کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

You are right, yes, he has twelve kings, the first of them is a friend who dies, then Al-Farouq is killed, then Al-Amin is killed, then the head of the kings dies, then the owner of the guards dies, then a mighty one dies, then the owner of the nerve, who is the last of the kings, dies, then the owner of the mark dies. As for the temptations, they come when the son of the one who destroys the gold is killed, and then the affliction is imposed and prosperity is lifted, and at that time there will be four kings from the family of the owner. The sign: two kings to whom no book is read, a king who dies in his bed, his stay is short, and a king who comes from the cliff, on his hands calamity falls, and on his hands wreaths are broken, he stays in Homs for twenty-one hundred mornings, fear comes to him from his land and he departs from it, so calamity falls on the cliff, and calamity falls among them.

I find in the Torah twelve kings, the first of whom is Siddiq, then Al-Farouq, then Al-Amin, then the head of kings, then the owner of the guards, then Jabbar, then the owner of the clan, and he is the last of the kings to die, then the owner of the sign will die, and as for the tribulations, they will come when the son of the one who destroys the gold is killed, then calamity will prevail and prosperity will be lifted, and at that time there will be four kings from the family of the owner of the sign, two kings who do not read a book, and a king who dies in his bed and stays for a short time. And an angel will come from the land of Jawf. On his hands will be calamity, and on his hands wreaths will be broken. He will reside in Homs for twenty-one hundred mornings. Fear will come to him from his land and he will depart from it. So calamity will fall on Jawf, and calamity will fall among them, then their affairs will be cut off, and he will come from another family and overwhelm them.

Abdul Quddus told us, on the authority of Ibn Ayyash, on the authority of Umm Badr, she said: I heard Saeed bin Zar’ah saying: I heard Nawaf al-Bikali say to his companions: I find that this year Damascus is covered with sackcloth, brocade, and rags, and their dead are brought out on a calf, and their women’s bellies are open. So Ka’b said: “These are people who come from the East, unarmed, with black banners written on their banners: Your covenant and pledge of allegiance, and in us therein.” Then They broke it, and they came until they camped between Homs and Deir Mashal, and a squadron came out to them and they fought them like a battle, then they marched to Damascus and conquered it by force. Their motto was: “Aqbal, Aqbal,” meaning Baksh Baksh, and mercy would be spared from them for three hours of the day.”

The people of Syria were happiest with the emergence of the black flags, the people of Homs, and the people of Damascus were most miserable because of them

Abdul Quddus and Amr bin Al-Harith told us, they said: Abdullah bin Salem Al-Homsi told us, on the authority of Ali bin Abi Talha, on the authority of Ka’b, who said: “Allah Almighty created the world in the position of a bird, so He made the two wings the east and the west, and He made the head the Levant, and He made the top of the head hummus, and in it is the beak, and if the beak decreases, the people disagree, and He made the neck Damascus, and in it is the heart, so if the heart moves, the body moves, and the head has two blows: a blow from the wing.” The eastern wing is on Damascus, and a blow is from the western wing and it is on Homs, and it is the heaviest of them. Then the head approaches the wings and plucks them out, feather by feather.”

Homs is among the soldiers whose martyr will intercede for the seventy, and the people of Damascus are known for wearing green clothes in Paradise, and the people of Jordan are among the soldiers who will be in the shadow of the throne on the Day of Resurrection, and the people of Palestine are among those whom Allah looks at twice every day.

The martyr of the people of Homs will intercede for seventy thousand, and the people of Damascus will be covered by Allah with green clothes on the Day of Resurrection, and the people of Jordan will be shaded by Allah in the shade of His throne, and the people of Palestine will be looked at three times every day by Allah.

Damascus is the Muslim stronghold of the Romans, and a bull’s paddock there is better than a great house in Homs. And whoever wants to be saved from the Dajjal is the Abu Fatrus River, and if you want the home of the caliphs, then you should go to Damascus, and if you want effort and jihad, then you should go to Homs, the stronghold of the Muslims from the epics, Damascus, and from the Dajjal, there is the Abu Fatros River, and from Gog and Magog, you should go to Damascus.

