کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

Donkeys and an otter fight in Homs, on a grizzled mule. An otter brings on donkeys between them and the Euphrates, and they fight in the Rastan market. The two horses walk in the two markets, not seeing each other, so the two horses fight fiercely. Then a king emerges against them from the cotton alley, the fragrant alley, on a grizzled barthogne, and knocks between them, and the two groups depart with little remorse. So woe to Aad from Aym, and woe to Aym from Aad. Himyar returned from Aym, and the people of Yemen and Aym returned from Qada'ah. There, Qadhiyah was destroyed

Then the fighting in Homs will intensify until what is between its markets is destroyed, and until an otter comes and extends it from between the Euphrates and below, and then the attack will be upon them if they fight under the dome of Homs. Donkeys and an otter will fight in Homs until an otter demolishes what is around its market from the court to Bab al-Rastan to expand it into the fighting line. They will gather at the market place, and the fighting will intensify in Homs, and bloodshed will increase until the horses' hooves stick to the rows of blood from the markets, until blood will flow in the market gatherings, and there will be a great massacre. Whoever attends that and is destined to leave Homs, let him do so. Blessed is he who lives at that time in a village, or lives towards the Qiblah from Homs. Then the donkeys will intensify against Quda'ah until they expel them from the gate of Rastan, and their fighting will intensify until a king comes upon me. A horse is seen by the people, and they are almost devoted to it, and it is imprisoned among them, and the otter is fierce on the donkeys of the people of those present and the otter around the Euphrates, so they come with a great army, and the strife and fighting increase in the Levant.