کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

A time will come upon people when the believer will be more humiliated than the female slave, the most deceitful among them, the one who tempts the foxes with his religion.

The best of people on that day is a believer who secludes himself in a mountainous area, fears his Lord and shuns people from his evil

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

Abdah bin Sulaiman told us, on the authority of Al-A’mash, on the authority of Amara, on the authority of Abu Ammar, on the authority of Hudhayfah, the same. Al-A’mash said, on the authority of Ibrahim, on the authority of Hammam bin Al-Harith, on the authority of Hudhayfah, the same.

The best people in turmoil are black people who graze on the tops of the mountains and in the countryside, and the worst people in it are every rider in a place, and every preacher in a place.

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

It was narrated from Anas bin Malik that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:“Islam began as something strange and will go back to being strange, so glad tidings to the strangers.”

Ibn Uyaynah told us, on the authority of Masar, on the authority of Aoun bin Abdullah, he said: “While a man was in Egypt during the turmoil of Ibn al-Zubayr, he was making fun of the ground when a man stood up to him and said to him: What are you talking to yourself about, in this world? He said: Rather, think about what has befallen the people, for I am interested in it. He said: Allah has saved you from it because of your thought about it. Who is the one who asked Allah and He did not give it, or relied on Him and He was not sufficient for it?”

Whoever realizes the temptation, let him break his leg, and if it is forced, let him break the other

If the people of truth prevail over the people of falsehood, then you are not in temptation

The best people in turmoil are a man who takes the head of his horse and frightens the enemy, or a man who is isolated and performs Allah’s rights upon him

The best people in turmoil are a man who eats from the droppings of his sword in the name of Allah, and a man on a high mountain who eats from the messengers of his sheep.

The happy one is the one who avoids temptations, and the one who is afflicted with some of it and has a patient mouth and then loses it

A time will come upon the people when a man will have to choose between incapacity and immorality. Whoever of you realizes that, let him choose incapacity over immorality, for inability is better than immorality.

Let the man among you choose between inability and immorality. Whoever among you realizes that, let him choose inability over immorality

A time will come upon the people when the believer will be more humiliated than the nation, and the believer will tempt himself with his religion like foxes

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

The people have dispersed from me, and these people have invited me to safety, so what do you see? If you went out to revive the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Prophet, then die in accordance with the truth, and if you only went out in pursuit of this world, then there is no good in you, alive or dead.

The temptation of Ibn al-Zubayr is one of the few tribulations of temptation, and the applied retaliation remains. Whoever is most honorable to it, it will be honorable to him, and whoever is virtuous in it, it will be honourable.

This matter remains among the Umayyads as long as they do not differ among themselves

It is up to them to kill their dead person and compete among themselves. If that is the case, Allah will send against them people from the East who will kill them indiscriminately, and count them in number. By Allah, they do not have power for a year except that we rule for two years, and they do not rule for two years except that we rule for four.

These people will continue to adhere to this matter as long as they do not disagree among themselves. If they disagree among themselves, you will leave them and will not return to them until the Day of Resurrection.

Al-Mu`tamir bin Sulaiman told us, on the authority of Abu Amr, he said: Qais bin Saad told me, on the authority of Al-Hasan bin Muhammad bin Ali, he said: “The people will continue to remain steadfast in their affairs until one of four things befall them: Allah will cast arrows among them, or the black banners will come from the east and revile them, or a pure soul will be killed in the Sacred Land and Allah will abandon them, or they will send an army to the Sacred Land and it will destroy them.”

This matter will continue among the Umayyads as long as two spears do not disagree between them. If two spears disagree between them, I will leave them until the Day of Resurrection.

The Banu Umayyads reigned for a hundred years, and the Banu Marwan had sixty-odd years of that. Their dominion will not go until they take it away with their own hands. They want to block it but they cannot do it. Every time they block it on one side, it collapses on the other. They begin with a mim and end with a mim. Their dominion will not go until a caliph of theirs is deposed and he is killed, and his lambs are killed, and the red-haired donkey of the peninsula kills Marwan, then their dominion is cut off and the wreaths are torn down at his hands.