city" refers to Aleppo (some say Damascus). [4] Ibn Maajah, Kitaab al-Fitan (Hadeeth 4094), 2 - 1370. The one who believes the liar will regret it, because he will find that the Dajjaal is not there. The one who does not believe him will regret it because the Dajjaal will appear soon afterwards. Checker's Note: Fabricated. The reason is Kathir ibn `Abdillah, who is declared a liar by Abu Daawood and Shaafi'ee. He narrates a fabricated collection of hadeeth. [5] Muslim, Kitaab al-Fitan wa Ashtaar al-Saa'ah, 8 - 178. Ibn Maajah, Baab al-Malaahim (Hadeeth 4091), 2 - 1380. [6] Muslim, Kitaab al-Fitaan, 8 - 176. [7] Al-Haythamee, Majma' al-Zawaa'id. Ibn Maajah, 7:248. Checker's Note: Fabricated. Same reasons as the previous one. Reported by al-Bazzar, Kashful Astar bi Zawa'id al-Bazzar of alHaythamee: 3386. [8] Hasan, al-Mishkat, 1st checking: 5424. [9] Abu Daawood, Kitaab al-Malaahim (Hadeeth 4273), 11 - 400, 401; Ahmad, Musnad, 5/245. Checker's Note: Hasan. [10] Bukhaaree, Kitaab al-Fitan, 9/76. The Appearance of the Dajjaal First of all, we will quote the reports which mention the liars and "dajjaals" who will precede the coming of the Dajjaal, or Antichrist, who will be the last of them; may Allaah curse them and punish them with Hell-fire. Jaabir ibn Samurah said, "I heard the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) say, 'Just before the Hour there will be many liars.' " Jaabir said, "Be on your guard against them." [Muslim] [1] Jaabir said, "I heard the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) say, 'Just before the Hour there will be many liars; among them is the one in al-Yamamah, the Page 27 of 69

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'Ansi in San'a', the one in Himyar, and the Dajjaal. This will be the greatest fitnah.' " [Ahmad] [2] Abu Hurayrah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'The Hour will not come ... until nearly 30 "dajjaals" (liars) appear, each one claiming to be a messenger from Allaah.' " [Bukhaaree and Muslim] [3] Abu Hurayrah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'The Hour will not come until 30 "dajjaals" appear, each of them claiming to be a messenger from Allaah, wealth increases, tribulations appear and al-Harj increases.' Someone asked, 'What is al-Harj?' He said, 'Killing, killing.' " [Ahmad] [4] Abu Hurayrah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'The Hour will not come until 30 "dajjaals" appear, all of them lying about Allaah and His Messenger.' " [Abu Daawood] [5] Abu Hurayrah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'Just before the Hour, there will be thirty "dajjaals", each of whom will say, I am a Prophet.' " [Ahmad] [6] Abu Hurayrah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'There will be "dajjaals" and liars among my Ummah. They will tell you something new, which neither you nor your forefathers have heard. Be on your guard against them, and do not let them lead you astray.' " [Ahmad] [7] Thawbaan said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'There will be thirty liars among my Ummah. Each one will claim that he is a prophet; but I am the last of the Prophets (Seal of the Prophets), and there will be no Prophet after me.' " [Ahmad] [8] The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "Verily before the Day of Resurrection there will appear the Dajjaal, and thirty or more liars." [Ahmad] [9] Ibn 'Umar said, "I heard the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) say, 'Among my Ummah there will be more than seventy callers, each of whom will be calling people to Hell-fire. If I wished, I could tell you their names and tribes.' " [10] Abu Bakrah said, "The people spoke a great deal against Musaylimah before the Prophet Page 28 of 69

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(sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said anything about him. Then the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) got up to give a speech and said: '...as for this man about whom you have spoken so much - he is one of the thirty liars who will appear before the Hour, and there is no town which will not feel the fear of the Antichrist.' " [Ahmad] [11] In another version of this report, the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "He is one of the thirty liars who will appear before the Dajjaal. There is no town which will escape the fear of the Dajjaal, apart from Madeenah. At that time there will be two angels at every entrance of Madeenah, warding off the fear of the Antichrist." [12] Anas ibn Malik said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'The time of the Dajjaal will be years of confusion. People will believe a liar, and disbelieve one who tells the truth. People will distrust one who is trustworthy, and trust one who is treacherous; and the Ruwaybidah will have a say.' Someone asked, 'Who are the Ruwaybidah?' He said, 'Those who rebel against Allaah and will have a say in general affairs.' " [Ahmad] [13] Footnotes [1] Muslim, Kitaab al-Fitan, 8/189. [2] Ahmad, Musnad, 3/345. Checker's Note: Ahmad's isnaad contains Ibn Lahi'ah who reports by way of `an, as does Abu Zubair. Al-Bazzar's isnaad contains `Abdur-Rahman ibn Maghra and Mujaahid ibn Sa`eed. Majma' az-Zawaid of alHaythamee: 7/335. The status of the hadeeth is unknown as no muhaddith, as far as we know, has given a definite verdict. [3] See Part 7, where the Hadeeth is quoted in full. [4] Ahmad, Musnad, 2 - 457. Checker's Note: Saheeh. [5] Ahmad, Musnad, 2/450. Checker's Note: Hasan, Saheeh Abee Daawood: 3643. [6] Ahmad, Musnad, 2/429. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Silsilatul Ahadeeth as-Saheehah: 1683. [7] Ahmad, Musnad, 20/349. Checker's Note: Da`eef isnaad, but Muslim reports similar wording. [8] Ahmad, Musnad, 5/46. Checker's Note: Saheeh. Wrong reference, Ahmad, Musnad, 5/46, should be Ahmad, Musnad, 5/278. Page 29 of 69

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[9] Ahmad, Musnad, 2/95. Checker's Note: Hasan, Silsilatul Ahadeeth as-Saheehah: 1683, Musnad Imaam Ahmad, checking by Ahmad Shakir: 5694. [10] Da`eef. Reported by Abu Ya'la. Its isnaad contains Laith ibn Abee Sulaim. [11] Ahmad, Musnad, 5/41, 46. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Majma' az-Zawaid of al-Haythamee: 7/335. [12] Ahmad, Musnad, 5/46. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Musnad Imaam Ahmad, checking by Ahmad Shakir: 5/41. It is part of no. 10 above, which is not given in full in the book. [13] Ahmad, Musnad, 3/220. Checker's Note: Saheeh. Its isnaad is hasan and is further supported, Silsilatul Ahadeeth as-Saheehah: 1887, Kashful Astar bi Zawa'id alBazzar of al-Haythamee: 3373. Ahaadeeth about the Dajjaal 'Abd Allaah ibn 'Umar said, "'Umar ibn al-Khattab went along with the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) and a group of people to Ibn Sayyaad, and found him playing with some children near the battlement of Banoo Maghaalah. At that time Ibn Sayyaad was on the threshold of adolescence; he did not realise that anybody was near until the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) struck him on the back. The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said to him: 'Do you bear witness than I am the Messenger of Allaah?' Ibn Sayyaad looked at him and said, 'I bear witness that you are the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) of the unlettered.' Then Ibn Sayyaad said to the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam), 'Do you bear witness that I am the Messenger of Allaah?' The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) dismissed this and said, 'I believe in Allaah and His Messengers.' Then the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) asked him, 'What do you see?' Ibn Sayyaad said, 'Sometimes a truthful person comes to me, and sometimes a liar.' The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said to him, 'You are confused', then he said, 'I am hiding something from you.' Ibn Sayyaad said, 'It is Dukh.' The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'Silence! You will not be able to go beyond your rank.' 'Umar ibn al-Khattab said, 'O Messenger of Allaah, shall I cut off his head?' The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'If he is (the Dajjaal) you will not be able to overpower him, and if he is not, then killing will not do you any good.' " Saleem ibn 'Abd Allaah said, Page 30 of 69

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"I heard 'Abd Allaah ibn 'Umar say, 'After that, the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) and Ubayy ibn Ka'b went along to the palm trees where Ibn Sayyaad was. The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) started to hide behind a tree, with the intention of hearing something from Ibn Sayyaad before Ibn Sayyaad saw him. The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) saw him lying on a bed, murmuring beneath a blanket. Ibn Sayyaad's mother saw the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) hiding behind a tree, and said to her son, "O Saf (Ibn Sayyaad's first name), here is Muhammad!" Ibn Sayyad jumped up, and the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "If you had left him alone, he would have explained himself." " Saleem said, "Abd Allaah ibn'Umar said, The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) stood up to address the people. He praised Allaah as He deserved to be praised, then he spoke about the Dajjaal: 'I warn you against him; there is no Prophet who has not warned his people against him, even Noah warned his people against him. But I will tell you something which no other Prophet has told his people. You must know that the Dajjaal is oneeyed, and Allaah is not one-eyed.' " Ibn Shihaab said: "'Umar ibn Thaabit al-Ansaaree told me that some of the Companions of the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) told him that on the day when he warned the people about the Dajjaal, the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said: 'There will be written between his eyes the word Kaafir (unbeliever). Everyone who resents his bad deeds - or every believer will be able to read it.' He also said, 'You must know that no one of you will be able to see his Lord until he dies.' " [Muslim, Bukhaaree] [1] Ibn 'Umar said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) mentioned the Dajjaal to the people. He said, 'Allaah is not one-eyed, but the Dajjaal is blind in his right eye, and his eye is like a floating grape.' " [Muslim] [2] Anas ibn Malik said, "TheProphet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'There has never been a Prophet who did not warn his people against that one-eyed liar. Verily he is one-eyed and your Lord is not one-eyed. On his forehead will be written the letter Kaf, Fa, Ra (Kaafir).' " [Muslim, Bukhaaree] [3] Hudhayfah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'I know more about the powers which the Dajjaal will have than he will know himself. He will have two flowing rivers: one will appear to be pure water, and the other Page 31 of 69

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will appear to be flaming fire. Whosoever lives to see that, let him choose the river which seems to be fire, then let him close his eyes, lower his head and drink from it, for it will be cold water. The Dajjaal will be oneeyed; the place where one eye should be will be covered by a piece of skin. On his forehead will be written the word Kaafir,and every believer, whether literate or illiterate, will be able to read it.' " [Muslim] [4] Abu Hurayrah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'Shall I tell you something about the Dajjaal which no Prophet has ever told his people before me? The Dajjaal is one-eyed and will bring with him something which will resemble Paradise and Hell; but that which he calls Paradise will in fact be Hell. I warn you against him as Noah warned his people against him.' " [Bukhaaree, Muslim] [5] Muhammad ibn Munkadir said: "I saw Jaabir ibn 'Abd Allaah swearing by Allaah that Ibn Sayyaad was the Dajjaal, so I asked him, 'Do you swear by Allaah?' He said, 'I heard 'Umar swear to that effect in the presence of the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam), and the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) did not disapprove of it.' " [6] Some 'ulamaa' (scholars) say that some of the Sahaabah (Companions of the Prophet) believed Ibn Sayyaad to be the greater Dajjaal, but that is not the case: Ibn Sayyaad was a lesser dajjal. Ibn Sayyaad travelled between Makkah and Madeenah with Abu Sa'eed, and complained to him about the way that people were saying that he was the Dajjaal. Then he said to Abu Sa'eed, "Did not the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) say that the Dajjaal would not enter Madinah? I was born there. Did not he say that he would not have any children? - I have children. Did not he say that he would be a Kaafir? - I have embraced Islaam. Of all the people, I know the most about him: I know where he is now. If I were given the opportunity to be in his place, I would not resent it.' " [Bukhaaree, Muslim] There are many Ahaadeeth about Ibn Sayyaad, some of which are not clear as to whether he was the Dajjaal or not. We shall see Ahaadeeth which indicates that the Dajjaal is not Ibn Sayyaad, as in the Hadeeth of Faatimah Bint Qays al-Fahriyyah, although this does not mean that he was not one of the lesser Dajjaal; but Allaah knows best. Footnotes [1] Bukhaaree, Kitaab al-Adab, 8/49, 50. Muslim, Kitaab al-Fitan, 8/192, 193. Page 32 of 69

