Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

Abdul Quddus told us, on the authority of Artat bin Al-Mundhir, on the authority of Damrah bin Habib, on the authority of Salamah bin Nufayl, (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah, ﷺ, saying: “You will tarry after me until you say: When? And you will come in ruins, annihilating one another, and before the Hour there will be two severe deaths, and after it will be years of earthquakes.”

Six before the Hour, the first of which is the death of your Prophet, the conquest of Jerusalem, death like a sheep’s sheath, a truce between you and the Banu Asfar, the opening of the city of disbelief, and the man returned a hundred dinars out of anger.

By the One in whose hand is my soul, until they destroy the Romans all together, and only an informer escapes. Then they set off for the land of the Romans and conquer its fortresses and cities with the takbir, until they come to the city of Heraclius and find its bay with Batha. Then they open it with the takbir. They say the takbir, and one of its walls falls. Then they say the takbir another, and another wall falls, and its sea wall remains unfallen. Then they seek protection from Rome and open it with the takbir, and on that day they will sway their spoils. Enough of deceit

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