Abdullah bin Marwan told us, on the authority of Artat bin Al-Mundhir, on the authority of Tabi’, on the authority of Ka’b, who said: “If the Berbers left and settled in Egypt, there would be two incidents between them: an encounter in Egypt, and an encounter in Palestine, and in between that until they descended on Homs, so woe to it from them. They would be struck by heavy snow for forty nights there, almost annihilating them, then they would open it and enter it, and they would exit from it between the west and the arch in the middle of the market, then they would travel from it and descend. By Lake Famiyeh or a farsang below it, then people go out against them and kill them. Their leader is a man from the descendants of Ismail. They are killed in a village called Umm al-Arab, then a rebel rises up and kills the freedom, takes captive the offspring, and rips open the stomachs of the women. He defeats the group twice, then he is destroyed. And you will slaughter a woman from the Quraysh, and in it the stomachs of any of the women of Bani Hashim will be ruptured.”

The people of the Levant converted to Islam, and the happiest of its soldiers with the yellow banners were the people of Damascus, and the most miserable of the people of the Levant and its soldiers were the people of Homs. They will flood the Levant as water floods a water bottle.

By the One in whose hand is my soul, the barbarians will destroy Homs in the last two battles, the last of which will remove the nails from the doors of its people, and they will have a confrontation in Palestine, then they will march from Homs to Lake Famieh or a league below it, and an outsider will emerge against them and kill them.

Abu Yusuf al-Maqdisi told us, on the authority of Muhammad ibn Ubayd Allah, on the authority of Yazid ibn Sindi, on the authority of Ka’b, who said: “When the west appears over Egypt, the interior of the earth on that day is better than its surface for the people of the Levant. Woe to the two soldiers: the soldiers of Palestine and Jordan, and the soldiers of the land of Homs, of Berbers striking with their swords at a door for perfume, and the companion of the west is a lame man from Kinda.”

Baqiyya told us, on the authority of Al-Ahmusi, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Tabi’, on the authority of Ka’b, who said: “The Berbers disembark from the galleys, then they go out with their swords and wait until they enter Homs, and I heard that their slogan on that day was: Oh Homs, oh Homs.”

If the Berbers leave Homs to Famiyah, Allah will deport them, and send a disease on their animals, so that nothing of them will remain except that they die. Then He exiles them with death and stomachs, so they flee to the east of the Black Mountain to hide there. Then the Muslims follow them and kill them with great slaughter, to the point that one man among them can kill seventy of them, or less than that, and only a few of them will escape.

If the black flags and the yellow flags meet in the middle of the Levant, the interior of the earth is better than its surface

If the black and yellow flags meet in the middle of the Levant, the interior of the earth is better than its surface

The darkness of the people of that time gathers for the murderer, until when they look at their enemy and think that they have defeated their country, the head of their tyrant approaches, who was not known before. He is a tall man, with curly hair, sunken eyes, and prominent eyebrows with yellow hair, until when he looks at Al-Mansur at the end of that year in which the darkness of the people of that time gathers for the murderer, Al-Mansur dies while they are separated in more than one town, and when the news reaches them, they are struck where they were, and they pledge allegiance to Abdullah, and he returns. Al-Sufyani, so he calls a group of the people of the Maghreb to himself, and they gather together as they had never gathered for anyone else, as previously mentioned in the knowledge of Allah Almighty. Then he sets off a delegation from Kufa, and if the delegation is from Basra, then the majority of them will perish from burning and drowning, and then there will be an eclipse in Kufa. If the delegation is from the Maghreb, then it will be a minor attack, then woe to Abdullah from Abdullah. Then he will revolt in Homs and be kindled in Damascus, and a man will emerge in Palestine who appears on the He mourned him, at his hands the destruction of the people of the East, he possessed the burden of a woman, and three armies went out for him to Kufan, with which they attacked verses of the Quraysh, saving them from their day.

