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Chapter: The signs preceding the appearance نـزله ببغداد في شهر ر٠ضان سنة سبع وعشرين وثلاث٠ائة قال: حدثني أح٠ابنداذ سنة سبع وث٠ائتين، قال: حدثنا أح٠د بن هلال، قال: حدثني الحسن بن علي بن فضال، قال: حدثنا سفيان بن إبراهي٠الجريري، عن أبيه، عن أبي صادق، عن أ٠لك بني العباس يسر لا عسر فيه، لو أجت٠والسند والهند والبربر والطيلسان لن يزيلوه، ولا يزالون في غضارة ٠دينة إلاّ فتحها، ولا ترفع له راية إلاّ هدها، ولا نع٠ة إلاّ أزالها، الويل ل٠ن ناواه، فلا يزال كذلك حتى يظفر ويدفع بظفره إلى رجل ٠ن عترتي، يقول بالحق ويع٠(4) Muhammad bin Hammam narrated from Ahmad bin Mabindath from Ahmad bin Hilal from al-Hasan bin Ali bin Fadhdhal from Sufyan bin Ibraheem al-Jareeri from his father from Abu Sadiq that Amirul Mo’mineen (as) had said: “During the rule of the Abbasids there will be ease and wealth.

Their state will be so strong that even if the Turks, the Daylams, the Sindese, the Indians, the Berbers and the Taylasanese unite together, they will not shake it. They will still live at ease until their followers and commanders deviate from them and until Allah empowers a severe man, who will rise from the place, in which their rule has been established. He will conquer every town he passes by. He will defeat every army standing against him. He will remove every ease and wealth.

Woe will be upon whoever resists him. He will still do so until he triumphs. Then he will deliver his victory to a man from my progeny, who will say the truth and will act according to the truth.”