کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

The sign of the Mahdi is when the Turks descend upon you, and your caliph who collects money dies, and a weak person is appointed as his successor, and he is deposed two years after his pledge of allegiance, and the western part of the Damascus Mosque is eclipsed, and the departure of three people from the Levant, and the departure of the people of the Maghreb to Egypt, and that is the leadership of the Sufyani.

There will be a large community in the Euphrates region in the Levant region, or a little after it, and they will fight over money, and seven out of every nine will be killed, and that will happen after the guidance and failure in the month of Ramadan, and after the separation of three banners, each one of them will seek kingship for himself, and among them is a man named Abdullah.