Afghanistan, Iran & Pakistan
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The answer to the queries of Brothers/Sisters, Sorry that it took sometime in looking for this stuff; all comments welcome and encouraged
All of the following Ahadeeth have been taken from the book of Imam Jalul-ud-din Suyuti (RA) [العرف الوردی فی الاخبار المھدی ] and he has arranged the book in a sequential order where the Ahadeeth in the beginning are Authentic and the later ones are disputed amongst scholars.
The Army coming from Khuarasan (with black banners) which will join Mahdi is mentioned in many Saheeh Ahadeeth of Rasul-ullah (Sallaho Alaihe Wassallam) and Khurasan has three separate definitions/connotations:
1) At present Khurasan is a province of Iran
2) At the time of Rasul-ullah (Sallaho Alaihe Wassallam) Khurasan referred to Parts of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan (today’s Malakand Agency, Bajodh Agency & parts of FATA)
3) Pre-Islam during the Persian empire the entire Iran, Afghanistan and bits of Pakistan & Russia were under the Persian empire and used to be called Khuarasan Buzurg (Khurasan Major)
Ahadeeth are as follows:
And Ibn Abi Shaybah, Nu’aym ibn Hammad in al-Fitan, Ibn Majah and Abu Nu’aym narrated from Ibn Mas’ud [radhiyallahu ’anhu] that he said: "Once we were with the Messenger of Allah [sallallahu ’alayhi wa-sallam], when a group of youths from Banu Hashim approached. When the Prophet [sallallahu ’alayhi wa-sallam] saw them, his eyes filled with tears and his colour changed. He [i.e. Ibn Mas’ud] said: "I said: "We see in your face something that worries us." So he said: "We, the Ahl al-Bayt, are a people for whom Allah has chosen the hereafter over this world. And my household after me will face trials, banishment and pursuit, until a people from the east come with black banners, and they will ask for what is due, but not be given it. So they will fight and be victorious, and be given what they asked for. But they will not accept it from them until they hand it over to a man from my household, who will fill it [i.e. the earth] with equity, as they had filled it with tyranny. So whoever among you reaches that time, then let him go to them, even if he must crawl over ice, for he is the Mahdi."
Al-Hafidh ’Imad ad-Din ibn Kathir said: "In this is an indication of the rule of Banul-’Abbas, and in it is a proof that the Mahdi will be after the state of Banul-’Abbas, and he will be from the Ahl al-Bayt, from the descendents of Fatimah, the daughter of the Messenger of Allah [sallallahu ’alayhi wa-sallam], then from the children of al-Hasan and al-Husayn.
And Ibn Majah, al-Hakim and Abu Nu’aym narrated from Thawban [radhiyallahu ’anhu] that he said: "The Messenger of Allah [sallallahu ’alayhi wa-sallam]: "Three will fight where your treasure is, each one the son of a khalifah. But it will not go to a single one of them. Then, the black banners will come out of the east and kill you as no people have ever been killed. Then, the khilafah of Allah, the Mahdi, will come, so when you hear of him then go to him and give the bay’ah to him, even if you must crawl over ice. For he is Allah’s khalifah, the Mahdi."
And Ibn Majah and at-Tabarani narrated from ’Abdullah ibn al-Harith ibn Juz’ az-Zubaydi [radhiyallahu ’anhu] that he said: "The Messenger of Allah [sallallahu ’alayhi wa-sallam] said:
"A people will come from the east who will prepare the way for the Mahdi." Meaning for the rule of the Mahdi.
And Ahmad, at-Tirmidhi and Nu’aym ibn Hammad narrated from Abu Hurayrah
[radhiyallahu ’anhu] that he said: "The Messenger of Allah [sallallahu ’alayhi wa-sallam] said: "Black banners will come out of Khurasan, and nothing will stop them, until they are raised in Ayliya’ [i.e. Bayt al-Maqdis]."
Ibn Kathir said: "These banners are not those of Abu Muslim al-Khurasani who came and overthrew the state of Banu Umayyah in the year 132. Rather, they are other banners that will come in the future, accompanied by the Mahdi."
And at-Tabarani in al-Awsat narrated from Ibn ’Umar[radhiyallahu ’anhuma]: "The Messenger of Allah [sallallahu ’alayhi wa-sallam] was sitting with a group of the Muhajirun
and Ansar. ’Ali ibn Abi Talib was on his left, and al-’Abbas was on his right, when an argument broke out between al-’Abbas and a man from the Ansar, and the Ansari spoke harshly to al- ’Abbas. So the Prophet [sallallahu ’alayhi wa-sallam] took hold of the hand of al-’Abbas and the hand of ’Ali, and said:"There will come from the loins of this one [i.e. al-’Abbas] a tribe who will fill the earth will tyranny and oppression. And there will come from the loins of this one [i.e. ’Ali] a tribe who will fill the earth with equity and justice. So when you see that, then you must join the Tamimi youth. For he will come from the east, and he will be the bearer of the Mahdi’s banner."
And al-Hasan ibn Sufyan and Abu Nu’aym narrated from Thawban [radhiyallahu ’anhu] that
he said: "The Messenger of Allah [sallallahu ’alayhi wa-sallam] said: "The black banners will come from the east, with hearts like iron bars. So whoever hears of them, let him go to them and give them bay’ah, even if he must crawl over ice."
And Ibn Jarir narrated in Tahdhib al-Athar the following: "Your ruler al-Jabir will be the best of the Ummah of Muhammad. Go to join him in Makkah, for he is the Mahdi, and his name is Muhammad ibn ’Abdillah. Al-Abdal from ash-Sham and the ’Usab [groups] of the people of the east will go to him, with hearts like iron bars, worshippers at night and lions by day."
