کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

Al-Hakam bin Nafi’ told us, on the authority of Jarrah, on the authority of Artat, who said: “If the Turks and the Romans meet, and a village in Damascus is eclipsed, and a group to the west of its mosque falls, three flags will be raised in the Levant: Al-Aqba’, Al-Ashab, and Al-Sufyani. A man will be besieged in Damascus and he will be killed and those with him, and two men from Banu Abi Sufyan will come out, and the victory will be for the second. If Al-Aqba’s army arrives from Egypt, Al-Sufyani will appear on them with his army, and the Turks will be killed. And the Romans in Qarqisia until the lions of the earth are satisfied with their meat.”

If Al-Aqwas appears with a people with strong bodies, then there will be a great battle between them, then the cursed Al-Akhus Al-Sufyani appears and fights them both, and he appears against them all, then Mansour Al-Yamani marches to them from Sana’a with his soldiers, and he has a strong outburst, killing people like a pre-Islamic fight, so he and Al-Akhus meet, and their banners are yellow, and their clothes are colored, and there is an intense fight between them, then Al-Akhus Al-Sufyani appears against him, then the Romans appear, and go out to the Levant, then he appears. Al-Akhus, then Al-Kindi appears with a good sign, and when he reaches Tel Sama, he arrives, then he marches to Iraq, and before that twelve flags are raised in Kufa, known and attributed, and a man from the descendants of Al-Hassan or Al-Hussein is killed in Kufa, calling for his father, and a man from the loyalists appears, and if his situation becomes clear and he goes to extremes in killing, Al-Sufyani kills him.

A man from the descendants of Abbas descends on Raqqa, stays there for two years, then invades the Romans, and his calamity for the Muslims will be greater than his calamity for the Romans. Then he returns from the expedition to Raqqa, and something he hates comes from the East, so he returns to the East, but does not return from it, then he appoints his son as governor, and upon his head will be the departure of the Sufyani and the cessation of their kingdom.

If Al-Sufyani appears against Al-Aqba’, Al-Mansur, Al-Kindi, the Turks, and the Romans, he leaves and becomes in Iraq, and then the century of Dhul-Shifa rises, then Abdullah will perish, and the deposed will be deposed, and he will be affiliated with people in the city of Zawra out of ignorance, then Al-Akhs will appear on the city by force, and he will kill a great mass there, and will kill six rams from the Abbas family, and slaughter there a patient slaughter, then he will go out to Kufa.

Al-Sufyani enters Kufa and takes it captive for three days, and kills sixty thousand of its people. Then he stays there for eighteen nights, dividing its wealth. He enters Kufa after fighting the Turks and Romans in Qirqisa. Then he splits a gap on them from behind them, and a group of them returns to Khurasan. He kills the horses of Al-Sufyani and demolishes the forts until he enters Kufa. He seeks the people of Khurasan, and a people calling for the Mahdi will appear in Khurasan. Then he sends Al-Sufyani to Medina. Then he takes a group of people from the family of Muhammad until he returns them to Kufa, then Al-Mahdi and Mansour leave Kufa on the run, and Al-Sufyani sends in search of them. When Al-Mahdi and Mansour reach Mecca, the Sufyani’s army descends on Al-Bayda and overwhelms them. Then Al-Mahdi goes out until he passes through Medina and rescues those who were in it from Bani Hashim. The black flags come forward until they descend on the water, and the Sufyani’s companions in Kufa inform of their landing and they flee, then he descends on Kufa to rescue those in it from Bani Hashim, and a people called the Asab emerge from the black of Kufa. They have no weapons except a few, and among them is a group of the people of Basra. They overtake the companions of the Sufyani and rescue what is in their hands from the captives of Kufa, and the black banners send out the pledge of allegiance to the Mahdi.

Abdullah bin Marwan told us, on the authority of Al-Haytham bin Abdul Rahman, he said: Someone who heard Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) told me: “If Al-Sufyani sends an army to the Mahdi and he overwhelms them in Al-Bayda, and this reaches the people of the Levant, they say to their caliph: The Mahdi has left, so pledge allegiance to him and enter into obedience to him, otherwise we will kill you. Then he will be sent to him with the pledge of allegiance, and the Mahdi will march until he descends on Jerusalem, and the treasuries will be transferred to him, and the Arabs, Persians, and people of war will enter.” And the Romans and others obeyed him without fighting, until mosques were built in Constantinople and below it, and a man from his household in the East would emerge before him, carrying the sword on his shoulder for eight months, killing and mutilating, and heading to Jerusalem, and not reaching it until he died.”

