What are the signs that precede the emergence of the Sufyani, and which army will be swallowed by the earth, and which is the superior army coming from Medina to Damascus, and who will fight this army, and is it the same one that goes to Constantinople, and what are the signs that precede the Romans' entry into Damascus, and is there a relationship between the emergence of the Sufyani and the Romans' entry into Damascus, and what is the chronological order of these events?

The Sufyani has been mentioned previously, and there are hadiths indicating that the army which will be swallowed by the earth is the Sufyani's army. The details of the Sufyani's story or the aforementioned army are weak, even if their sum points to the origin of the story. Therefore, the authenticity of its individual parts cannot be definitively affirmed. The army departing from Medina is the Mahdi's army, among whom Jesus (peace be upon him) will descend, and they will fight the Romans until they conquer Constantinople. Among the signs preceding the entry of the Romans are a peace treaty followed by their treachery, as mentioned in the hadith that they will come with eighty banners. There are no explicit texts on the order of events, and the hadiths in this chapter are intertwined.