His cause is ignited in Homs, and he kindles it in Damascus, and his passion is in the war of Banu Abbas

If Al-Sufyani returns, he will summon a group of the people of the Maghreb to himself, and they will gather for him as they have never gathered for anyone else, as Allah Almighty has previously known. Then he will send a delegation from Kufa Al-Anbar, and then the two groups will meet in Qarqisiya, and patience will be exhausted on them and victory will be lifted from them, until they devote themselves. And if his mission was from the Maghreb, it would be in a minor battle, so woe to Abdullah from Abdullah, for he will revolt in Homs, which is the most vile of the wilderness, and will be kindled in Damascus. At his hands, the people of the East were destroyed

Al-Sufyani defeats the group twice, accepts the tribute, and takes captive the offspring, and they slaughter a woman from the Quraysh, with which he rips open the stomachs of the women of Bani Hashim, then he dies, and then a rebel from the family of that woman arises after years called Abdullah. He never worshiped Allah Almighty. He is the most vile of creatures, deformed, cursed. Whoever follows him and calls for him will be cursed by the people of heaven and the people of earth. He is the son of the eater of livers. He comes to Damascus, sits on its pulpit, and catches fire. He commanded him to go to Homs, and to light a fire in Damascus, and that is when two men from the Abbasids are removed, and they are the two branches, and when the second one is different, Al-Sufyani emerges, young in age, curly-haired, white, with a long body, and his middle finger is shaved, and there will be clashes between him and them in the Levant, and he will take the women of the Abbasids captive until he brings them to Damascus.

In the state of Al-Qahtani, an otter fights with chicks and donkeys, and on that day is a man from Kindah. An otter kills him and hangs his head from a tree in the mosque. The donkeys become angry with him, and they fight fiercely among themselves, until every house near the mosque is demolished so that their ranks can expand to fight. In that case, woe will come to the eastern from the western, and otherwise to Homs, and they will be the most miserable of the tribes in Yemen in terms of peace, because they are their neighbors.

Donkeys and an otter fight in Homs, on a grizzled mule. An otter brings on donkeys between them and the Euphrates, and they fight in the Rastan market. The two horses walk in the two markets, not seeing each other, so the two horses fight fiercely. Then a king emerges against them from the cotton alley, the fragrant alley, on a grizzled barthogne, and knocks between them, and the two groups depart with little remorse. So woe to Aad from Aym, and woe to Aym from Aad. Himyar returned from Aym, and the people of Yemen and Aym returned from Qada'ah. There, Qadhiyah was destroyed

Then the fighting in Homs will intensify until what is between its markets is destroyed, and until an otter comes and extends it from between the Euphrates and below, and then the attack will be upon them if they fight under the dome of Homs. Donkeys and an otter will fight in Homs until an otter demolishes what is around its market from the court to Bab al-Rastan to expand it into the fighting line. They will gather at the market place, and the fighting will intensify in Homs, and bloodshed will increase until the horses' hooves stick to the rows of blood from the markets, until blood will flow in the market gatherings, and there will be a great massacre. Whoever attends that and is destined to leave Homs, let him do so. Blessed is he who lives at that time in a village, or lives towards the Qiblah from Homs. Then the donkeys will intensify against Quda'ah until they expel them from the gate of Rastan, and their fighting will intensify until a king comes upon me. A horse is seen by the people, and they are almost devoted to it, and it is imprisoned among them, and the otter is fierce on the donkeys of the people of those present and the otter around the Euphrates, so they come with a great army, and the strife and fighting increase in the Levant.

Baqiyya, and others, told us, on the authority of Hariz bin Othman, on the authority of Al-Ashaykh, on the authority of Ka’b, who said: “In Homs there are three mosques: a mosque for Satan and its people, meaning for Satan, a mosque for Allah and its people for Satan, and a mosque for Allah and its people are for Allah. So the mosque that is for Allah and its people is for Satan, so the church of Mary and its people are for Satan, and the mosque that is for Allah and its people is for Satan, so our mosque and its people are a mixture of people, and the mosque that is for Allah and its people is for Allah. The mosque is the church of Zakaria, and its people are donkeys, and the people of Yemen gather in it.”

Woe to Aad from Aim if she grows up as a dog with hummus and children