—or a wolf lurking around his sheep. Yet you are impatient.’

In Sahih al-Bukhari, Abu Hurayrah reports that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:

‘The Hour will not arrive until you fight the Turks—people with small eyes, ruddy faces, and flat noses, as though their faces were beaten shields. The Hour will not arrive until you fight a people whose sandals are made of hair.’

I say: All of these factions were indeed fought by the Muslims, exactly as the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) foretold, and the affairs of these groups are well known; for the fighting against the Turks