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Ibn Sayyaad's [or Ibn Sa'eed's] first name was Saaf. He had some characteristics similar to those ascribed to the Dajjaal. When he was young, he was like a Kaahin (soothsayer) - sometimes he spoke the truth, sometimes he lied. When he grew up, he embraced Islaam and displayed some good characteristics, but later he changed, and it was said that his behaviour might indicate that he was the Dajjaal. But the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) had not received any Wahy (revelation) to that effect, so he told 'Umar: "If he is [the Dajjaal] you will not be able to overpower him." Banoo Maghaalah: if you stand facing the Masjid al-Nabawee, (the Prophet's Mosque in Madeenah), everything on your right is the territory of Banoo Maghaalah. Dukh: i.e. al-Dukhaan (smoke). The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) was thinking of the Aayah, "Then wait you for the Day when the sky will bring forth a visible smoke." [ad-Dukhaan (44):10] "… with the intention of hearing something…" in other words, the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) wanted to eavesdrop on Ibn Sayyaad so that he and his companions could find out whether he was a soothsayer (kaahin) or a sorcerer. "if you had left him alone, he would have had explained himself": i.e., if his mother had not told him that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) was there, then the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) would have found out what he was - a soothsayer or a sorcerer. [2] Muslim, Kitaab al-Fitan, 8/194, 195. "His eye is like a floating grape" - this means that, his eye will protrude and there will be some kind of brightness in it. [3] Muslim, ibid. Bukhaaree, Kitaab al-Fitan, 9/75, 76. "On his forehead will be written the letters Kaaf, Faa', Raa' " - this indicates that he will call people to Kufr, not the right path, so we must avoid him. The fact that Muslims will be able to identify him as a Kaafir is a great blessing from Allaah to this Ummah. [4] Muslim, ibid. Shorter version in Bukhaaree, Kitaab al-Fitan, 9/75. [5] Bukhaaree, Kitaab al-Anbiyaa, 4/75. Muslim, Kitaab al-Fitan, 8/196. [6] Muslim, Kitaab al-Fitan, 8/192. The Hadeeth of Faatimah bint Qays 'Aamir ibn Sharaaheel Sha'bi Sha'b Hamdaan reported that he asked Faatimah bint Qays, the sister of Dahhaak ibn Qays,who was one of the first Muhaajiraat, "Tell me a Hadeeth which you heard directly from the Prophet (salPage 33 of 69

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Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) with no narrator in between." She said, "I can tell you if you like." He said, "Yes, please tell me." She said, "I married Ibn al-Mugheerah, who was one of the best of the youth of Quraysh in those days. But he fell in the first Jihaad on the side of the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam). "When I became a widow, 'Abd al-Rahmaan ibn 'Awf, one of the companions of the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) sent me a proposal of marriage. The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) also sent me a proposal of marriage on behalf of his freedman Usaamah ibn Zayd. I had been told that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) had said, 'He who loves me should also love Usaamah.' When the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) spoke to me, I said, 'It is up to you: marry me to whomever you wish.' "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'Go and stay with Umm Shareek.' Umm Shareek was a rich Ansaaree (Muslim originally from Madeenah) woman, who spent much in the way of Allaah ande ntertained many guests. I said, 'I will do as you wish.' Then he said, 'Don't go. Umm Shareek has many guests, and I would not like it if your head or leg were to become uncovered accidentally and people saw something you would not wish them to see. It is better if you go and stay with your cousin 'Abd Allaah ibn 'Amr ibn Umm Maktoom' (Abd Allaah was of the Banoo Fihr of Quraysh, the same tribe as that to which Faatimah belonged). "So I went to stay with him, and when I had completed my 'Iddah (period of waiting), I heard the Prophet's (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) announcer calling for congregational prayer. I went out to the mosque, and prayed behind the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam). I was in the women's row, which was at the back of the congregation. When the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) had finished his prayer, he sat on the pulpit, smiling, and said, 'Everyone should stay in his place.' Then he said, 'Do you know why I had asked you to assemble?' The people said, 'Allaah and His Messenger know best.' "He said, 'By Allaah, I have not gathered you here to give you an exhortation or a warning. I have kept you here because Tameem adDaaree, a Christian man who has come and embraced Islaam, told me something which agrees with that which I have told you about the Dajjaal. He told me that he had sailed in a ship with thirty men from Banoo Lakhm and Banoo Judhaam. The waves had tossed them about for a month, then they were brought near to an island, at the time of sunset. They landed on the island, and were met by a beast who was so hairy that they Page 34 of 69

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could not tell its front from its back. They said, "Woe to you! What are you?" It said, "I am al-Jassaasah." They said, "What is al-Jassaasah?" It said, "O people, go to this man in the monastery, for he is very eager to know about you." Tameem said that when it named a person to us, we were afraid lest it be a devil. "Tamim said, 'We quickly went to the monastery. There we found a huge man with his hands tied up to his neck and with iron shackles between his legs up to the ankles. We said, "Woe to you, who are you?" He said, "You will soon know about me. Tell me who you are." We said, "We are people from Arabia. We sailed in a ship, but the waves have been tossing us about for amonth, and they brought us to your island, where we met a beast who was so hairy that we could not tell its front from its back. We said to it, "Woe to you! What are you?" and it said, "I am al-Jassaasah." We asked, "Whatis al-Jassaasah?" and it told us, "Go to this man in the monastery, for he is very eager to know about you." So we came to you quickly, fearing that it might be a devil.' "The man said, 'Tell me about the date-palms of Baysaan.' We said, 'What do you want to know about them?' He said, 'I want to know whether these trees bear fruit or not.' We said, 'Yes.' He said, 'Soon they will not bear fruit.' Then he said, 'Tell me about the lake of at-Tabariyyah [Tiberias, in Palestine].' We said, 'What do you want to know about it?' He asked, 'Is there water in it?' We said, 'There is plenty of water in it.' He said, 'Soon it will become dry.' Then he said, 'Tell me about the spring of Zughar.' We said, 'What do you want to know about it?' He said, 'Is there water in it, and does it irrigate the land?' We said, 'Yes, there is plenty of water in it, and the people use it to irrigate the land.' "Then he said, 'Tell me about the unlettered Prophet - what has he done?' We said, 'He has left Makkah and settled in Yathrib.' He asked, 'Do the Arabs fight against him?' We said, 'Yes.' He said, 'How does he deal with them?' So we told him that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) had overcome the Arabs around him and that they had followed him. He asked, 'Has it really happened?' We said, 'Yes.' He said, 'It is better for them if they follow him. Now I will tell you about myself. Iam the Dajjaal. I will soon be permitted to leave this place: I will emerge and travel about the earth. In forty nights I will pass through every town, except Makkah and Madeenah, for these have been forbidden to me. Every time I try to enter either of them, I will be met by an angel bearing an unsheathed sword, who will prevent me from entering. There will be angels guarding them at every passage leading to them.' Faatimah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam), striking the Page 35 of 69

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pulpit with his staff, said: 'This is Tayyibah, this is Tayyibah, this is Tayyibah, [i.e. Madeenah]. Have I not told you something like this?' The people said, 'Yes.' He said, 'I liked the account given to me by Tameem because it agrees with that which I have told you about the Dajjaal, and about Makkah and Madeenah. Indeed he is in the Syrian sea or the Yemen sea. No, on the contrary, he is in the East, he is in the East, he is in the East' and he pointed towards the East. Faatimah said: I memorised this from the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam)." [Muslim] [1] 'Abd Allaah ibn 'Umar said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'While I was asleep, I saw myself in a dream performing Tawaaf (circumambulation) around the Ka'bah. I saw a ruddy man with lank hair and water dripping from his head. I said, "Who is he?" and they said, "The son of Mary." Then I turned around and saw another man with a huge body, red complexion, curly hair and one eye. His other eye looked like a floating grape. They said, "This is the Dajjaal." The one who most resembles him is Ibn Qatan, a man from the tribe of al-Khuzaa'ah'.' " [Bukhaaree, Muslim] [2] Jaabir ibn 'Abd Allaah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'The Dajjaal will appear at the end of time, when religion is taken lightly. He will have forty days in which to travel throughout the earth. One of these days will be like a year, another will be like a month, a third will be like a week, and the rest will be like normal days. He will be riding a donkey; the width between its ears will be forty cubits. He will say to the people: "I am your lord." He is one-eyed, but your Lord is not one-eyed. On his forehead will be written the word Kaafir, and every believer, literate or illiterate, will be able to read it. He will go everywhere except Makkah and Madeenah, which Allaah has forbidden to him; angels stand at their gates. He will have a mountain of bread, and the people will face hardship, except for those who follow him. He will have two rivers, and I know what is in them. He will call one Paradise and one Hell. Whoever enters the one he calls Paradise will find that it is Hell, and whoever enters the one he calls Hell will find that it is Paradise. Allaah will send with him devils who will speak to the people. He will bring a great tribulation; he will issue a command to the sky and it will seem to the people as if it is raining. Then he will appear to kill someone and bring him back to life. After that he will no longer have this power. The people will say, "Can anybody do something like this except the Lord?" The Muslims will flee to Jabal al-Dukhaan in Syria, and the Dajjaal will come and besiege them. The siege will intensify and they will suffer great hardship. Then Jesus son of Mary will Page 36 of 69

