کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

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

If you hear of people coming from the East who are clever, and the people admire their appearance, then the Hour has overshadowed you

Do not be arrogant towards you, for by the One in whose hand is my soul, if the world were one day, Allah would lengthen that day until the caliphate would be for Banu Hashim.

After the destruction of the Umayyads, the bringer of beasts will come, and the people of the earth will gather to him from its four corners, and Allah will punish this nation with them

Al-Hakam bin Nafi told us, Hariz bin Othman told us, on the authority of Saeed bin Marthad Abi Al-Aliyah, who said: I was sitting with Sharhabeel bin Dhi Hamaya at the palace of Ibn Uthal, when an old old man of the people passed by him, with his eyebrows falling over his eyes, leaning on a staff. He said: Come, old man. So he sat down to him and said: How far have you been in your mind? He said: “Persians. I saw them in this city, sitting, circled, talking, saying: The Muslim people of this land will appear, and Allah will grant victory.” They have treasuries on land and sea, they are known by their quality by the length of their hair and their spears, and by their clothing. He will be the last king among them. They will be killed with swords. Money and a lot of food will be poured on their tables, but that will not satisfy them.”

A man from the people of the East comes out calling for the family of Muhammad, and he is the farthest of people from them. He sets up black signs, the first of which is victory, and the last of which is disbelief. He is followed by the vulgarity of the Arabs, the lowliest of the loyalists, the ungrateful slaves, and the starving horizons. Their faces are black, and their religion is polytheism, and most of them are uncircumcised, and do you not realize it, O Abu Abd al-Rahman? A temptation called Al-Halaqa, which destroys religion, in which the honest Arabs, the righteous loyalists, the owners of treasures, and the jurists will perish, and less than a few will be revealed.

The Banu Umayyad will continue to remain steadfast in their affairs until the black banners emerge from the East and make them permissible

A black flag will emerge from Khorasan and will remain visible until their destruction comes from where it began from Khorasan

Their destruction is where it began

Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah(s.a.w) said:"Black standards will come from Khurasan, nothing shall turn them back until they are planted in Jerusalem

Iraq will soon be in a state of war, the Levant will be torn to pieces, and Egypt will be scattered and the wasteland will be destroyed, then the matter will come down.