Edited sentence: According to Sunni hadith, both of these locations are precisely where Dajjal will make his first appearances and make himself known to the world.According to a hadith narrated by Aisha, Dajjal too, would have with him a mountain of bread.Among the attributes of the Shiite Imam is the the ability to give life to a dead person.Another intent of the 12th Imam's expeditions is to destroy the two holiest sites in Islam, the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca and the Prophet's Mosque in Medina.Because of the vast ideological differences between Sunnis and Shiites regarding Imam Mahdi, the Caliph of Sunni Muslims during the times of tribulation of Dajjal, a growing number of Sunnis have begun to identify the personage of Dajjal with none other than the 12th Imam of Shiites (not to be confused with Imam Mahdi of Sunnis).Evidences cited are the hadiths pointing towards Esfahan, Iran, a city as the origin of the Dajjal making his appearance along with his large Persian following.Other Shiites believe that their 12th Imam disappeared in Samaraa, Iraq and will reappear in this region.Other evidences pointing towards the 12th Imam of Shiites as possessing a mountain of bread for his followers.Shia hadiths speak of the 12th Imam's intention to resurrect the Prophet Muhammad's companions and repeatedly punish them with whips.Shiites believe that their 12th Imam will emerge from Qom, Iran a city 150 miles north of Esfahan and 80 miles from Tehran.Sunni scholars have thus reasoned that one of the reasons for special protection of these two cities is from the tribulation that the 12th Imam of Shiites, or Dajjal/Antichrist, intends to inflict upon it.Therefore, because of Shiite 12th Imam Mahdi's intention to destroy two of Islam's holiest sites in Shiite hadith sources, and God's special protection of these two cities from the actions of Dajjal in the Prophetic Hadith reports of Sunnis, the identification of the 12th Imam Mahdi of Shiites with the Dajjal or Antichrist of Sunnis can be made precisely