ABOUT THE RULE OF DESCENDANTS OF ‘ABBAS
ABOUT THE RULE OF DESCENDANTS OF ‘ABBAS – THEY EMERGED FROM KHURASAN WITH BLACK FLAGS IN THE YEAR 132 A.H.
Aban Ibn Al-Waleed Ibn ‘Uqbah Ibn Abu Mu‘ait said: Abdullah Ibn Abbas came to Mu‘awiyah while I was present. Mu‘awiyah presented him with a generous gift and then asked him, “Abul-Abbas, are you going to have a state?” Ibn Abbas said, “Excuse from that, O commander of the faithful.” When Mu‘awiyah insisted, he answered in the affirmative. Mu‘awiyah then asked, “Who will be your supporters?” He replied, “The people of Khurasan.”
Ibn Abbas said: I passed by the Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) while Angel Gabriel was with him, and I thought he was Dihyah Al-Kalbi. Gabriel said to the Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him), “Now his dress is dirty; but his offspring shall wear black.”
Abu Maisarah, the freed slave of Abbas, said that he heard Abbas say: I was with the Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) one night when he said, “Look, can you see something in the sky?” I said, “Yes.” He said, “What did you see?” I said, “Pleiades.” He said, “Your offspring shall rule this nation for years the number of these Pleiades.”
Sa‘eed Ibn Jubair narrated: Ibn Abbas heard us say: “Twelve rulers and twelve rulers. Then the Hour will be established.” And he said, “How stupid you are! After that, there will be rulers from our household: Al-Mansoor, As-Saffah, Al-Mahdi.” He continued to mention the names until he reached ‘Eesa (Jesus).
Thawban narrated that the Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “At this treasure of yours, three of the sons of the caliph will be killed and none of them will be able to become caliph before he will be killed. Then people with black flags will come from Khurasan and they will kill you in a way that you have not seen before. Then Allah’s Caliph Al-Mahdi will come. When you hear about him, you should go and pledge allegiance to him even if you have to get to him crawling on snow. For, he is the Allah’s caliph, the Mahdi.”
Abdullah Ibn Mas‘ood narrated that the Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) mentioned some youngsters from Banu Hashim and his eyes welled with tears. He also mentioned flags and then said, “He who lives to that time should come to the flags, even if has to do crawling on the snow.”
Abu Hurairah narrated that the Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) said, “Black flags will come out from Khurasan and nothing will be able to stop them until they are erected at Bait ul Maqdis.”
Abu Sa‘eed Al-Khudri narrated that the Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) said, “After some time and appearance of trials, a man will emerge that will be known as ‘Saffah’. He will be extremely generous with money.”
The above are narrations about coming out of black flags from Khurasan and about caliphate of ‘As-Saffah’ – he is Abul-Abbas Abdullah Ibn Muhammad Ibn Ali Ibn Abdullah Ibn Abbas Ibn AbdulMuttalib. His caliphate occurred around Year 130 A.H. He then emerged in the company of his supporters bearing black flags for their symbol is black, in emulation of the color of the turban the Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) was wearing when he was entering Makkah on the day of its conquest. He was wearing a helmet and over it was a black turban. As-Saffah then sent his uncle Abdullah to go and fight the Umayyads. He defeated them in the Year 132 A.H. and the last of the Umayyad caliphs – Marwan Ibn Muhammad Ibn Marwan, who was nicknamed Al-Himar – took to flight.
By Ibn Katheer
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