Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

You are right, yes, he has twelve kings, the first of them is a friend who dies, then Al-Farouq is killed, then Al-Amin is killed, then the head of the kings dies, then the owner of the guards dies, then a mighty one dies, then the owner of the nerve, who is the last of the kings, dies, then the owner of the mark dies. As for the temptations, they come when the son of the one who destroys the gold is killed, and then the affliction is imposed and prosperity is lifted, and at that time there will be four kings from the family of the owner. The sign: two kings to whom no book is read, a king who dies in his bed, his stay is short, and a king who comes from the cliff, on his hands calamity falls, and on his hands wreaths are broken, he stays in Homs for twenty-one hundred mornings, fear comes to him from his land and he departs from it, so calamity falls on the cliff, and calamity falls among them.

I find in the Torah twelve kings, the first of whom is Siddiq, then Al-Farouq, then Al-Amin, then the head of kings, then the owner of the guards, then Jabbar, then the owner of the clan, and he is the last of the kings to die, then the owner of the sign will die, and as for the tribulations, they will come when the son of the one who destroys the gold is killed, then calamity will prevail and prosperity will be lifted, and at that time there will be four kings from the family of the owner of the sign, two kings who do not read a book, and a king who dies in his bed and stays for a short time. And an angel will come from the land of Jawf. On his hands will be calamity, and on his hands wreaths will be broken. He will reside in Homs for twenty-one hundred mornings. Fear will come to him from his land and he will depart from it. So calamity will fall on Jawf, and calamity will fall among them, then their affairs will be cut off, and he will come from another family and overwhelm them.

Abu Amer Al-Tai told me ، He said: “I was in Homs the day Marwan besieged Homs for four months or so ، Until hunger and thirst overcame them ، Those in it were so fed up that they wanted to reconcile with him ، He said: Marwan was ordering people to dig outside the city ، When they started digging under its wall, other people from Homs would dig next to them from inside the city ، Until they meet in flocks ، The people of Homs had a Nabataean in Medina. When Marwan's companions started digging, he ordered those in Medina to dig along with them. ، They keep digging until they meet ، Perhaps their pit falls on them and they all die ، Marwan did not order digging on them from any place unless they dug inside the city with their shoes ، It was said to Marwan: In Medina, we are going to make holes for them from outside except on their orders, so they dug with our shoes until we and they meet there. ، He said: So Marwan approached Al-Nabati and gave him some money to deliver to him, but Al-Nabati refused to go out to him. ، When he despaired of the Nabataean, he said: Cut off all water that reaches them in any way ، When the people of Homs learned of this, they placed a naked black man wearing his military boots on their wall, and he called them out ، He said: O Marwan, if you are thirsty, we will give you something to drink ، If you are hungry, we will feed you ، If you want us to do such and such to you, we will do to you ، So protect your army ، Do not be drowned by the water sent upon you ، Then they called out in the city to send the guard ، A river for them flows outside the city, harming the city and its value ، They poured water into it from wells ، Water came out of it to Marwan's army in jars ، When he passed by Marwan's army, they were terrified of him ، Marwan said: What is this? They said: Water they sent to you from the city of Homs ، He said: I thought they had become thirsty, and they had so much water that our soldiers feared drowning? They left ، So leave them.”

Abdul Quddus told us, on the authority of Ibn Ayyash, on the authority of Umm Badr, she said: I heard Saeed bin Zar’ah saying: I heard Nawaf al-Bikali say to his companions: I find that this year Damascus is covered with sackcloth, brocade, and rags, and their dead are brought out on a calf, and their women’s bellies are open. So Ka’b said: “These are people who come from the East, unarmed, with black banners written on their banners: Your covenant and pledge of allegiance, and in us therein.” Then They broke it, and they came until they camped between Homs and Deir Mashal, and a squadron came out to them and they fought them like a battle, then they marched to Damascus and conquered it by force. Their motto was: “Aqbal, Aqbal,” meaning Baksh Baksh, and mercy would be spared from them for three hours of the day.”