Al-Mahdi will pledge allegiance to seven scholarly men who went to Mecca from different parts of the world without an appointment. Three hundred and twelve men have pledged allegiance to each of them. They gather in Mecca and pledge allegiance to him, and Allah pours His love into the hearts of the people. He leads them along, and he turns to those who pledged allegiance to the horses of the Sufyani. On them is a man of crime. When he leaves Mecca behind his companions and walks in a loincloth and robe until the crime comes, he pledges allegiance to him, and a dog will regret his pledge of allegiance. Then he will come to him and pledge allegiance to him and he will dismiss him, then he will mobilize his armies to fight him and defeat him, and Allah will defeat the Romans at his hands, and Allah will remove the temptations at his hands and descend on the Levant.

Al-Mahdi will be sent to fight the Romans, he will be given the jurisprudence of ten, the Ark of Tranquility will be extracted from a cave in Antioch, in which is the Torah that Allah Almighty revealed to Moses (peace be upon him), and the Gospel that Allah Almighty revealed to Jesus (peace be upon him), and he will judge between the people of the Torah according to their Torah, and between the people of the Gospel according to their Gospel.

Al-Walid bin Muslim told us ، About the one who told him about Ka'b ، He said: “The people of Yemen are fighting fiercely in Mesopotamia ، Allah will defeat him and those with him ، The people of the East and those with him are terrified only by the dead floating on the river ، They know of their defeat ، Their rider heads to Yemen as they descend between the two rivers ، Then Allah Almighty and those with him will appear ، And people's affairs will be fixed ، Their words come together happily ، Then they walk until they reach the Levant ، They stay for a period of time in a righteous state ، Then Qais revolts against them ، The people of Yemen kill them until anyone thinks that there is no Qais left ، Then a man from the people of Yemen rises and says: Allah, Allah, for your brothers ، Allah and the rest ، Then Qays went with those who remained of it until they came down between the two rivers ، They gather a great crowd ، They will be put in charge of a man from Banu Makhzum ، Then the governor of Yemen dies ، Qais rejoices at his death ، The Makhzoumi continued until the last of them crossed the Euphrates, and the Makhzoumi died ، Yemen will become separate ، Measure separately ، Then the loyalists get angry, and they are the majority of people on that day ، They say: Come, let us appoint a man from the people of religion to me ، They will send a group of people from Yemen ، And a bunch of harmful ، And a group of people who are loyal to Jerusalem ، They recite the Book of Allah Almighty and ask Him for good ، Then those people return, having appointed a man from among the loyalists as their guardian ، So woe to the people in the Levant and its land due to his guardianship ، He goes to Mudar and wants to fight them ، Then a man from Morocco walks ، A tall, powerful man with broad shoulders ، He kills whoever he meets until he enters the Holy House ، Then the animal hits him ، He dies a death ، So the world will be as evil as it was ، Then after him comes a man from Mudar ، He kills righteous people ، Ominous cursed ، Then after him comes Al-Madari Al-Omani Al-Qahtani ، He follows the path of his brother Mahdi ، And at his hands the city of Rum will be conquered.” Abu Abdullah Naeem said: He emerges from a village called Yakli, behind Sana’a, at a stage. ، His father is Qureshi ، His mother is Yemeni

I have heard that the Mahdi will stay for fourteen years in Jerusalem, then he will die, and then after him he will be of honorable mention from the people of Tabi’. He is called Mansour in Jerusalem. Twenty-one years, fifteen of which are justice, three years of oppression, and three years of which are deprivation of property. No one is given a dirham. The people of the Dhimma are divided among those who fight him. He is the one who exiles the loyal ones to the depths of the depths. He is the one who tramples the son of Ishmael like the rarest cow is trampled upon. A prophet, and his nickname is the nickname of a prophet. He goes to him from the depths until he meets a victor in the depths of Jericho, and he fights him and kills him. Then the Lord reigns and banishes the sons of Qahtan and the sons of Ismail, to the two cities of Kanz al-Arab, Medina and Sana’a. He is the one who will expel the Turks and the Romans at his hands until they rule from the depths of Antioch to Mount Carmel in Palestine in the meadow of the city of Acre. The Lord reigns for three years, then he is killed, and after him Haim the Second Mahdi will reign. Who kills the Romans and defeats them, and conquers Constantinople, and resides there for three years, four months and ten days, then Jesus, son of Mary (peace be upon him), descends and the kingdom is handed over to him.

