کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

Al-Walid bin Muslim told us, on the authority of Abd al-Jabbar bin Rashid al-Azdi, on the authority of his mother, on the authority of Rabi’ah al-Qasir, on the authority of Tabi’, on the authority of Ka’b, who said: “There will be three tribulations like yours departing: a tribulation that will take place in the Levant, then the eastern one, the destruction of kings, then the western one will follow, and he mentioned the yellow flags. He said: and the western ones are the blind ones.”

You have been overshadowed by a trial like pieces of a dark night. There is not a Muslim house left between the East and the West without entering it. Those who take shelter in the shade of Lebanon between it and the sea will be saved from it. He is the safest of people from that trial. If one hundred and twenty-two years have passed, this house of mine burned, and his house burned at that time.

A trial has engulfed you like pieces of a dark night, from which neither the east nor the west will be saved, except those who take shelter in the shade of Lebanon between it and the sea, for they are safer than others, and that is when this house of mine burns, and it burned in the year one hundred and twenty-two.