Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

I warn you of seven trials that will come after me: a trial that will come from Medina, a trial from Mecca, a trial that will come from Yemen, a trial that will come from the Levant, a trial that will come from the East, a trial that will come from the West, and a trial that will come from the interior of the Levant, which is the trial of the Sufyani.

By Allah, I wish that no tower would be built without a tower falling, and I say that, but a turmoil descended from the sky, with only a span between us and it falling, and if the construction of this mosque had been completed, it would have occurred. And that was when this Sheikh Othman bin Affan was killed, yes, a hundred thousand or more. Then killing would occur between Aden and Abyan to the paths of the Romans, and an army would emerge from the west, and an army would emerge from the east, and they would meet in a land called Siffin, and there would be a great battle between them, and then they would not separate except About two rulings

Caliphate in Medina, and kingship in the Levant

These people will succeed the caliphate after me

These people will succeed the caliphate after me

This matter will take place in Medina, then in the Levant, then in the Peninsula, then in Iraq, then in Medina, then in Bayt al-Maqdis. If it is in Bayt al-Maqdis, then it is the home of its home, and it does not leave a people and return to them.

Abdul Quddus told us, on the authority of Artat bin Al-Mundhir, he said: I was informed that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him, said: “Prophecy was revealed to me in three places: Mecca, Medina, and the Levant, and if I left one of them, I would not return to it until the Day of Resurrection.”

I see you standing, Abu Dharr. How will you be, Abu Dharr, if they expel you from Medina? What if they take you out of it? If they take you out of it? No, but listen and obey, even if it is a black slave

I was a man from the people of Mecca, and I had my birth, my home, and my money. I did not stay there until Allah Almighty sent His Prophet, ﷺ. So I believed in him and followed him, so I stayed there as long as Allah wanted me to stay. Then I left it and fled with my religion to Medina, and I did not stay there until Allah gathered my money and family for me, and today I am fleeing with my religion from Medina to Mecca just as I fled with my religion from Mecca to Medina.

As for the scratching on his neck, no, but he pledged allegiance despite his unwillingness

Days and nights will not pass until the affairs of this nation gather around a man with a wide mouth and a large mouth, who eats and is not satisfied

To you, you have seen me fighting with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in this place, the polytheists. Go, may Allah bless you.

Ibn Abi Adi told us, on the authority of Ibn Aoun, on the authority of Muhammad, he said: When they gathered at the door of Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him), he was told: If you go out with your battalion, perhaps if they see it they will return? He said: Then Othman went out with his battalion. He said: A man of those would draw, and a man of these would draw. So they were disturbed by their swords, and Uthman began to notice, so he said: “Are they fighting against me and my leadership?” So he returned and entered the house, and I do not know what he left after that until he was killed. Muhammad said: The strife occurred when it broke out, and the companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ numbered ten thousand or more, and if they had been given permission, they would have beaten them until they expelled them from the lands. Medina, Muhammad said: Ibn al-Zubayr, Ibn Umar, and al-Hasan ibn Ali came to him. Ibn Aoun said, and Nafi’ said: Ibn Umar wore armor twice, and I was informed that Abu Hurairah used to go around the house and say: “Um, good or good.”

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.”

Al-Hakam bin Nafi told us, Hariz bin Othman told us, on the authority of Saeed bin Marthad Abi Al-Aliyah, who said: I was sitting with Sharhabeel bin Dhi Hamaya at the palace of Ibn Uthal, when an old old man of the people passed by him, with his eyebrows falling over his eyes, leaning on a staff. He said: Come, old man. So he sat down to him and said: How far have you been in your mind? He said: “Persians. I saw them in this city, sitting, circled, talking, saying: The Muslim people of this land will appear, and Allah will grant victory.” They have treasuries on land and sea, they are known by their quality by the length of their hair and their spears, and by their clothing. He will be the last king among them. They will be killed with swords. Money and a lot of food will be poured on their tables, but that will not satisfy them.”

If that is the case, then seek a place for yourself in peace and free time, like the ant’s shelter for its winter, and let it be in what is beautiful and not known for it. And protect yourself from that and other things, the city and its surroundings of the Hijaz, and the coasts are safer than others.

Al-Azhar bin Al-Kalbiyyah enters Kufa and is afflicted with an ulcer. He emerges from it and dies on the way. Then another man from among them emerges between Taif and Mecca, or between Mecca and Medina, from the trees, the trees, the trees, in the Hijaz, with a disfigured appearance, a shaved head, bruised forearms, and sunken eyes. In his time, this will be a calamity.

A one-eyed man is moved by Elijah, and there is much commotion and captivity, and he is the one who sends an army to the city

If an otter prevails and appears in the west, and their companion, Bani Abbas, comes, then their nephew enters Kufa with those who are with him and destroys it, then an ulcer afflicts him, and he comes out of it, heading to the Levant, and is destroyed between Iraq and the Levant. Then they assign a man from his family over them, and he is the one who does evil to the people, and his command becomes apparent, and he is the Sufyani. Then the Arabs gather against him in the land of the Levant, and there is a fight between them until the fight turns to Medina, so the epic will take place in Baqi’ al-Gharqad.

