کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

If a man from the Quraysh goes to Constantinople, then he has attended to its command, and the commander of the army who conquers Constantinople is neither a thief, nor an adulterer, nor an oppressor, and the epics are at the hands of a man from the family of Heraclius.

It will be opened at the hands of a man from Bani Hashim. It will be opened at the hands of the son of Sheba, and the son of Qadir, on whose hands the epics are written, is a man from the people of Heraclius, called Tabar, meaning Tabara.

The fifth of the family of Heraclius, who is called Tabar, is the author of the epics

The one on whose hands the epics from the family of Heraclius were written is called Tabar, meaning Tabara

On the day of the epic, a third of the Muslims will be defeated, and they are the worst of creation in the sight of Allah

O community of Qais, love Yemen, and O community of Yemen, love Qais, for it is about to be that no one will be killed for this religion except you. Qais, the knights of the people on the day of epics, and Yemen is the hope of Islam.

It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:“When the fierce battles take place, Allah will send a troop of freed slaves who will be the best Arab horsemen and the best armed, with whom Allah will support His religion.”

The Romans did not leave water on the coast during the days of the epics unless they camped on it

When the epics took place, he would emerge from Damascus, sending them the best of Allah’s servants, the first and the last

The great epic, the destruction of Constantinople, and the emergence of the Dajjal, in seven months, or as long as Allah wills

Ten epics, the first of which is the epic of Caesarea Palestine, and the last of which is the epic of the depths of Antioch

In the great epic, the coasts of the Levant are destroyed until the coasts cry from their devastation, just as cities and villages cry

In the Lesser Epic, the Romans defeated the Jordan Plain and Jerusalem

The fifth of the family of Heraclius, through whose hands the epics were composed

If you see Hamadan in the East and you have settled between Rastan and Homs, it is the presence of the epic, and the emergence of the Dajjal

If you see a banquet between the people of one household between Al-Arish and the Euphrates, this is a sign of epics

Al-Walid told us, on the authority of Ibn Lahi’ah, on the authority of Abu Qabil, on the authority of Abdullah bin Amr, (may Allah be pleased with him), on the authority of the Prophet (may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him) who said: “If two ancient people ruled: the ancient Arabs and the ancient Romans, the epics would be at their hands.” Abu Qabil said: The epics would be at the hands of Tabaris ibn Atitanian ibn al-Akhram ibn Constantine ibn Heraclius.

There will be a reconciliation between the Mahdi and the Roman tyrant after he is killed by the Sufyani, and Kalb is plundered, until your merchants differ to each other and their merchants to you, and they take three years to master the craftsmanship of their ships. Then the Mahdi perishes, and a man from his family reigns and does justice a little, then he is tyrannical, and he is killed, and his memory will not be extinguished until the Romans anchor between Tire and Akka. These are the epics.