کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

I have heard that the Mahdi lives forty years, then dies in his bed, then a man emerges from Qahtan with pierced ears, following the manner of the Mahdi, he lives for twenty years, then he dies with weapons, then a man from the family of the Prophet (may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him) emerges, a Mahdi of good character, who conquers the city of Caesar, and he is the last prince from the nation of Muhammad (may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him), then the Dajjal will emerge in his time, and Jesus, the son of Mary, peace be upon him, will descend in his time.

After the Mahdi, there will be a man from Qahtan with pierced ears, in the manner of the Mahdi. His life will be twenty years, then he will die with a weapon, then a man from the family of Ahmad (may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him) of good conduct will emerge and conquer the city of Caesar. He will be the last king or prince from the nation of Ahmad (may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him), and the Dajjal will emerge in his time, and Jesus, peace be upon him, will descend in his time.

At the hands of that Yamani Caliph, through whom Constantinople and Rome were conquered, the Dajjal will emerge, and in his time Jesus, son of Mary (peace be upon him), will descend. The Battle of India will take place at his hands, and he is from Banu Hashim.

Constantinople will be conquered, then the news will come to them of the emergence of the Dajjal, and it will be false. Then they will stay for three-seven weeks, and the sky will retain a third of its diameter in that year, and in the second year two-thirds of it, and in the third year it will retain its entire diameter. Not a fingernail nor a fang will remain but perish, and hunger will occur and they will die, until out of every seventy there will not remain ten, and people will flee to the mountains of Al-Jawf to Antioch, and among the signs of the emergence of the Antioch is an eastern wind that is neither hot nor cold, destroying. The idol of Alexandria, and the olives of the Maghreb and the Levant are cut from their roots, and the Euphrates, springs, and rivers are dried up, and the times of the days and months and the times of the new moons are fixed for them.

Jesus will remain after the Dajjal for thirty years, each year of which he will come to Mecca and pray there and chant Allah