Abdullah bin Marwan told us, on the authority of Saeed bin Yazid, on the authority of Al-Zuhri, he said: “The Sufyani pledges allegiance to the people of the Levant, and he fights the people of the East and defeats them from Palestine until they reach Marj al-Safar, then they meet and the defeat is on the people of the East until they reach Marj al-Thaniyya, then they fight and the defeat is on the people of the East until they reach the battle, then they fight and the defeat is on the people of the East until they reach the ruined city, meaning Qarqisiya. Then they will fight, and the attack will be on the people of the East until they reach Aqarqa. Then they will fight, and the attack will be on the people of the East, and Al-Sufyani will take possession of the money. Then an ulcer will emerge in the Sufyani’s throat. Then he will enter Kufa in the morning, and leave it in the evening with his armies. When he is in the mouths of the Levant, he dies, and the people of the Levant revolt and pledge allegiance to Ibn Al-Kalbiyah. His name is Abdullah bin Yazid bin Al-Kalbiyah, sunken-eyed, disfigured, and he reaches the people of the Levant. The East is the death of Sufyani, and they say: The state of the people of the Levant is gone, so they revolt, and Ibn al-Kalbiyyah reaches out and revolts with a group of them, and they fight with brigades, and the attack is on the people of the East, until they enter Kufa, and he kills the female fighter, and takes captive the offspring and women, then he destroys Kufa, then he sends an army from it to Hijaz.”

Al-Walid told us, a muhaddith narrated to me, “Bedouin, due to the dispute between the Abbasids, a banner would emerge from Khorasan, and there would be a battle between them in the saffron beds, in which all people and tribes would be killed. Then the people would reach the battle that was in the saffron beds while he was in the pure city between the rivers, and he would go out with the wealth he had collected there until he settled in the city of idols, meaning Harran. Then the news would come to him that a king in Morocco had revolted, so he would send soldiers to defeat them, until He will descend with those who are with him in the Levant, and a caller will call from the sky: Woe to the land of Homs, Al-Ain Al-Sinja. So every man who has Baal will bear her husband, and every woman who has the son of her son. Then he will go until he descends between the rivers, and he will kill a great tyrant with it, and swear by it. Then he will go to the city of idols, meaning Harran, and he will rip open the belly of its owner there, and disperse his crowds. He will be sent to the East and pledge allegiance to them, unwilling and disobedient, and will stay there for eight months. Then he will go to Al-Khabur and will stay there for seven months. A week, then he goes to the bull's paddock and leaves it as a ram, and the owner of the East withdraws him to the mountains of Al-Jawf, then a man from his house betrays him and kills him. Then the owner of the East comes until he settles between Harran and Edessa, then the rebellious person comes out of the house of the head.”

Al-Sufyani enters Kufa and takes it captive for three days, and kills sixty thousand of its people. Then he stays there for eighteen nights, dividing its wealth. He enters Kufa after fighting the Turks and Romans in Qirqisa. Then he splits a gap on them from behind them, and a group of them returns to Khurasan. He kills the horses of Al-Sufyani and demolishes the forts until he enters Kufa. He seeks the people of Khurasan, and a people calling for the Mahdi will appear in Khurasan. Then he sends Al-Sufyani to Medina. Then he takes a group of people from the family of Muhammad until he returns them to Kufa, then Al-Mahdi and Mansour leave Kufa on the run, and Al-Sufyani sends in search of them. When Al-Mahdi and Mansour reach Mecca, the Sufyani’s army descends on Al-Bayda and overwhelms them. Then Al-Mahdi goes out until he passes through Medina and rescues those who were in it from Bani Hashim. The black flags come forward until they descend on the water, and the Sufyani’s companions in Kufa inform of their landing and they flee, then he descends on Kufa to rescue those in it from Bani Hashim, and a people called the Asab emerge from the black of Kufa. They have no weapons except a few, and among them is a group of the people of Basra. They overtake the companions of the Sufyani and rescue what is in their hands from the captives of Kufa, and the black banners send out the pledge of allegiance to the Mahdi.

Al-Sufyani spreads his soldiers across the horizons after entering Kufa and Baghdad, and his branch from across the river reaches him from the people of Khorasan, and the people of the East attack them and kill their unclean things. When he hears that, he sends a great army to Istakhr, against whom is a man from the Umayyads, and they will have an attack in Qums, an attack in Dawlat al-Ray, and an attack on the borders of Zaranj. Then, the Sufyani orders the killing of the people of Kufa and the people of Medina, and at that point The black flags will come from Khorasan, and over all the people will be a young man from Banu Hashim, with his right hand empty. May Allah make his affairs and his path easy. Then there will be an encounter with him on the borders of Khorasan, and Al-Hashemi will go on the road to irrigation, and a man from Banu Tamim from the loyalists called Shuaib bin Saleh will be sent to Istakhar to the Umayyad. He, the Mahdi, and Al-Hashemi will meet in the white area of Istakhr, and there will be a great battle between them. A man from Bani Uday will be upon them, so Allah will appear. His supporters and soldiers, then there will be an attack in al-Mada'in after the two attacks of Rayy, and in Aqarqufa there is an attack in Saylimiyya, about which every survivor will report. Then after that there will be a great slaughter in Babylon, and an attack in a land of the land of Nisibis. Then, in particular, a group of people from among their ranks, namely the Asab, mostly from Kufa and Basra, will emerge in order to rescue the Kufan captives in their hands.

Al-Sufyani writes to the one who entered Kufa with his horse after it had been traversed by the battle of the Adam, ordering him to march to Hijaz, so he marches to Medina, places the sword on the Quraysh, and kills four hundred of them and the Ansar, and rips open their stomachs, kills the children, and kills two brothers from the Quraysh, a man and his sister called Muhammad and Fatima, and crucifies them at the door of the mosque in Medina.

He sends an army to Medina, and they seize whomever they can from the family of Muhammad ﷺ, and he kills men and women from Banu Hashim. Then, Al-Mahdi and Al-Mubaid escape from Medina to Mecca, and he sends in search of them, and they have reached the sanctuary and security of Allah.