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")[1][2] 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.[3][4][5][6]

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.[7]

The certain signs

According to hadiths, there are five[8] (or more) certain signs which will happen prior to the reappearance of the twelfth (last) Imam of Shia Islam, al-Mahdi.[9]

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[10][11]

Armed forces number

In regards to the event of Khasf-al-Bayda,[12][13][14][15] 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;[16][17]

• 170,000[18][19]

• or 300,000;[20]

and it was narrated that all of its army are going to be sunk (in the land of Bayda) except 2 or 3 individuals.[21]

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.[22]

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

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. The necessity of the separation of decisive signs of the reappearance from non-decisive signs tebyan.net
4. Khasf-e-Bayda (Swallowing of Bayda land) ensani.ir
5. (al)Khasf-e-Bayda farsnews.ir
6. https://www.al-islam.org/mahdi-quran-according-shiite-quran-commentators-vasran-toussi/chapter-3-mahdi-classical-and-modern#9-quran-34:51
7. Khasfe-Bayda, Nosratollah Ayati
8. Is Yamani a certain signs of the reappearance? tasnimnews.com
9. Final signs before the reappearance of Imam Zaman (al-Mahdi) hawzah.net
10. Abu Jaʿfar Muḥammad bin Ali bin al-Ḥusayn bin Musa al-Qummi (Saduq), Kamal al-Din, vol. 2, p. 650
11. A glance to decisive sign of the reappearance (among: Khasf-Bayda) hawzahnews.com
12. Khasf-al-Bayda ensani.ir
13. Mohammad ibn Ali (Sadoogh), Kamalodin o TamamolNe'mah, Vol. 1, P. 331
14. Mohammad ibn Ibrahim (Na'mani), Alqeibah, Tehran, MaktabolSaduq, P. 257
15. Khasf-e-Bayda from decisive Signs of the reappearance 2noor.com
16. Sulayman, Ruzigar-i rahayi, p. 317.
17. Sufyani in Iran porseman.com
18. Al-Malahim wal-fitan, Ebnetawus, p. 136.
19. Decisive Signs of the reappearance entezar14.ir
20. Nahawandi, al-Aqbari al-ḥisan, p. 128.
21. What is the purpose of Khasfe-Bayda that is said will be happened at the time of the reappearance of Imam Zaman (Mahdi) (a.j.)? andisheqom.com
22. Na'mani, Al-Ghaybah, Maktab al-Saduq, Chapter 14, P. 279