Religion:Khasf al-Bayda'

Khasf al-Bayda' (Arabic: خسف البیداء, Persian: خسف بیدا), or "Al-Khasf bil-Bayda" (i.e. "Swallowing in the land of Bayda") is an event that "the Earth will swallow the land (of al-Bayda)" where is a desert between Mecca and Medina; and according to (Islamic) traditions: the army of Sufyani will be collapsed in the land of al-Bayda.

Khasf al-Bayda, has been mentioned in both Shia and Sunni sources, and it was narrated that "Khasf-e-Bayda" is going to be happened among the decisive Signs of the reappearance of al-Mahdi.

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.

Al-Shaykh al-Saduq has narrated --from Ja'far al-Sadiq-- that: five signs are decisive before the rising of Ghaem (قائم):

• Yamani
• Sufyani
• Heavenly cry (calling) from the sky
• The murder of (Nafs-e-Zakiyyah)
• Khasf-e-Bayda

Armed forces number

In regards to the event of Khasf-al-Bayda, there have been narrated diverse Hadiths concerning the numbers of the presented ones in the army of Sufyani (who will be swallowed in the Earth), including:

• 12,000;

• 170,000

• or 300,000;

and it was narrated that all of its army are going to be sunk (in the land of Bayda) except 2 or 3 individuals.

The caller

According a tradition from the fifth Imam of Shia-Islam, Muhammad al-Baqir: at the End Time, while Sufyani's army enters the territory of (al-)Bayda, a caller will call:

"O plain, annihilate the nation" (of the army of Sufyani); as a result of that, the Earth will swallow them, and all of them are going to be sunk --except 3 individuals.

See also

• The Occultation
• 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