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descend, and will call the people at dawn: "O people, what prevented you from coming out to fight this evil liar?" They will answer, "He is a Jinn." Then they will go out, and find Jesus son of Mary. The time for prayer will come, and the Muslims will call on Jesus to lead the prayer, but he will say, "Let your Imaam lead the prayer." Their Imaam will lead them in praying Salaat al-Subh (Morning prayer), then they will go out to fight the Dajjaal. When the liar sees Jesus, he will dissolve like salt in water. Jesus will go to him and kill him, and he will not let anyone who followed him live.' " [Ahmad] [3] Footnotes [1] Muslim, Kitaab al- Fitan, 8/203-205. Al-Jassaasah is so called because he spies on behalf of the Dajjaal (from jassa - to try to gain information, to spy out, etc.). Baysaan - a village in Palestine. 'Ayn Zughar (the spring of Zughar) is a town in Palestine. [2] Bukhaaree, Kitaab al-Fitan, 9/75. Muslim, Kitaab al-Imaan, 1/108. [3] Ahmad, Musnad, 3/367, 368. Checker's Note: Da`eef. Silsilatul Ahaadieeh ad-Da`eefah: 1969. It contains the `an`anah of Abu Zubair. Parts are found in authentic narrations. Refer to Dajjaal section in Saheeh Muslim. The Hadeeth of Al-Nuwas Ibn Sam'an Al-Kilabi Al-Nuwas ibn Saman said, "One morning the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) spoke about the Dajjaal. Sometimes he described him as insignificant, and sometimes he described him as so dangerous that we thought he was in the clump of date-palms nearby. When we went to him later on, he noticed that fear in our faces, and asked, 'What is the matter with you?' We said, 'O Messenger of Allaah, this morning you spoke of the Dajjaal; sometimes you described him as insignificant, and sometimes you described him as being so dangerous that we thought he was in the clump of date-palms nearby. "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'I fear for you in other matters besides the Dajjaal. If he appears whilst I am among you, I will contend with him on your behalf. But if he appears while I am not among you, then each man must contend with him on his own behalf, and Allaah will take care of every Muslim on my behalf. The Dajjaal will be a young man, with short, curly hair, and one eye floating. I would liken him to 'Abd al-Uzzaa ibn Qatan. Whoever amongst you lives to see him should recite the opening Ayaat of Surat al-Kahf. He will appear on the way between Page 37 of 69

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Syria and Iraq, and will create disaster left and right. O servants of Allaah, adhere to the Path of Truth.' " "We said, 'O Messenger of Allaah, for the day which is like a year, will one days prayers be sufficient?' He said, 'No, you must make an estimate of the time, and then observe the prayers.' " "We asked, 'O Messenger of Allaah, how quickly will he walk upon the earth?' He said, 'Like a cloud driven by the wind. He will come to the people and call them (to a false religion), and they will believe in him and respond to him. He will issue a command to the sky, and it will rain; and to the earth, and it will produce crops. After grazing on these crops, their animals will return with their udders full of milk and their flanks stretched. Then he will come to another people and will call them (to a false religion), but they will reject his call. He will depart from them; they will suffer famine and will possess nothing in the form of wealth. Then he will pass through the wasteland and will say, Bring forth your treasures, and the treasures will come forth, like swarms of bees. Then he will call a man brimming with youth; he will strike him with a sword and cut him in two, then place the two pieces at the distance between an archer and his target. Then he will call him, and the young man will come running and laughing.' " "At that point, Allaah will send the Messiah, son of Mary, and he will descend to the white minaret in the east of Damascus, wearing two garments dyed with saffron, placing his hands on the wings of two angels. When he lowers his head, beads of perspiration will fall from it, and when he raises his head, beads like pearls will scatter from it. Every Kaafir who smells his fragrance will die, and his breath will reach as far as he can see. He will search for the Dajjaal until he finds him at the gate of Ludd, where he will kill him." "Then a people whom Allaah has protected will come to Jesus son of Mary, and he will wipe their faces (i.e. wipe the traces of hardship from their faces) and tell them of their status in Paradise. At that time Allaah will reveal to Jesus: "I have brought forth some of My servants whom noone will be able to fight. Take My servants safely to at-Toor." "Then Allaah will send Gog and Magog, and they will swarm down from every slope. The first of them will pass by the Lake of Tiberias, and will drink some of its water; the last of them will pass by it and say, "There used to be water here." Jesus, the Prophet of Allaah, and his Companions will be besieged until a bull's head will be dearer to them than one hundred dinars are to you nowadays." "Then Jesus and his Companions will pray to Allaah, and He will send Page 38 of 69

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insects who will bite the people of Gog and Magog on their necks, so that in the morning they will all perish as one. Then Jesus and his Companions will come down and will not find any nook or cranny on earth which is free from their putrid stench. Jesus and his Companions will again pray to Allaah, Who will send birds like the necks of camels; they will seize the bodies of Gog and Magog and throw them wherever Allaah wills. Then Allaah will send rain which no house or tent will be able to keep out, and the earth will be cleansed, until it will look like a mirror. Then the earth will be told to bring forth its fruit and restore its blessing. On that day, a group of people will be able to eat from a single pomegranate and seek shelter under its skin (i.e. the fruit would be so big). A milch camel will give so much milk that a whole party will be able to drink from it; a cow will give so much milk that a whole tribe will be able to drink from it; and a milch-sheep will give so much milk that a whole family will be able to drink from it. At that time, Allaah will send a pleasant wind which will soothe them even under their armpits, and will take the soul of every Muslim. Only the most wicked people will be left, and they will fornicate like asses; then the Last Hour will come upon them." " [Muslim] [1] Footnote [1] Muslim, Kitaab al-Fitan wa Ashraat al-Saa'ah, 8/196-199. Ludd: the biblical Lydda, now known as Lod, site of the zionist state's major airport Hadeeth narrated from Abu Umaamah Al-Baahilee Abu Umaamah al-Baahilee said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) delivered a speech to us, most of which dealt with the Dajjaal and warned us against him. He said, 'No tribulation on earth since the creation of Adam will be worse than the tribulation of the Dajjaal. Allaah has never sent a Prophet who did not warn his Ummah against the Dajjaal. I am the last of the Prophets, and you are the last Ummah. The Dajjaal is emerging among you and it is inevitable. If he appears while I am still among you, I will contend with him on behalf of every Muslim. But if he appears after I am gone, then every person must contend with him on his own behalf. He will appear on the way between Syria and Iraq, and will spread disaster right and left. O servants of Allaah adhere to the path of Truth. I shall describe him for you in a way that no Prophet has ever done before. He will start by saying that he is a Prophet, but there will be no Prophet after me. Then he will say, "I am your Lord," but you will never see your Page 39 of 69

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Lord until you die. The Dajjaal is one-eyed, but your Lord, glorified be He, is not one-eyed. On his forehead will be written the word Kaafir, which every Muslim, literate or illiterate, will be able to read. Among that which he will bring will be the Paradise and Hell he will offer; but that which he calls Hell will be Paradise, and that which he calls Paradise will be Hell. Whoever enters his Hell, let him seek refuge with Allaah and recite the opening Ayaat of Surat ul-Kahf, and it will become cool and peaceful for him, as the fire became cool and peaceful for Abraham. "He will say to a Bedouin, What do you think if I bring your father and mother back to life for you? Will you bear witness that I am your lord? The Bedouin will say Yes, so two devils will assume the appearance of his father and mother, and will say, "O my son, follow him for he is your lord." "He will be given power over one person, whom he will kill and cut in two with a saw. Then he will say, Look at this slave of mine, now I will resurrect him, but he will still claim that he has a Lord other than me. Allaah will resurrect him, and this evil man (the Dajjaal) will say to him, Who is your Lord? The man will answer, 'My Lord is Allaah, and you are the enemy of Allaah. You are the Dajjaal. By Allaah, I have never been more sure of this than I am today.' " Aboo Sa'eed said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'That man will have the highest status among my Ummah in Paradise.' " Abu Sa'eed said, "By Allaah, we never thought that that man would be any other than 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, until he passed away." Al-Muhaaribee said: "Then we referred to the Hadeeth of Abu Raafi'ee, which said, 'Part of his Fitnah will be the fact that he will pass through an area whose people will deny him, and none of their livestock will remain alive. Then he will pass through a second area whose people will believe in him; he will order the sky to rain and the earth to bring forth crops, and their flocks will return from grazing fatter than they have ever been, with their flanks stretched, their udders full. He will pass through every place on earth - except Makkah and Madeenah, which he will never enter, for there are angels guarding every gate of them with unsheathed swords - until he reaches al-Zareeb al-Ahmar and camps at the edge of the salt-marsh. Madeenah will be shaken by three tremors, after which every Munaafiq (hypocrite) will leave it, and it will be cleansed of evil, as iron is cleansed of dross. That day will be called Yawm al-Khalaas (The Day of Purification).' " Page 40 of 69

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Umm Shareek bint Abee'l-'Akr said, "O Messenger of Allaah, where will the Arabs be at that time?" He said, "At that time they will be few; most of them will be in Bayt al-Maqdis (Jerusalem), and their Imaam will be a righteous man. Whilst their Imaam is going forward to lead the people in praying Salaat al-Subh (themorning prayer), Jesus son of Mary will descend. The Imaam will step back, to let Jesus lead the people in prayer, but Jesus will place his hand between the man's shoulders and say, 'Go forward and lead the prayer, for the Iqaamah was made for you.' So the Imaam will lead the people in prayer, and afterwards Jesus (alayhi-salam) will say, 'Open the gate.' The gate will be opened, and behind it will be the Dajjaal and a thousand Jews, each of them bearing a sword and shield. When the Dajjaal sees Jesus, he will begin to dissolve like salt in water, and will run away. Jesus will say, 'You will remain alive until I strike you with my sword.' He will catch up with him at the eastern gate of Ludd and will kill him. The Jews will be deflated with the help of Allaah. There will be no place for them to hide; they will not be able to hide behind any stone, wall, animal or tree except the boxthorn (al-Gharqarah) - without it saying, 'O Muslim servant of Allaah! here is a Jew, come and kill him!' " The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "The time of the Dajjaal will be forty years; one year like half a year, one year like a month, and one month like a week. The rest of his days will pass so quickly that if one of you were at one of the gates of Madeenah, he would not reach the other gate before evening fell." Someone asked, "O Messenger of Allaah, how will wepray in those shorter days?" He said, "Workout the times of prayer in the same way that you do in these longer days, and then pray." The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "Jesus son of Mary will be a just administrator and leader of my Ummah. He will break the cross, kill the pigs, and abolish the Jizyah (tax on nonMuslims). He will not collect the Sadaqah, so he will not collect sheep and camels. Mutual enmity and hatred will disappear. Every harmful animal will be made harmless, so that a small boy will be able to put his hand into a snakes mouth without being harmed,a small girl will be able to make a lion run away from her, and a wolf will go among sheep as if he were a sheepdog. The earth will be filled with peace as a container is filled with water. People will be in complete agreement, and only Allaah will be worshipped. Wars will cease, and the authority of Quraysh will be taken away. The earth will be like a silver basin, and will produce fruits so abundantly that a group of people will gather to eat a bunch of grapes or Page 41 of 69

