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كتاب الفتن
نعيم بن حماد المروزي (ت ٢٢٨ هـ)

Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad) 857

ما يكون بين بني العباس وأهل المشرق والسفياني والمروانيين في أرض الشام وخارج منها إلى العراق
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Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad)vol. 2, p. 291Ungradedكتاب الفتن لنعيم بن حمادج ٢ ص ٢٩١ · عن الوليد بن مسلمما يكون بين بني العباس وأهل المشرق والسفياني والمروانيين في أرض الشام وخارج منها إلى العراق

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

حدثنا الوليد بن مسلم، قال: «إذا غلبت قضاعة، وظهرت على المغرب، فأتى صاحبهم بني العباس فيدخل ابن أختهم الكوفة مع من معه فيخربها، ثم تصيبه بها قرحة، ويخرج منها يريد الشام، فيهلك بين العراق والشام، ثم يولون عليهم رجلا من أهل بيته، فهو الذي يفعل بالناس الأفاعيل، ويظهر أمره وهو السفياني، ثم تجتمع العرب عليه بأرض الشام، فيكون بينهم قتال حتى يتحول القتال إلى المدينة، فتكون الملحمة ببقيع الغرقد»

If an otter prevails and appears in the west, and their companion, Bani Abbas, comes, then their nephew enters Kufa with those who are with him and destroys it, then an ulcer afflicts him, and he comes out of it, heading to the Sham (Greater Syria), and is destroyed between Iraq and the Sham (Greater Syria). Then they assign a man from his family over them, and he is the one who does evil to the people, and his command becomes apparent, and he is the Sufyani. Then the Arabs gather against him in the land of the Sham (Greater Syria), and there is a fight between them until the fight turns to Medina, so the epic will take place in Baqi’ al-Gharqad.

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[Collection & Reference]: Narration #857 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]: Al-Malhamah al-Kubra is the great battle between the Muslims and the Romans (al-Rum) near the end of time. The narrations describe it as one of the fiercest wars in history.

[Described Characteristics]: The Romans land at al-A'maq or Dabiq in northern Syria. An army from Madinah, the best people on earth in that day, goes out to meet them. A third flees and Allah never accepts their repentance, a third are killed and are the best martyrs, and a third win and are never tried again. Sahih Muslim describes a battle so long that men pledge to fight to the death three days running, and so deadly that a bird flying past the bodies falls dead before reaching their end.

[Timeline & Context]: It comes after a truce with the Romans breaks down, and before the conquest of Constantinople and the Dajjal.

[Prophetic Practice]: The Prophet ﷺ said: 'Do not wish to meet the enemy; ask Allah for well-being. But if you meet them, be steadfast.'

[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.

[Geographical Locations]: Mentioned in narration : Madinah, Sham (Greater Syria), Iraq, Kufa.

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