Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

In Ramadan, there is a sign in the sky for the two nights, whether they are empty or remaining, and in the important month of Shawwal, and in Dhul-Qa’dah, the intense weather, and in Dhul-Hijjah, calamities, and in Muharram, and what is Muharram? In Ramadan there is a sign in the sky like a bright pillar, in Shawwal there is calamity, in Dhul-Qa’dah there is annihilation, and in Dhul-Hijjah the pilgrim in ihram plunders, and what is the ihram?

There will be a sign in the month of Ramadan, then a gang will appear in Shawwal, then there will be a turmoil in Dhul-Qa'dah, then the pilgrim will be robbed in Dhul-Hijjah, then mahrams will be violated in Muharram, then there will be a voice in Safar, then there will be tribal conflict in the months of Rabi', then there will be all the astonishment between Jumada and Rajab, then a camel with a hood is better than a woman who fetches a hundred thousand.

Al-Walid told us, on the authority of Anbasa al-Qurashi, on the authority of Salamah ibn Abi Salamah, on the authority of Shahr ibn Hawshab, who said: I was informed that the Messenger of Allah (may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him) said: “In Ramadan there will be a voice, and in Shawwal there will be a hum, and in Dhul-Qa’dah the tribes will fight each other, and in Dhul-Hijjah the pilgrim will prepare, and in Muharram a caller will call from the sky: Indeed, Allah’s chosen one is so-and-so from His creation, so listen to him and obey him.”

There will be a sound in Ramadan, and a commotion in Shawwal, and in Dhul-Qa'dah the tribes will fight each other, and in that year the pilgrims will be looted, and there will be a great epic in Mina, in which the dead will be many, and blood will flow, while they are at the Jamarat Aqaba.

If there is a shout in Ramadan, then there will be a riot in Shawwal, and the division of tribes in Dhul-Qa’dah, and bloodshed in Dhu’l-Hijjah and Muharram, and what is forbidden is far from far from it, people are killed therein in chaos.

My nation will not perish until the differentiation, swaying, and nervous gestures appear in them that people after me will develop in Islam. In Islam, tribe tends toward tribe, so it becomes permissible for it to be forbidden when lands move one to another, and their necks differ in war.