Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 4-1142b
"عَنْ مُحَمَّد بْنِ الْحَنَفِيَّةِ: أَنَّ عَلِىَّ بْنَ أَبِى طَالِبٍ قَالَ يَوْمًا فِى مَجْلِسِهِ: وَالله لَقَد عَلِمْتُ لَتَقْتُلُنَّنِى وَلتخْلفُنَّنِى (وَلَتُكْفَرُنّ إِطْفأَ الأبناء بما فيه) ما يمنع أَشقاكم أَنْ يَخضبَ هذِهِ - يَعْنِى لِحْيَتَهُ - بِدَمٍ مِنْ قَوَدِ هذِهِ - يَعْنِى هَامَتَهُ - فَوَ الله إِنَّ ذَلِكَ لَفِى عَهْدِ رسولِ الله ﷺ إِلَىَّ، وَلَيُدَالُنَّ عَلَيْكُم هؤُلاَءِ الْقَوْم بِاجْتِمَاعِهِمْ عَلَى أَهْلِ بَاطِلِهِمْ، وَتَفَرِّقِكُم عَلَى أَهْلِ حَقِّكُمْ حَتَّى تملكوا الزَّمانَ الطويلَ، فَتَسْتَحِلُّوا الدَّمَ الحَرَامَ، والْفَرْجَ الْحَرَامَ، والْخَفرَ الْحَرَامَ، والْمَالَ الْحَرَامَ، فَلاَ يَبْقَى بَيْتٌ مِنْ بُيُوتِ الْمُسْلِمينَ إِذَا دَخَلتْ عَلَيْهِ مَظْلَمَتُهُمْ، فَيَا وَيْحَ بَنِى أُمَيَّةَ مِنَ ابْنِ أَمَتِهمْ يَقْتُلُ زِنْدِيقَهُمْ، وَيُسيِّرُ خَلِيفَتَهُمْ فِى الأَسْوَاقِ، فَإِذَا كَانَ كَذلِكَ ضَربَ الله بَعضَهُم بِبَعْضٍ، والَّذِى فَلَقَ الْحَبَّةَ وَبَرَأَ النَّسَمَةَ لاَ يَزَالُ مُلكُ بَنِى أُمَيَّةَ ثَابِتًا لَهُمْ حَتَّى يَمْلِكَ زِنْدِيقُهُمْ، فَإِذَا قَتَلُوهُ وَمُلِّكَ ابْنُ أَمَتِهِمْ خَمْسَةَ أَشهُرٍ، أَلْقَىَ الله بَأَسَهُمْ بَيْنَهُمْ فَيُخْرِبُونَ بُيُوتَهُمْ بأيْدِيهِمْ وَأَيْدِى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ، وَتُعَطَّلُ الثُّغُورُ، وَتُهْرَاقُ الدِّمَاءُ، وَتَقَعُ الشَّحْنَاءُ فِى الْعَالَمِ والْهَرْجُ سَبْعَةَ أَشْهُرٍ، فَإِذَا قُتِلَ زِنْدِيقُهُمْ فَالْوَيْلُ ثُمَّ الْوَيْلُ لِلنَّاسِ فِى ذَلِكَ الزَّمَانِ، يُسَلِّطُ الله بَعْضَ بَنِى هَاشِمٍ عَلَى بَعْضٍ حَتَّى تُغيرَ خَمْسَةُ نَفَرٍ عَلَى الْمُلِكِ كَمَا يَتَغَايرُ الفِتْيَانُ عَلَى الْمَرْأَةِ الْحَسْنَاءِ، فَمِنْهُمْ الْهَارِبُ وَالْمَشْئُومُ، وَمِنْهُمْ السِّناطُ الخَلِيعُ يُبَايِعُهُ جُلُّ أَهْلِ الشَّامِ، ثُمَّ يَسِيرُ إِلَيْهِ حِمَارُ الْجَزِيرَة مِنْ مَدِينَةِ الأَوْثَانِ، فَيُقَاتِلُهُ الْخَلِيعُ، وَيَغْلِبُ عَلَى الْخَزَائِنِ، فَيُقَاتِلُهُ مِنَ دِمَشْقَ إِلَى حَرَّانَ، وَيَعْمَلُ عَمَلَ الْجَبَابِرَةِ الأولَى، فَيَغْضَبُ الله مِنَ السَّمَاءِ لِكُلِّ عَمَلِهِ فَيَبْعَت عَلَيْه فتقا مِنْ قِبَلِ الْمَشْرِقِ يَدعُو إِلَى أَهْلِ بَيْت النَّبِىِّ ﷺ هُم أَصْحَابُ الرَّايَاتِ السُّودِ الْمُسْتَضْعَفُونَ فَيُعِزُّهُمْ الله وَيُنَزِّلُ عَلَيْهِمُ النَّصْرَ، فَلاَ يُقَاتِلُهُمْ أَحدٌ إِلاَّ هَزَمُوهُ، وَيَسيرُ الْجَيْشُ الْقحْطَانِى حَتَّى يَسْتَخْرِجُوا الْخَلِيفَةَ وَهُوَ كَارِهٌ خَائِفٌ، فَيَسِيرُ مَعَهُ تِسْعَةُ آلاَف مِنَ الْمَلاَئِكَةِ، مَعَهُ رَايَةُ النَّصْر، وَفَتَى الْيَمَنِ فِى بَحْرِ حماز الْجَزِيرَةِ عَلَى شَاطِئ نَهْرٍ، فَيَلتَقِى هُوَ وَسَفَاحُ بَنِى هَاشمٍ فَيَهْزِمونَ الحمازَ ويَهْزِمُونَ جَيْشَهُ وَيُغْرِقُونَهُمْ فِى النَّهْرِ فيَسِيُر الحماز حَتَّى يَبْلُغَ حرَّانَ، فَيَتْبَعُونَهُ فَيَهْرَبُ مِنْهُم، فَيَأخُذُ عَلَى