Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

يخرج السفياني بيده ثلاث قصبات، لا يقرع بهن أحدا إلا مات

Al-Sufyani brings out three reeds in his hand, and he does not knock anyone with them unless he dies

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يؤتى السفياني في منامه فيقال له: قم فاخرج، فيقوم فلا يجد أحدا، ثم يؤتى الثانية فيقال له مثل ذلك، ثم يقال له الثالثة: قم فاخرج، فانظر من على باب دارك، فينحدر في الثالثة على باب داره فإذا هو بسبعة نفر أو تسعة نفر ومعهم لواء فيقولون: نحن أصحابك، فيخرج فيهم ويتبعه ناس من قريات وادي اليابس، فيخرج إليه صاحب دمشق ليلقاه ويقاتله، فإذا نظر إلى رايته انهزم، ووالي دمشق يومئذ وال لبني العباس

Al-Sufyani will come in his dream and it will be said to him: Get up and go out. He will get up and find no one. Then he will come a second time and it will be said to him like that. Then he will be told a third time: Get up and go out and see who is at the door of your house. The third time he will go down to the door of his house, and he will find seven or nine people with a banner. They will say: We are your companions. Then he will go out among them and people from the villages of Wadi Al-Yabis will follow him. Then the owner of Damascus will go out to meet him and fight him. I saw him defeated, and he became governor of Damascus at that time and of Banu Abbas

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السفياني شر من ملك، يقتل العلماء وأهل الفضل ويفنيهم، ويستعين بهم، فمن أبى عليه قتله

Al-Sufyani is worse than a king. He kills scholars and people of virtue, annihilates them, and seeks their help. So whoever refuses to kill him

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خروج السفياني بعد تسع وثلاثين

The exit of Sufyani after thirty-nine days

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إذا كان خروج السفياني في سبع وثلاثين، كان ملكه ثمانية وعشرين شهرا، وإن خرج في تسع وثلاثين كان ملكه تسعة أشهر

If Al-Sufyani came out in thirty-seven, his reign would be twenty-eight months, and if he came out in thirty-nine, his reign would be nine months.

في زمان السفياني الثاني تكون الهدة حتى يظن كل قوم أنه قد خرب ما يليهم

In the time of the Second Sufyani, the guidance would take place until every people would think that they had destroyed what came next to them

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