Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

You will make a safe peace with the Romans until you, while they are an enemy, invade from behind them

The fifth of the family of Heraclius, on whose hands the epics will be written. Heraclius may rule, then his son Qusta bin Heraclius after him, then his son Constantine bin Qusta, then his son Istafan bin Constantine, then the king of the Romans left from the family of Heraclius to Lyons, and his son after him, and the king will return from the fifth of the family of Heraclius, on whose hands the epics will be written.

There will be a despicable man from the Umayyads in Egypt, who will come to power and gain control over his power or take it away from him. He will flee to the Romans and bring the Romans to the people of Islam. This is the first of the epics.

The Hour will come and the Romans will be the majority of people

There will be a despicable man from the Umayyads in Egypt. He will come to power and gain control of his power, or be stripped of it. Then he will flee to the Romans and bring the Romans to the people of Islam. This is the first of the epics.

Damra bin Rabi’ah told us, on the authority of Yahya bin Abi Amr al-Sibani, on the authority of Dhi Mukhbar, the son of my brother al-Najashi, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him) say: “You will make peace with the Romans for ten years in a secure peace. They will pay you two years, and betray you the third, or they will fulfill four years and betray the fifth. Then an army of you will descend on their city, and you and they will flee to an enemy behind them. Then Allah will grant you victory, and you will be victorious with what you have afflicted. Reward and spoils, and they land in a hilly meadow, and your speaker says: Allah has conquered, and their speaker says: The cross has conquered, and they trade it for an hour, and the Muslims become angry while their cross is not far away from them, and the Muslim revolts against their cross and strikes it, and they revolt against the breaker of their cross, and strike his neck, and that band of Muslims revolts against their weapons, and the Romans revolt against their weapons, and they fight, so Allah honors that band of Muslims, and they are martyred, and they come. Their king, and they say: We have satisfied you with the burden of the Arabs and their horses, so what are you waiting for? Then a woman’s burden will be gathered for you, and then he will come to you in eighty camps, under each camp twelve thousand.”

By the One in whose hand is my soul, until they destroy the Romans all together, and only an informer escapes. Then they set off for the land of the Romans and conquer its fortresses and cities with the takbir, until they come to the city of Heraclius and find its bay with Batha. Then they open it with the takbir. They say the takbir, and one of its walls falls. Then they say the takbir another, and another wall falls, and its sea wall remains unfallen. Then they seek protection from Rome and open it with the takbir, and on that day they will sway their spoils. Enough of deceit