Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

The owner of Morocco, Abd al-Rahman, is worse than a king

There is no creation under the firmament of the sky more evil than a barbarian, and for me to give a hook of a whip in charity for the sake of Allah is dearer to me than to free a hundred slaves of barbarians.

Do not give anything to Berberia, even if you feed him to dogs

The West is blind, and its people are barren and naked. They do not follow Allah as a religion. They trample the earth as cows trample a threshing floor. So seek refuge in Allah lest you reach it.

The owner of Morocco, Abd al-Rahman bin Hind, is tall and tall, and in front of him is a man whose name is Satan. Woe to whoever is killed under his banner, his destiny is to Hell.

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.

He sought refuge in Allah from the temptation of the East, and then from the temptation of the West in his prayers

I warn you that a trial will come from the East, then a trial will come from the West

He divided evil into seventy parts, making sixty-nine parts among the barbarians, and one part among all people

Berber women are better than their men. A prophet was sent among them and they killed him, so the women took him to him and buried him

A prophet before me came to this people, so they slaughtered him, cooked him, ate his meat, and drank his broth

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.

The ruler of Morocco, Bani Marwan, and Qada'ah are gathered under the black banners in the heart of the Levant

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.

If the people of Morocco enter the land of Egypt and stay in such-and-such, they will kill and take captive its people. On that day, the wailing women will stand up, crying over the loss of their private parts, crying over their humiliation after their glory, crying over their children, crying over the killing of their men, and crying over the longing for their graves.

Your banner and the banner of your people will be covered in spots on that day, and Allah will appear over them

The bearers of the black flags and the bearers of the yellow flags meet at the bridge and fight until they reach Palestine, then the Sufyani revolts against the people of the East. When the people of the West descend on Jordan, their leader dies. They separate into three groups: a group that returns to where it came from, a group that performs Hajj, and a group that remains constant. Then the Sufyani fights them and defeats them, and they enter into obedience to him.

The first people of the Maghreb entered the Damascus Mosque, and while they were looking at its marvels, the earth trembled, and it sank to the west of its mosque, and it eclipsed a village called Harasta. Then the Sufyani went out and killed them until they entered Egypt, then returned and fought the people of the East until he returned them to Iraq.

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.”

Abdullah bin Marwan told us, on the authority of Saeed bin Yazid al-Tanukhi, on the authority of al-Zuhri, who said: “If the black flags differ among themselves, the yellow flags come to them, and they gather in the bridge of the people of Egypt, and the people of the East and the people of the West fight seven times, and then the attack will be on the people of the East until they descend on Ramla, and something will happen between the people of the Levant and the people of the West, and the people of the West will become angry and say: We have come to support you, and then you will do what they do? between you and the people of the East, and they will plunder you, due to the scarcity of the people of the Levant on that day in their eyes. Then the Sufyani will emerge, and the people of the Levant will follow him, and he will fight the people of the East.”

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.”