The hadiths that show an apparent contradiction are:
Narrated `Abdullah: The Prophet (ﷺ) mentioned the Masih Ad-Dajjal in front of the people saying, Allah is not one-eyed while Masih Ad-Dajjal is blind in the right eye and his eye looks like a bulging out grape. (Bukhari 3439)
Hudhaifa reported that Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said: Dajjal is blind of left eye with thick hair and there would be a garden and fire with him and his fire would be a garden and his garden would be fire. (Sahih Muslim 2934a)
Abu al-Fadl says that both of the Dajjal’s eyes are blind, but in different ways. One eye is completely wiped out and can’t see at all. The other is not normal either—it looks strange, like a bulging grape or a star—so it’s also defective. He explains that in Arabic, ʿawrah can mean any kind of flaw, so both eyes can be called blind in some sense.
Translation: His statement: “The Dajjal is blind in one eye, and over it is a thick piece of skin (ʿadhfara ghaliza)”—ʿadhfara is with a ẓaʾ and a faʾ, both with fatḥah. It refers to a piece of flesh or skin that covers the eye.
If it is not removed, it will completely cover the eye. The meaning of mamsuh al-ʿayn (his eye is wiped out) is that the light and ability to see are erased from it, so he cannot see anything with it.
His statement: “The Dajjal is blind in the left eye”—aʿwar (blind in one eye) refers to someone whose eye is afflicted in a way that causes loss of vision. This is confirmed in the hadith of Hudhayfah: “the left eye.” And it is also authentically reported in the hadith of Ibn ʿUmar that his right eye is blind, like a protruding grape. Al-Tirmidhi also narrated it and authenticated it. This is a contradiction that is difficult to reconcile.
Al-Qadi Abu al-Fadl attempted to reconcile the two versions. He said: “Reconciling the two reports is possible in my view, which is that both of his eyes are blind in some respect—since ʿawrah in Arabic refers to any defect.
The defective word (kalimah ʿawraʾ) is one that is flawed. So one of his eyes is truly blind, described in the hadith as not sunken, not protruding, wiped out, and extinguished (ṭāfiʾah, with hamzah). The other is blind because of its permanent flaw, being bulging, or like a star, or like a floating grape (ṭāfiyah, without hamzah). Both of his eyes, then, can be described as defective—either in actual usage or according to the original meaning of ʿawrah, which is ‘defect’.”
Al-Mufhim lima Ashkala min Kitab Talkhis Muslim By Al Qurtubi (7/274-275)
