کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

Saeed Abu Othman told us, on the authority of Jabir, on the authority of Abu Jaafar, he said: “Then the Mahdi will appear in Mecca at the evening prayer, with the banner of the Messenger of Allah (may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him), his shirt, his sword, and signs, light, and clarification. Then when he prays the evening prayer, he calls out at the top of his voice, saying: I remind you of Allah, O people, and your position is in the hands of your Lord. He has taken the proof, sent the prophets, and revealed the Book, and commanded you not to associate anything with Him, and to maintain obedience to Him. And to obey His Messenger, and to live what the Qur’an has brought to life, and to destroy what it has killed, and to be helpers in guidance and a burden on piety, for the world has approached its annihilation and demise, and it has declared farewell. I call you to Allah, and to His Messenger, and to act according to His Book, and to kill falsehood, and to revive its Sunnah, and three hundred and thirteen men will appear, the number of the people of Badr, without an appointment, with a lottery like the autumn lottery, monks. By night, he is a lion by day, and Allah will open the land of Hijaz to the Mahdi, and extract those from Bani Hashim who were in prison, and the black banners will descend on Kufa, and he will send the pledge of allegiance to the Mahdi, and the Mahdi will send his soldiers in the horizons, and he will kill oppression and its people, and the countries will be straightened for him, and Allah will conquer Constantinople at his hands.”

The Romans will enter the Holy House with seventy crosses until they demolish it, and obedience will continue to be practiced as long as the caliphate is in the land of Jerusalem and the Levant. The first coast that Allah will be angry with will be eclipsed by Al-Sarfiyya, Caesarea, and Beirut. The Romans and the Levant will rule for forty days from the seashore to the Jordan and Beit Shean. Then the Muslims will gain victory over them. They will reconcile it until their authority over them runs out, and the entire earth will be secure for seven-nine days.

O Abu Amer, if these two dustbins are blown up, then remove your family from Homs. If you enter Antarsus and three hundred martyrs are killed there, then remove your family from Homs. The Persians will close it in on the descendants of the Muslims and their women. Then we surrounded ourselves until we entered Deir Mashal. You will see this wood. On that day, it will be the catapults of the Muslims. It is not permissible for them to complete three years. The Romans have three outings. This is the first, and the other. An army will come to the sea with a thousand castles and they will disperse them. They recruit their share, and prepare to go out in one day, and when that day comes, each people goes out to the next Muslims, burns their ships, and makes their fortresses tents, then they fight and the affliction and fighting intensify in all of Syria, and some of them are unable to defeat others, and Allah withholds victory, and gives weapons, and softens the people until it becomes the Muslims’ business to fortify themselves in Al-Mada’in, and notifies the Roman scribes in the breaches of Al-Mada’in, and then the Persians of Homs are closed. Its doors are upon the descendants of Muslims and their women, and the fighting intensifies in the land of Palestine for four consecutive days.