Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

إذا بعث السفياني إلى المهدي جيشا فخسف بهم بالبيداء، وبلغ ذلك أهل الشام قالوا لخليفتهم: قد خرج المهدي فبايعه وادخل في طاعته، وإلا قتلناك، فيرسل إليه بالبيعة ويسير المهدي حتى ينزل بيت المقدس، وتنقل إليه الخزائن، وتدخل العرب والعجم وأهل الحرب والروم وغيرهم في طاعته من غير قتال، حتى تبنى المساجد بالقسطنطينية وما دونها، ويخرج قبله رجل من أهل بيته بأهل المشرق، يحمل السيف على عاتقه ثمانية أشهر، يقتل ويمثل، ويتوجه إلى بيت المقدس، فلا يبلغه حتى يموت

If Al-Sufyani sends an army to the Mahdi and he overwhelms them in Al-Bayda, and this reaches the people of the Sham (Greater Syria), they say to their caliph: The Mahdi has left, so pledge allegiance to him and enter into obedience to him, otherwise we will kill you. Then he will be sent to him with the pledge of allegiance, and the Mahdi will travel until he descends on Jerusalem, and the treasuries will be transferred to him, and the Arabs, Persians, people of war, Romans, and others will enter into obedience to him without fighting, until mosques are built in Constantinople and below, and a man from the people of Jerusalem will emerge before him. His home is among the people of the East. He carries the sword on his shoulder for eight months. He kills and mutilates. He heads to Jerusalem, and does not reach it until he dies.

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يبايع المهدي سبعة رجال علماء توجهوا إلى مكة من أفق شتى على غير ميعاد، قد بايع لكل رجل منهم ثلاثمائة وبضعة عشر رجلا، فيجتمعون بمكة فيبايعونه، ويقذف الله محبته في صدور الناس، فيسير بهم وقد توجه إلى الذين بايعوا خيل السفياني، عليهم رجل من جرم، فإذا خرج من مكة خلف أصحابه ومشى في إزار ورداء حتى يأتي الجرمي، فيبايع له، فيندمه كلب على بيعته، فيأتيه فيستقيله البيعة فيقيله، ثم يعبئ جيوشه لقتاله فيهزمه، ويهزم الله على يديه الروم، ويذهب الله على يديه الفتن، وينزل الشام

Al-Mahdi will pledge allegiance to seven scholarly men who went to Mecca from different parts of the world without an appointment. Three hundred and twelve men have pledged allegiance to each of them. They gather in Mecca and pledge allegiance to him, and Allah pours His love into the hearts of the people. He leads them along, and he turns to those who pledged allegiance to the horses of the Sufyani. On them is a man of crime. When he leaves Mecca behind his companions and walks in a loincloth and robe until the crime comes, he pledges allegiance to him, and a dog will regret his pledge of allegiance. Then he will come to him and pledge allegiance to him and he will dismiss him, then he will mobilize his armies to fight him and defeat him, and Allah will defeat the Romans at his hands, and Allah will remove the temptations at his hands and descend on the Sham (Greater Syria).

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