Hadith Al-Zawra’ and that which is killed there

198. Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Bakr Bin Saleh, from Muhammad Bin Sinan, from Muawiya Bin Wahab who said: ‘Abu Abdullah (asws) quoted a verse from the poem of Ibn Abu Aqab as an example, ‘And there shall be slaughtered at Al-Zawra eighty thousand from among them, in the forenoon like the slaughtering of sacrificial animals’ (and others have reported it as ‘in the drain’). Then he (asws) said to me: ‘Do you know of Al-Zawra?’ I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you (asws), they are saying that it is Baghdad’. He (asws) said: ‘No’. Then he (asws) said: ‘Have you been to Al-Rayy?’ I said, ‘Yes’. He (asws) said: ‘Did you come across the animal market?’ I said, ‘Yes’. He (asws) said: ‘Have you seen the black mountain on the right? Well, that is Al-Zawra, in which eighty thousand would be killed, including eighty men from among them from the children of so and so, all of them being suitable for the ‘لِلْخِلَافَةِ’ succession’. I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you (asws), and who would be killing them?’ He (asws) said: ‘They would be killed by the ‘أَوْلَادُ الْعَجَمِ’ children of non-Arabs.’

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