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كتاب الفتن
نعيم بن حماد المروزي (ت ٢٢٨ هـ)

Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad) 525

العلامات في انقطاع ملك بني أمية
ThemesUmayyads
526
Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad)vol. 2, p. 185Ungradedكتاب الفتن لنعيم بن حمادج ٢ ص ١٨٥ · عن تبيع ابن امراه كعبالعلامات في انقطاع ملك بني أمية

Kitab al-Fitan of Nu'aym ibn Hammad: ungraded, and weak overall. Never established on its own.

Traced to Ka'b al-Ahbar (automatic guess): a report of earlier scriptures, not a hadith of the Prophet ﷺ.

حدثنا عبد الله بن مروان، عن أرطاة بن المنذر، قال: حدثني تبيع ابن امرأة كعب قال: «ملك بني أمية مائة عام، لبني مروان من ذلك نيف وستون عاما، لا يذهب ملكهم حتى ينزعوه بأيديهم، يريدون سده فلا يستطيعونه، كلما سدوه من ناحية انهدم من ناحية، يفتتحون بميم ويختتمون بميم، ولا يذهب ملكهم حتى يخلع خليفة منهم فيقتل، ويقتل حملاه، ويقتل حمار الجزيرة الأصهب مروان، ثم ينقطع ملكهم وعلى يديه هدم الأكاليل»

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.

عبد الله بن مروانأرطاة بن المنذرتبيع ابن امرأة كعبautomatic reading, unverified

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[Collection & Reference]: Narration #525 in Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad).

[Scholarly Verification Notice]: Recorded in Nu'aym ibn Hammad's Kitab al-Fitan (d. 228 AH). Hadith scholars classify this historical compilation as ungraded and weak overall; its isolated reports are not accepted as established doctrine unless corroborated by standard Sahih works.

[Core Subject]: The Prophet ﷺ foretold that the ruin of his ummah would come at the hands of young men of Quraysh, and that rule would turn into kingship after thirty years of caliphate. Scholars connect these with the Umayyad dynasty (41-132 AH).

[Described Characteristics]: Abu Hurayrah said he could name them if he wished. Ibn Hajar and others explain that he meant certain Umayyad rulers, beginning around the year 60 AH, and Abu Hurayrah prayed to die before then.

[Timeline & Context]: This was in the first Islamic century, and it has already passed.

[Prophetic Practice]: Abu Hurayrah sought refuge from 'the year sixty and the rule of boys'. Ask Allah for just leaders.

Commentaries by classical hadith scholars. The Arabic texts are shown as published.