کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

I have heard that the black flags emerge from Khurasan, and when they land at the Khorasan obstacle, they land denying Islam, and only the banners of the foreigners from the Maghreb reject them.

No, their temptation will not defeat them unless the black flags come out. If the black flags come out, then their evil will be reduced

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

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.

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 They will pour down upon you a torrent until they enter Damascus for three hours of the day, and mercy will be withdrawn from its people.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.

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

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.

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.”

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.

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

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

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