الْمَدَائِنِ الَّتِى بِالشَّامِ عَلَى شَاطِئ الْبَحْرِ حَتَّى يَنْتَهِىَ إِلَى الْبَحْرَيْنِ، وَيَسيرُ السَّفَاحُ وَفَتَى الْيَمَنِ حَتَّى يَنْزِلُوا دِمَشْقَ فَيَفْتَحُوها أَسْرعَ مِنَ الْتِمَاعِ الْبَرقِ، وَيَهْدِمُوا سُورهَا، ثُمَّ يُبْنَى وَيُعَمَّرُ، وَيُسَاعِدُهُمْ عَلَيْهَا رَجُلٌ مِنْ بَنِى هَاشِمٍ اسمُهُ اسْم نَبِىٍّ، فَيَفْتَحُونَها مِنَ الْبابِ الشَّرْقِى قَبْلَ أنْ يَمْضِىَ مِنَ الْيَوْمِ الثَّانِى أَرْبَعُ سَاعَات، فَيْدْخُلُها سَبْعُونَ أَلْفَ سَيْفٍ مَسْلُول بِأَيْدِ أَصْحَابِ الرَّايَاتِ السُّودِ، شِعَارهُمْ "أَمُتْ، أَمُتْ"، أَكْثَرُ قَتْلاَهَا فِيما يَلِى الْمَشرِقَ والْفَتَى فِى طَلَبِ الْحماز فَيُدْرِكَانِهِ () مِنْ وَرَاءِ الْبَحْرَيْنِ مِنْ الْمَعْرتَينِ وَالْيَمَنِ، وَيُكْمِلُ الله لِلْخَلِيفَةِ سُلطَانَهُ، ثُمَّ يَثُورُ سَميان أَحَدهُما بِالشَّام، وَالآخَرُ بِمَكَّةَ، فَيَهْلِكُ صَاحِبُ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ وَيُقْبِلُ حَتَّى تَلْقَى جُمُوعهُ جُمُوعَ صَاحِبِ الشَّامِ فَيَهْزمُونَهُ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. al-Ḥanafiyyah
- ʿAli b. Abiá Ṭālib
- Yawm Fiá Majlisih and al-Lh Laqad ʿAlimt Lataqtulunnaniá Waltkhlfunnaniá Walatukfarun Iṭfʾ al-b.āʾ Bmā Fyh Mā Ymnʿ Ashqākm
- Yakhḍb Hdhih Yaʿniá Liḥyatah Bidam from Qawad Hdhih Yaʿniá Hāmatah Faw Allāh In Dhalik Lafiá ʿAhd Rswl Allāh ﷺ
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"From Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah: that 'Ali ibn Abi Talib said one day in his gathering: 'By Allah, I know that you will surely kill me and you will surely succeed me (and you will surely deny the fire, extinguishing the light with what is in it). What prevents your most wretched one from dyeing this' - meaning his beard - 'with blood from this' - meaning his head? By Allah, that is in the covenant of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ with me. These people will certainly gain the upper hand over you by their unity in their falsehood and your division over your truth, until you possess a long time, and then you make lawful the forbidden blood, the forbidden honour, the forbidden sanctity, and the forbidden wealth. No house of the Muslims will remain free of their injustice when it enters upon them. Woe to the sons of Umayyah because of the son of their slave-woman, who kills their heretic and makes their caliph wander through the markets. When that happens, Allah will set some of them against others. By the One who split the seed and created the soul, the rule of the sons of Umayyah will not cease to be firm for them until their heretic rules. When they kill him and the son of their slave-woman is made ruler for five months, Allah will cast their might among them, and they will