Hadith 94

(The book) ‘Manaqib of Ibn Shehr Ashub – ‘It is narrated to me by Ibn Kadish, in the belying of Al-Alawaite group in their claim for the Imamate of the Prophet-saww – The Prophet-saww saw Al-Abbas in two white clothes. He-saww said: ‘It is the two white clothes, and this here Jibraeel-as is informing me-asws that his children would be wearing black’’. [39]
And in (the book) ‘Ikhbar Dimashq’ – From Abu Al Husayn Muhammad Bin Abdullah Al Razy, ‘Sowban said, ‘The Prophet-saww said: ‘Two flags will happen to be for the clan of Al-Abbas. Both their centres would be Kufr, and their high one would be straying. If you come across them, O Sowban, then do not take a cover beneath their shades’’. [40]
(The book) ‘Tareekh Baghdad’ – Abu Hureyra (well-known fabricator) said, ‘The Prophet-saww said: ‘When the black flags come from the direction of the east, then its beginning is Fitna, and its middle is trouble, and its end is straying’’. (The book) ‘Akhbar Dimashq’ – From the Prophet-saww – Abu Umama in a Hadeeth: ‘Its beginning is widespread publicity, and its end is destruction’. [41]
(The book) ‘Tareekh Tabari’ – Ibrahim the imam told Abu Muslim to implement a flag of victory, and shade of the cloud, and it was white, its length was of fourteen cubits. It was written upon it with ink: There is Permission (to fight) for those who are fought against because they are oppressed, and surely Allah is Able upon Helping them [22: 39]. Abu Muslim ordered his slave Arqam to change with every colour of the clothes. When he wore the black, he said, ‘There is awe with it’. He chose it in opposition to the clan of Umayya, and as an awe to the beholder, and they were saying, ‘This black is a mourning for the Progeny-asws of Muhammad-saww, and martyrs of Karbala, and Zayd, and Yahya’’. [42]