Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

If their words differed, and the century of healing rose, they would only remain for a short time until the spotted man appeared in Egypt, killing people until they reached Iram, then the deformed one would revolt against him, and there would be a great battle between them, then the cursed Sufyani would appear and defeat them all, and before that he would raise twelve well-known flags in Kufa, and a man from the descendants of Hussein who would call for his father would be killed in Kufa, then the Sufyani would send out his armies.

Al-Walid and Rushdin told us, on the authority of Ibn Lahi’ah, on the authority of Abu Qabil, on the authority of Abu Ruman, on the authority of Ali, who said: “If the owners of the black banners disagree, one of the villages of Iram will be eclipsed, and the western side of its mosque will fall, then three banners will emerge in the Levant: the reddish, the spotted, and the Sufyani. The Sufyani will emerge from the Levant, and the spotted from Egypt, and the Sufyani will appear over them.”

Rushdin told us, on the authority of Ibn Lahi’a, on the authority of Abu Qabil, on the authority of Sa’id ibn al-Aswad, on the authority of Dhu Qarnat, who said: “The people disagree in Safar, and the people separate into four groups: a man in Mecca who is seeking refuge, and two men in the Levant, one of whom is Sufyani and the other is from the progeny of al-Hakam, blue and red-haired, and a man from the people of Egypt who is a mighty man, so those are four.”

Ibn Lahi’ah said, on the authority of Abu Qabil, on the authority of Abu Ruman, on the authority of Ali, he said: “Three flags will emerge in the Levant: the red-haired, the spotted, and the Sufyani. The Sufyani will emerge from the Levant, and the spotted one will emerge from Egypt, and the Sufyani will appear over them.”

Rushdin told us, on the authority of Ibn Lahi’a, on the authority of Abu Qabil, on the authority of Sa’id ibn al-Aswad, on the authority of Dhu Qarnat, he said: “The people differed in Safar, and separated into four groups: a man in Mecca who was seeking refuge, and two men in the Levant: one of them was the Sufyani, the other was from the birth of al-Hakam, blue and red-haired, and a man from the people of Egypt, a tyrant. So those are four. Then a man from Kindah gets angry and goes out to those in the Levant. To the one in Mecca.”

If the Sufyani enters the land of Egypt, he will stay there for four months, killing and taking its people captive, and on that day the wailing women will stand up, weeping, crying over the permissibility of her private parts, crying, crying over the killing of her children, crying, crying over her humiliation after her glory, and crying, crying longing for her graves.

If the Sufyani appears on the Aqaba and enters Egypt, then Egypt will be ruined