ruin their houses with their own hands and the hands of the believers. The frontiers will be left unguarded, blood will be shed, enmity will fall upon the world, and chaos will last seven months. When their heretic is killed, woe, then woe to the people in that time. Allah will set some of the Banu Hashim against others, until five men contend for the kingship as young men contend for a beautiful woman. Among them is the fleeing one and the ill-omened one, and among them is the dissolute, debauched one, whom most of the people of al-Sham will pledge allegiance to. Then the donkey of the island will march toward him from the city of idols, and the debauched one will fight him and prevail over the treasuries. He will fight him from Damascus to Harran and will act like the ancient tyrants. Allah will be angry with him from heaven for all his deeds, and will send against him a rebellion from the East calling to the People of the House of the Prophet ﷺ; they are the bearers of the black banners, the oppressed, and Allah will honour them and send them victory. No one will fight them without being defeated. The Qahtani army will march until they extract the caliph, while he is unwilling and afraid. With him will march nine thousand angels, with him the banner of victory. The youth of Yemen, in the sea of Hamaz of the island, on the shore of a river, will meet him and the Saffah of the Banu Hashim, and they will defeat Hamaz, defeat his army and drown them in the river. Hamaz will march until he reaches Harran, and they will pursue him, and he will flee from them, and take the cities of al-Sham on the shore of the sea until he reaches the Two Seas. The Saffah and the youth of Yemen will march until they reach Damascus, and they will conquer it faster than the flash of lightning, and demolish its wall, then it will be rebuilt and restored. A man from the Banu Hashim whose name is the name of a prophet will assist them against it, and they will conquer it from the eastern gate before four hours of the second day have passed. Seventy thousand drawn swords will enter it in the hands of the bearers of the black banners, their slogan being 'Kill, kill'. Most of its slain will be on the side facing the East. The youth will be in pursuit of Hamaz, and they will overtake him beyond the Two Seas, from the two quarters and Yemen. Allah will complete the caliph's authority. Then two rebels will rise, one in al-Sham and the other in Makkah, and the master of the Sacred Mosque will perish, and his hosts will advance until they meet the hosts of the master of al-Sham, and they will defeat him."
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