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كتاب الفتن
نعيم بن حماد المروزي (ت ٢٢٨ هـ)

Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad) 870

ما يكون بين أهل الشام وبين ملك من بني العباس بين الرقة وما يكون من السفياني
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Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad)vol. 2, p. 296Ungradedكتاب الفتن لنعيم بن حمادج ٢ ص ٢٩٦ · عن ابي اميه الكلبيما يكون بين أهل الشام وبين ملك من بني العباس بين الرقة وما يكون من السفياني

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

قال الوليد: فأخبرني أبو عبيدة الأشجعي، عن أبي أمية الكلبي، قال: «بينما أصحاب الرايات السود يقتتلون فيما بينهم إذ خرج سابع سبعة فيبعث إلى أهل القرى يسألهم نصرته، فيأبون عليه، ويبلغ عامل بني العباس على طبرية مخرجه، فيبعث إليه جمعا عظيما، فإذا واجهوه مالوا إليه بأجمعهم إلا صاحبهم الذي قادهم، ينصرف إلى صاحبه، فيخبره ويميل الخارجي ومن معه إلى السدرة التي إلى جانب التل، فينزل تحتها، ويأتيه أهل القرى فيبايعونه، ويسير بهم فيلقاه صاحب طبرية عند الأقحوانة فيقاتله عند بحيرة طبرية، حتى تحمار عجراء البحيرة من دمائهم، ثم يهزمهم، ثم يجمعون له بالجابية جمعا عظيما، فويل لمن كان أهله من الجابية على خمسة أميال، وطوبى لمن كان أهله خلف ذلك، فيهزمهم ثم يجمعون له بدمشق جمعا نحوا من جمعهم الذي دخلوا به دمشق، فيقتتلون هنالك حتى تركض الخيل في الدم إلى ثنتها، ثم يهزمهم»

While the owners of the black banners were fighting among themselves, the seventh of seven came out, and he sent to the people of the villages asking them to support him, but they refused him. The Abbasid official at Tiberias was informed of his exit, and he sent to him a large crowd. If they confronted him, they all turned to him, except for their friend who led them. Then he fights him at the Lake of Tiberias, until the calves of the lake are red with their blood, then he defeats them, then they gather for him in Al-Jabiya a great crowd, so woe to him whose family is from Al-Jabiya five miles away, and blessed is he whose family is behind that, so he defeats them. Then they gather for him in Damascus a crowd similar to the one they entered Damascus with, and they fight there until the horses run in blood to their knees, then he defeats them.

Grading (tahqiq)

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Scholarly Commentary & Context

Synthesized commentary, isnad grading & cross-references

[Collection & Reference]: Narration #870 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.

[Geographical Locations]: Mentioned in narration : Damascus.

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