Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

Then Abdullah follows Abdullah, and their soldiers meet in Qarqisiya on the river, and there is a great battle. The ruler of the West marches and kills the men and takes captive the women, then returns to Qais until he descends on the island to Sufyani. He follows Al-Yamani and kills Qais in Jericho, and the Sufyani takes possession of what they have gathered. Then he marches to Kufa and kills the helpers of the family of Muhammad. Then the Sufyani appears in the Levant with the three banners. Then they will have a great clash after Qarqisiya, then a split of Behind them, a group of them will approach until they enter the land of Khurasan, and the horses of the Sufyani will approach like night and torrent, and will not pass by anything without destroying and demolishing it, until they enter Kufa, and kill Shiites from the family of Muhammad, then they will seek the people of Khorasan in every direction, and the people of Khorasan will go out in search of the Mahdi, so they will pray for him and support him.

Al-Hakam bin Nafi told us, on the authority of Saeed bin Sinan, on the authority of Salman bin Samir Al-Alahani, who said: “A caliph will descend on Kufa, and he will defeat the people of the Levant, then he will attack them, and it will be said to him: You must take the land of the Levant, for it is the holy land, the land of the prophets, and the homes of the caliphs, and it is there that money was collected, and from there the envoys were dispersed, and he answers them, and if he answers them, the people of the East rise against him, and they say: We risked our blood with him.” And our lives and our money, and someone else prefers us and they disagree with him, so the people of the Levant march to Kufa, and on that day the battle of the land of Adam will be fought.”

If Al-Sufyani appears against Al-Aqba’, Al-Mansur, Al-Kindi, the Turks, and the Romans, he leaves and becomes in Iraq, and then the century of Dhul-Shifa rises, then Abdullah will perish, and the deposed will be deposed, and he will be affiliated with people in the city of Zawra out of ignorance, then Al-Akhs will appear on the city by force, and he will kill a great mass there, and will kill six rams from the Abbas family, and slaughter there a patient slaughter, then he will go out to Kufa.

Abu Omar told us, on the authority of Ibn Lahi’ah, on the authority of Abdul Wahhab bin Hussein, on the authority of Muhammad bin Thabit, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Al-Harith, on the authority of Ibn Masoud (may Allah be pleased with him), on the authority of the Prophet (may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him) who said: “If the Sufyani crosses the Euphrates and reaches a place called Aqarqufa, Allah Almighty will erase faith from his heart, and he will be killed with it to a river called Al-Dujail seventy thousand wearing adorned swords, and more, and they will appear on the House of Gold, so they kill the female fighter and the heroes, and open the stomachs of the women, saying: Perhaps she is pregnant with a boy. Women from the Quraysh on the shore of the Tigris are crying out for help to the people of the ships passing by, asking them to carry them until they bring them to the people, so do not carry them out of hatred for the Banu Hashim, so do not hate the Banu Hashim, for among them is the Prophet of Mercy, and among them is the pilot in Paradise. As for the women, when the night overwhelms them, they take refuge in its depths in a place of fear. The immoral people, then the support of victory will come to them until they rescue the offspring and women of Sufyani from Baghdad and Kufa.”

Kufa is safe from ruin until Egypt is destroyed. The battle of Kufa is the battle of the ancients, and then the great epic after Kufa

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.

If the Sufyani reached Kufa, and the agents of the family of Muhammad were killed, the Mahdi would emerge under his banner, Shuaib bin Saleh

The black flags emerging from Khorasan will descend on Kufa, and when the Mahdi appears in Mecca, the pledge of allegiance will be sent to him

If the horses of the Sufyani go out to Kufa, he will send in search of the people of Khurasan, and the people of Khorasan go out in search of the Mahdi, and he and Al-Hashemi will meet with black flags with Shuaib bin Salih on his front, and he and the companions of the Sufyani will meet at Bab Istakhr, and a great battle will take place between them, and the black flags will appear, and the horses of the Sufyani will flee, and then the people will hope for the Mahdi and seek him.

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.

He sends a delegation from Kufa to Marv and a delegation to Hijaz

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.

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.

Abdullah bin Marwan told us, on the authority of Saeed bin Yazid, on the authority of Al-Zuhri, he said: “Two missions will be sent from the people of Kufa: one to Marv, and one to Hijaz, and a third of his mission to Hijaz will be eclipsed, and a third will be transformed, their faces will be turned between their shoulders, they will see their backs as they see their private parts, they will walk backwards with their heels, as they used to walk with the tops of their feet, and a third will remain and they will march to Mecca.”

