کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

A black flag of Banu Abbas will emerge, then another black flag will emerge from Khorasan. Their hoods are black and their clothes are white. At the front of them is a man called Shuaib bin Saleh bin Shuaib from Tamim. They will defeat the companions of the Sufyani until he descends on Jerusalem. The Mahdi will establish his authority and extend to him three hundred men from the Levant. There will be seventy-two months between his emergence and the handing over of authority to the Mahdi.

It was narrated that 'Abdullah said:"While we were with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), some youngsters from Banu Hashim came along. When the Prophet (ﷺ) saw them, his eyes filled with tears and his color changed. I said: 'We still see something in your face that we do not like (to see).' He said: 'We are members of a Household for whom Allah has chosen the Hereafter over this world. The people of my Household will face calamity, expulsion and exile after I am gone, until some people will come from the east carrying black banners. They will ask for something good but will not be given it. Then they will fight and will be victorious, then they will be given what they wanted, but they will not accept it and will give leadership to a man from my family. Then they will fill it with justice just as it was filled with injustice. Whoever among you lives to see that, let him go to them even if he has to crawl over snow

If you see the black flags emerging from Khorasan, go to them, even if you crawl on the snow, for there is the Caliph of Allah, the Mahdi.

A dark-skinned man, a client of the Banu Tamim Kusaj, called Shuaib bin Salih, will emerge from Rayy with four thousand, whose clothes are white, and whose banners are black. He will be at the front of the Mahdi, and no one will meet him except that he will greet him.

A man from my household will emerge with nine banners

Al-Mahdi, under his banner, Shuaib bin Saleh

The black flags emerge from Khorasan with weak people who gather together. Allah supports them with His victory, and then the people of Morocco emerge as a result.

A young man from Banu Hashim emerges with his right hand free from Khurasan with black banners in his hands, Shuaib bin Saleh, fighting the companions of Sufyani and defeating them.

A young man with a light, yellow beard will emerge on the banner of the Mahdi. If he fought the mountains, he would shake them and move them until Elijah descends.

If one man rules the Levant and the other reigns Egypt, and the Levant and the Egyptian fight, and the people of the Levant take captive tribes from Egypt, and a man from the East comes with small black banners before the ruler of the Levant, then he is the one who will lead obedience to the Mahdi.

A calamity befalls his family until Allah sends a black banner from the East. Whoever supports it, Allah will help him, and whoever abandons it, Allah will abandon him, until they come to a man whose name is like my name, and he puts them in charge of their affairs, so Allah supports him and gives him victory.

A black flag will emerge from Khorasan, until it ties its horses to this olive tree between Beit Lahia and Harasta. Olive trees will be set up between them, until the people of that banner descend upon it, and its horses are tied to it.

Black flags of Banu Abbas will emerge from the East, then they will stay as long as Allah wills, then small black flags will emerge from the East, fighting a man from the descendants of Abu Sufyan and his companions, performing obedience to the Mahdi.

Black flags come out fighting the Sufyani. Among them is a young man from Bani Hashem, with a blank on his left shoulder, and on his front is a man from Bani Tamim called Shuaib bin Saleh. He defeats his companions.

If the Sufyani reached Kufa, and the agents of the family of Muhammad were killed, the Mahdi would emerge under his banner, Shuaib bin Saleh

The black flags emerging from Khorasan will descend on Kufa, and when the Mahdi appears in Mecca, the pledge of allegiance will be sent to him

Abdullah bin Marwan told us, on the authority of Artat, on the authority of Tabi’, on the authority of Ka’b, who said: “When the millstone of Banu Abbas has turned, and the owners of the black banners tie their horses to the olive trees of the Levant, and Allah destroys for them the red-haired man, and kills him and all of his household at their hands, until there is no Umayyad among them left except one who flees or disappears, and the two palms fall: Banu Ja’far and Banu Abbas, and the son of the liver-eater sits on the pulpit of Damascus, and the Berbers go out to The navel of Syria is the sign of the emergence of the Mahdi.”

They are the happiest people with the first draft, and the most miserable people with the second draft