کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

Al-Walid bin Muslim told us, on the authority of Abd al-Jabbar bin Rashid al-Azdi, on the authority of his mother, on the authority of Rabi’ah al-Qasir, on the authority of Tabi’, on the authority of Ka’b, who said: “There will be three tribulations like yours departing: a tribulation that will take place in the Levant, then the eastern one, the destruction of kings, then the western one will follow, and he mentioned the yellow flags. He said: and the western ones are the blind ones.”

The war of the Arabs revolves around twenty-five years after the death of their Prophet, ﷺ, then a strife arises in which there is killing and fighting, then they return to security and tranquility until they are at leveling like a whirlpool, meaning Muawiyah, then a strife arises in which there is killing and fighting, for I find it in the dark Book of Allah, twisting with all that is arrogant.