Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

Spare me from this, O Commander of the Faithful. How excellent the people of Khurasan are, and Banu Umayyad from Banu Hashim have gores, and Banu Hashim from Banu Umayyah have gores. Then the Sufyani will come out.

So he told us about the Umayyads, even mentioning the emergence of Marwan. Then after Marin, who emerges from the Jazira, will come black flags. They will pour down upon you a torrent until they enter Damascus for three hours of the day, and mercy will be withdrawn from its people. Then mercy will return to it, and the sword will be removed from them, then they will march until they reach Morocco.

Abdullah bin Marwan told us, Muhammad bin Siwar told us, on the authority of Ubayd Allah bin Al-Walid, on the authority of Muhammad bin Ali, he said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Woe to my nation from the two Shiites: the Shiites of Bani Umayyad, the Shiites of Bani Abbas, and the banner of misguidance.”

When it reached the year one hundred and twenty-nine, and the swords of the Umayyads clashed, and the donkey of the Peninsula leaped and conquered the Levant, the black banners would appear in the year one hundred and twenty-nine, and the ram would appear with a people who did not pay attention to them, whose hearts were like steel, their hair down to their shoulders, and they had no pity or mercy towards their enemy, their names were nicknames, and their tribes were villages, and they were wearing clothes like the color of the dark night, leading them to the Abbas family and the weakness of their state. They kill the notables of that time until they flee from them into the wilderness, and their state will continue until the star with the tail appears, and they disagree among themselves.

After them will come the owners of the black banners, and their command and duration will prolong until the pledge of allegiance to two of them is given. When they come together, they disagree among themselves, and their disagreement will prolong until three banners are raised in the Levant, and if they are raised, this is the reason for the interruption of their term. If it is read in Egypt from Abdullah Abdullah, the Commander of the Faithful, it is not long before another letter is read to them from Abdullah Abd al-Rahman, the Commander of the Faithful, and he is the ruler of the Maghreb, and he is worse than a king, and they are ruining Egypt and the Levant. If their command in the Levant intensifies, the black banners and the companions of The three banners and those in them from the Maghreb against the people of the Maghreb, so they all gather against them and fight them, so the people of the three banners will prevail, and the Berbers will be cut off. Then they will fight the owners of the black banners until their order will be cut off.

After the destruction of the Umayyads, the bringer of beasts will come, and the people of the earth will gather to him from its four corners, and Allah will punish this nation with them

The Banu Umayyad will continue to remain steadfast in their affairs until the black banners emerge from the East and make them permissible