کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

Muhammad bin Himyar told us, on the authority of Al-Saqr bin Rustam, he said: Al-Alaa bin Suleiman told me, he said: I heard Abu Qabil say: “If you hear, or, if you come, this pulpit, meaning the pulpit of Egypt, and it reads to Abdullah: Abdullah, Commander of the Faithful, then you are about to hear Abdullah: Abdul Rahman, Commander of the Faithful.”

Muhammad bin Abdullah told us, on the authority of Abd al-Salam bin Maslama, he heard Abu Qabil say: “If it was recited on the pulpit of Egypt: From Abdullah Abdullah, Commander of the Faithful, it would only take a short time until it was recited: From Abdullah Abd al-Rahman, Commander of the Faithful, and he is the ruler of the Maghreb, and he is worse than a king.”

Abdullah bin Marwan told us, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Abdullah Al-Amri, on the authority of Al-Qasim bin Muhammad, on the authority of Hudhayfah bin Al-Yaman (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said to a people from the people of Egypt: “If a letter comes to you from the East reading to you: From Abdullah, Commander of the Faithful, then wait for another letter to come to you from the West, reading to you: From Abdullah Abdul Rahman, Commander of the Faithful. By the One in whose hand is Hudhayfah’s soul, you and they will fight at the bridge, and he will expel you from the land of Egypt and the land of The Levant is blasphemy, blasphemy, and the Arab woman will be sold on the steps of Damascus for twenty-five dirhams.”

Abdullah bin Marwan told us, on the authority of Salamah bin Khalid Al-Yazani, on the authority of Abu Saba Utbah bin Tamim Al-Tanukhi, who said: “Kingdom belongs to the Abbasids until a letter read in Egypt reaches you: From Abdullah Abdullah, Commander of the Faithful. If that is the beginning of the demise of their kingdom and the end of their term.”

Abdullah bin Marwan told us, and Abu Asim Yunus Al-Tanukhi told me, on the authority of Ismail bin Al-Ala bin Muhammad Al-Kalbi, on the authority of his father, who said: “If a letter is read to the Abbasids at the beginning of the day: From Abdullah Abdullah, Commander of the Faithful, then wait for a letter to be read to you at the end of the day: From Abdullah Abdul Rahman, Commander of the Faithful.”

Abdullah bin Marwan told us, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Ka’b, who said: “If a man from the Abbasids called Abdullah reigns, and he is the one with the Eye of the Hereafter among them, with it they open it and with it they seal it, then he is the key to the sword of annihilation. If a letter is read for him in the Levant: From Abdullah Abdullah Commander of the Faithful, you will soon be informed of a letter that has been read on the pulpit of Egypt: From Abdullah Abdul Rahman Commander of the Faithful. If that happens, the people of the East and the people of the West will rush to the Levant as a betting horse, seeing that the kingship will not be fulfilled. Except for those who control the Levant, everyone says: Whoever conquers it has captured the kingdom.”

Woe to Abdullah from Abdullah, woe to Abdullah from Abdul Rahman

If the yellow flags enter Egypt and gather in the bridge, wait until the people of the East and the people of the West mount an army and fight with it seven times, and there will be as much blood between them as there was in all the strife, and then the people of the East will be defeated until they put them down at Ramla.

Let a man called Abd al-Rahman come out with the people of the Maghrib until Homs comes and ascends to its pulpit

It is necessary for the Abbasids to have three sons, the first of whose names is Ayn