Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

Abdullah bin Marwan told us, on the authority of Salamah bin Khalid Al-Yazani, on the authority of Abu Saba Utbah bin Tamim Al-Tanukhi, who said: “Kingdom belongs to the Abbasids until a letter read in Egypt reaches you: From Abdullah Abdullah, Commander of the Faithful. If that is the beginning of the demise of their kingdom and the end of their term.”

Abdullah bin Marwan told us, and Abu Asim Yunus Al-Tanukhi told me, on the authority of Ismail bin Al-Ala bin Muhammad Al-Kalbi, on the authority of his father, who said: “If a letter is read to the Abbasids at the beginning of the day: From Abdullah Abdullah, Commander of the Faithful, then wait for a letter to be read to you at the end of the day: From Abdullah Abdul Rahman, Commander of the Faithful.”

Abdullah bin Marwan told us, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Ka’b, who said: “If a man from the Abbasids called Abdullah reigns, and he is the one with the Eye of the Hereafter among them, with it they open it and with it they seal it, then he is the key to the sword of annihilation. If a letter is read for him in the Levant: From Abdullah Abdullah Commander of the Faithful, you will soon be informed of a letter that has been read on the pulpit of Egypt: From Abdullah Abdul Rahman Commander of the Faithful. If that happens, the people of the East and the people of the West will rush to the Levant as a betting horse, seeing that the kingship will not be fulfilled. Except for those who control the Levant, everyone says: Whoever conquers it has captured the kingdom.”

It is necessary for the Abbasids to have three sons, the first of whose names is Ayn