الكافي- ط الاسلامية, volume 8, page 295

451. Muhammad bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Fazzaal, from Ali Bin Uqba, from his father, from Muyassar, who has narrated the following: Abu Ja’far (asws) has said: ‘O Muyassar, how much distance is there in between you and Qarqaysa?’ I said, ‘It is near to the banks of the Euphrates’. So he (asws) said: ‘But, there will transpire an event with it, the like of which has never happened since Allah (azwj) Created the Heavens and the earth, nor will the like of it happen so long as the Heavens and the earth remain. It will be a banquet for the birds. The lions of the earth and the birds of the skies would satisfy their hunger. Qays would be killed in it and there will be no helper called for him’. (The narrator) said, ‘And someone else has reported an addition to it: ‘And a caller will call out, ‘Come to the meat of the tyrants!’

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.

452. From him, from Ahmad bin Muhammad, from Al-Husayn bin Saeed, from Hammad bin Isa, from Al-Husayn bin Al-Mukhtar, from Abu Basir, who has narrated the following: "Abu Abdullah (asws) having said ‘Every banner that is raised before the rising of Al-Qaim (asws), so its owner is a tyrant who worships someone apart from Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic.'"

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.

453. From him, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Al-Hakam, from Hisham Bin Saalim, from Shahaab Bin Abdul Rabbahu who said: Abu Abdullah (asws) said to me: ‘O Shahaab! There would be a great deal of killing in the households of Qureysh to the extent that the man from among them would be called to the Caliphate, he would refuse’. Then said: ‘O Shahaab! Do not announce that I (asws) meant those sons of my (asws) uncle’. Shahaab said, ‘I testify that he (asws) was referring to them’.

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.

454. Humayd bin Ziyad narrated from Al-Hassan bin Muhammad Al-Kindy from more than one from Aban ibn Uthman from Al-Fadhl from Zurara that Abu Ja’far (al-Baqir) (as) said: "When the people did what they did, they pledged their allegiance to Abu Bakr. Nothing prevented Amir al-Mu'minin (as) from inviting people to follow him except that he looked at the people and feared that they might turn away from Islam, worship idols, and not testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. It was dearer to him to affirm their actions than to risk them apostatizing from Islam altogether. Those who perished were those who committed what they committed. As for the one who did not engage in that and entered what the people entered without animosity towards Amir al-Mu'minin (as), that does not make him an apostate or expel him from Islam. For that reason, Ali (as) kept his affair secret and gave allegiance under compulsion where he found no support."

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.