And he also narrated from Ka’b that he said: "When a man rules over ash-Sham, and another over Egypt, and the Shami and Egyptian fight each other, and the people of ash-Sham take some of the tribes of Egypt captive, and a man comes forward from the east with small black banners towards the ruler of ash-Sham, then it is he who will hand over the rule to the Mahdi."
And he also narrated from al-Hasan, that the Messenger of Allah [sallallahu ’alayhi wasallam] mentioned a tribulation that his household would encounter: "Until Allah sends a black banner from the east; whoever helps them, Allah will help him, and whoever lets them down, Allah will let him down; until they come to a man whose name is like my name, so He will make him their ruler, and Allah will help him and grant him victory."
And he also narrated from Sa’id ibn al-Musayyib that he said: "The Messenger of Allah
[sallallahu ’alayhi wa-sallam] said: "Out of the east will come black banners belonging to Banul-’Abbas, then they will remain as long as Allah wills, then small black banners will come out against a man from the descendents of Abu Sufyan, and his companions, from the east. They will give their obedience to the Mahdi."
And he also narrated from Abu Ja’far that he said: "The Sufyani will send his troops to the distant lands after his entry into al-Kufah and Baghdad. There will be an attack on them beyond the river [i.e. the river Oxus] by the people of Khurasan. The people of the east will advance upon them, killing them until the army is driven out. When the news of this reaches him [i.e. the Sufyani], he will send a great army to Istakhar, under the command of a man from Banu Umayyah, and they will fight a battle at Qumis, a battle on the outskirts of ar-Rayy, and a battle at the borders of Zarih. At that time, the Sufyani will order the killing of the people of al-Kufah and the people of al-Madinah. Then the black banners will advance from Khurasan, all of them led by a youth from Banu Hashim with a mole on his right hand. Allah will make easy his affair and his way. Then he will fight a battle at the borders of Khurasan, and the Hashimi will travel on the way to ar-Rayy. A man from the mawali of Banu Tamim called Shu’ayb ibn Salih will go to Istakhar to face the Umawi. So he [i.e. the Umawi] will meet the Mahdi and the Hashimi outside Istakhar, and a terrible battle will take place between them, until the horses will be covered in blood up to their knees. Then a great number of troops will come to him [i.e. the Hashimi] from Sijistan, under the command of a man from Banu ’Adiyy, so Allah will grant victory to his helpers and his troops. Then there will be a battle at al- Mada’in after the two battles at ar-Rayy. At ’Aqir-Qufa there will be the battle of Saylimah, which everyone who survives it will tell about. Then after than there will be a great slaughter at Babylon, and a battle in one of the lands of Nasibin. Then a group from their masses will come out against al-Ahwas [i.e. a man with a defect in his eye]; they are al-’Usab. Most of them will be from al-Kufah and al-Basrah. They will rescue the captives of al-Kufah from his hands."
And he also narrated from Shurayh ibn ’Ubayd, Rashid ibn Sa’d and Dhamrah ibn Habib,
from their mashayikh, that they said: "The Sufyani will send out his cavalry and his troops, and they will reach most of the eastern lands of Khurasan and Persia. The people of the east will rise up against them and fight them, and there will be battles between them in a number of places. After fighting him for a long time, they will give bay’ah to a man from Banu Hashim who will be, on that day, in the far east. So he will come out with the people of Khurasan, at the head of his army a man from Banu Tamim, one of their mawali called Shu’ayb ibn Salih, yellow in complexion with a sparse beard. He will come to him [i.e. to the Hashimi] accompanied by five thousand men when he hears of his coming, and give him bay’ah. So he [i.e. the Hashimi] will place him at the head of his army; if the firm mountains were to face him, he would shatter them. He will meet the Sufyani’s cavalry in battle and defeat them, killing many of them, and will go on defeating them from land to land until he defeats them all the way to al-’Iraq. Then they will fight a battle with the Sufyani’s cavalry, in which the victory will go to the Sufyani. The Hashimi will flee, and Shu’ayb ibn Salih will go in hiding to Bayt al-Maqdis, where he will prepare the ground for the Mahdi when he hears of his
coming to ash-Sham."
Al-Walid said: "It has reached me that this Hashimi is the paternal half-brother of the Mahdi."
Others said: "He is the son of his paternal uncle." Others said: "He will not die, but after the
defeat he will go to Makkah, and when the Mahdi appears he will come out with him.
And he also narrated from ’Ali ibn Abi Talib [radhiyallahu ’anhu] that he said: "A man will come before the Mahdi, from his household, in the east. He will carry the sword on
his shoulder for eight months, killing and maiming, and he will head towards Bayt al-Maqdis, but he will not reach it until he dies."
And he also narrated from ’Ali [radhiyallahu ’anhu] that he said: "When the Sufyani sends an army to the Mahdi and it is swallowed up at al-Bayda’, and the news of it reaches the people of ash-Sham, they will say to their khalifah: "The Mahdi has come, so give him the bay’ah and enter into his obedience, otherwise we will kill you." So he will send his bay’ah to him, and the Mahdi will travel until he settles in Bayt al-Maqdis.
The treasures will be brought to him, and the Arabs, the non-Arabs, the people of war, the
Romans and others will all enter into his obedience without fighting, until masajid are built in
Constantinople and other cities. And before him there will come a man from his household with the people of the east, carrying a sword on his shoulder for eight months, killing and maiming. He will head towards Bayt al- Maqdis, but he will not reach it until he dies."