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on epomegranate and will be satisfied. A bull will be worth so much money, but a horse will be worth only a few dirhams." Someone asked, "O Messenger of Allaah, why will a horse be so cheap?" He said, "Because it will never be ridden in war." He was asked, "Why will the bull be so expensive?" He said, "Because it will plough the earth. For three years before the Dajjaal emerges, the people will suffer severe hunger. In the first year, Allaah will order the sky to withhold a third of its rain, and the earth to withhold two-thirds of its fruits. In the third year, He will order the sky to withhold all of its rain, and the earth to withhold all of its fruits, so that nothing green will grow. Every cloven-hoofed creature will die except for whatever Allaah wills." Someone asked, "How will the people live at that time?" He said, "By saying Laa ilaaha illaa Allaah, Allaahu Akbar, Subhaan Allaah and Al-Hamdu-lillaah. This will be like food for them." [1] The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "The Dajjaal will come forth, and one of the Believers will go towards him. The armed men of the Dajjaal will ask him, 'Where are you going?' He will say, 'I am going to this one who has come forth.' They will say, 'Kill him!' Then some of them will say to the others, 'Hasn't your lord [ie the Dajjaal] forbidden you to kill anyone without his permission?' So they will take him to the Dajjaal, and when the Believer sees him, he will say, 'O People, this is the Dajjaal whom the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) told us about.' Then the Dajjaal will order them to seize him and wound him in the head; they will inflict blows all over, even in his back and stomach. The Dajjaal will ask him, 'Don't you believe in me?' He will say, 'You are a false Messiah.' The Dajjaal will order that he be sawn in two from the parting of his hair to his legs; then he will walk between the two pieces. Then he will say 'Stand!' and the man will stand up. The Dajjaal will say to him, 'Don't you believe in me?' The believer will say, 'It has only increased my understanding that you are the Dajjaal.' Then he will say, 'O people! he will not treat anyone else in such a manner after me.' The Dajjaal will seize him to slaughter him, but the space between his neck and collar-bone will be turned into copper, and the Dajjaal will not be able to do anything to him. He will take the man by his arms and legs and throw him away; the people will believe that he has been thrown into Hell, whereas in fact he will have been thrown into Paradise." The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "He will be the greatest of martyrs in the sight of Allaah, the Lord of the Worlds." [Muslim] [2]

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Footnotes [1] Ibn Maajah, Kitaab al-Fitan, (Hadeeth 4077), 2:1363. "He will break the cross and kill pigs", i.e. Christianity will be annulled. "He will not collect the Sadaqah" (i.e. Zakaat) - because there will be so much wealth, and no-one will be in need of Sadaqah. Checker's Note: Da`eef. Da`eef Ibn Maajah: 884. Parts are supported. [2] Muslim, Kitaab al-Fitan wa Ashtaar al-Saa'ah, 8/199, 200 The Hadeeth of Al-Mugheerah Ibn Shu'bah Al-Mugheerah ibn Shu'bah said, "No-one asked the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) more questions about the Dajjaal than I did. He said, 'You should not worry about him, because he will not be able to harm you.' I said, 'But they say that he will have much food and water!' He said, 'He is too insignificant in the sight of Allaah to have all that.' " [Muslim] Al-Mugheerah ibn Shu'bah said, "No-one asked the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) more questions about the Dajjaal than I did." One of the narrators said, "What did you ask him?" Al-Mugheerah said, "I said, 'They say that the Dajjaal will have a mountain of bread and meat, and a river of water. The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'He is too insignificant in the sight of Allaah to have all that.' " [Muslim] From these Ahaadeeth, we can see that Allaah will test His servants with the Dajjaal and by the miracles which he will be permitted to perform: as we have already mentioned, the Dajjaal will order the sky to rain for those who accept him, and will order the earth to bring forth its fruits so that they and their livestock will eat of it, and their flocks will return fat and with their udders full of milk. Those who reject the Dajjaal and refuse to believe in him will suffer drought and famine; people and livestock will die, and wealth and supplies of food will be depleted. People will follow the Dajjaal like swarms of bees, and he will kill a young man and bring him back to life. This is not a kind of magic; it will be something real with which Allaah will test His servants at the end of time. Many will be led astray, and many will be guided by it. Those who doubt will disbelieve, but those who believe will be strengthened in their faith. Al-Qaadi 'Iyaad and others interpreted the phrase "He is too insignificant in the sight of Allaah to have all that" as meaning that the Dajjaal is too insignificant to have anything that could lead the true believers astray, because he is obviously evil and corrupt. Even if he brings great terror, the word Kaafir will be clearly written between his eyes; one report Page 43 of 69

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explains that it will be written "Kaaf, Faa, Raa," from which we can understand that it will be written perceptibly, not abstractly, as some people say. One of his eyes will be blind, protruding and repulsive; this is the meaning of the Hadeeth: "...as if it were a grape floating on the surface of the water." Other reports say that it is "dull, with no light in it," or "like white spittle on a wall," i.e. it will look ugly. Some reports say that it is his right eye which will be blind; others say that it is his left eye. He could be partly blind in both eyes, or there could be a fault in both eyes. This interpretation could be supported by the Hadeeth narrated by at-Tabaraanee, in which he reports that Ibn 'Abbaas said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'The Dajjaal is curlyhaired and white-skinned. His head is like the branch of a tree; his left eye is blind, and the other eye looks like a floating grape.' " One may ask: if the Dajjaal is going to cause such widespread evil and his claim to be a "lord" will be so widely believed - even though he is obviously a liar, and all the Prophet's have warned against him - why does the Qur'aan not mention him by name and warn us against his lies and stubbornness? The answer is:The Dajjaal was referred to in the Ayah: "...The day that some of the Signs of your Lord do come, no good will it do to a person to believe then, if he believed not before, nor earned good (by performing deeds of righteousness) through his Faith..." [al-An'aam (6):158] Abu Hurairah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'There are three things which, when they appear, no good will it do a soul to believe in them then, if it believed not before nor earned righteousness through its Faith. They are: The Dajjaal, the Beast, and the rising of the sun from the west.' " Jesus son of Mary will descend from Heaven and kill the Dajjaal, as we have already mentioned. The descent of Jesus is mentioned in the Ayaat: "And because of their saying (in boast), "We killed Messiah 'Eesaa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary), the Messenger of Allaah," - but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but the resemblance of 'Eesaa (Jesus) was put over another man (and they killed that man), and those who differ therein are full of doubts. They have no (certain) knowledge, they follow nothing but conjecture. For surely; they killed him not [i.e. 'Eesaa Page 44 of 69

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(Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary) alayhi-salam]: But Allaah raised him ['Eesaa (Jesus)] up (with his body and soul) unto Himself (and he alayhi-salam is in the heavens). And Allaah is Ever All Powerful, All Wise. And there is none of the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), but must believe in him ['Eesaa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary), as only a Messenger of Allaah and a human being], before his ['Eesaa (Jesus) alayhi-salam or a Jew's or a Christian's] death (at the time of the appearance of the angel of death). And on the Day of Resurrection, he ['Eesaa (Jesus)] will be a witness against them." [an-Nisaa' (4):157-9] We think that the Tafseer (interpretation) of this Aayah is that the pronoun in "before his death" (qabla mawtihi) refers to Jesus; i.e, he will descend and the People of the Book who differed concerning him will believe in him. The Christians claimed that he was divine, while the Jews made a slanderous accusation, i.e. that he was born from adultery. When Jesus descends before the Day of Judgment, he will correct all these differences and lies. On this basis, the reference to the descent of the Messiah Jesus son of Mary also includes a reference to the Dajjaal (false Mesor Antichrist), who is the opposite of the true Messiah, because sometimes the Arabs refer to one of two opposites and not the other, but mean both. The Dajjaal is not mentioned by name in the Qur'aan because he is so insignificant: he claims to be divine, but he is merely a human being. His affairs are too contemptible to be mentioned in the Qur'aan. But the Prophet's, out of loyalty to Allaah, warned their people about the Dajjaal and the tribulations and misguiding miracles he would bring. It is enough for us to know the reports of the Prophet's and the many reports from the Prophet Muhammad (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam). One could argue that Allaah has mentioned Pharaoh and his false claims, such as: "I am your lord, most high" [an-Nazi'aat (79):24] and "O chiefs! I know not that you have an ilaah (a god) other than me..." [al-Qasas (28):38] This can be explained by the fact that Pharaoh and his deeds are in the past, and his lies are clear to every believer. But the Dajjaal is yet to come, in the future; it will be a Fitnah and a test for all people. So the Dajjaal is not mentioned in the Qur'aan because he is contemptible; and the fact that he is not mentioned means that it will be a great test. The facts about the Dajjaal and his lies are obvious and do not need further emphasis. This is often the case when something is very clear. For example, when the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) was Page 45 of 69

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terminally ill, he wanted to write a document confirming that Abu Bakr would be the Khaleefah after him. Then he abandoned this idea, and said, "Allaah and the believers will not accept anyone other than Abu Bakr." He decided not to write the document because he knew of Abu Bakr's high standing among the Sahaabah (Companions) and was sure that they would not choose anyone else. Similarly, the facts about the Dajjaal are so clear that they did not need to be mentioned in the Qur'aan. Allaah did not mention the Dajjaal in the Qur'aan because He (subhaanahu wa ta'aala) knew that the Dajjaal would not be able to lead His true servants astray; he would only increase their faith, their submission to Allaah and His Messenger, their belief in the Truth, and their rejection of falsehood. For this reason the believer whom the Dajjaal overpowers will say, when he revives him, "By Allaah, it has only increased my understanding that you are the oneeyed liar about whom the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) spoke." More Ahaadeeth about the Dajjaal The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "The Dajjaal will emerge in a land in the east called Khurasan. His followers will be people with faces like hammered shields." [1] Asmaa' bint Yazeed al-Ansaariyyah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'During the three years just before the Dajjaal comes, there will be one year when the sky will withhold one third of its rain and the earth one-third of its fruits. In the second year the sky will withhold two-thirds of its rain, and the earth twothirds of its fruits. In the third year the sky will withhold all of its rain, and the earth all of its fruits, and all the animals will die. It will be the greatest tribulation: the Dajjaal will bring a Bedouin and say to him, "What if I bring your camels to life for you? Will you agree that I am your lord?" The Bedouin will say "Yes." So devils will assume the forms of his camels, with the fullest udders and the highest humps. Then he will bring a man whose father and brother have died, and will ask him, "What do you think if I bring your father and brother back to life? Will you agree that I am your lord?" The man will say "Yes," so the devils will assume the forms of his father and brother.' Then the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) went out for something, and then returned. The people were very concerned about what he had told them. He stood in the doorway and asked, 'What is wrong, Asma'? I said, 'O Messenger of Allaah, you have terrified us with what you said about the Dajjaal.' He said, 'He will Page 46 of 69

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certainly appear. If I am still alive, I will contend with him on your behalf; otherwise Allaah will take care of every Muslim on my behalf.' I said, 'O Messenger of Allaah, we do not bake our dough until we are hungry, so how will it be for the believers at that time?' The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'The glorification of Allaah which suffices the people of Heaven will be sufficient for them.' " [2] Abu Hurairah (radi-Allahu 'anhu) said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'The Hour will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them. When a Jew hides behind a rock or a tree, it will say, "O Muslim, O servant of Allaah! There is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!" All the trees will do this except the box-thorn (al-Gharqad), because it is the tree of the Jews.' " [Ahmad] [3] Footnotes [1] Tirmidhee Abwaab al-Fitan, Hadeeth 2338, 6/465. Ibn Maajah, Kitaab al-Fitan, Hadeeth 4072, 1354, 2/1353, 1354. Ahmad, Musnad 1/7. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Saheeh Ibn Maajah: 4072. [2] Ahmad, Musnad, 6/455, 456. Checker's Note: Da`eef, al-Mishkat, 1st checking: 5491. Its isnaad contains Sharh ibn Hawshab, who is weak. [3] Muslim, Kitaab al-Fitan wa Ashraat al-Saa'ah, 8/388. Ahmad, Musnad, 2/417. Protection Against The Dajjaal 1. Seeking refuge with Allaah from his tribulation. It is proven in the Saheeh (authentic) Ahaadeeth that the Prophet (salAllaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) used to seek refuge with Allaah from the tribulation of the Dajjaal in his prayers, and that he commanded his Ummah to dol ikewise: "Allaahumma innaa na'oodhu bika min 'adhaabi jahannam, wa min 'adhaabi 'l-qabr, wa min fitnatee 'l-mahyaa'i wa'l-mamaat, wa min fitnatee' l-maseehi 'd-dajjaal." "O Allaah! We seek refuge with You from the punishment of Hell, from the punishment of the grave, from the tribulations of life and death, and from the tribulation of the False Messiah (Dajjaal)." [1] This Hadeeth was narrated by many Sahabah, including Anas, Abu Hurairah, 'Aa'ishah, Ibn 'Abbaas, and Sa'd (radi-Allaahu 'anhum). 2. Memorising certain Aayaat from Surat al-Kahf. Al-Haafidh ad-Dhahabee said, "Seeking refuge with Allaah from the Dajjaal is mentioned in many Page 47 of 69

