Hadith 395

And by his chain from Is’haq, raising it to Al Asbagh Bin Nubata who said, ‘I heard Amir Al-Momineen-asws, may the greetings be upon him-asws, saying to the people: ‘Ask me-asws before you lose me-asws, because I-asws am more knowing with the ways of the sky than the scholars are, and more knowing with the ways of the earth than any scholar. I-asws am leader of the religion! I-asws am leader of the Momineen, and Imam-asws of the pious, and judge of the people on the Day of religion (Qiyamah)! I-asws am distributor of the Fire and treasurer of the Gardens, and master of the Fountain and the Scale, and master of the heights! There is no Imam-asws from us-asws except and he-asws is a knower with entirety of the people of his-asws Wilayah, and that is the Word of the Mighty and Majestic: But rather, you are a Warner, and for every people there is a Guide [13: 7]. Indeed, O you people! Ask me-asws before you lose me-asws, for between my-asws two chests there is immense knowledge! So ask me-asws before the eastern Fitna kicks with its legs and treads in its snouts after its death and its life, and fire burn with plentiful firewood (fuel) from west of the earth, raising its tail. You will call out, ‘O doom to its trip and it’s like! ’
When the planets rotate (time passes), you will say, ‘He-ajfj has died, or destroyed by which valley he-ajfj travelled! ’ On that day will be the interpretation of this Verse: Then We Returned the prevalence to you over them and Aided you with wealth and sons and Made you more numerous [17: 6]. And for that there are signs and markings. The first of these is siege of Al-Kufa by the monitoring and the trenches, and infiltration of the flags in the markets of Al-Kufa, and disabling of the Masjids for forty nights, and uncovering of the skeleton, and flapping of the flags around the great Masjid, shaking. The killer and the killed would be in the Fire, and quick killing, and the sudden death, and killing of Al-Nafs Al-Zakiya (the pure soul) at the back of Al-Kufa among seventy, and the slaughtered one between Al-Rukn (Al-Yemeni) and Al-Maqam (of Ibrahim-as) and killing of Al-Asqa in combat regarding the allegiance of the idols, and emergence of Al-Sufyani with a red flag. Its commander would be a man from the clan