Hadith 54

nything regarding what is between you and the Hour (Day of Qiyamah), nor about any group straying a hundred (people) or guiding a hundred, except I-asws shall inform you with its caller and its usher! ’
A man stood up to him-asws and said, ‘Narrate to us, O Amir Al-Momineen-asws, about the afflictions’. He-asws said: ‘You are in a time period when a questioner asks, so let him understand, and when the questioner is asked, let him affirm. Indeed! And from behind you are matters coming to you, majestic, paired, and grim afflictions, dire (dreadful). By the One-azwj Who Split the seed and Formed the person! If you were to lose me-asws, and abhorrent matters befall with you, and realities of afflictions, it would knock down many of the questioners, and defeat many of the questioned ones. And that would be when your wars are shorter and roll up from a leg, and the world would become a scourge upon you, and upon the people of my-asws family until Allah-azwj Grants victory to the remainder of the righteous. So, help the people who were bearers of the flags on the day of Badr, and day of Hunayn. Help and you will be rewarded, and do not precede them, for you – for the calamities will quicken to you’. Another man stood up to him, he said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! Narrate to us about the Fitna’. He-asws said: ‘The Fitna, when it comes, it’s suspicious (confuses one), and when it turns around, it settles the suspicious being faced (so doubt is removed), and it’s turning around is recognised (its affliction becomes clearly visible). The Fitna hovers like the winds hitting a city but missing another (town). Indeed! The scariest of the Fitna upon you in my-asws presence is the Fitna of the clan of Umayya. It is a blinding Fitna of widespread darkness. Its Fitna is general and its affliction is particular, and the affliction will hit the one who (remains) insightful during it, and the affliction would miss the one who is blind from it. The people of its falsehood would prevail over the people of its right until the earth is filled with our-asws enemies, and injustice, and innovations. Indeed! The first one to place down its might, and break its pillars, and remove its pegs would be Allah-azwj, Lord-azwj of the worlds. And I-asws swear by Allah-azwj! You will be finding the clan of Umayya as evil lords after me-asws, like the canine teeth biting with its mouth, and crushing by its hand, and striking with its legs, and its turn would be prevented, not ceasing with you all until there is no one is left in your city except a follower of their, or non-harmful one, and their affliction will not cease with you until there will not be any victory from them for any one of you except like the victory of a slave from his master, when he sees him, he obeys him, and when he turns away from him, he reviles him. And I-asws swear by Allah-azwj! If they were to separate you beneath every stone, Allah-azwj would Gather you for an evil day of theirs. Indeed, from after me-asws would be various groups! Indeed, your Qiblah is one, and your Hajj is one, and your Umrah is one, and the hearts are different’. Then he-asws inserted his-asws fingers, some of them into others. A man