After the Mahdi, who will expel the people of Yemen to their country, then Al-Mansour, then after him, the Mahdi, at whose hands the Roman city will be conquered.

After the Mahdi, there will be a caliph from the people of Yemen, from Qahtan, the Mahdi’s brother in religion, who will do his work, and he will conquer the city of Byzantium and seize its spoils. The people will be succeeded by a man from Banu Hashim in Jerusalem, who will extinguish traditions that were known and invent traditions that were not, until you will not find a scholar who narrates a single hadith. Al-Qatadad on a dark night, and he sends his daughter to go to the markets with her, wearing a blanket of gold. She cannot hide, coming or going. If a man spoke about that, his neck would be struck.

Al-Hakam bin Nafi’ told us, on the authority of Jarrah, on the authority of Artat, who said: “There will be a truce between the Mahdi and the Romans, then the Mahdi will perish, then a man from his family will follow him, and he will be just a little, then he will draw his sword on the people of Palestine, and they will revolt with it, and he will seek help from the people of Jordan, and he will stay among them for two months, and will be just as the Mahdi is, then he will draw his sword on them, and they will revolt with it, and he will escape until he descends on Damascus. Have you seen the ceilings that At the gate of al-Jabiya, where the coffins are located, there is a round stone below it, on five cubits, on which he slaughters and the remembrance of his blood will not be extinguished until it is said: The Romans have established therein between Tire and Acre, for they are the epics.”

A caliph from the Banu Hashim will descend on Jerusalem and fill the earth with justice. He will build Jerusalem a building that has never been built before. He will rule for forty years. The Roman truce will be under his control for seven years remaining in his caliphate. Then they will betray him, then they will gather for him in the depths, and he will die there in grief. Then a man from the Banu Hashim will follow after him, then their defeat will occur, and the conquest of Constantinople will be on his hands. Then he will go to Rome and conquer it, extracting its treasures and the table of Suleiman ibn David, peace be upon them, then returns to Jerusalem and descends there. The Dajjal will emerge in his time, and Jesus, son of Mary (peace be upon him), will descend and pray behind him.

A man from among us will follow at the end of time for forty years, and the epics will be for seven years remaining in his caliphate, then he will die in the depths of grief, then a man among them will follow him with two moles, and on his hands will be the conquest that day, meaning the conquest of the Romans in the depths.

The Romans have a king who does not disobey him or disobeys him almost at all, so he leads them until he lands them in such-and-such a land for days that I forgot. There are two sacrifices to Allah for the Christians, one of which has passed and the other remains.

Yahya bin Abi Amr Al-Sibani told us ، On the authority of Maslama bin Abdul Malik ، While he was descending on Constantinople, a young, well-dressed man came to him ، Mouse animal ، He said to him: I am Tabaris ، So he honored him and treated him with the closest and closest companionship ، Then he sent it to Abu Muslim Al-Rumi ، He was a servant of Banu Marwan ، Captivity from the Romans ، So he converted to Islam, his jurisprudence and Islam improved, and his advice to Islam was good. He said: O Abu Muslim, this man claims to be Tabaris, so he said: “He lied.” ، May Allah fix the prince ، I know people in Tabares ، If he was among ten thousand, I would have taken him out ، Tabaris is a serious man ، Answer him ، Ugly teeth ، He comes out when he is sixty years old ، He sees blood drinking water ، He says: How long will we leave eating camels in our country and our land? ، Take us to the camel eaters and we will ask them for forgiveness ، He said: They will march to him with a crowd the likes of which they have never walked before ، Until they go down deep ، He informs the Muslims of his journey and his home ، They will reach the farthest reaches of Yemen ، They support Islam ، These Christians support the Christians of the Peninsula and the Levant ، The Muslims march to them ، And victory will be lifted from them ، Patience descends upon them ، And the iron strikes one another ، It does not hurt a man to have a sword that does not sting his nose ، It should not be replaced by fasting ، He does not put it on anything except to make it clear ، A group of Muslims will return and let them down ، And they go in a desert of land ، They will never see Paradise or their families ، And kill a sect ، Allah will grant His victory to a group that will be the last people on earth on that day ، The martyr among them has the reward of seventy martyrs over those before him ، The rest will receive two guarantees of pay ، If they meet, a man takes the flag and is killed ، Then another and he is killed ، Then another and he is killed ، Until Adam's man takes it ، curly ، Answer him better ، So Allah will open it for him ، He kills them and defeats them ، And sell their money ، He was detained and I saw that no one else was carrying it ، Until it ends in the Gulf ، When he reaches the bay, he comes forward to perform ablution there ، The water stays away from it ، Then it approaches and the water distances itself from it ، If he sees this, he returns to his animal and takes it ، Then two groups crossed the Gulf and the water ، Half to his right ، And a half to the left ، He motioned to his companions to permit ، For Allah Almighty has divided the sea for you just as He divided it for the Children of Israel ، So they passed to him ، Then he came to a spring at a church on that side of the Gulf. Abu Zar’ah said: I saw that spring ، And I performed ablution from her ، A fresh spring ، He performs ablution from it ، He prays two rak'ahs ، He says to his companions: This is a matter that Allah Almighty has permitted ، So they enlarged it ، And they greeted him ، And praise Him ، And they do ، It tends between twelve signs of it ، Then it falls to the ground and they enter it ، On that day, her fighter will be killed ، And he divides his loot ، It leaves ruins that will never be restored