The people of Syria were happiest with the emergence of the black flags, the people of Homs, and the people of Damascus were most miserable because of them

Abdul Quddus and Amr bin Al-Harith told us, they said: Abdullah bin Salem Al-Homsi told us, on the authority of Ali bin Abi Talha, on the authority of Ka’b, who said: “Allah Almighty created the world in the position of a bird, so He made the two wings the east and the west, and He made the head the Levant, and He made the top of the head hummus, and in it is the beak, and if the beak decreases, the people disagree, and He made the neck Damascus, and in it is the heart, so if the heart moves, the body moves, and the head has two blows: a blow from the wing.” The eastern wing is on Damascus, and a blow is from the western wing and it is on Homs, and it is the heaviest of them. Then the head approaches the wings and plucks them out, feather by feather.”

Homs is among the soldiers whose martyr will intercede for the seventy, and the people of Damascus are known for wearing green clothes in Paradise, and the people of Jordan are among the soldiers who will be in the shadow of the throne on the Day of Resurrection, and the people of Palestine are among those whom Allah looks at twice every day.

The martyr of the people of Homs will intercede for seventy thousand, and the people of Damascus will be covered by Allah with green clothes on the Day of Resurrection, and the people of Jordan will be shaded by Allah in the shade of His throne, and the people of Palestine will be looked at three times every day by Allah.

Damascus is the Muslim stronghold of the Romans, and a bull’s paddock there is better than a great house in Homs. And whoever wants to be saved from the Dajjal is the Abu Fatrus River, and if you want the home of the caliphs, then you should go to Damascus, and if you want effort and jihad, then you should go to Homs, the stronghold of the Muslims from the epics, Damascus, and from the Dajjal, there is the Abu Fatros River, and from Gog and Magog, you should go to Damascus.

Let a man called Abd al-Rahman come out with the people of the Maghrib until Homs comes and ascends to its pulpit

Let the people of the Maghreb rule Homs for sixteen months. If the Maghreb is tempted, then strap your sandals to Yemen, for no other land will protect you from it.

Abdul Quddus told us, on the authority of Safwan, he said: Some of our sheikhs told me, on the authority of someone who witnessed the conquest of Homs. He said: “The Romans who were in Homs feared the Berbers, and you say: ‘Waisa Laqayfis’ from Berbers.” Safwan said: They used to call Hummus Tamra. They said: Woe to you, Tamra, from the Berbers.

If Abdullah bin Abdul Rahman comes to you from Morocco, you and they will fight at the bridge, and there will be seventy thousand dead among you, and they will expel you from the land of Egypt and the land of the Levant in blasphemy, and they will sell the Arab woman on the steps of Damascus for twenty-five dirhams. Then they will enter the land of Homs and stay for eighteen months, in which they will divide the money, and kill the male and female. Then an evil man will emerge against them from the canopy of the sky, and he will kill them and defeat them, until... He brings them into the land of Egypt

The people of the Maghreb will rule Homs for sixteen months. If the turmoil of the Maghreb breaks out, then head towards Yemen, for no other land will protect you from it.

Abdullah bin Marwan told us, on the authority of Artat bin Al-Mundhir, on the authority of Tabi’, on the authority of Ka’b, who said: “If the Berbers left and settled in Egypt, there would be two incidents between them: an encounter in Egypt, and an encounter in Palestine, and in between that until they descended on Homs, so woe to it from them. They would be struck by heavy snow for forty nights there, almost annihilating them, then they would open it and enter it, and they would exit from it between the west and the arch in the middle of the market, then they would travel from it and descend. By Lake Famiyeh or a farsang below it, then people go out against them and kill them. Their leader is a man from the descendants of Ismail. They are killed in a village called Umm al-Arab, then a rebel rises up and kills the freedom, takes captive the offspring, and rips open the stomachs of the women. He defeats the group twice, then he is destroyed. And you will slaughter a woman from the Quraysh, and in it the stomachs of any of the women of Bani Hashim will be ruptured.”

The people of Homs are the most wretched of the people of the Levant with Berbers

The people of the Levant converted to Islam, and the happiest of its soldiers with the yellow banners were the people of Damascus, and the most miserable of the people of the Levant and its soldiers were the people of Homs. They will flood the Levant as water floods a water bottle.