Saeed Abu Othman told us, on the authority of Jabir, on the authority of Abu Jaafar, he said: “Then the Mahdi will appear in Mecca at the evening prayer, with the banner of the Messenger of Allah (may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him), his shirt, his sword, and signs, light, and clarification. Then when he prays the evening prayer, he calls out at the top of his voice, saying: I remind you of Allah, O people, and your position is in the hands of your Lord. He has taken the proof, sent the prophets, and revealed the Book, and commanded you not to associate anything with Him, and to maintain obedience to Him. And to obey His Messenger, and to live what the Qur’an has brought to life, and to destroy what it has killed, and to be helpers in guidance and a burden on piety, for the world has approached its annihilation and demise, and it has declared farewell. I call you to Allah, and to His Messenger, and to act according to His Book, and to kill falsehood, and to revive its Sunnah, and three hundred and thirteen men will appear, the number of the people of Badr, without an appointment, with a lottery like the autumn lottery, monks. By night, he is a lion by day, and Allah will open the land of Hijaz to the Mahdi, and extract those from Bani Hashim who were in prison, and the black banners will descend on Kufa, and he will send the pledge of allegiance to the Mahdi, and the Mahdi will send his soldiers in the horizons, and he will kill oppression and its people, and the countries will be straightened for him, and Allah will conquer Constantinople at his hands.”

Al-Hakam bin Nafi told us ، About Jarrah ، About Artaat ، He said: “Al-Sakhri enters Kufa ، Then he will be informed of the appearance of the Mahdi in Mecca ، Then a delegation will be sent to him from Kufa ، It will be destroyed and none of them will be saved except a herald of the Mahdi ، A rocky portent ، The Mahdi will arrive from Mecca ، Al-Sakhri is from Kufa towards the Levant ، As if they were betting horses ، It is preceded by rocky ، Then another mission will be sent from the Levant to the Mahdi ، They will meet the Mahdi in the land of Hijaz ، They pledge allegiance to him as a pledge of guidance ، They continue with him until they reach the border of the Levant, which is between the Levant and the Hijaz ، And he resides there ، And it is said to him: Execute ، He hated Hijaz and said: Write to my cousin ، If he abandons his obedience, then I am your friend ، When the letter reached Al-Sakhri, he handed it over to him and pledged allegiance ، The Mahdi walked until he came to Jerusalem ، The Mahdi will not leave a portion of the land in the hands of a man from the Levant without returning it to the people of the Dhimmah ، He returned all Muslims to jihad ، He stays there for three years ، Then a man emerges from a dog called Kinana ، A planet helps him among a group of his people ، Until Al-Sakhri comes and says: We pledged allegiance to you and supported you, so that when you took power, you pledged allegiance to our enemy? Let them go out and fight ، He says: Who should I take out? He says: There is no longer an Amriya whose mother is older than you unless she joins you ، And no one with a shoe or a hoof will leave you behind ، He leaves and all of Amer leaves with him ، Until Besan comes down ، Al-Mahdi sends a banner to them ، The greatest banner in the time of the Mahdi was one hundred men ، They descend on Abraham's father ، So she describes her horses, her men, her camels, and her sheep ، If the two horses gloat ، Her dog is gone ، He took the stone and slaughtered it on the Safa, which lies on the face of the earth, near the church which is in the depths of the valley at the end of the stairs of Tur Zeta ، The bridge to the right of the valley on Al-Safa, which crosses the face of the earth ، It is slaughtered just as a sheep is slaughtered ، The one who is disappointed is the one who is disappointed on a dog’s day ، Until the virgin slave girl is sold for eight dirhams.”

Naim told us, then Al-Walid, on the authority of Muawiyah bin Yahya, on the authority of Artat bin Al-Mundhir, on the authority of Hakim bin Umair, on the authority of Tabi’, he said: “Then the Romans will send you to ask for peace, and you will make peace with them. On that day, the woman will cross the road to the Levant in safety, and the city of Caesarea, which is in the land of the Romans, will be built. And in that peace treaty, Kufa will be fought like Adam, and this is due to them abandoning the support of the Muslims. Allah knows best, was there another event that would be permissible along with their abandonment? They will invade it, and you will enlist the Romans to attack you, and they will attack you, and you will leave until you camp in a hilly meadow, and the Christian will say: By our cross you have defeated, so give us our share of the spoils, the women, and the offspring. But they refuse to give them the women and offspring, so they fight and then leave, and they gather for the battle.”

The Romans will enter the Holy House with seventy crosses until they demolish it, and obedience will continue to be practiced as long as the caliphate is in the land of Jerusalem and the Levant. The first coast that Allah will be angry with will be eclipsed by Al-Sarfiyya, Caesarea, and Beirut. The Romans and the Levant will rule for forty days from the seashore to the Jordan and Beit Shean. Then the Muslims will gain victory over them. They will reconcile it until their authority over them runs out, and the entire earth will be secure for seven-nine days.

