کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

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.