Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

The last sign of the demise of the rule of the Banu Abbas are three kings among them who succeed one another. Their names are the names of the prophets. They will not exceed them after these kings. The duration of the Banu Abbas among these three kings is forty years. If you see differences among them, and a group of Banu Hashim gathered between the two rivers, and the mandate of a man from the Banu Abbas towards the west, and the clashing of the black flags, and zeroing in the navel of the Levant, and the killing of the governor of Egypt, and the prevention of its tax, then it is a sign of the interruption of their period.

Al-Hakam bin Nafi’ told us, on the authority of Jarrah, on the authority of Artat, who said: “If the Turks and the Romans meet, and a village in Damascus is eclipsed, and a group to the west of its mosque falls, three flags will be raised in the Levant: Al-Aqba’, Al-Ashab, and Al-Sufyani. A man will be besieged in Damascus and he will be killed and those with him, and two men from Banu Abi Sufyan will come out, and the victory will be for the second. If Al-Aqba’s army arrives from Egypt, Al-Sufyani will appear on them with his army, and the Turks will be killed. And the Romans in Qarqisia until the lions of the earth are satisfied with their meat.”

His life will be long, he will be arrogant, his veil will become tight at the end of his time, and his wealth and the wealth of his will increase, until he becomes as fat as the rest of the Muslims, and he will extinguish our previously known traditions, and he will innovate things that were not, and he will commit adultery and drink alcohol openly. He will frighten scholars to the point that a man will ride his camel and then go to Egypt from the regions where he will not find a man to speak to him with a knowledgeable hadith, and Islam will be strange in his time, as it began to be strange, on that day. The one who adheres to his religion is like one holding a burning ember, until it becomes his command to send a slave girl who arrives in the markets wearing blankets of gold, meaning socks, and with her a condition, that she must wear clothing that does not cover her, coming and going, and if a man says a word about that, I will strike his neck.

Naim told us, Al-Hakam bin Nafi told us, on the authority of Jarrah, on the authority of Artat, who said: “If the companion of Al-Adham appears in Alexandria and the land of Egypt, the Arabs will follow Yathrib and the Hijaz, and will emerge from the Levant, and each tribe will follow its people, and Allah will send an army to them. When they finish between the two islands, their herald calls: Let every honest person or intruder who is among us among the Muslims come out to us. The loyalists will become angry, and they will pledge allegiance to a man called Saleh bin Abdullah bin Qays bin Yasar, and he will come out. And the Roman army meets them and kills them, and death occurs among the Romans, while they are in Jerusalem that day, and they have captured it, so they die like locusts, and the owner of Al-Adham dies, and Salih descends with the governors in the land of Syria, and enters Ammuriyah, having stayed there, and descends on Qamuliya, and conquers Zantia, and the voices of his army there in calling for monotheism are loud, and he divides its money among them with utensils, and he appears in Rome, and extracts from it the Gate of Zion, and an onyx coffin, in which is an earring. Eve, and Adam’s garment, meaning his garment, and Aaron’s garment (peace be upon them), so between us they are like that when news comes to him and it is false and he returns.”