Yajuj and Majuj are two foreign names, as evidenced by the prohibition of inflection. They are read with a hamzah. Ru'bah read them as Aajuj and Maajuj, and they are from the offspring of Yafith. It is said that Yajuj are from the Turks, and Majuj are from the Jil and the Daylam. It is said: they are corruptors in the land. It was said that they used to eat people, and it was said that they would emerge in the spring and leave nothing green except that they ate it, and nothing dry except that they carried it off. They would inflict great killing and harm. And about them, the Prophet, blessings and peace be upon him, described: No one among them will die until he sees a thousand males from his lineage, all of whom have taken up arms. This was narrated by Ibn 'Adi, and Al-Tabarani in Al-Awsat, and Ibn Mardawayh, and Al-Thalabi and others from the narration of Yahya ibn Sa'id from Muhammad ibn Ishaq from Al-A'mash, from Shaqiq, from Hudhayfah who said: I asked the Prophet, blessings and peace be upon him, about Yajuj and Majuj, and he said: Yajuj is a nation, and Majuj is a nation. Each nation has four thousand, and no man among them will die until he sees a thousand males from his lineage, all of whom have taken up arms. Ibn 'Adi said: This is fabricated. And this Muhammad ibn Ishaq is not the one known for the military campaigns. Rather, he is Al-'Ukashi, and Ibn Al-Jawzi mentioned him in the fabricated reports from this angle, but he was mistaken, for he has another route. In the Sahih of Ibn Hibban from Ibn Mas'ud, it is raised: 'Indeed, Yajuj and Majuj leave behind at least a thousand from their lineage.' And in Al-Nasa'i from Amr ibn Aws from his father, it is raised: 'That Yajuj and Majuj engage in relations as they wish, and no man among them dies except that he leaves behind a thousand or more from his offspring.' And in Al-Mustadrak from Abdullah ibn Amr, it is raised: 'Indeed, Yajuj and Majuj are from the children of Adam, and no man among them will die except that he leaves behind a thousand or more from his offspring.' It is said that they are of two types: excessively tall and excessively short. It was read: kharaja and kharaja, meaning they made us take it from our wealth. Their counterparts are: al-nawl and al-nawal. And it was read: saddan, and saddan with both opening and closing of the letter.