Islam — Twelver Shiʿa

The Khurasani, Sufyani and Yamani appear together

Kitab al-Ghayba — al-Tusi’s Book of Occultation · Kitab al-Ghayba, report 443; Thaqalayn chapter 51, report 21

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Historical Arabic text as transcribed by Thaqalayn, chapter 51, reports 427, 428, 437, 443 and 444. New Rainbow Watch English translation prepared directly from the Arabic, September 2026, with the complete Arabic beside each rendering. Web transcription checked; no manuscript or printed-page collation is claimed. Report numbers and Arabic punctuation are retained; English punctuation and transliteration are editorial.

Underlying medieval Arabic reports are public-domain historical text. No modern editorial footnotes or Rizvi translation are reproduced. The English rendering was newly prepared for Rainbow Watch from the Arabic.

English translation — Rainbow Watch And from him, from Sayf ibn Umayra, from Bakr ibn Muhammad al-Azdi, from Abu Abd Allah, peace be upon him, who said: “The emergence of the three—the Khurasani, the Sufyani and the Yamani—will be in one year, in one month, on one day. Among them there is no banner more rightly guiding than the banner of the Yamani; he guides to the truth.” Arabic source text 443- وعنه، عن سيف بن عميرة، عن بكر بن محمد الأزدي، عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام قال: خروج الثلاثة: الخراساني والسفياني واليماني في سنة واحدة في شهر واحد في يوم واحد، وليس فيها راية بأهدى من راية اليماني يهدي إلى الحق.