کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

The sign of the cessation of the rule of the son of Abbas is a redness that appears in the atmosphere of the sky, and this occurs between the tenth of Ramadan and the fifteenth, and is weak between the twentieth and the twenty-fourth of Ramadan, and a star rising from the east shines as the moon shines on the night of a full moon, and then drought stops in the east, and weak in the west, and redness in the stomach, and widespread death in the qibla.

Al-Walid said: “Ka’b said: It is a star that rises from the east and shines for the people of the earth like the moon’s illumination on the night of a full moon.”

A star will rise from the east before the Mahdi appears. He has a tail. I have heard that before the Mahdi emerges, the sun will be eclipsed twice in the month of Ramadan.

The destruction of the Abbasids occurred when a star appeared in the stomach, and a wadah, and a weak one, all of which occurred in the month of Ramadan. The redness occurred between the fifth and the twentieth of Ramadan, and the huddha was between the middle and the twentieth, and the wahiyah was between the twentieth and twenty-fourth, and a star thrown by it shines as the moon shines, then it twists like a serpent twists, until its heads almost meet, and the two tremors on the night of the break of dawn, and the star that is thrown by a shooting star strikes. From the sky, accompanied by a strong sound until it falls in the east, and people suffer from it a severe calamity