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Mutawaatir Ahaadeeth (those with numerous lines of narrators). One way of doing this is to memorise ten Ayaat from Surat al-Kahf." Abul-Diraa reported that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "Whoever memorises the first ten Aayaat of Surat al-Kahf will be protected from the Dajjaal." [Abu Daawood] [2] 3. Keeping away from the Dajjaal. One way to be protected from the tribulation of the Dajjaal is to live in Madeenah or Makkah. Abu Hurairah reported that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "There are angels standing at the gates of Madeenah; neither plague nor the Dajjaal can enter it." [Bukhaaree, Muslim] Abu Bakr reported that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "The terror caused by the Dajjaal will not enter Madeenah. At that time it will have seven gates; there will be two angels guarding every gate." [Bukhaaree] [3] Anas said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'The Dajjaal will come to Madeenah, and he will find angels guarding it. Neither plague nor the Dajjaal will enter it, inshaa-Allaah.' " [Tirmidhee, Bukhaaree] It has been proven in the Saheeh Ahaadeeth that the Dajjaal will not enter Makkah or Madeenah, because the angels will prevent him from entering these two places which are sanctuaries and are safe from him. When he camps at the salt-marsh (Sabkhah) of Madeenah, it will be shaken by three tremors - either physically or metaphorically - and every hypocrite will go out to join the Dajjaal. On that day, Madeenah will be cleansed of its dross and will be refined and purified; and Allaah knows best. Footnotes [1] Bukhaaree, Kitaab al-Janaa'iz, 2/124. Muslim, Kitaab al-Masaajid, 2/93. [2] Muslim, Kitaab al-Musaafirun, 2/199. Abu Daawood, Kitaab alMalaahim, (Hadeeth 4301), 11/401, 402. [3] Bukhaaree, Baab Haram al-Madeenah, 1/28. The Life And Deeds Of The Dajjaal The Dajjaal will be a man, created by Allaah to be a test for people at the end of time. Many will be led astray through him, and many will be guided through him; only the sinful will be led astray. Al-Haafidh Ibn 'Alee al-Aabaar wrote in his book of history (at-Taareekh) Page 48 of 69

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that the Dajjaal's Kunyah (nickname or paternal title) would be Abu Yoosuf. [1] Abu Bakrah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'The Dajjaal's parents will remain childless for thirty years, then a one-eyed child will be born to them. He will be very bad and will cause a great deal of trouble. When he sleeps, his eyes will be closed but his heart (or mind) will still be active.' Then he described his parents: 'His father will be a tall and bulky man, with a long nose like a beak; his mother will be a huge, heavy-breasted woman.' " [2] Abu Bakrah said, "We heard that a child had been born to some of the Jews in Madeenah. Az-Zubayr ibn al-'Awaam and I went see his parents, and found that they matched the description given by the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam). We saw the boy lying in the sun, covered with a blanket, murmuring to himself. We asked his parents about him, and they said, 'We remained childless for thirty years, then this one-eyed boy was born to us. He is very bad and causes a great deal of trouble.' When we went out, we passed the boy. He asked us, 'What were you doing?' We said, 'Did you hear us?' He said, 'Yes; when I sleep, my eyes are closed but my heart (mind) is still active.' That boy was Ibn Sayyaad." [Ahmad, Tirmidhee; this Hadeeth is not very strong] [3] As we have already seen in the Saheeh Ahaadeeth, Maalik and others think that Ibn Sayyaad was not the Dajjaal; he was one of a number of "lesser dajjaals." Later he repented and embraced Islaam; Allaah knows best his heart and deeds. The "greater" Dajjaal is the one mentioned in the Hadeeth of Faatimah bint Qays, which she narrated from the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam), from Tameem ad-Daaree, and which includes the story of the Jassaasah. The Dajjaal will be permitted to appear at the end of time, after the Muslims have conquered a Roman city called Constantinople. He will first appear in Isfahaan, in an area known as the Jewish quarter (al-Yahoodiyyah). He will be followed by seventy thousand Jews from that area, all of them armed. Seventy thousand Tatars and many people from Khuraasaan will also follow him. At first he will appear as a tyrannical king, then he will claim to be a prophet, then a lord. Only the most ignorant of men will follow him; the righteous and those guided by Allaah will reject him. He will start to conquer the world country by country, fortress by fortress, region by region, town by town; no place will remain unscathed except Makkah and Madeenah. The length of his stay Page 49 of 69

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on earth will be forty days: one day like a year, one day like a month, one day like a week, and the rest of the days like normal days, i.e. his stay will be approximately one year and two and a half months. Allaah will grant him many miracles, through which whoever He wills will be astray, and the faith of the believers will be strengthened. The descent of Jesus son of Mary, the true Messiah, will happen at the time of the Dajjaal, the false messiah. He will descend to the minaret in the east of Damascus. The believers and true servants of Allaah will gather to support him, and the Messiah Jesus son of Mary will lead them against the Dajjaal, who at that time will be heading for Bayt al-Maqdis (Jerusalem). He will catch up with him at 'Aqabah 'Afeeq. The Dajjaal will runaway from him, but Jesus will catch up with him at the gate of Ludd, and will kill him with his spear just as he is entering it. He will say to him, "I have to deal you a blow; you cannot escape." When the Dajjaal faces him, he will begin to dissolve like salt in water. So Jesus will kill him with his spear at the gate of Ludd, and he will die there, as many Saheeh Ahaadeeth indicate. Majma' ibn Jaariyah is reported to have said, "I heard the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) saying, 'The son of Mary will kill the Dajjaal at the gate of Ludd.' " [Tirmidhee] [4] Footnotes [1] Checker's Note: Reported as the saying of ash-Sha'bi. The reporter, Mujaahid ibn Sa'eed is weak. [2] Checker's Note: Da`eef, al-Mishkat, 1st checking: 6445. [3] Tirmidhee, Abwaab al-Fitan (Hadeeth 2350), 6/522, 523. Ahmad, Musnad, 5/40. "When he sleeps, his eyes will be closed but his heart (or mind) will still be active" - means that his evil ideas will still come to him even while he is asleep. Checker's Note: Da`eef due to Alee ibn Zaid ibn Jad'an. [4] Tirmidhee, Abwaab al-Fitan (Hadeeth 2345), 6/513, 514. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Saheeh at-Tirmidhee: 1829. The Descent of Jesus at the End of Time Abd Allaah ibn 'Amr said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'The Dajjaal will appear in my Ummah, and will remain for forty - "I cannot say whether he meant forty days, forty months or forty years." - Then Allaah will send Jesus (alayhi-salam), the son of Mary, who will resemble 'Urwah ibn Mas'ood. He will chase the Dajjaal and kill him. Then the people will live for seven years during which there will be no enmity between any two Page 50 of 69

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persons. Then Allaah will send a cold wind from the direction of Syria, which will take the soul of everyone who has the slightest speck of good or faith in his heart. Even if one of you were to enter the heart of a mountain, the wind would reach him there and take his soul. Only the most wicked people will be left; they will be as careless as birds, with the characteristics of beasts, and will have no concern for right and wrong. Satan will come to them in the form of man and will say, "Don't you respond?" They will say, "What do you order us to do?" He will order them to worship idols, and in spite of that they will have sustenance in abundance, and lead comfortable lives. "Then the Trumpet will be blown, and everyone will tilt their heads to hear it. The first one to hear it will be a man busy repairing a trough for his camels. He and everyone else will be struck down. Then Allaah will send (or send down) rain like dew, and the bodies of the people (i.e. the dead) will grow out of it. Then the trumpet will be sounded again, and the people will get up and look around. Then it will be said, "O people, go to your Lord and account for yourselves." It will be said, "Bring out the people of Hell," and it will be asked, "How many are there?" - the answer will come: "Nine hundred and ninety-nine out of every thousand." "On that day a child will grow old and the shin will be laid bare." [al-Qalam (68):42] " [Muslim] [1] Abu Hurairah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'The son of Mary will come down as a just leader. He will break the cross, and kill the pigs. Peace will prevail and people will use their swords as sickles. Every harmful beast will be made harmless; the sky will send down rain in abundance,and the earth will bring forth its blessings. A child will play with a fox and not come to any harm; a wolf will graze with sheep and a lion with cattle, without harming them.' " [Ahmad] [2] Abu Hurairah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'By Him in Whose hand is my soul, surely the son of Mary will come down among you as a just ruler. He will break the cross, kill the pigs and abolish the Jizyah. Wealth will be in such abundance that no-one will care about it, and a single prostration in prayer will be better than the world and all that is in it.' " Abu Hurairah said, 'If you wish, recite the Aayah: "And there is none of the People of the Book but must believe in him before his death; and on the Day of Judgement he will be a witness against them..." [an-Nisaa' (4):159] ' Page 51 of 69

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[Bukhaaree, Muslim] [3] Abu Hurairah reported that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "The Prophets are like brothers; they have different mothers but their religion is one. I am the closest of all the people to Jesus son of Mary, because there is no other Prophet between him and myself. He will come again, and when you see him, you will recognise him. He is of medium height and his colouring is reddish-white. He will be wearing two garments, and his hair will look wet. He will break the cross, kill the pigs, abolish the Jizyah and call the people to Islaam. During his time, Allaah will end every religion and sect other than Islaam, and will destroy the Dajjaal. Then peace and security will prevail on earth, so that lions will graze with camels, tigers with cattle, and wolves with sheep; children will be able to play with snakes without coming to any harm. Jesus will remain for forty years, then die, and the Muslims will pray for him." [Ahmad] [4] Ibn Masood reported that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "On the night of the Israa' (night journey), I met my father Abraham, Moses and Jesus, and they discussed the Hour. The matter was referred first to Abraham, then to Moses, and both said, 'I have no knowledge of it.' Then it was referred to Jesus, who said, 'No-one knows about its timing except Allaah; what my Lord told me was that the Dajjaal will appear, and when he sees me he will begin to melt like lead. Allaah will destroy him when he sees me. The Muslims will fight against the Kaafirs, and even the trees and rocks will say, "O Muslim, there is a Kaafir hiding beneath me - come and kill him!" Allaah will destroy the Kaafirs, and the people will return to their own lands. Then Gog and Magog will appear from all directions, eating and drinking everything they find. The people will complain to me, so I will pray to Allaah and He will destroy them, so that the earth will be filled with their stench. Allaah will send rain which will wash their bodies into the sea. My Lord has told me that when that happens, the Hour will be very close, like a pregnant woman whose time is due, but her family do not know exactly when she will deliver.' " [Ahmad, Ibn Maajah] [5] Footnotes [1] Muslim, Kitaab al-Fitan wa Ashraat al-Saa'ah, 8/201, 202. [2] Ahmad, Musnad, 2/482, 483. Checker's Note: The Tabi'e is Ziyad ibn Sa'd, who is mentioned by Ibn Page 52 of 69

