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554
كتاب الفتن
نعيم بن حماد المروزي (ت ٢٢٨ هـ)

Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad) 555

في خروج بني العباس
556
Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad)vol. 2, p. 203Ungradedكتاب الفتن لنعيم بن حمادج ٢ ص ٢٠٣ · عن سعيد بن المسيبفي خروج بني العباس

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

حدثنا محمد بن عبد الله أبو عبد الله التاهرتي التميمي، عن عبد الرحمن بن زياد بن أنعم، عن مسلم بن يسار، عن سعيد بن المسيب، قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: «تخرج من المشرق رايات سود لبني العباس، ثم تمكث ما شاء الله، ثم تخرج رايات سود صغار على رجل من ولد أبي سفيان وأصحابه من قبل المشرق»

Black flags of Banu Abbas will emerge from the East, then they will remain as long as Allah wills, then small black flags will emerge from a man from the descendants of Abu Sufyan and his companions from the East.

Grading (tahqiq)

Ungraded

Hadith commentary (sharh)

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Scholarly Commentary & Context

Synthesized commentary, isnad grading & cross-references

[Collection & Reference]: Narration #555 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]: Black banners coming from the east, from Khurasan, appear in several reports as an army that comes before or with the Mahdi.

[Described Characteristics]: The best-known reports say: 'Black banners will come from Khurasan and nothing will turn them back until they are planted in Iliya (Jerusalem)', and 'If you see them, go to them even crawling over snow'. Hadith scholars graded these reports weak.

[Timeline & Context]: No sahih narration fixes their time.

[Prophetic Practice]: A flag's colour proves nothing. Judge any group by the Quran and Sunnah, not by its claims about prophecy.

[Core Subject]: The Abbasids, descendants of the Prophet's uncle al-Abbas, overthrew the Umayyads in 132 AH and ruled from Baghdad. Some reports are said to foretell their rise.

[Described Characteristics]: The reports that name them, or speak of a ruler called al-Saffah, are weak, and some were spread during the revolution itself. No sahih narration names the Abbasids.

[Timeline & Context]: They ruled from the second to the seventh Islamic century, until the Mongols ended their caliphate in Baghdad in 656 AH.

[Prophetic Practice]: When a movement claims prophecy for itself, check the grade of the narration first.

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