کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

O Abu Amer, if these two dustbins are blown up, then remove your family from Homs. If you enter Antarsus and three hundred martyrs are killed there, then remove your family from Homs. The Persians will close it in on the descendants of the Muslims and their women. Then we surrounded ourselves until we entered Deir Mashal. You will see this wood. On that day, it will be the catapults of the Muslims. It is not permissible for them to complete three years. The Romans have three outings. This is the first, and the other. An army will come to the sea with a thousand castles and they will disperse them. They recruit their share, and prepare to go out in one day, and when that day comes, each people goes out to the next Muslims, burns their ships, and makes their fortresses tents, then they fight and the affliction and fighting intensify in all of Syria, and some of them are unable to defeat others, and Allah withholds victory, and gives weapons, and softens the people until it becomes the Muslims’ business to fortify themselves in Al-Mada’in, and notifies the Roman scribes in the breaches of Al-Mada’in, and then the Persians of Homs are closed. Its doors are upon the descendants of Muslims and their women, and the fighting intensifies in the land of Palestine for four consecutive days.

The Romans reach Deir Bahra, and then they reach Al-Jaflah. They do not go beyond it to Homs, then the Muslims return to them, and Allah Almighty defeats them.

Naim told us, on the authority of Baqiyya, and Abd al-Quddus, on the authority of Safwan, on the authority of Shuraih ibn Ubaid, on the authority of Ka’b, that he said to Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan: “For people to be covered with chickpeas is something that frightens them, until they leave it hastily, having left their world behind them. Even when a woman comes out, her slave girl follows her until she takes off her cloak and says: Where, where? And until seventy thousand of them die from thirst, and until The man keeps asking his family in Ghouta: Who saw her? Who felt her? So the one who says: I saw her in the wormwood, carrying her child on her shoulders, wrapping her legs with her veil. I don’t know what she did yet. So how about you, O people of Homs, if the lightest of your women were taken away by you, and the heavy ones were your enemy’s? When people heard this hadith in that time, they cursed her with the curse of Allah if they saw the burdened woman.

The Roman king descends on Deir Behra, and there will be a battle until the blood reaches the great white leper stone

Seventy thousand people will perish between Homs and Thaniyat al-Uqab, and whoever of you realizes that must take the eastern road from Homs to Sarbol, and from Sarbol to Al-Khumayra, and from Al-Khumayra to Al-Dhakhira, and from Al-Dhakhira to Al-Nabk, and from Al-Nabk to Al-Qutayfa, and from Al-Qutayfa to Damascus. Whoever takes this route will remain in continuous waters.

You will still be fine as long as the people of the Peninsula do not ride with the people of Qinnasrin, and the people of Qinnasrin ride with the people of Homs. If that happens, then there will be panic, and the people will flee to Damascus.