প্রথম অধ্যায়: সুদূরবর্তী আলামত যা অতীতে প্রকাশ পেয়ে অতিবাহিত হয়ে গেছে

...al-Muhtadi, who was righteous and trustworthy, but was killed. After him, al-Mu'tamid arose until the succession eventually reached al-Musta'sim, and that marked the beginning of the tribulation of the Tatars, the oppressive and wicked transgressors. Indeed, the righteous Imams have narrated from the Chosen Prophet (ﷺ) that fighting the Tatars is among the signs of the Hour.

The Six compilers of Hadith, with the exception of al-Nasa'i, narrated: "The Hour will not be established until you fight a people whose shoes are made of hair, and until you fight the Turks: small-eyed, red-faced, flat-nosed, as if their faces were hammered shields."

In a narration recorded by al-Bukhari: "The Hour will not be established until you fight Khuz and Kirman from among the non-Arabs: red-faced, flat-nosed, small-eyed, their faces like hammered shields, and their shoes made of hair." In another wording: "broad-faced, their shoes made of hair." This may be understood according to its apparent literal meaning, or it is possible that their shoes were made from untanned hairy skins, or it may mean the abundance of their hair, to the extent that they trod upon it with their feet, as stated by al-Munawi in Takhrij al-Masabih.

His statement, "red-faced," means having fair complexions tinged with redness, as stated in al-Isha'ah. And his statement, "dhalf al-anuf" (flat, turned-up noses), is with the dotted letter dhal (ذ) in the narration of the majority; the author of al-Mashariq stated that this is correct, though it is also narrated with the undotted dal (د).