Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

علامة خروج المهدي خسف يكون بالبيداء بجيش، فهو علامة خروجه

The sign of the Mahdi’s emergence will be an eclipse in Al-Bayda with an army, which is a sign of his emergence

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يبعث صاحب المدينة إلى الهاشميين بمكة جيشا فيهزمونهم، فيسمع بذلك الخليفة بالشام، فيقطع إليهم بعثا فيهم ستمائة عريف، فإذا أتوا البيداء فنزلوها في ليلة مقمرة أقبل راع ينظر إليهم ويعجب ويقول: يا ويح أهل مكة، ما أصابهم؟ فينصرف إلى غنمه، ثم يرجع فلا يرى أحدا، فإذا هم قد خسف بهم، فيقول: سبحان الله، ارتحلوا في ساعة واحدة، فيأتي منزلهم فيجد قطيفة قد خسف ببعضها، وبعضها على ظهر الأرض، فيعالجها فلا يطيقها، فيعرف أنه قد خسف بهم، فينطلق إلى صاحب مكة فيبشره، فيقول صاحب مكة: الحمد لله، هذه العلامة التي كنتم تخبرون، فيسيرون إلى الشام

The owner of the city sends an army to the Hashemites in Mecca, and they defeat them. Then the Caliph in the Sham (Greater Syria) hears of this, so he sends to them a delegation of six hundred corporals. When they come to Al-Bayda and encamp it on a moonlit night, a shepherd comes looking at them and is amazed and says: Oh, woe to the people of Mecca, what has happened to them? So he goes back to his sheep, then returns and does not see anyone, and when they are lost, he says: Glory be to Allah, they left in one hour. Then he comes to their house and finds some of the amaranth has collapsed, and some of it is on the surface of the ground. He treats it and cannot bear it, and he knows that they have been destroyed, so he goes to the ruler of Mecca and gives him the good news. The ruler of Mecca says: Praise be to Allah, this is the sign that you were reporting, so they go to the Sham (Greater Syria).

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سيعوذ بمكة عائذ فيقتل، ثم يمكث الناس برهة من دهرهم، ثم يعوذ عائذ آخر، فإن أدركته فلا تغزونه، فإنه جيش الخسف

One person will seek refuge in Mecca and be killed, then the people will stay for a while, then another person will seek refuge in Mecca. If you catch him, do not attack him, for he is an army of eclipse.

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يأتي جيش من قبل المغرب يريدون هذا البيت، حتى إذا كانوا بالبيداء خسف بهم، فيرجع من كان أمامهم لينظر ما فعل القوم، فيصيبهم ما أصابهم، ويلحق بهم من خلفهم لينظر ما فعلوه فيصيبهم ما أصابهم، فمن كان مستكرها أصابهم ما أصابهم، ثم يبعث الله تعالى كل امرئ منهم على نيته

An army comes from the west, seeking this house, until when they are in Al-Bayda, it eclipses them, and whoever was in front of them returns to see what the people did, and what befell them will happen to them, and he follows them behind them to see what they did, and what befell them will befall them. Whoever was hiding it will be hit by what befell them, then Allah Almighty will resurrect each one of them according to his intention.

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سيكون عائذ بمكة، يبعث إليه سبعون ألفا، عليهم رجل من قيس، حتى إذا بلغوا الثنية دخل آخرهم ولم يخرج منها أولهم، نادى جبريل: بيداء، يا بيداء يا بيداء، يسمع مشارقها ومغاربها، خذيهم فلا خير فيهم، فلا يظهر على هلاكهم إلا راعي غنم في الجبل ينظر إليهم حين ساخوا، فيخبرهم فإذا سمع العائذ بهم خرج

He will be seeking refuge in Mecca, sending seventy thousand to him, including a man from Qays, until when they reach Al-Thaniyah, the last of them will enter and the first of them will not leave. Gabriel called out: Bayda, oh Bayda, oh Bayda, he hears its east and west. Take them, for there is no good in them. Only a shepherd in the mountain will appear upon their destruction, looking at them when they are hot, and telling them, and when the seeker hears of them, he will go out.

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فإذا بلغ السفياني الذي بمصر بعث جيشا إلى الذي بمكة، فيخربون المدينة أشد من الحرة حتى إذا بلغوا البيداء خسف بهم

When Al-Sufyani reached the one in Egypt, he would send an army to the one in Mecca, and they would destroy Medina more severely than Al-Harrah, until when they reached Al-Bayda, they would be eclipsed.

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يبعث إلى مكة جيش من الشام حتى إذا كانوا بالبيداء خسف بهم

A'isha reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) was startled in the state of sleep. We said:Allah's Messenger, you have done something in the state of your sleep which you never did before, Thereupon he said: Strange it is that some people of my Ummah would attack the House (Ka'ba) (for killing) a person who would belong to the tribe of the Quraish and he would try to seek protection in the House. And when they would reach the plain ground they would be sunk. We said: Allah's Messenger, all sorts of people throng the path. Thereupon he said: Yes, there would be amongst them people who would come with definite designs and those who would come under duress and there would be travellers also, but they would all be destroyed through one (stroke) of destruction. though they would be raised in different states (on the Day of Resurrection). Allah would, however, raise them according to their intention

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يبعث جيش إلى المدينة فيخسف بهم بين الجماوين، ويقتل النفس الزكية

He sends an army to Medina, crushes them among the crowds, and kills the pure soul

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يخسف بهم فلا ينجو منهم إلا رجلان من كلب، اسمهما: وبر ووبير، تقلب وجوههما في أقفيتهما

They will be eclipsed, and none of them will be saved except two men from the dog, their names: Wabar and Wabir, their faces are turned in their backs.

