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كتاب الفتن
نعيم بن حماد المروزي (ت ٢٢٨ هـ)

Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad) 851

في الرايات التي تفترق في أرض مصر والشام وغيرها، والسفياني وظهوره عليهم
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Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad)vol. 2, p. 291Ungradedكتاب الفتن لنعيم بن حمادج ٢ ص ٢٩١ · عن الزهريفي الرايات التي تفترق في أرض مصر والشام وغيرها، والسفياني وظهوره عليهم

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

حدثنا الوليد، عن شيخ، عن الزهري، قال: " إذا التقى أصحاب الرايات السود وأهل الرايات الصفر عند القنطرة كانت الدبرة على أهل المشرق، فيهزمون حتى يأتوا فلسطين، فيخرج على أهل المشرق السفياني، فإذا نزل أهل المغرب الأردن مات صاحبهم، وافترقوا ثلاث فرق: فرقة ترجع من حيث جاءت، وفرقة تحج، وفرقة تثبت، فيقاتلهم السفياني فيهزمهم ويدخلون في طاعته "

If the owners of the black flags and the people of the yellow flags meet at the bridge, the people of the East will be defeated, and they will be defeated until they reach Palestine, and then the Sufyani will revolt against the people of the East. When the people of the West will descend on Jordan, their leader will die, and they will separate into three groups: a group that will return to where it came from, a group that will perform Hajj, and a group that will remain steadfast, so the Sufyani will fight them and defeat them and they will enter into obedience to him.

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Scholarly Commentary & Context

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[Collection & Reference]: Narration #851 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 Sufyani is a figure from the descendants of Abu Sufyan who, according to some reports, will rise in Sham before the Mahdi, spread oppression, and send an army that is swallowed by the earth.

[Described Characteristics]: There is no narration about the Sufyani in Bukhari, Muslim or the other six books. The reports come mainly from Nu'aym ibn Hammad's Kitab al-Fitan and al-Hakim's al-Mustadrak; al-Dhahabi and other critics judged them weak or very weak.

[Timeline & Context]: The weak reports put him before the Mahdi. Because they are weak, no firm order can be built on them.

[Prophetic Practice]: Build your understanding of the end on what is authentic, and leave what is weak to the specialists.

[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.