Al-Jawāb as-Sahīh li-man baddala dīn al-Masīh - Ibn Taimiya - (6/103)

from al-Shām, and all these accounts confirm one another.

In the two Ṣaḥīḥ collections it is narrated from Sufyān ibn Abī Zuhayr that he said:

The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:

“Yemen will be conquered, and people will come hurrying, driving their mounts; they will depart with their families and with all who follow them, yet Medina is better for them, if only they knew. Then al-Shām will be conquered, and people will come hurrying, driving their mounts; they will depart with their families and with all who follow them, yet Medina is better for them, if only they knew.”

In another wording: “…so they leave Medina.”

Thus the Prophet, peace be upon him, foretold the conquest of Yemen, al-Shām, and Iraq before it happened, and he informed that people would depart from Medina, taking their families—and those who

عَنِ الشَّامِ، وَكُلُّ هَذَا يُصَدِّقُ بَعْضُهُ بَعْضًا. وَفِي الصَّحِيحَيْنِ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ بْنِ أَبِي زُهَيْرٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «تُفْتَحُ الْيَمَنُ فَيَأْتِي قَوْمٌ يُبِسُّونَ فَيَتَحَمَّلُونَ بِأَهْلِيهِمْ وَمَنْ أَطَاعَهُمْ وَالْمَدِينَةُ خَيْرٌ لَهُمْ لَوْ كَانُوا يَعْلَمُونَ، ثُمَّ تُفْتَحُ الشَّامُ فَيَأْتِي قَوْمٌ يُبِسُّونَ فَيَتَحَمَّلُونَ بِأَهْلِيهِمْ وَمَنْ أَطَاعَهُمْ وَالْمَدِينَةُ خَيْرٌ لَهُمْ لَوْ كَانُوا يَعْلَمُونَ» ، وَفِي رِوَايَةٍ: فَيَخْرُجُ مِنَ الْمَدِينَةِ. فَأَخْبَرَ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِفَتْحِ الْيَمَنِ، وَالشَّامِ، وَالْعِرَاقِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَكُونَ، وَأَخْبَرَ أَنَّهُ يَخْرُجُ مِنَ الْمَدِينَةِ أَقْوَامٌ يَتَحَمَّلُونَ بِأَهْلِيهِمْ، وَمَنْ