Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

If the black flags come out, the beginning of it is strife, the middle of it is misguidance, and the end of it is disbelief

What do I have to do with the sons of Abbas? They made my nation Shiite and dressed them in black clothes. Allah dressed them in the clothes of Hell.

It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:“By the One in Whose Hand is my soul, this world will not pass away until a man will pass by a grave, and will roll on it and say: ‘Would that I were in the place of the occupant of this grave!’ And the reason for that will not be any religious motive, rather it will be because of calamity.”

Hudhaifah bin Al-Yaman narrated that the Messenger of Allah(s.a.w) said:"The Hour will not be established until the happiest of people in the world is Luka' bin Luka

Black flags of Banu Abbas will emerge from the East, then they will remain as long as Allah wills, then small black flags will emerge from a man from the descendants of Abu Sufyan and his companions from the East.

Woe to the Arabs after the hundred and twenty-five, woe to them from the great chaos of the wings, and what are the wings, and woe in the wings are the winds that blow, and the winds that move their blows, and the winds that blow slowly. Woe to them from quick death, and terrible hunger, and abject murder. Allah will bring calamity upon them for their sins, and their breasts will be covered, and their veils will be torn, and their pleasure will be changed. And for their sins, their pegs will be pulled out and cut off. Its noises, its winds are disturbed, and its eyes are confused. Woe to the Quraysh because of its heretic, who creates events, disturbs its religion, destroys its walls, and turns against it. Then the wailing women stand up, crying, crying for their world, crying, crying for the humiliation of their necks, crying, crying for the permissibility of their private parts, crying, crying for the presence of their children in their bellies, and crying, crying for hunger. Her children, crying because of her humiliation after her glory, crying crying for her men, crying crying out of fear of her soldiers, crying crying longing for her graves.

Woe to the Arabs after the hundred and twenty-five for the evil that has approached, the wings and what wings, woe and the brick in the wings, the wind of the back of its blowing, the wind that agitates its blowing, and the wind of its blowing slackness, woe to them from a miserable killing, a quick death, and a terrible hunger. The affliction pours upon it a torment, and destroys its breasts, changes its pleasure, and destroys its veils. And her flocks will be cut off, and woe to the Quraysh because of her heretic. He will create events that disturb her religion, take away her prestige, destroy her chambers, and turn her soldiers against her. Then the wailing women stand up, crying for their world, crying for their religion, crying for their humiliation after their glory, crying for their children’s hunger, crying for their children in their wombs, and crying for their religion. The humiliation of their necks, crying because of the humiliation of their private parts, crying because of the shedding of their blood, crying because of their soldiers, crying in longing for their graves.

What do I have to do with the sons of Abbas? They took my nation to their knees, shed their blood, and dressed them in black clothes. Allah dressed them in the clothes of fire.

So he told us about the Umayyads, even mentioning the emergence of Marwan. Then after Marin, who emerges from the Jazira, will come black flags. They will pour down upon you a torrent until they enter Damascus for three hours of the day, and mercy will be withdrawn from its people. Then mercy will return to it, and the sword will be removed from them, then they will march until they reach Morocco.

After the strife of the Eastern Levant, there will be the destruction of the kings and the humiliation of the Arabs, until the people of the Maghreb leave

Abdullah bin Marwan told us, Muhammad bin Siwar told us, on the authority of Ubayd Allah bin Al-Walid, on the authority of Muhammad bin Ali, he said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Woe to my nation from the two Shiites: the Shiites of Bani Umayyad, the Shiites of Bani Abbas, and the banner of misguidance.”

Days will not pass until black flags are issued to Banu Abbas from the East

Abdullah said, “And my father told me, on the authority of Amr bin Shuaib, on the authority of his father, on the authority of his grandfather, on the authority of the Prophet ﷺ something similar.”

Black banners will come from the East, led by men like majestic ships, men of honor, whose lineages are villages, and whose names are nicknames. They will conquer the city of Damascus, and mercy will be spared from them for three hours.

Ibn Abi Hurairah told us, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Ali bin Abi Talha, who said: “They enter Damascus with great black banners, and there they fight a great battle. Their motto is: Baksh Baksh.”

When it reached the year one hundred and twenty-nine, and the swords of the Umayyads clashed, and the donkey of the Peninsula leaped and conquered the Levant, the black banners would appear in the year one hundred and twenty-nine, and the ram would appear with a people who did not pay attention to them, whose hearts were like steel, their hair down to their shoulders, and they had no pity or mercy towards their enemy, their names were nicknames, and their tribes were villages, and they were wearing clothes like the color of the dark night, leading them to the Abbas family and the weakness of their state. They kill the notables of that time until they flee from them into the wilderness, and their state will continue until the star with the tail appears, and they disagree among themselves.

After them will come the owners of the black banners, and their command and duration will prolong until the pledge of allegiance to two of them is given. When they come together, they disagree among themselves, and their disagreement will prolong until three banners are raised in the Levant, and if they are raised, this is the reason for the interruption of their term. If it is read in Egypt from Abdullah Abdullah, the Commander of the Faithful, it is not long before another letter is read to them from Abdullah Abd al-Rahman, the Commander of the Faithful, and he is the ruler of the Maghreb, and he is worse than a king, and they are ruining Egypt and the Levant. If their command in the Levant intensifies, the black banners and the companions of The three banners and those in them from the Maghreb against the people of the Maghreb, so they all gather against them and fight them, so the people of the three banners will prevail, and the Berbers will be cut off. Then they will fight the owners of the black banners until their order will be cut off.

I will tell you, I know why he hated it. It was revealed about a man from his family called Abd al-Ilah, or Abdullah, who descends on one of the rivers of the East and builds two cities on it. The river divides them into two, and gathers in them all the stubborn tyrants.

Woe to the nation of Muhammad from the people of this abode until the black banners emerge from Khorasan

Abu Al-Mughirah told us, on the authority of Ibn Ayyash, on the authority of the one who told him, on the authority of Ka’b, who said: “Black banners of the Banu Abbas will appear until they descend on the Levant, and Allah will kill at their hands every stubborn tyrant or enemy of theirs. Adam will stand in their square for forty-five mornings, and seventy thousand will enter it with their motto in it: ‘I die, I die.’ Then the war will end, and their rule will last for nine out of seven, and then their rule will be broken after seventy-three years.”

Two banners will emerge from the Abbasids, one of which has the beginning of victory and the end of which is a burden. They will not help it, but Allah will not help it. The other, the beginning of which will be a burden and the end of which will be disbelief. They will not help it, but Allah will not help it.

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.”

If you see the black flags, stay on the ground and do not move your hands or feet. Then a people will appear who are weak and uncaring, whose hearts are like iron rods. They are the owners of the state, they do not fulfill a covenant or a covenant. They call for the truth but are not among its people. Their names are nicknames, their lineage is villages, and their hair is loose like the hair of women, until they disagree among themselves. Then Allah gives the truth to whomever He wills.

A man emerges from the peninsula and tramples on the people, and sheds blood. Then a man emerges from Khorasan after killing his brother from Banu Hashim, called Abdullah. He remains for about forty years. Then he dies and two men from his household named by the same name differ, so it becomes an epic in Aqraqufa, and they appear close to the caliph. Then it becomes a sign among the Banu al-Asfar, and a star with a tail appears, and it disappears from them and does not return to them.

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