Khasf al-Bayda
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Khasf al-Bayda (Arabic: خسف البیداء) (lit. “Swallowing the land of Bayda”),[1][2][3][4] in Islamic eschatology, is a future event in which the Earth will swallow up Bayda, a desert area between Mecca and Medina. According to Islamic traditions: the army of Sufyani will be swallowed up in the land of Bayda.[5][6][7][8]
Khasf al-Bayda[9][10] has been mentioned in both Shia and Sunni sources, and it was narrated that "Khasf al-Bayda" will be is going to be one of the decisive signs of the appearance of Mahdi.[11]
The certain signs
[edit]According to hadiths, there are five (or more) certain signs which will happen prior to the reappearance of the twelfth (last) Imam of Shia Islam, al-Mahdi.[12][13] Al-Shaykh al-Saduq has narrated --from Ja'far al-Sadiq-- that: five signs are decisive before the rising of Qa'im (قائم): Yamani, Sufyani, Heavenly cry (calling) from the sky, The murder of Nafs-e-Zakiyyah and Khasf al-Bayda.[14][15]
Swallowing of the army
[edit]Sufyani and his army will go toward Iraq to attack the Mahdi. When the army enters the territory of Bayda, the Earth will consume the army of Sufyani except for 2 or 3 individuals.[16] Various hadiths discuss the numbers in the army of Sufyani.[17][18][19][20] Some sources say that the army of Sufyani will number 12,000;[21][22] while some say 170,000[23][24] and other sources say 300,000[25]
According to a tradition from Muhammad al-Baqir: at the End Time, when Sufyani's army enters the territory of Bayda, a voice will call out:
"O plain, annihilate the nation" (i.e. the army of Sufyani)
— Na'mani, Al-Ghaybah, Maktab al-Saduq, Chapter 14, P. 279
See also
[edit]- Occultation (Islam)
- Seyyed Hassani
- Seyed Khorasani
- Al-Yamani (Shiism)
- The voice from sky
- The Fourteen Infallibles
- Nafs-e-Zakiyyah (Pure soul)
- Signs of the reappearance of al-Mahdi
References
[edit]- ^ Khasf-e-Bayda, Mohamad Mohsen Mardani, (Department of Culture of Humanities and Islamic Sciences)
- ^ (al-)Khasf-e-Bayda from Signs of the reappearance welayatnet.com
- ^ Final signs before the reappearance of Imam Zaman (al-Mahdi) hawzah.net
- ^ Is Yamani a certain signs of the reappearance? tasnimnews.com
- ^ The necessity of the separation of decisive signs of the reappearance from non-decisive signs tebyan.net
- ^ Khasf-e-Bayda (Swallowing of Bayda land) ensani.ir
- ^ (al)Khasf-e-Bayda farsnews.ir
- ^ "Chapter 3: Mahdi in classical and modern". 30 September 2015.
- ^ Abu Jaʿfar Muḥammad bin Ali bin al-Ḥusayn bin Musa al-Qummi (Saduq), Kamal al-Din, vol. 2, p. 650
- ^ A glance to decisive sign of the reappearance (among: Khasf-Bayda) hawzahnews.com
- ^ Khasfe-Bayda, Nosratollah Ayati
- ^ Final signs before the reappearance of Imam Zaman (al-Mahdi) hawzah.net
- ^ Is Yamani a certain signs of the reappearance? tasnimnews.com
- ^ Abu Jaʿfar Muḥammad bin Ali bin al-Ḥusayn bin Musa al-Qummi (Saduq), Kamal al-Din, vol. 2, p. 650
- ^ A glance to decisive sign of the reappearance (among: Khasf-Bayda) hawzahnews.com
- ^ What is the purpose of Khasfe-Bayda that is said will happen at the time of the reappearance of Imam Zaman (Mahdi) (a.j.)? andisheqom.com
- ^ Khasf-al-Bayda ensani.ir
- ^ Mohammad ibn Ali (Sadoogh), Kamalodin o TamamolNe'mah, Vol. 1, P. 331
- ^ Mohammad ibn Ibrahim (Na'mani), Alqeibah, Tehran, MaktabolSaduq, P. 257
- ^ Khasf-e-Bayda from decisive Signs of the reappearance 2noor.com
- ^ Sulayman, Ruzigar-i rahayi, p. 317.
- ^ Sufyani in Iran Archived 2020-06-20 at the Wayback Machine porseman.com
- ^ Al-Malahim wal-fitan, Ebnetawus, p. 136.
- ^ Decisive Signs of the reappearance Archived 2020-06-21 at the Wayback Machine entezar14.ir
- ^ Nahawandi, al-Aqbari al-ḥisan, p. 128.