کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

If a village in Damascus is eclipsed, and a group to the west of its mosque falls, then the Turks and the Romans will gather together and fight, and three flags will be raised in the Levant, and then the Sufyani will fight them until they reach Qarqisiya. Those who ride the openwork ones will fall on the hills of the Peninsula and the Levant and take their women captive, to the point that a man will see the white of his wife’s anklets and will not be able to defend her.

In the time of the second Sufyani, the character was distorted, he was guided in the Levant until every people thought that he would be the ruin of what came next to them.

The Sufyani who dies, fighting the first of the black flags and the yellow flags in the navel of the Levant, emerging from the mandarin east of Baysan, on a red camel, wearing a crown, defeats the group twice, then perishes while accepting the tribute, taking the offspring captive, and tearing open the stomachs of the pregnant ones.

Al-Hakam bin Nafi’ told us, on the authority of Jarrah, on the authority of Artat, who said: “If the Turks and the Romans meet, and a village in Damascus is eclipsed, and a group to the west of its mosque falls, three flags will be raised in the Levant: Al-Aqba’, Al-Ashab, and Al-Sufyani. A man will be besieged in Damascus and he will be killed and those with him, and two men from Banu Abi Sufyan will come out, and the victory will be for the second. If Al-Aqba’s army arrives from Egypt, Al-Sufyani will appear on them with his army, and the Turks will be killed. And the Romans in Qarqisia until the lions of the earth are satisfied with their meat.”