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Hibban in ath-Thiqat al-Bukhari and Abu Hatim did not speak for nor against him. Ibn Kathir says the report is good and strong. [3] Bukhaaree, Kitaab al-Anbiyaa, 204, 205. Muslim, Kitaab al-Imaan, 1/93, 94. [4] Ahmad, Musnad, 2/406. Checker's Note: Saheeh as declared by al-Hakim and adh-Dhahabi. Qatadah's hearing it is reported in a later narration in al-Musnad 2/436. [5] Ahmad, Musnad, 1/375. Similar Hadeeth in Ibn Maajah, Kitaab alFitan (Hadeeth 4081), 2/1365, 1366. Checker's Note: Da`eef, Da`eef al-Jami as-Sagheer: 4709. See Saheeh Muslim translation, no. 6924 Description of the Messiah Jesus son of Mary, Messenger of Allaah Abu Hurairah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'On the night of the Israa' (miraculous journey to Jerusalem) I met Moses - he was a slim man with wavy hair, and looked like a man from the Shanoo'ah tribe. I also met Jesus - he was of medium height and of a red complexion, as if he had just come out of the bath' " [Bukhaaree, Muslim] [1] The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "Whilst I was asleep, I saw myself (in a dream) making Tawaaf around the Ka'bah. I saw a brown-skinned man, with straight hair, being supported by two men, and with water dripping from his head. I said, 'Who is this?' They said, 'The son of Mary' I turned around and saw a fat, ruddy man, with curly hair, who was blind in his right eye; his eye looked like a floating grape. I asked, 'Who is this?' They said, 'The Dajjaal.' The one who most resembles him is Ibn Qatan." Az-Zuhri explained: Ibn Qatan was a man from Khuzaa'ah who died during the Jaahiliyyah (before the coming of Islaam). [Bukhaaree] [2] Footnotes [1] Bukhaaree, Kitaab al-Anbiyaa, 4/302. Muslim, Kitaab al-Imaan, 1/106, 107. [2] Bukhaaree, ibid. The Appearance of Gog and Magog They (two tribes or peoples) will appear at the time of Jesus son of Mary, after the Dajjaal. Allaah will destroy them all in one night, in response to the supplication of Jesus. Abu Hurairah reported that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "Everyday, Gog and Magog are trying to dig a way out through the Page 53 of 69

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barrier. When they begin to see sunlight through it, the one who is in charge of them says, 'Go back; you can carry on digging tomorrow,' and when they come back, the barrier is stronger than it was before. This will continue until their time comes and Allaah wishes to send them forth. They will dig until they begin to see sunlight, then the one who is in charge of them will say, 'Go back; you can carry on digging tomorrow, inshaa'-Allaah.' In this case he will make an exception by saying inshaa'Allaah, thus relating the matter to the Will of Allaah. They will return on the following day, and find the hole as they left it. They will carry on digging and come out against the people. They will drink all the water, and the people will entrench themselves in their fortresses. Gog and Magog will fire their arrows into the sky, and they will fall back to earth with something like blood on them. Gog and Magog will say, 'We have defeated the people of earth, and overcome the people of heaven.' Then Allaah will send a kind of worm in the napes of their necks, and they will be killed by it...' 'By Him in Whose hand is the soul of Muhammad, the beasts of the earth will become fat.' " [1] Gog and Magog are two groups of Turks, descended from Yaafith (Japheth), the father of the Turks, one of the sons of Noah. At the time of Abraham (alayhi-salam), there was a king called Dhu'l-Qarnayn. He performed Tawaaf around the Ka'bah with Abraham (alayhi-salam) when he first built it; he believed and followed him. Dhu'l-Qarnayn was a good man and a great king; Allaah gave him great power and he ruled the east and west. He held sway over all kings and countries, and travelled far and wide in both east and west. He travelled eastwards until he reached a pass between two mountains, through which people were coming out. They did not understand anything, because they were so isolated; they were Gog and Magog. They were spreading corruption through the earth, and harming the people, so the people sought help from Dhu'l-Qarnayn. They asked him to build a barrier between them and Gog and Magog. He asked them to help him to build it, so together they built a barrier by mixing iron, copper and tar. Thus Dhu'l-Qarnayn restrained Gog and Magog behind the barrier. They tried to penetrate the barrier, or to climb over it, but to no avail. They could not succeed because the barrier is so huge and smooth. They began to dig, and they have been digging for centuries; they will continue to do so until the time when Allaah decrees that they come out. At that time the barrier will collapse, and Gog and Magog will rush out in all directions, spreading corruption, uprooting plants, killing people. When Jesus (alayhi-salam) prays against them, Allaah will send a kind of worm Page 54 of 69

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in the napes of their necks, and they will be killed by it. Footnotes [1] Tirmidhee, Abwaab al-Tafsir: Soorat al-Kahf (Hadeeth 5160), 8/59799. Ibn Maajah, Kitaab al-Fitan, (Hadeeth 4080), 2/1364. Ahmad, Musnad, 2/510, 511. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Silsilatul Ahadeeth as-Saheehah: 1735. The destruction of the Ka'bah At the end of time, Dhu'l-Suwayqatayn, who will come from Abyssinia (alHabash), will destroy the Ka'bah in order to steal its treasure and Kiswah (cloth covering). The Ka'bah is the ancient building which was built by Abraham, and whose foundations were laid by Adam. As Tafseer (interpretation) of the Aayah "Until the Gog and Magog (people) are let through (their barrier)" [al-Anbiyaa' (21):96], it was reported from Ka'b al-Ahbar that Dhu'l-Suwayqatayn will first emerge at the time of Jesus, son of Mary. Allaah will send Jesus at the head of a vanguard of between seven and eight hundred. While they are marching towards Dhu'l-Suwayqatayn, Allaah will send a breeze from the direction of Yemen, which will take the soul of every believer. Only the worst of people will be left, and they will begin to copulate like animals. Ka'b said: "At that time, the Hour will be close at hand." [1] 'Abd Allaah ibn 'Amr said, "I heard the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) say, 'Dhu'lSuwayqatayn from Abyssinia will destroy the Ka'bah and steal its treasure and Kiswah. It is as if I could see him now: he is bald-headed and has a distortion in his wrists. He will strike the Ka'bah with his spade and pick-axe.' " [Ahmad] [2] It was reported from 'Abd Allaah ibn 'Umar that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "Leave the Abyssinians alone so long as they do not disturb you, for noone will recover the treasure of the Ka'bah except Dhu'l-Suwayqatayn from Abyssinia." [Abu Daawood, in the chapter on the prohibition of provoking the Abyssinians] [3] Ibn 'Abbaas narrated that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "It is as if I can see him now: he is black and his legs are widely spaced. He will destroy the Ka'bah stone by stone." [Ahmad] [4] The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "The Hour will not come until a man from Qahtaan appears and rules the people." [Muslim; similar Hadeeth in Bukhaaree] Page 55 of 69

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This man could be Dhu'l-Suwayqatayn, or someone else, because this man comes from Qahtaan, while other reports say that Dhu'lSuwayqatayn comes from Abyssinia; and Allaah knows best. Abu Hurairah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'Day and night will not come to an end until a freed man called Jahjaah holds sway.' " [Ahmad] [5] This could be the name of Dhul-Suwayqatayn from Abyssinia; and Allaah knows best. 'Umar ibn al-Khattab reported that he heard the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) say: "The people of Makkah will leave, and only a few people will pass through it. Then it will be resettled and rebuilt; then the people will leave it again, and no-one will ever return." [6] Footnotes [1] Concerning Dhu'l-Suwayqatayn, see: Bukhaaree: Kitaab al-Hajj, Baab Hadam al-Ka'bah (The Book of Pilgrimage, Chapter of the Destruction of the Ka'bah), 2/183. Muslim, Kitaab al-Fitan wa Ashraat al-Saa'ah, 8/183. Dhu'l-Suwayqatayn: al-Suwayqatayn is the dimunitive of al-Saaqayn (legs); his legs are described as being "small" because they are thin. Thin legs are, in general, a characteristic of the Sudanese and people of the Horn of Africa. [2] Ahmad, Musnad, 2/220. Checker's Note: Da`eef isnaad. It contains the `an`anah of Abu Zubair. The first part, up to 'treasure' is hasan, Silsilatul Ahadeeth as-Saheehah: 771. [3] Abu Daawood, Kitaab al-Malaahim, (Hadeeth 4287), 11/423. Checker's Note: Hasan, Saheeh Abee Daawood. [4] Ahmad, Musnad, 1/227. Checker's Note: Saheeh, also reported in al-Bukhaaree. [5] Checker's Note: Saheeh, Ahmad, Muslim and at-Tirmidhee. Silsilatul Ahadeeth as-Saheehah: 7684. [6] Ahmad, Musnad, 1/23. Checker's Note: Da`eef, Da`eef al-Jami as-Sagheer: 3298. Da`eef due to Ibn Lahi'ah and `an`anah of Abu Zubair Madeenah will remain inhabited at the time of the Dajjaal It has been proven in the Saheeh Ahaadeeth, as already stated, that the Dajjaal will not be able to enter Makkah and Madeenah, and that there will be angels at the gates of Makkah to ward him off and prevent him Page 56 of 69

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from entering. It was reported from Abu Hurairah that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "Neither the Dajjaal nor plague will be able to enter Madeenah." As mentioned above, the Dajjaal will camp outside Madeenah, and it will be shaken by three tremors. Every hypocrite and sinner will go out to join the Dajjaal, and every believer and Muslim will stay. That day will be called the Day of Purification (Yawm al-Khalaas). Most of those who go out to join the Dajjaal will be women. As the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "Verily it (Madeenah) is good; its evil will be eliminated and its goodness will be obvious." Allaah (subhaanahu wa ta'aala) said: "Women impure are for men impure, and men impure for women impure, and women of purity are for men of purity, and men of purity are for women of purity..." [an-Noor (24):26) Madeenah will remain inhabited during the days of the Dajjaal, and during the time of Jesus son of Mary (alayhi-salam), until he dies and is buried there. Then it will be destroyed. 'Umar ibn al-Khattab said, "I heard the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) say, 'A rider will go around Madeenah and say, There used to be many Muslims here.' " [Ahmad] [1] Footnotes [1] Ahmad, Musnad, 1/20. Checker's Note: Da`eef isnaad due to Ibn Lahi'ah and `an`anah of Abu Zubair. The fact that Madinah will be deserted is reported from Abu Hurairah by al-Bukhaaree. The Emergence of the Beast Among the signs of the Hour will be the emergence of a beast from the earth. It will be very strange inappearance, and extremely huge; one cannot even imagine what it will look like. It will emerge from the earth and shake the dust from its head. It will have with it the ring of Solomon and the rod of Moses. People will be terrified of it and will try to run away, but they will not be able to escape, because such will be the decree of Allaah. It will destroy the nose of every unbeliever with the rod, and write the word "Kaafir" on his forehead; it will adorn the face of every believer and write the word "Mu'min" (true believer) on his forehead, and it will speak to people. Page 57 of 69