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إذا نزل جيش في طلب الذين خرجوا إلى مكة فنزلوا البيداء خسف بهم، ويباد بهم، وهو قوله عز وجل: {ولو ترى إذ فزعوا فلا فوت وأخذوا من مكان قريب} [سبأ: 51] من تحت أقدامهم، ويخرج رجل من الجيش في طلب ناقة له، ثم يرجع إلى الناس فلا يجد منهم أحدا، ولا يحس بهم، وهو الذي يحدث الناس بخبرهم

If an army descends in pursuit of those who went out to Mecca and they camp in Al-Bayda, they will be swallowed up and destroyed. This is what Allah Almighty says: “And if you could see, when they were terrified, they did not escape, and they were taken from a nearby place” [Saba: 51] from under their feet, and a man from the army goes out in search of a camel of his, then he returns to the people and does not find any of them, nor does he sense them, and it is he who tells the people their news.

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Traced to Ka'b al-Ahbar (automatic guess): a report of earlier scriptures, not a hadith of the Prophet ﷺ.

يوجه جيش إلى المدينة اثنا عشر ألفا فيخسف بهم بالبيداء

He sends an army of twelve thousand to the city and destroys them in Al-Bayda

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يبعث من أهل الكوفة بعثين: بعثا إلى مرو، وبعثا إلى الحجاز، فيخسف بثلث بعثه إلى الحجاز، وثلث يمسخون، تحول وجوههم بين أكتافهم، يرون أدبارهم كما يرون فروجهم، يمشون القهقرى بأعقابهم، كما كانوا يمشون بصدور أقدامهم، ويبقى الثلث فيسيرون إلى مكة

He will send from the people of Kufa two missions: one to Marv, and one to Hijaz, and a third of his mission to Hijaz will be eclipsed, and a third will be transformed, their faces will be turned between their shoulders, they will see their backs as they see their private parts, they will walk backwards with their heels, as they used to walk with the tops of their feet, and a third will remain and they will march to Mecca.

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إذا بلغ السفياني قتل النفس الزكية، وهو الذي كتب عليه، فهرب عامة المسلمين من حرم رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم إلى حرم الله تعالى بمكة، فإذا بلغه ذلك بعث جندا إلى المدينة عليهم رجل من كلب، حتى إذا بلغوا البيداء خسف بهم، وينفلت أميرهم، وذكروا أنه من مذحج، وقال بعضهم: من كلب

If Al-Sufyani was informed of the killing of the pure soul, which is what was prescribed for him, then the majority of Muslims fled from the sanctuary of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ to the sanctuary of Allah Almighty in Mecca. When he was informed of that, he sent an army to Medina with a man from a Kalb, with them at their command, until when they reached Al-Bayda, they were eclipsed and their leader escaped, and they mentioned that he was from Madhhij, and some of them said: from a Kalb.

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لا ينجو منهم إلا رجلان من كلب اسمهما: وبر ووبير، تحول وجوههما في أقفيتهما

Only two men from the dog, named Wabar and Wabir, escape from them. Their faces are transformed into their faces

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لا يفلت منهم أحد إلا بشير ونذير، فأما البشير فإنه يأتي المهدي بمكة وأصحابه فيخبرهم بما كان من أمرهم، ويكون شاهد ذلك في وجهه قد حول وجهه في قفاه، فيصدقونه لما يرون من تحويل وجهه، ويعلمون أن القوم قد خسف بهم، والثاني مثل ذلك قد حول وجهه إلى قفاه، يأتي السفياني فيخبره بما أنزل بأصحابه فيصدقه ويعلم أنه حق لما يرى فيه من العلامة، وهما رجلان من كلب

No one escapes from them except a good tidings and a warner. As for the good tidings, he comes to the Mahdi in Mecca and his companions and informs them of what happened to them, and the witness of that is in his face with his face turned to his back, and they believe him when they see the turning of his face, and they know that the people have been eclipsed by them, and the second is like that, he has turned his face to his back. The Sufyani comes and tells him what was revealed to his companions and he believes it and knows that it is true because of the sign he sees in it, and they are two men of a dog.

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يا بيداء بيدي بأهلك، فتبيد بهم إلا رجل من بجيلة، يحول الله وجهه إلى قفاه ليخبر الناس بأمرهم

O Bayda, I will take your family by my hand, and you will be destroyed by them, except for a man from Bujaila. Allah will turn his face to the back of his head to inform the people of their situation.

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لا ينجو منهم أحد إلا رجل واحد يحول الله وجهه إلى قفاه، فيمشي كمشيته كان مستويا بين يديه

None of them will be saved except one man. Allah will turn his face to the back of his head, and he will walk as if he were level before his hands

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