O Abu Amer, if these two dustbins are blown up, then remove your family from Homs. If you enter Antarsus and three hundred martyrs are killed there, then remove your family from Homs. The Persians will close it in on the descendants of the Muslims and their women. Then we surrounded ourselves until we entered Deir Mashal. You will see this wood. On that day, it will be the catapults of the Muslims. It is not permissible for them to complete three years. The Romans have three outings. This is the first, and the other. An army will come to the sea with a thousand castles and they will disperse them. They recruit their share, and prepare to go out in one day, and when that day comes, each people goes out to the next Muslims, burns their ships, and makes their fortresses tents, then they fight and the affliction and fighting intensify in all of Syria, and some of them are unable to defeat others, and Allah withholds victory, and gives weapons, and softens the people until it becomes the Muslims’ business to fortify themselves in Al-Mada’in, and notifies the Roman scribes in the breaches of Al-Mada’in, and then the Persians of Homs are closed. Its doors are upon the descendants of Muslims and their women, and the fighting intensifies in the land of Palestine for four consecutive days.

The first people of Abyat to be frightened by the Dajjal are the people of Kufa

I found them living after that for a long time, but the general standard of living in the Levant is modern

A people with small eyes and slit noses, whose faces look like hammered shields, will bring you out of it, wearing hair, tying their horses to palm trees, and drinking from the water of the Euphrates.

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

Abdullah bin Marwan told us ، On the authority of Artat bin Al-Mundhir ، About the one who told him about Ka'b ، And Abu Al-Mughirah ، On the authority of Ibn Ayyash ، He said: Our sheikhs told us ، About heel ، One of them exceeds the other in the hadith ، They said: Ka'b Al-Ahbar and a monk called Joshua met ، He was a scholar and reader of books ، So they thought about the world and what was happening in it ، Joshua said: O Kaab! ، A prophet appears who has a religion whose religion prevails over all religions ، So Joshua said to him: Tell me about their kings, O Kaab, I will believe you and embrace your religion ، Ka'b said: "I find in the Torah that there are twelve kings among them." ، The first of them is a friend who dies ، Then Al-Farouq is killed ، Then the prince is killed ، Then the head of kings dies a death ، Then the owner of the guards dies ، Then a mighty man dies ، Then the owner of the nerve, who is the last of the kings, dies ، Then the owner of the mark dies ، Joshua said: Then tell me about their deafening sedition in which blood is being shed ، And affliction abounds therein ، Ka'b said: This will happen if Ibn Mahiq kills the golden ones ، When he is killed, the affliction falls ، It raises prosperity ، It is lit by intelligent and humble people ، Then they will have four kings from the family of the owner of the sign ، Two kings whose books are not read ، And an angel dies in his bed and stays for a short time ، And a king will come from the valley, and calamity will be on his hands ، On his hands, wreaths are broken ، He lives in Homs for four months ، Then terror comes to him from his land ، So he left ، The calamity falls in the stomach ، If that happened, chaos would break out between them ، The strife of Bani Abbas occurred ، They send eleven passengers to the East, but Allah is not pleased with their deeds ، The people of that time would be afflicted with them, and there would not remain any family among the Arabs without their harm entering upon them ، They come from the East like a bride ، And then their flags appear ، Black flags ، They tie their horses to olive trees ، Allah will kill every tyrant or enemy of theirs at their hands ، Until all that remains is a fugitive or a disappeared person ، Of their family there will be three: Al-Mansour ، And the serial killer ، And the Mahdi ، Joshua said: Who will be their leaders and governors? He said: Those who walk in droves ، And they wear outfits ، Then the murderer blames the people of Morocco for eclipse ، Iram stays at forty-five in the morning ، Then seventy thousand drawn swords will enter it ، Their slogan: Die, die ، Then after that, the incest has two incidents: one in Morocco ، And another in Al-Jawf ، Then the war ends ، Joshua said: How long will their reign last? Ka'b said: Nine times seven ، And at the end of that woe will be theirs ، Joshua said: What is the sign of their destruction? He said: Drought in the East ، And this is in Morocco ، And redness in the stomach ، And Fash died in the kiss ، Then he gathers for the murderer the darkness of the people of that time ، They take their religion as a mockery and a game ، They sell it for dinars and dirhams ، Even if they are where they are looking at their enemy ، They thought they were attacking their country ، I kiss the head of their tyrant ، He didn't know before ، A quarter man ، curly ، Sunken eyes ، Eyebrow supervisor ، Small ، Even if it came to Al-Mansour at the end of that year in which the people of that time gathered to mourn the incest, Al-Mansour died ، They are dispersed in more than one town ، When the news reached them, they struck wherever they were ، So they pledged allegiance to Abdullah ، So Sufyani returns and calls for himself to join the people of Morocco ، They gather for him as they have never gathered for anyone else ، Then he departs from Kufa ، If the resurrection was not from Basra, then most of them would perish from burning and drowning ، And then there will be an eclipse in Kufa ، The two groups meet in a land called Qarqisya ، Their patience is exhausted ، Victory will be lifted from them until they devote themselves ، If the resurrection occurred before sunset, it would have been a minor event ، Then woe to Abdullah from Abdullah ، I fear for you that the yellow flags will come down from Morocco to Egypt. They will have two attacks: one in Palestine ، The other is in the Levant ، Then the Muhajireen leaned on them after a woman from the Quraish had been slaughtered ، If I wanted to name it, I would name it ، They are destroyed, then a rebel named Abdullah rises up ، The most insidious wilderness ، His affairs are on fire in Homs ، It is lit in Damascus ، He leaves in Palestine ، It appears on those who oppose him ، The people of the East will perish at his hands ، His invitation is an evil invitation ، And they killed him the worst ، Owns a woman's pregnancy ، He leaves with three armies to Kufan ، They include verses from Qais ، They save their day ، And an army to Mecca and Medina, and they were struck by an eclipse ، Only two men from Juhayna escaped from them ، A man returns to the Levant ، And a man sets off for Mecca.”