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Allaah (subhaanahu wa ta'aala) said: "And when the Word is fulfilled against them (the unjust), We shall produce from the earth a Beast to (face) them: it will speak to them..." [an-Naml (27):82] Ibn 'Abbaas, al-Hasan and Qataadah said that "It will speak to them" (tukallimuhum) means that it will address them. Ibn Jareer suggested that it means that the Beast will address them with the words "...for that mankind did not believe with assurance in Our Signs..." [an-Naml (27):82 - latter part of the Ayah] Ibn Jareer reported this from 'Alee and 'Ata'. It was reported from Ibn 'Abbaas that tukallimuhum means that the Beast will cut them, i.e., it will write the word "Kaafir" on the forehead of the unbeliever. It was also reported from Ibn 'Abbaas that he will both address them and cut them; this suggestion incorporates both of the previous suggestions; and Allaah knows best. We have already mentioned the Hadeeth of Hudhayfah ibn Usayd, in which the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) is reported to have said, "The Hour will not come until you see ten signs: the smoke; the Dajjaal; the Beast; the sun rising from the West; the descent of Jesus son of Mary; Gog and Magog; and three land-slides - one in the East, one in the West, and one in Arabia, at the end of which fire will burst forth from the direction of Aden (Yemen) and drive people to the place of their final assembly." Abu Hurairah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'Hasten to do good deeds before six things happen: the rising of the sun from the West, the smoke, the Dajjaal, the Beast, the (death) of one of you or general tribulation.' " [Muslim] Bareedah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) took me to a place in the desert, near Makkah. It was a dry piece of land surrounded by sand. The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'The Beast will emerge from this place.' It was a very small area." [Ibn Maajah] [1] It was reported from Abu Hurairah that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "The Beast of the Earth will emerge, and will have with it the rod of Moses and the ring of Solomon." It was also reported that he said, "(The Beast) will destroy the noses of the unbelievers with the ring, - so Page 58 of 69

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that people seated around one table will begin to address one another with the words "O Believer!" or "O Unbeliever!" (i.e., everyone's status will become clear) [Ibn Maajah] [2] 'Abd Allaah ibn 'Amr said, "I memorised a Hadeeth from the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) which I have not forgotten since. I heard the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) say, 'The first of the signs (of the Hour) to appear will be the rising of the sun from the West and the appearance of the Beast before the people in the forenoon. Whichever of these two events happens first, the other will follow immediately.' " [Muslim] [3] That is to say, these will be the first extraordinary signs. The Dajjaal, the descent of Jesus (alayhi-salam), the emergence of Gog and Magog, are less unusual in that they are all human beings. But the emergence of the Beast, whose form will be very strange, its addressing the people and classifying them according to their faith or unbelief, is something truly extraordinary. This is the first of the earthly signs, as the rising of the sun from the West is the first of the heavenly signs. Footnotes [1] Ibn Maajah, Kitaab al-Fitan, (Hadeeth 4267), 2/1352. Checker's Note: Da`eef Jiddan (very weak). Ibn Maajah, no. 4067, Da`eef Ibn Maajah: 882. [2] Similar Hadeeth narrated by Ibn Maajah in Kitaab al-Fitan, (Hadeeth 4061), 2 - 1351, 1352. Ahmad, Musnad, 2 - 295. Checker's Note: Da`eef, Da`eef al-Jami as-Sagheer: 2413. [3] Muslim, Kitaab al-Fitan, 8/202. The Rising of the Sun from the West Allaah (subhaanahu wa ta'aala) says: "Do they then wait for anything other than that the angels should come to them, or that your Lord should come, or that some of the Signs of your Lord should come (i.e. portents of the Hour e.g., arising of the sun from the west)! The day that some of the Signs of your Lord do come, no good will it do to a person to believe then, if he believed not before, nor earned good (by performing deeds of righteousness) through his Faith. Say: 'Wait you! we (too) are waiting.'" [al-An'aam (6):158] It was reported from Abu Sa'eed al-Khudree that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) explained, "The day that some of the Signs of your Lord do come, no good will it do to a person to believe then...", referring to the rising of the sun from the West. [Ahmad] [1] Page 59 of 69

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Abu Hurairah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'The Hour will not come until the sun rises from the West. When the people see it, whoever is living on earth will believe, but that will be the time when - No good will it do to a person to believe then, if he believed not before then' " [Bukhaaree] [2] It was also reported from Abu Hurairah that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "The Hour will not come until the sun rises from the West. When it rises and the people see it, they will all believe. But that will be the time when 'No good will it do to a person to believe then.' " [Bukhaaree] [3] It was reported from Abu Hurairah that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "There are three things which, if they appear, 'No good will it do to a person to believe then, if he believed not before, nor earned good (by performing deeds of righteousness) through his Faith' They are: the rising of the sun from the West, the Dajjaal, and the Beast of the Earth." [Ahmad, Muslim, Tirmidhee] [4] Abu Dharr said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) asked me, 'Do you know where the sun goes when it sets?' I said, 'I do not know' He said, 'It travels until it prostrates itself beneath the Throne, and asks for permission to rise again. But a time will come when it will be told, 'Go back whence you came.' That will be the time when 'No good will it do to a person to believe then, if he believed not before, nor earned good (by performing deeds of righteousness) through his Faith' " [Bukhaaree] [5] 'Amr ibn Jareer said, "Three Muslims were sitting with Marwaan in Madeenah, and heard him say, whilst talking about the Signs of the Hour, that the first of them would be the appearance of the Dajjaal. The three went to 'Abd Allaah ibn 'Amr, and told him what they had heard Marwaan say concerning the Signs. 'Abd Allaah said, 'Marwan has not said much. I memorised a Hadeeth like that from the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) which I have not forgotten since. I heard the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) say: "The first of the signs will be the rising of the sun from the West, and the emergence of the Beast in the forenoon. Whichever of the two comes first, the other will follow immediately" Then 'Abd Allaah, who was widely-read, said, "I think that the first to happen will be the rising of the sun from the West. Page 60 of 69

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Every time it sets, it goes beneath the Throne, prostrates itself, and seeks permission to rise again. A time will come when three times it will seek permission and will receive no reply, until, when part of the night has passed and it realises that even if it were given permission, it would not be able to rise on time, it will say: 'O my Lord, how far the rising-point is from me! What can I do for the people now?' Then it will seek permission to go back, and it will be told: 'Rise from where you are now' and it will rise from the West." Then 'Abd Allaah recited the Aayah: "No good will it do to a person to believe then, if he believed not before, nor earned good (by performing deeds of righteousness) through his Faith." [Ahmad] [6] Footnotes [1] Ahmad, Musnad, 3/31. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Saheeh at-Tirmidhee: 2455. [2] Bukhaaree, Kitaab al-Tafsir, 6/73. [3] Bukhaaree, ibid. [4] Muslim, Kitaab al-Imaan, 1/96. Tirmidhee, Abwaab al-Tafsir (Hadeeth 5067), 8/449, 450. Ahmad, Musnad, 2/455, 446. [5] Similar Hadeeth in Bukhaaree, Kitaab Bid' al-Khalq, 4/131. [6] Ahmad, Musnad, 2/201. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Musnad Imaam Ahmad, checking by Ahmad Shakir: 6881. The Smoke which will appear at the End of Time Masrooq said: "While a man was giving a speech among the people of Kindah, he said, 'There will be smoke on the Day of Resurrection which will deprive the hypocrites of their hearing and sight, but the believers will only suffer something like a cold.' We were terrified, so we went to Ibn Masood, who was reclining. When he heard about this, he became angry and sat up, and said: 'O people, whoever knows a thing, let him say it; but whoever does not know, let him say, "Allaah knows best." It is a part of knowledge, when one does not know something, to say "Allaah knows best." Allaah (subhaanahu wa ta'aala) said to His Prophet Muhammad (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam): "Say (O Muhammad sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam): 'No wage do I ask of you for this (the Qur'aan), nor am I one of the Mutakallifoon (those who pretend and fabricate things which do not exist).'" [Saad (38):86] "Quraysh were being slow in embracing Islaam, so the Prophet (salAllaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) prayed against them, saying, 'O Allaah, help Page 61 of 69

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me against them by sending seven years of famine like those of Joseph.' They were afflicted by a year of famine in which they were destroyed, and ate dead animals and bones. They began to see something like smoke between the sky and the earth. Abu Sufyan came and said, 'O Muhammad! You came to command us to keep good relations with our relatives, and your people have perished, so pray that Allaah may relieve them.'" Then Ibn Mas'ood recited, "Then wait you for the Day when the sky will bring forth a visible smoke. Covering the people, this is a painful torment. (They will say): "Our Lord! Remove the torment from us, really we shall become believers!" How can there be for them an admonition (at the time when the torment has reached them), when a Messenger explaining things clearly has already come to them. Then they had turned away from him (Messenger Muhammad sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) and said: "One (Muhammad sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) taught (by a human being), a madman!" Verily, We shall remove the torment for a while. Verily! You will revert." [ad-Dukhaan (44):10-15] Ibn Masood asked: "Will their punishment in the Hereafter be removed so they can go back to their Kufr?" Allaah (subhaanahu wa ta'aala) said: "On the Day when We shall seize you with the greatest grasp. Verily, We will exact retribution." [ad-Dukhaan (44):16] ...and soon will come the inevitable (punishment)!" [al-Furqaan (25):77] These Ayaat refer to the Day (Battle) of Badr. Allaah (subhaanahu wa ta'aala) said: "Alif Laam Meem. The Romans have been defeated. In the nearer land (Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and Palestine), and they, after their defeat, will be victorious. Within three to nine years." [ar-Room (30): 1-4] [Bukhaaree] [1] This speaker's suggestion - that the idea that the smoke would be on the Day or Resurrection was not a good one - made Ibn Masood react angrily. But the smoke will appear before the Day of Resurrection; it will be one of the signs, which are: the Beast, the Dajjaal, the Smoke, and Gog and Magog, as the Ahaadeeth narrated from Abu Sareehah, Abu Hurairah and other Sahaabah indicate. As mentioned in the Saheeh Ahaadeeth, the fire which will appear before the Day of Resurrection will burst forth from the direction of Aden, and drive the people to the place of their final assembly. It will move with Page 62 of 69