By the One in whose hand is my soul, it will expand upon whoever of the Muslims comes to it just as the womb expands upon a child. A mountain in the land of the Levant, from Homs, on a river called Al-Arunt, so the descendants of the Muslims will be at the top of the neck, and the Muslims are on the Arunat River, and the polytheists behind the Arunat River will fight them morning and evening. When the owner of Constantinople sees this, he directs six hundred thousand across the land to Qinnasrin until seventy thousand come to them in Yemen. May Allah unite their hearts with faith, with them forty thousand. From Himyar, until they come to Jerusalem, and they fight the Romans and defeat them, and drive them out from one army to another, until they come to Qinnisrin and the material of the loyalists comes to them.

Far from, far from, by the One in whose hand is my soul, O Hudhayfah, write it down to six qualities. The first of them is my death, then the Holy House will be conquered, then after that there will be a strife in which two great factions will fight, in which there will be a lot of killing, and a lot of chaos in them. Their call is the same, then death will be imposed upon you and it will kill you in a lump just as sheep die, then money will increase and it will overflow until a man is called for a hundred dinars and he refuses to take it, then a boy will arise among the children of the yellow people. Their kings

The Romans descend on the plain of Acre, and conquer Palestine, the Jordan Valley, and Jerusalem, and they do not pass the Afiq Aqaba for forty days. Then the Imam of the Muslims marches on them and they capture them in the meadow of Acre, and they fight there until the blood reaches two horses, so Allah defeats them, and they kill them except a group that marches to Mount Lebanon, then to a mountain in the land of the Romans.

The Romans from the Levant will come up for forty mornings, and only Damascus and Upper Balqa will abstain from it

A Roman king conquers all of the Levant except Damascus and Amman, then he is defeated and Caesarea, the land of the Romans, is built, and it becomes a host of the people of the Levant, then fire appears from Aden and Abyan.

Naim told us, then Al-Walid, on the authority of Muawiyah bin Yahya, on the authority of Artat bin Al-Mundhir, on the authority of Hakim bin Umair, on the authority of Tabi’, he said: “Then the Romans will send you to ask for peace, and you will make peace with them. On that day, the woman will cross the road to the Levant in safety, and the city of Caesarea, which is in the land of the Romans, will be built. And in that peace treaty, Kufa will be fought like Adam, and this is due to them abandoning the support of the Muslims. Allah knows best, was there another event that would be permissible along with their abandonment? They will invade it, and you will enlist the Romans to attack you, and they will attack you, and you will leave until you camp in a hilly meadow, and the Christian will say: By our cross you have defeated, so give us our share of the spoils, the women, and the offspring. But they refuse to give them the women and offspring, so they fight and then leave, and they gather for the battle.”

You will make a safe peace with the Romans until you, while they are an enemy, invade from behind them

Nu'aym told us, then Al-Walid, on the authority of Yazid bin Saeed Al-Ansi, on the authority of Mudlij bin Al-Miqdam Al-Adhari, on the authority of Ka'b, who said: “Then the Romans would betray those who were in them, and they would gather and bring an army into the sea from Romans. Over them would be a companion of theirs called Al-Jamal. One of his parents was a fairy, or he said: a devil, and he would travel with his ships until he landed at a monastery called Aqma in Akka.”