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السيوطي:٧١٦-٣٠b –

"عَنْ مَكْحُولٍ قَالَ: لَتَمْخُرَنَّ الرُّوم (*) بِالشَّامِ أَرْبَعِينَ صَبَاحًا لَا يَمْتَنِعُ مِنْهَا إِلَّا دِمَشْقُ وَعُمَانُ".  

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abudawud:4638 – ʿAlī b. Sahl al-Ramlī > al-Walīd > Saʿīd b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz > Makḥūl

The Romans will enter the Levant and stay there for forty days, and no place will be saved from them but Damascus and 'Uman.  

أبو داود:٤٦٣٨ – حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ سَهْلٍ الرَّمْلِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ عَنْ مَكْحُولٍ قَالَ

لَتَمْخُرَنَّ الرُّومُ الشَّامَ أَرْبَعِينَ صَبَاحًا لاَ يَمْتَنِعُ مِنْهَا إِلاَّ دِمَشْقُ وَعَمَّانُ