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them and halt with them, and will devour any who lag behind. Footnote [1] Bukhaaree, Kitaab at-Tafsir - Soorat ar-Room, 6/142, 143 Other Events which will precede the Hour It was reported from Abu Sa'eed al-Khudree that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "Thunderbolts will increase so much as the Hour approaches that when a man comes to a people, he will ask, 'Who amongst you was struck by a thunderbolt this morning?' and they will say, 'So-and-so and so-and-so was struck.' " [Ahmad] [1] Heavy rain before the Day of Resurrection It was reported from Abu Hurairah that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "The hour will not come until there has been rain which will destroy all dwellings except tents." [2] We have already mentioned many Ahaadeeth about the signs of the Hour. Now we will turn our attention to some Ahaadeeth which could indicate that the Hour is close at hand. It was reported from Abu Hurairah that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said: "The Hour will not come until the following events have come to pass: people will compete with one another in constructing high buildings; two big groups will fight one another, and there will be many casualties - they will both be following the same religious teaching; earthquakes will increase; time will pass quickly; afflictions and killing will increase; nearly thirty dajjals will appear, each of them claiming to be a messenger from Allaah; a man will pass by a grave and say, 'Would that I were in your place'; the sun will rise from the West; when it rises and the people see it, they will all believe, but that will be the time when 'No good will it do to a person to believe then, if it believed not before...' [al-An'aam (6):158]; and a wealthy man will worry lest no-one accept his Zakaat." [Bukhaaree, Muslim] It was reported from Anas that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said: "Among the signs of the Hour are the following: knowledge will decrease and ignorance will prevail; fornication and the drinking of wine will be common; the number of men will decrease and the number of women will increase, until one man will look after fifty women." [Bukhaaree] [3] 'Aa'ishah said, Page 63 of 69

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"I heard the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) say, 'Day and night will not pass away until people begin to worship Laat and 'Uzzaa' (two goddesses of pre-Islaamic Arabic). I said, 'O Messenger of Allaah, I thought that when Allaah revealed the Aayah "It is He Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) with guidance and the religion of truth (Islaam), to make it superior over all religions even though the Mushrikoon (polytheists, pagans, idolaters, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allaah) hate (it)" [at-Tawbah (9):33], it implied that (this promise) would be fulfilled.' The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'It will happen as Allaah wishes. Then Allaah will send a pleasant breeze, which will take everyone who has as much faith as a grain of mustard-seed in his heart. Only those with no goodness in them will be left, and they will revert to the religion of their forefathers.' " [Muslim] [4] It was reported from Abu Hurairah that one day, while the Prophet (salAllaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) was sitting with the people, a Bedouin came to him and asked him about Eemaan and Islaam, then he asked, "O Messenger of Allaah, when will the Hour be?" He said, "The one who is asked about it does not know more than the one who asks, but I tell you about its signs. When a slave gives birth to her mistress, and when the bare-footed and naked become the chiefs of the people - these are among the signs of the Hour. There are five things which no-one knows except Allaah." Then he recited: "Verily the knowledge of the Hour is with God (alone). It is He Who sends down rain, and He Who knows what is in the wombs. Nor does anyone know what it is that he will earn on the morrow: nor does anyone know in what land he is to die. Verily God is All-Knowing, All Aware." [Luqman (31):34] Then the man went away, and the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "Call him back to me," but when the people went to call him, they could not see anything. The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "That was Gabriel, who came to teach the people their religion." [Bukhaaree, Muslim] [5] "The bare-footed and naked paupers will compete with one another in constructing high buildings" means that they will become the chiefs of people. They will become rich, and their only concern will be to compete in constructing high buildings. This is as in the Hadeeth we shall see later: "The Hour will not come until the happiest people in the world will be the depraved sons of the depraved." It was reported from Abu Sa'eed that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa Page 64 of 69

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sallam) said: "The Hour will not come until the time when a man will leave his home, and his shoes or whip or stick will tell what is happening to his family." [Ahmad] [6] It was reported from Abu Sa'eed that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said: "By Him in Whose hand is my soul, the Hour will not come until wild animals talk to men, and a man speaks to his whip or his shoe, and his thigh will tell him about what happened to his family after he left." [7] Anas said, "We were discussing the fact that the Hour would not come until there is no rain, the earth does not produce crops, and fifty women will be cared for by one man; and if a woman passes by a man, he will look at her and say, 'This woman once had a husband.' " [Ahmad] [8] Abu Hurairah said: "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said: 'The Hour will not come until time passes so quickly that a year will be like a month, a month like a week, a week like a day, a day like an hour, and an hour like the time it takes for a palm-leaf to burn.' " [Ahmad] [9] Abu Hurairah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said: 'The world will not pass away until the one who enjoys it the most is the depraved son of the depraved.' " [Ahmad] [10] Abu Hurairah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, 'Before the Hour comes, there will be years of deceit, in which a truthful person will be disbelieved and a liar will be believed; and the insignificant will have a say.' " [Ahmad] [11] Abu Hurairah said: "I heard the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) say: 'The Hour will not come until the sheep with horns no longer fights the sheep without horns.' " [Ahmad] [12] It was reported from Abu Hurairah that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "The Hour will not come until wealth increases so much that a wealthy man will be worried lest no-one accept his Sadaqah; knowledge will be taken away; time will pass quickly; tribulations will appear; and there will be much Harj." The people asked, "What is Harj, O Messenger of Allaah?" He said, "Killing, killing." [Ahmad] [13] It was reported from Abu Hurairah that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe Page 65 of 69

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wa sallam) said, "By Him Who sent me with the Truth, this earth will not pass away until people are afflicted with landslides, are pelted with stones, and are transformed into animals." The people asked, "When will that be, O Messenger of Allaah?" He said, "When you see women riding in the saddle, when singers are common, when bearing false witness becomes widespread, and when men lie with men and women with women." [14] Taariq ibn Shihaab said, "We were sitting with 'Abd Allaah ibn Mas'ood, when a man came and told us that the time for prayer had come. So we got up and went to the mosque... After the prayer, a man came to 'Abd Allaah ibn Mas'ood and said, 'As-salaam 'alayka (Peace be upon you), O Abu 'Abd ar-Rahmaan'. 'Abd Allaah answered, 'Allaah and His Messenger have spoken the truth.' When we went back, we asked one another, 'Did you hear the answer he gave? Who is going to ask him about it?' I said, 'I will ask him'; so I asked him when he came out. He narrated from the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam): 'Before the Hour comes, there will be a special greeting for the people of distinction; trade will become so widespread that a woman will help her husband in business; family ties will be cut; the giving of false witness will be common, while truthful witness will be rare; and writing will be widespread.' [Ahmad] [15] Footnotes [1] Ahmad, Musnad, 3/64, 65. Checker's Note: Da`eef isnaad due to Muhammad ibn Mus'ab. [2] Ahmad, Musnad, 2/262. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Musnad Imaam Ahmad, checking by Ahmad Shakir: 7554 and Majma' az-Zawaid of al-Haythamee: 7/331. [3] Bukhaaree, Kitaab al-'Ilm, 1/30, 31. [4] Muslim, Kitaab al-Fitan 8/182. [5] Bukhaaree, Kitaab al-Imaan, 1/19; Kitaab at-Tafsir - Soorat Luqmaan, 6/144. Muslim, Kitaab al-Imaan, 1/30, 31. [6] Ahmad, Musnad, 3/88, 89. Checker's Note: Saheeh. [7] Ahmad, Musnad, 3/82, 84. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Silsilatul Ahadeeth as-Saheehah: 122. [8] Ahmad, Musnad, 3/286. Checker's Note: Saheeh, reported by Ahmad, Abu Ya'la and al-Bazzar. Majma' az-Zawa'id of al-Haythamee: 7/333 and Kashful Astar bi Zawa'id Page 66 of 69

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al-Bazzar of al-Haythamee: 3415. [9] Ahmad, Musnad, 3/358. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Saheeh al-Jami as-Sagheer: 7422. [10] Ahmad, Musnad, 2/358. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Saheeh al-Jami as-Sagheer: 7272. [11] Ahmad, Musnad, 2/238. Checker's Note: Hasan, Silsilatul Ahadeeth as-Saheehah: 1887. [12] Ahmad, Musnad, 2/442. Checker's Note: Da`eef?? [not quite sure] due to as-Salt ibn Quwaid; anNasaa'ee said, "His hadith is munkar." [13] Ahmad, Musnad, 2/313. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Musnad Imaam Ahmad, checking by Ahmad Shakir: 8120, 8121. [14] al-Haythamee, Kitaab al-Fitan. Checker's Note: Da`eef, related by al-Bazzar and at-Tabaraanee in alAwsat. It is weak due to Sulaiman ibn Daawood al-Yamami who is matrook (abandoned). Majma' az-Zawa'id of al-Haythamee. [15] Ahmad, Musnad, 1/407. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Silsilatul Ahadeeth as-Saheehah: 648. Description of the People who will be Alive at the End of Time It was reported from 'Abd Allaah ibn 'Amr that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "The Hour will not come until Allaah takes away the best people on earth; only the worst people will be left; they will not know any good or forbid any evil." [Ahmad] [1] 'Abd Allaah ibn Mas'ood said, "I heard the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) say: 'Eloquence can be bewitching; the worst of the people are those upon whom the Hour will come while they are still alive, and those who turn graves into mosques.' " [Ahmad] [2] It was reported from Anas that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "The Hour will not come until no-one on earth says 'Laa ilaaha illaa Allaah.'" [Ahmad] [3] It was also reported from Anas that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said: "The Hour will not come until no-one on earth says, 'Allaah, Allaah.'" [Ahmad] [4] There are two suggestions as to the meaning of the phrase, "until no-one on earth says 'Allaah, Allaah'": Page 67 of 69

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It could mean that no-one will forbid evil, or try to correct another if he sees him doing something wrong. We have already come across this in the Hadeeth of 'Abd Allaah ibn 'Amr: "Only the worst people will be left; they will not know any good or forbid any evil." It could mean that Allaah will no longer be mentioned, and His Name will not be known; this will be part of the prevalent corruption and Kufr, as in the previous Hadeeth, "Until no-one on earth says 'Laa ilaaha illaa Allaah." 'Aa'ishah said, "The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) came in, saying 'O 'Aa'ishah, your people will be the first of my Ummah to join me.' When he sat down, I said, 'O Messenger of Allaah, may I be sacrificed for you! When you came in, you were saying something which scared me.' He asked, 'What was that?' I said, 'You said that my people would be the first of your Ummah to join you.' He said, 'Yes.' I asked, 'Why is that?' He said, 'Death will be widespread among them, and their relatives will be jealous of them.' I said, 'How will people be after that?' He said, 'Like locusts: the strong will devour the weak, until the Hour comes.' " [Ahmad] [5] 'Albaa' al-Salamee said, "I heard the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) say: 'The Hour will only come upon the worst of the people.' " [Ahmad] [6] Footnotes [1] Ahmad, Musnad, 1/454. Checker's Note: Da`eef isnaad due to `an`anah of al-Hasan al-Basree. [2] Ahmad, Musnad, 3/268. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Musnad Imaam Ahmad, checking by Ahmad Shakir: 4342. [3] Ahmad, Musnad, 3/268. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Tahdheerus Saajid of Shaykh al-Albaanee, pg. 119. [4] Ahmad, Musnad, 3/107. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Saheeh al-Jami as-Sagheer: 7420. [5] Ahmad, Musnad, 6/81. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Silsilatul Ahadeeth as-Saheehah: 1953. [6] Ahmad, Musnad, 3/499. Checker's Note: Saheeh, Mustadrak of al-Hakim: 4/496. Declared saheeh by al-Hakim and agreed to by adh-Dhahaabee Page 68 of 69

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