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كتاب الفتن
نعيم بن حماد المروزي (ت ٢٢٨ هـ)

Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad) 566

في خروج بني العباس
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Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad)vol. 2, p. 205Ungradedكتاب الفتن لنعيم بن حمادج ٢ ص ٢٠٥ · عن ابي جعفرفي خروج بني العباس

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

حدثنا سعيد أبو عثمان، حدثنا جابر الجعفي، عن أبي جعفر، قال: «إذا بلغت سنة تسع وعشرين ومائة، واختلفت سيوف بني أمية، ووثب حمار الجزيرة فغلب على الشام، ظهرت الرايات السود في سنة تسع وعشرين ومائة، ويظهر الأكبش مع قوم لا يؤبه لهم، قلوبهم كزبر الحديد، شعورهم إلى المناكب، ليست لهم رأفة ولا رحمة على عدوهم، أسماؤهم الكنى، وقبائلهم القرى، عليهم ثياب كلون الليل المظلم، يقود بهم إلى آل العباس وهنى دولتهم، فيقتلون أعلام ذلك الزمان حتى يهربوا منهم إلى البرية، فلا تزال دولتهم حتى يظهر النجم ذو الذناب، ويختلفون فيما بينهم»

When it reached the year one hundred and twenty-nine, and the swords of the Umayyads clashed, and the donkey of the Peninsula leaped and conquered the Sham (Greater Syria), the black banners would appear in the year one hundred and twenty-nine, and the ram would appear with a people who did not pay attention to them, whose hearts were like steel, their hair down to their shoulders, and they had no pity or mercy towards their enemy, their names were nicknames, and their tribes were villages, and they were wearing clothes like the color of the dark night, leading them to the Abbas family and the weakness of their state. They kill the notables of that time until they flee from them into the wilderness, and their state will continue until the star with the tail appears, and they disagree among themselves.

سعيد أبو عثمانجابر الجعفيأبي جعفرautomatic reading, unverified

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[Collection & Reference]: Narration #566 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 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.

[Geographical Locations]: Mentioned in narration : Sham (Greater Syria).

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