Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

Al-Sufyani sends his horses and his soldiers, and he reaches the entire east from the land of Khorasan and the land of Persia, and the people of the east revolt against them and fight them, and there will be conflicts between them in different places. If their fight against him lasts for a long time, they pledge allegiance to a man from Banu Hashim, and he is at the end of the east that day. Then he goes out with the people of Khurasan, with a yellow-bearded man from Banu Tamim, a servant of theirs, going out to him with five thousand. The mountains of Rawasi welcomed him to their destination, and he and the horses of the Sufyani met and defeated them and killed many of them, then the Sufyani would gain the upper hand and the Hashemi would flee, and Shuaib bin Saleh would go out in hiding to Bayt al-Maqdis, to provide his home for the Mahdi when he was informed of his departure to the Levant.

Before the Mahdi, a man will emerge from his household in the East. He will carry the sword on his shoulder for eight months. He will be killed, mutilated, and head to Jerusalem. He will not reach it until he dies. The black banners that come from Khorasan will descend on Kufa. When the Mahdi appears in Mecca, he will send the pledge of allegiance to the Mahdi.

The Dajjal will emerge from Khorasan

An army will emerge from Khorasan, followed by the Dajjal

The Dajjal will emerge from the East from a land called Khurasan

Naim told us, then Al-Walid, on the authority of Saeed bin Bashir, on the authority of Qatada, on the authority of Uqba bin Aws, on the authority of Abdullah bin Amr, who said: “The Banu Qantura bin Karkara are about to go out and drive the people of Khurasan violently, until they tie their horses to the palm trees of the grove, and they send a message to the people of Basra: Either you join us, or leave it to us, and a third will join them, and a third will join the Bedouins, and a third will go to the Levant.”

Ibn Ayyash said: Nafi’ and Sa’id bin Abi Orouba told us, all on the authority of Qatada. Abdullah bin Buraidah told us on the authority of Suleiman bin Rabi’ah, one of the hermits of the people of Basra, who said: We came to Abdullah bin Amr and I heard him say: “The Banu Qantura will soon drive the people of Khurasan and the people of Sajistan violently, until they tie their animals to the palm trees of the desert, and they will send to the people of Basra to vacate your land for us or They will descend upon you, and they will be divided into three groups: a group that will join the Arabs, a group in the Levant, and a group that is its enemy, and the leadership of that, if the land is covered, is the leadership of the foolish.”

Salamah b. Kuhail said:Zaid b. Wahb al-Juhani told us that he was in the army which proceeded to (fight with) the Khawarij in the company of `Ali. `Ali then said: O people! I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: there will appear from among my community people who recite the Qur'an, and your recitation has no comparison with their recitation, and your prayer has no comparison with their prayer, and your fasts have no comparison with their fasts. They will recite the Qur'an thinking that it is beneficial for them, while it is harmful for them. Their prayer will not pass their collar-bones. They will swerve from Islam as an arrow goes through the animal shot at. If the army that is approaching them knows what (reward) has been decided for them at the tongue of their Prophet (ﷺ), they would leave (other good) activities. The sign of that is that among them there will be a man who has an upper arm, but not hand; on his upper arm there will be something like the nipple of a female breast, having white hair thereon. Will you go to Mu`awiyah and the people of Syria, and leave them behind among your children and property? I swear by Allah, I hope these are the same people, for they shed the blood unlawfully, and attacked the cattle of the people so go on in the name of Allah. Salamah b. Kuhail said: Zaid b. Wahb then informed me of all the halting places one by one, (saying): Until we passed a bridge. When we fought with each other, `Abd Allah b. Wahb al-Rasibi, who was the leader of the Khawarij, said to them: Throw away the lances and pull out the swords from their sheaths, for I am afraid they will adjure you as they had adjured on the day of Harura. So they threw away their lances and pulled out their swords, and the people pierced them with their lances. They were killed (lying one on the other). On that day only two persons of the partisans (of `Ali) were afflicted. `Ali said: Search for the man with the crippled hand. But they could not find him. Then `Ali got up himself and went to the people who had been killed and were lying on one another. He said: Take them out. They found him just near the ground. So he shouted: Allah is Most Great! He said: Allah spoke the truth, and His Apostle has conveyed. `Ubaidat al-Salmani stood up to him, saying: Commander of the Faithful! Have you heard it from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)? He said: Yes, by him, there is no Allah but He. He put to swear thrice and he swore