Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

Ibn Wahb told us, on the authority of Ibn Anam, on the authority of Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Hubali, on the authority of Abdullah ibn Amr, who said: “Three princes succeed one another, and all the lands are conquered over them. All of them are righteous: al-Jabir, then al-Mufarraj, then Dhu al-Asab. They stay for forty years, and then there is no good in this world after them.”

After the Mahdi, who will expel the people of Yemen to their country, then Al-Mansour, then after him, the Mahdi, at whose hands the Roman city will be conquered.

Al-Saffah, then Al-Mansur, then Jabir, then Al-Mahdi, then Al-Amin, then Sin and Salam, then the Emir of Al-Asab, six of them were from the descendants of Ka’b bin Luay, and a man from Qahtan, no one like them is seen, all of them are righteous.

Al-Saffah, Salam, Mansour, Jabir, Al-Amin, and the Emir of Al-Asab, all of them are Saleh, the likes of whom are not known, all of them are from Banu Ka’b bin Luay, and a man from Qahtan, some of whom are only two days old.

Three successive caliphs, all of them righteous, upon whom the lands would be conquered. The first of them was Jabir, the second was al-Mufarraj, and the third was Dhu al-Asab. They would remain for forty years, and there would be no good in this world after them.