کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

To inform me that a man from my brothers has taken up residence in Mount Hebron, and I envy him because the people of Egypt will descend upon him, either blocking their Nile, or extending it and drowning until they move Mount Hebron between them with ropes.

The first devastation will be in Egypt and Iraq, and when the construction reaches Sila, you must, O Abu Dharr, in the Levant, coordinate with them, wherever they lead you.

Ibn Uyaynah told us, on the authority of Masar, on the authority of Aoun bin Abdullah, he said: “While a man was in Egypt during the turmoil of Ibn al-Zubayr, he was making fun of the ground when a man stood up to him and said to him: What are you talking to yourself, father of the world? He said: Rather, do you think about what has befallen the people? He said: Allah has saved you from it by thinking about it, from the one who asked Allah and He did not give it, or relied on Him and He was not sufficient for it.”