By the One in whose hand is my soul, the barbarians will destroy Homs in the last two battles, the last of which will remove the nails from the doors of its people, and they will have a confrontation in Palestine, then they will march from Homs to Lake Famieh or a league below it, and an outsider will emerge against them and kill them.

Abu Yusuf al-Maqdisi told us, on the authority of Muhammad ibn Ubayd Allah, on the authority of Yazid ibn Sindi, on the authority of Ka’b, who said: “When the west appears over Egypt, the interior of the earth on that day is better than its surface for the people of the Levant. Woe to the two soldiers: the soldiers of Palestine and Jordan, and the soldiers of the land of Homs, of Berbers striking with their swords at a door for perfume, and the companion of the west is a lame man from Kinda.”

Baqiyya told us, on the authority of Al-Ahmusi, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Tabi’, on the authority of Ka’b, who said: “The Berbers disembark from the galleys, then they go out with their swords and wait until they enter Homs, and I heard that their slogan on that day was: Oh Homs, oh Homs.”

If the Berbers leave Homs to Famiyah, Allah will deport them, and send a disease on their animals, so that nothing of them will remain except that they die. Then He exiles them with death and stomachs, so they flee to the east of the Black Mountain to hide there. Then the Muslims follow them and kill them with great slaughter, to the point that one man among them can kill seventy of them, or less than that, and only a few of them will escape.

Abdul Quddus told us, on the authority of Safwan, on the authority of his sheikh, he said: “The Romans who were in Homs feared the Berbers for it and said: Woe to you, O Tamra, from the Berbers,” meaning: “Woe to you, O Tamra, from the Berbers.”

If the black flags and the yellow flags meet in the middle of the Levant, the interior of the earth is better than its surface

Al-Hakam bin Nafi told us ، About Jarrah ، On the authority of Artat bin Al-Mundhir ، He said: “The Berbers come and camp between Palestine and Jordan ، Then the crowds of the East and Syria will march towards them until they stop the tax collector ، A man emerges from Weld Sakhr in weakness ، He throws the Moroccan armies on the Bisan fold and deters them from it ، Then he will meet them the next day and deter them from it ، They side with her ، Then he will meet them on the third day and drive them back to the spring of the wind ، Then the death of their leader comes to them, and they separate into three groups: one group turns back on its heels ، And a group joins the Hijaz ، A band follows Al-Sakhri ، He walks to the rest of their crowd until he comes to Thanyat Fayq ، And they meet her ، Vidal rocks them ، Then you turn to the masses of the East and the Levant and meet them ، He guides them between the reward and the waste ، Until the horses wade in blood ، The people of the Levant kill their president ، They side with Al-Sakhri, who enters Damascus and represents him there ، Banners will emerge from the East, blackened ، They descend on Kufa and their leader hides there ، He does not know his location ، And that army will rise ، Then a man who had been hidden in the depths of the valley comes out and is in command of that army ، Its main source was anger at what Al-Sakhri did to his family ، He marches with the soldiers of the East towards the Levant ، Al-Sakhri reaches his destination and heads the soldiers of the people of Morocco towards him ، They meet the mountain of pebbles ، A lot of world will perish between them ، And the Mashriqi leaves ، The rock follows it and overtakes it in Qarqesya at the complex of the two rivers and they meet ، Their patience exhausts them, and seven of the Levantine soldiers are killed out of every ten ، Then Al-Sakhri's soldiers entered Kufa and attacked its people ، He directs a soldier from the Maghreb to the soldiers from the East next to him ، Then they will bring him their captives ، Perhaps this is the case when the news of the Mahdi’s appearance in Mecca comes to him ، Then a delegation will be sent to him from Kufa, and he will be eclipsed by it.” Artah said: “And he will be between the people of the West and the people of the East at the bridge of Fustat for seven days.” ، Then they meet Al-Arish, and the people of the East will be defeated until they reach the Jordan ، Then the Sufyani will come out after them ، The Romans who were in Homs were afraid of the Berbers ، And they say: Woe to you, Tamra, from the Berbers.

If the black and yellow flags meet in the middle of the Levant, the interior of the earth is better than its surface