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T H E S T R A I G H T P From Basher ibn Galeb "The Sufyani will appear from the place of Rome,Christianized, on his neck is a cross" Besharat AlIslam p.161 A Sufyani emerging from Sham: From Ammar son of Yaser "and a man from the house of Abu Sufyan will emerge from Kalb." v.3 p.161 Mawsoo'a The house of Abu Sufyan, May Allah curse him, is from Syria or Damascus. People from Banu Kalb are from Syria, Ali son of Hussain (a.s) said, "The Sufyani is from the son of Utba son of Abi Sufyani." Bihar Al Anwar v.52 p.212 Prince of the believers (a.s) said, "If that happened, the Sufyani will then emerge and so he will rule by the full time of a pregnant woman 9 months, he will emerge to Sham and so the people of Sham will be under his rule..and so he will arrive at the Medina with a lot of soldiers, until he reaches AlBayda at the city, Allah will make him perish by a landslide." Mawsoo'a v.3 p.161 A Sufyani gets killed in Damascus: Mufathel said to Imam AlSaadeq (a.s),"And so what would the Mahdi do O Master?" So he said (a.s), "There will be groups of people heading towards the Sufyani to Damascus, so they will take him (Sufyani) and kill him on the rock" A T H Al Hīra (Arabic: ‫ )ا('=+ة‬was an ancient city located south of al-Kufah in south-central Iraq. From Abi Jaafer (a.s), "And then he will enter Kufa and not a believer except that he will be inside...and so then he will say to his companions, go to this tyrant, and so then he will call to the book of Allah and the Sunna of his Prophet (s.a.w), so the Sufyani will give Baya as a peace treaty and so then Kalb and they are his maternal cousins, "What is this?? What are you doing?! By Allah we shall not give out baya' to him at all", so then he said, "What do I do?" So then they will say, "Go meet him" and so he will meet him and so then the Riser (a.s) will say, "Be cautious...." so Allah (swt) will strengthen their shoulders (the companions of Mahdi a.s) until the Sufyani will be taken as a hostage and killed byhis hand (Mahdi a.s)." Besharat Al islam p.305 Banners of Sufyani with different colors: Prince of the believers (a.s) said, "Emergence of the Sufyani with a red banner and the prince is a man from Bani Kalb" Bihar Al Anwar v.52 p.272 Prince of the believers (a.s) said, "Emergence of the Sufyani with a green banner and a cross made of gold." Bihar Al Anwar v.53 p.81 Istrabaadi (Raja) p.100 Sufyani gets killed in Iraq: Bihar Al Anwar p.208 v.52 A Sufyani from Rome (Dajjal) who is a supporter of Dajjal but is a Muslim: 34 *** Abi Jaafer (a.s) said: "Al Mahdi will defeat the Sufyani under the long tree branches which shade within Heera"   v.52 p.386 Bihar Al Anwar