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كتاب الفتن
نعيم بن حماد المروزي (ت ٢٢٨ هـ)

Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad) 573

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Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad)vol. 2, p. 210Ungradedكتاب الفتن لنعيم بن حمادج ٢ ص ٢١٠ · عن علي بن ابي طالبفي خروج بني العباس

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

حدثنا الوليد، ورشدين، عن ابن لهيعة، عن أبي قبيل، عن أبي رومان، عن علي بن أبي طالب، رضي الله عنه قال: «إذا رأيتم الرايات السود فالزموا الأرض فلا تحركوا أيديكم، ولا أرجلكم، ثم يظهر قوم ضعفاء لا يؤبه لهم، قلوبهم كزبر الحديد، هم أصحاب الدولة، لا يفون بعهد ولا ميثاق، يدعون إلى الحق وليسوا من أهله، أسماؤهم الكنى، ونسبتهم القرى، وشعورهم مرخاة كشعور النساء، حتى يختلفوا فيما بينهم، ثم يؤتي الله الحق من يشاء»

If you see the black flags, stay on the ground and do not move your hands or feet. Then a people will appear who are weak and uncaring, whose hearts are like iron rods. They are the owners of the state, they do not fulfill a covenant or a covenant. They call for the truth but are not among its people. Their names are nicknames, their lineage is villages, and their hair is loose like the hair of women, until they disagree among themselves. Then Allah gives the truth to whomever He wills.

الوليدابن لهيعةأبي قبيلأبي رومانعلي بن أبي طالبautomatic reading, unverified

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[Collection & Reference]: Narration #573 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.

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