Ibn Ayyash said: Some told me ، People of knowledge ، On the authority of Muhammad bin Jaafar ، He said: Ali bin Abi Talib said: “A man will emerge from the descendants of Hussein whose name will be the name of your Prophet ، The people of heaven and earth rejoice at his departure ، A man said to him: O Commander of the Faithful ، Sufyani, what is his name? He said: He is from the descendants of Khalid bin Yazid bin Abi Sufyan ، Huge important man ، He has traces of smallpox on his face ، And his eye is a white joke ، His departure is the exit of the Mahdi ، There is no authority between them ، He pushes the caliphate to the Mahdi ، It emerges from the Levant from a valley in the land of Damascus called Wadi Al-Yabis ، He comes out in seven people ، With a man among them holding a banner ، They know victory in his banner ، He walks in his hands for thirty miles ، No one who wants to see that knowledge will be defeated ، He comes to Damascus and sits on its pulpit ، Jurists and readers are drawn to me ، And he puts the sword to the merchants ، And the owners of money ، He guides readers and helps them in their affairs ، None of them would prevent him from killing him ، The army is preparing an army for the East ، And another to Morocco ، And another to Yemen ، The Iraqi army appoints a man from Banu Haritha called Qamar bin Abbad ، A massive man with two glands ، In front of him is a short, bald man from his people ، Broad shoulders ، He will be fought by people from the Levant and from the East ، And on that day there would be a great army of them among them ، He fights them between Damascus ، And in a place called the structure ، And the people of Homs in the war against the people of the East and their supporters ، All of this was defeated by the Sufyani ، Then he sides with the people of Damascus and Homs with Al-Sufyani ، They meet with the people of the East in a place in the land of Homs called Lidin, next to Salamiya ، Sixty-odd thousand people are killed ، Three quarters of them are from the Levant ، Then the plan will be upon them ، Let the army he directs march towards the east until it lands in Kufa ، There will be intense fighting between them ، There are many deaths ، Then defeat will befall the people of Kufa ، How much blood was spilled? ، And a bloated stomach ، Walid was killed ، And looted money ، And relief is impossible ، People fled to Mecca ، Al-Sufyani writes to the owner of that army that he should march to Hijaz ، And he walks after he fights her with the fight of the eternal ، So he goes down to the city ، Then he put the sword against the Quraysh ، Four hundred men from among them and from the Ansar were killed ، And it turns stomachs ، The boys are killed ، He kills two brothers from Quraish, from Banu Hashim ، He crucifies them at the door of the mosque ، A man and his sister are called Muhammad and Fatima ، People flee from him to Mecca ، So he marches with his army to Mecca, which he wants ، So the desert descends ، So Allah Almighty commands Gabriel (peace be upon him) and he shouts in his voice: O Bayda, my hand is with them ، They will be wiped out from the last of them ، Two men remain among them, whom Gabriel (peace be upon him) will meet. ، He turns their faces towards their backs ، It's as if I'm looking at them walking backwards ، They tell people what they found,” he said