کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

He sends an army to Medina, and they seize whomever they can from the family of Muhammad ﷺ, and he kills men and women from Banu Hashim. Then, Al-Mahdi and Al-Mubaid escape from Medina to Mecca, and he sends in search of them, and they have reached the sanctuary and security of Allah.

People flee from Medina to Mecca when the Sufyani army informs them, including three members of Quraish who are visible to them

Ibn Wahb told us, on the authority of Ibn Lahi’ah, he told them, on the authority of Khalid bin Abi Imran, on the authority of Hanash bin Abdullah, he heard Ibn Abbas, (may Allah be pleased with him) say: “There will be a caliph from the Banu Hashim in Medina, and some of them will go to Mecca, and when they present it, the ruler of Mecca sends to them: What has brought you, do you think you will find relief with us? One of them has included his sword in his dress, and he says: Who forced you to kill our friend? He says: He made me angry. He says: Bear witness, O Muslims, that he killed him because he made him angry. So he draws his sword and strikes him with it. Then they side with Taif, and the people of Mecca say: By Allah, if we leave these people until news of them reaches the Caliph, he will destroy us. He said: Then they march to them, and the Hashemites call out to them: Allah, Allah is in our blood. And your blood, you have learned that he killed our friend unjustly, so they will not turn away from them until they fight them and defeat them, and seize Mecca, and the owner of Medina informs them of their matter, and they say: By Allah, if we leave them, we will face calamity from the Caliph. Then the owner of Medina sends an army to them and they defeat them, and if the Caliph sends an army to them, they will be the ones he will annihilate.”

Rushdin told us, on the authority of Ibn Lahi’ah, on the authority of Abu Qabil, on the authority of Sa’id ibn al-Aswad, on the authority of Yusuf ibn Dhi Qarnat, who said: “There will be a caliph in the Levant who will invade Medina, and when the people of Medina hear that the army is coming to them, seven of them will go to Mecca, and they will belittle it. Then the owner of Medina will write to the owner of Mecca: If so-and-so and so-and-so comes to you, calling them by name, then kill them. The ruler of Mecca will magnify that, and then they will conspire among themselves, so they will come to him at night and seek protection from him, and he will say: Get out. They are safe, so they go out. Then he sends for two men from among them, and one of them is killed, and the other looks on. Then he returns to his companions, and they go out until they descend on a mountain from the mountains of Taif, where they stay there. They are sent to the people, and people flock to them. If that is the case, the people of Mecca invade them and defeat them. They enter Mecca, kill its prince, and remain there until, when it collapses, the army regains its command and goes out.

Then the people of Medina will be informed and the army will go out to them, and whoever of the family of Muhammad (may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him) will flee from it to Mecca, the strong carrying the weak, the old the young, and they will catch a person from the family of Muhammad (may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him) and slaughter him at the oil stones.

Muhammad bin Abdullah Al-Tahirti told us, on the authority of Abdul Salam bin Maslama, he heard Abu Qabil say: “The Sufyani sends an army to Medina and orders the killing of everyone who is there, from Bani Hashim to the pregnant ones. This is what Al-Hashimi does when he comes out to his companions from the East. He says: What is this whole calamity? My companions were killed except before them. He orders them to be killed, and they are killed until no one of them is known in Medina, and they disperse from it, fleeing to the valleys and mountains, and to Mecca, until... His army puts the sword on them for days, then stops them, and none of them appear except fearful until the Mahdi’s command appears in Mecca. Every guide among them gathered to him in Mecca.”