کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

There is nothing between you and evil except a man, and if he dies, evil will be poured upon you for miles

There will be a trial, then there will be a group, then there will be a trial and repentance, then a group and repentance, until he mentioned the fourth, then there will be neither repentance nor a group.

There are three temptations, the fourth will lead them to the Dajjal, which throws the kneecaps, which throws the hair, and the dark black stone, which ripples the waves of the sea.

A time will come upon people when a man will see, and in the evening he will not see with his blade

Indeed, temptation is presented to hearts. Any heart that drinks it will have a black spot on it, and any heart that denies it will have a white spot on it. So whoever among you wants to know whether temptation has afflicted him or not, let him see. If he saw what was lawful, he would see it as forbidden, or what was forbidden, he would see it as lawful, for it has befallen him. Indeed, the man becomes a seeing man, and what he sees touches with a blade.

Its stances are when the sword is sheathed, and its resurrections are when the sword is unsheathed

Sedition has its stops and resurrections, so whoever of you is able to die during its stops should do so

Get used to being patient before calamity befalls you, for it will not befall you more severely than what befell us with the Messenger of Allah, ﷺ.

Enjoining good and forbidding evil is good, and it is not Sunnah to raise weapons against your imam

A time will come upon the people from which no one will be saved except the one who prays like the prayer of drowning

A man may be in temptation or from temptation, and what he is from

A time will come upon people when their homes are best in the desert

If you see the first Turks on the island, fight them until you defeat them or may Allah suffice you with their death, for they are exposing the sanctuary there, as it is a sign of the departure of the people of the Maghreb, and the collapse of their kingdom on that day.

If the people of Morocco enter the land of Egypt and stay in such-and-such, they will kill and take captive its people. On that day, the wailing women will stand up, crying over the loss of their private parts, crying over their humiliation after their glory, crying over their children, crying over the killing of their men, and crying over the longing for their graves.

If the Sufyani enters the land of Egypt, he will stay there for four months, killing and taking its people captive, and on that day the wailing women will stand up, weeping, crying over the permissibility of her private parts, crying, crying over the killing of her children, crying, crying over her humiliation after her glory, and crying, crying longing for her graves.

Abdul Quddus told us, Artat bin Al-Mundhir told us, on the authority of someone who told him on the authority of Ibn Abbas, that Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: “A man from his family called Abdul-Ilah, or Abdullah, will descend on one of the rivers of the East, on which two cities will be built, with the river splitting between them. When Allah Almighty permits the demise of their kingdom and the end of their term, Allah will send fire upon one of them at night, and it will become black and dark, as if it had been burned up.” She will be in her place, and her companion will become astonished, how she escaped, for her day will be nothing but white until Allah gathers in it all the stubborn and tyrannical ones, then Allah will eclipse her and all of them. That is what the Almighty says: {Ham-Asq} [Al-Shura: 2], a determination from Allah, and a decree, and the evil eye is punishment, and the sin says: There will be a slander that will befall them, meaning the two cities.

O Amr bin Sali’, if you see Qais marching in the Levant, be careful. Mudar will continue to kill the believers and afflict them until Allah, His angels, and the believers strike them so that they do not prevent the sin of Tal’ah.

The Dajjal, then Jesus, then if a man produces a mare, he will not ride her foal until the Hour comes

To me, the impostor does not come out more than a welding goat

The temptation of the Dajjal will last for forty days

The Dajjal will emerge in the fourth trial. He will remain for forty years, and Allah will lighten it for the believers, so a year will be like a day

Except that the moon has split

If a man tied a horse and it produced a foal at the beginning of the verses, he would not mount the foal until he saw the end of it

A people with small eyes and slit noses, whose faces look like hammered shields, will bring you out of it, wearing hair, tying their horses to palm trees, and drinking from the water of the Euphrates.

Rushdin told us, on the authority of Ibn Lahi’ah, on the authority of Abdul Aziz bin Salih, on the authority of Hudhayfah, he said: “The temptations after the Messenger of Allah ﷺ until the Hour comes, there will be four temptations: the first is five, the second is twenty, the third is twenty, and the fourth is the Dajjal.” He said.