Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

Al-Walid told us, on the authority of Ibn Lahi’ah, on the authority of Abu Qabil, on the authority of Abdullah bin Amr, (may Allah be pleased with him), on the authority of the Prophet (may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him) who said: “If two ancient people ruled: the ancient Arabs and the ancient Romans, the epics would be at their hands.” Abu Qabil said: The epics would be at the hands of Tabaris ibn Atitanian ibn al-Akhram ibn Constantine ibn Heraclius.

Al-Hakam bin Nafi’ told us, on the authority of Saeed bin Sinan, on the authority of Abu Al-Zahiriyah, on the authority of Hudhayfah bin Al-Yaman, (may Allah be pleased with him) who said: The Messenger of Allah (may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him) said: “There will be a truce between you and the Banu Asfar, the Romans, and they will betray you by carrying a woman. They will come in eighty camps on land and sea, with twelve thousand under each camp, until they land between Jaffa and Acre, and the owner of their kingdom burns their ships, and he says to his companions: Fight for Your country will join the battle, and the soldiers will support each other until those from Hadhramaut from Yemen will support you. On that day, the Most Merciful will stab them with his spear, strike them with his sword, and throw his arrows at them, and the greatest slaughter will occur among them.”

There will be a reconciliation between the Mahdi and the Roman tyrant after he is killed by the Sufyani, and Kalb is plundered, until your merchants differ to each other and their merchants to you, and they take three years to master the craftsmanship of their ships. Then the Mahdi perishes, and a man from his family reigns and does justice a little, then he is tyrannical, and he is killed, and his memory will not be extinguished until the Romans anchor between Tire and Akka. These are the epics.