Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

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

إذا أبق رجل من قريش إلى القسطنطينية فقد حضر أمرها، وأمير الجيش الذي يفتح القسطنطينية ليس بسارق ولا زان ولا غال، والملاحم على يدي رجل من آل هرقل

If a man from the Quraysh goes to Constantinople, then he has attended to its command, and the commander of the army who conquers Constantinople is neither a thief, nor an adulterer, nor an oppressor, and the epics are at the hands of a man from the family of Heraclius.

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

تفتح على يدي رجل من بني هاشم قالا جميعا: وأخبرنا صفوان، عن شريح، وأبي المثنى الأملوكي، عن كعب، قال: تفتح على يدي ولد سبأ، وولد قاذر فلم يذكر بقية أبا المثنى وقال بقية، عن صفوان بن عمرو، عن أبي المثنى، عن كعب، الذي تكون على يديه الملاحم رجل من أهل هرقل، يقال له طبر، يعني طبارة

It was conquered at the hands of a man from Banu Hashim. They all said: Safwan told us, on the authority of Shurayh, and Abu Al-Muthanna Al-Amluki, on the authority of Ka’b, who said: It was conquered at the hands of the son of Saba and the son of Qadir. Baqiyya did not mention Abu Al-Muthanna. Baqiyya said, on the authority of Safwan bin Amr, on the authority of Abu Al-Muthanna, on the authority of Ka’b, on whose hands the epics were written, a man from the people of Heraclius, called Tabar, meaning Tabara.

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الخامس من آل هرقل الذي يقال له طبر، على يديه تكون الملاحم

The fifth of the family of Heraclius, who is called Tabar, is the author of the epics

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

الذي تكون على يديه الملاحم من آل هرقل يقال له طبر، يعني طبارة

The one on whose hands the epics from the family of Heraclius were written is called Tabar, meaning Tabara

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ينهزم يوم الملحمة الثلث من المسلمين، وأولئك شرار البرية عند الله

On the day of the epic, a third of the Muslims will be defeated, and they are the worst of creation in the sight of Allah

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

يا معشر قيس، أحبي يمنا، ويا معشر اليمن أحبي قيسا، فيوشك أن لا يقتل على هذا الدين غيركما قال الأوزاعي: بلغني أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال: قيس فرسان الناس يوم الملاحم، واليمن رجاء الإسلام

O community of Qais, love Yemen, and O community of Yemen, love Qais, for it is about to be that no one will be killed for this religion except you. Qais, the knights of the people on the day of epics, and Yemen is the hope of Islam.

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إذا وقعت الملاحم خرج بعث من دمشق من الموالي هم أكرم العرب فرسا، وأجوده سلاحا، يؤيد الله بهم الدين

It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:“When the fierce battles take place, Allah will send a troop of freed slaves who will be the best Arab horsemen and the best armed, with whom Allah will support His religion.”

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لا تدع الروم على الساحل أيام الملاحم ماء إلا عسكروا عليه

The Romans did not leave water on the coast during the days of the epics unless they camped on it

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إذا وقعت الملاحم خرج من دمشق بعث هم خيار عباد الله الأولين والآخرين

When the epics took place, he would emerge from Damascus, sending them the best of Allah’s servants, the first and the last

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

الملحمة العظمى، وخراب القسطنطينية، وخروج الدجال، في سبعة أشهر، أو ما شاء الله من ذلك

The great epic, the destruction of Constantinople, and the emergence of the Dajjal, in seven months, or as long as Allah wills

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الملاحم عشر، أولها ملحمة قيسارية فلسطين، وآخرها ملحمة عمق أنطاكية

Ten epics, the first of which is the epic of Caesarea Palestine, and the last of which is the epic of the depths of Antioch

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

في الملحمة العظمى تخرب سواحل الشام حتى تبكي السواحل من خرابها كبكاء المدن والقرى

In the great epic, the coasts of the Sham (Greater Syria) are destroyed until the coasts cry from their devastation, just as cities and villages cry

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تغلب الروم في الملحمة الصغرى على سهل الأردن، وبيت المقدس

In the Lesser Epic, the Romans defeated the Jordan Plain and Jerusalem

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الخامس من آل هرقل على يديه تكون الملاحم قال أرطاة: فولي أربعة من آل هرقل، قال أصحاب النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم: فبقي الخامس، قال أرطاة: لم يجئ الخامس إلى الآن بعد

The fifth of the family of Heraclius was at his hands. The epics were created. Artah said: Then four of the family of Heraclius took over. The Companions of the Prophet ﷺ said: So the fifth remained. Artah said: The fifth has not come yet.

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

إذا رأيت همدان المشرق وقد نزلت بين الرستن وحمص فهو حضور الملحمة، وخروج الدجال ، قلت: وما ينزلهم الرستن؟

If you see Hamadan in the East and you have settled between Rastan and Homs, it is the presence of the epic, and the emergence of the Dajjal

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إذا رأيت ما بين العريش إلى الفرات مأدبة أهل بيت واحد فذلك علامة الملاحم

If you see a banquet between the people of one household between Al-Arish and the Euphrates, this is a sign of epics

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إذا ملك العتيقان: عتيق العرب، وعتيق الروم، كانت الملاحم على أيديهما قال أبو قبيل: تكون الملاحم على يدي طبارس بن أطيطنيان بن الأخرم بن قسطنطين بن هرقل

If the two ancients ruled: the ancient Arabs and the ancients of the Romans, the epics were at their hands. Abu Qabil said: The epics would be at the hands of Tabaris ibn Atitanian ibn al-Akhram ibn Constantine ibn Heraclius.

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يكون بين المهدي وبين طاغية الروم صلح بعد قتله السفياني، ونهب كلب، حتى يختلف تجاركم إليهم، وتجارهم إليكم، ويأخذون في صنعة سفنهم ثلاث سنين، ثم يهلك المهدي، فيملك رجل من أهل بيته يعدل قليلا، ثم يجور، فيقتل قتلا، ولا ينطفئ ذكره حتى ترسو الروم فيما بين صور إلى عكا، فهي الملاحم

There will be a reconciliation between the Mahdi and the Roman tyrant after he is killed by the Sufyani, and Kalb is plundered, until your merchants differ to each other and their merchants to you, and they take three years to master the craftsmanship of their ships. Then the Mahdi perishes, and a man from his family reigns and does justice a little, then he is tyrannical, and he is killed, and his memory will not be extinguished until the Romans anchor between Tire and Akka. These are the epics.

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