Khasf al-Bayda

Short description: Destructive event in Islamic eschatology

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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]

## Contents

* 1 The certain signs
* 2 Swallowing of the army
* 3 See also
* 4 References

## The certain signs

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

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)

## See also

* 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

1. ↑ Khasf-e-Bayda, Mohamad Mohsen Mardani, (Department of Culture of Humanities and Islamic Sciences)
2. ↑ (al-)Khasf-e-Bayda from Signs of the reappearance welayatnet.com
3. ↑ Final signs before the reappearance of Imam Zaman (al-Mahdi) hawzah.net
4. ↑ Is Yamani a certain signs of the reappearance? tasnimnews.com
5. ↑ The necessity of the separation of decisive signs of the reappearance from non-decisive signs tebyan.net
6. ↑ Khasf-e-Bayda (Swallowing of Bayda land) ensani.ir
7. ↑ (al)Khasf-e-Bayda farsnews.ir
8. ↑ "Chapter 3: Mahdi in classical and modern". 30 September 2015. https://www.al-islam.org/mahdi-quran-according-shiite-quran-commentators-vasran-toussi/chapter-3-mahdi-classical-and-modern#9-quran-34:51.
9. ↑ Abu Jaʿfar Muḥammad bin Ali bin al-Ḥusayn bin Musa al-Qummi (Saduq), Kamal al-Din, vol. 2, p. 650
10. ↑ A glance to decisive sign of the reappearance (among: Khasf-Bayda) hawzahnews.com
11. ↑ Khasfe-Bayda, Nosratollah Ayati
12. ↑ Final signs before the reappearance of Imam Zaman (al-Mahdi) hawzah.net
13. ↑ Is Yamani a certain signs of the reappearance? tasnimnews.com
14. ↑ Abu Jaʿfar Muḥammad bin Ali bin al-Ḥusayn bin Musa al-Qummi (Saduq), Kamal al-Din, vol. 2, p. 650
15. ↑ A glance to decisive sign of the reappearance (among: Khasf-Bayda) hawzahnews.com
16. ↑ 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
17. ↑ Khasf-al-Bayda ensani.ir
18. ↑ Mohammad ibn Ali (Sadoogh), Kamalodin o TamamolNe'mah, Vol. 1, P. 331
19. ↑ Mohammad ibn Ibrahim (Na'mani), Alqeibah, Tehran, MaktabolSaduq, P. 257
20. ↑ Khasf-e-Bayda from decisive Signs of the reappearance 2noor.com
21. ↑ Sulayman, Ruzigar-i rahayi, p. 317.
22. ↑ Sufyani in Iran porseman.com
23. ↑ Al-Malahim wal-fitan, Ebnetawus, p. 136.
24. ↑ Decisive Signs of the reappearance entezar14.ir
25. ↑ Nahawandi, al-Aqbari al-ḥisan, p. 128.

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