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كتاب الفتن
نعيم بن حماد المروزي (ت ٢٢٨ هـ)

Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad) 878

ما يكون بين أهل الشام وبين ملك من بني العباس بين الرقة وما يكون من السفياني
ThemesSufyani
879
Kitab al-Fitan (Nu'aym ibn Hammad)vol. 2, p. 300Ungradedكتاب الفتن لنعيم بن حمادج ٢ ص ٣٠٠ · عن محمد بن جعفرما 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.

حدثنا أبو المغيرة، عن ابن عياش، عمن حدثه عن محمد بن جعفر، قال: قال علي بن أبي طالب رضي الله عنه: «يبعث السفياني على جيش العراق رجلا من بني حارثة له غديرتان، يقال له نمر أو قمر بن عباد، رجل جسيم على مقدمته رجل من قومه قصير أصلع، عريض المنكبين، فيقاتله من بالشام من أهل المشرق، وفي موضع يقال له الثنية، وأهل حمص في حرب المشرق وأنصارهم، وبها يومئذ منهم جند عظيم يقاتلهم فيما يلي دمشق، كل ذلك يهزمهم، ثم ينحاز من دمشق وحمص مع السفياني، ويلتقون وأهل المشرق في موضع يقال له ليدين مما يلي شرق حمص، فيقتل بها نيف وسبعون ألفا، ثلاثة أرباعهم من أهل المشرق، ثم تكون الدبرة عليهم، ويسير الجيش الذي بعث إلى المشرق حتى ينزلوا الكوفة، فكم من دم مهراق، وبطن مبقور، ووليد مقتول، ومال منهوب، ودم مستحل، ثم يكتب إليه السفياني أن يسير إلى الحجاز بعد أن يعركها عرك الأديم»

Al-Sufyani sends to the Iraqi army a man from Banu Haritha who has two glands, called Nimr or Qamar ibn Abbad, a strong man with a short, bald, broad-shouldered man from his people in front, and he fights him from the Sham (Greater Syria) from the people of the East, and in a place called Al-Thaniyya, and the people of Homs are in the war of the East and their supporters, and there on that day is a great army of them fighting them in the vicinity of Damascus, all of which defeats them, then the people of Damascus and Homs side with Al-Sufyani. They will meet with the people of the East in a place called Lidin, which lies east of Homs, and seventy-odd thousand people will be killed there, three-quarters of whom are from the East. Then the attack will be upon them, and the army that was sent to the East will march until they descend on Kufa. How much blood will be spilled, stomachs cut open, newborns killed, looted property, and blood permissible. Then Al-Sufyani writes to him to march to Hijaz after he has ravaged it through the battle of eternity.

أبو المغيرةابن عياشمحمد بن جعفرautomatic reading, unverified

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[Collection & Reference]: Narration #878 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.

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

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