کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

Then Al-Sufyani appears against the Marwanites and kills them, then he follows the Banu Marwan and kills them, then he approaches the people of the East and the Banu Abbas until he enters Kufa. Al-Sufyani disputes in Damascus with one of the Banu Marwan, so he appears against Al-Marwani and kills him, then he kills the Banu Marwan for three months, then he approaches the people of the East until he enters Kufa.

The darkness of the people of that time gathers for the murderer, until when they look at their enemy and think that they have defeated their country, the head of their tyrant approaches, who was not known before. He is a tall man, with curly hair, sunken eyes, and prominent eyebrows with yellow hair, until when he looks at Al-Mansur at the end of that year in which the darkness of the people of that time gathers for the murderer, Al-Mansur dies while they are separated in more than one town, and when the news reaches them, they are struck where they were, and they pledge allegiance to Abdullah, and he returns. Al-Sufyani, so he calls a group of the people of the Maghreb to himself, and they gather together as they had never gathered for anyone else, as previously mentioned in the knowledge of Allah Almighty. Then he sets off a delegation from Kufa, and if the delegation is from Basra, then the majority of them will perish from burning and drowning, and then there will be an eclipse in Kufa. If the delegation is from the Maghreb, then it will be a minor attack, then woe to Abdullah from Abdullah. Then he will revolt in Homs and be kindled in Damascus, and a man will emerge in Palestine who appears on the He mourned him, at his hands the destruction of the people of the East, he possessed the burden of a woman, and three armies went out for him to Kufan, with which they attacked verses of the Quraysh, saving them from their day.

Ibn Lahi’ah said, and Abu Zar’ah told me, on the authority of Ibn Zarir, who said: “They differ over four people: a tyrant who pledges allegiance to himself as a caliphate, giving the people a hundred dinars, and two men in the Levant who give what no one gave before them, so whichever of them conquers Damascus gets the Levant.”

Al-Walid and Rushdin told us, on the authority of Ibn Lahi’ah, on the authority of Abu Zar’ah, on the authority of Ibn Zarir, on the authority of Ammar ibn Yasir (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: “Then three people would go out, all of them seeking kingship: a spotted man, a red-haired man, and a man from the family of Abu Sufyan, who would go out with a dog and besiege the people in Damascus.”