Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

Damrah told us, on the authority of Ibn Shawdhab, on the authority of Abu al-Tayyah, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Abu al-Awwam, on the authority of Ka’b, who said: “The Arab mill will turn twenty-five after the death of its Prophet, ﷺ, and then there will be a strife in which there will be killing and fighting, so I will hold your hand and your weapon against you. Then there will be another after reassurance, in which I will hold your hand and your weapon against you, for I find it in the Book of Allah: Darkness twists with all that is arrogant.”

Abu Omar Al-Saffar told us, on the authority of Abu Al-Tayyah, on the authority of Abu Al-Awwam, on the authority of Ka’b, who said: “The millstone of the Arabs will turn after the death of its Prophet after twenty-five years, and then a strife will break out in which there will be killing and fighting, so hold yourself and your weapon against you, until you are saved, neither for you nor for you. Escape, and if you find nothing but a scorpion’s hole to enter, then enter it.”

No people stirred up sedition except that they were its islands

Fear the Sultan by fearing him, for the Sultan’s term is only one day remaining, and on that day the man and his family will perish. Removing an upright mountain is easier than removing a postponed king.