Note / Clarification: In the handwritten manuscripts the name here occurs as "أرومة", as it also did in the earlier hadith number (8499); see our annotation on it there.

Grading: This report (text) is sahih.
Technical note / Defect ('illah): Although "Muhammad bin Ibrahim" is not known, he has a mutaba'ah (corroboration). "Sufyan" is Sufyan al-Thawri.
Note / Clarification: This narration will come again, repeated, at number (8641), and there is an addition at its beginning there.

Note / Clarification: This narration will also come ahead with the author at number (8737) by way of Abd al-Rahman bin Mahdi from Sufyan al-Thawri.

Grading: And this chain (i.e. the one of Abd al-Rahman bin Mahdi) is sahih.

Reference / Source: Ibn Abi Shaybah recorded it in "al-Musannaf" (15/10, 88), Nu'aym bin Hammad in "al-Fitan" (163), Abu Amr al-Dani in "al-Sunan al-Waridah fi al-Fitan" (180), Ibn al-Bakhtari in "Fawa'id" (563) and Abu Nu'aym in "al-Hilyah" (1/274), through various routes from Sulayman al-A'mash, with this same chain.

Note / Clarification: The explanation of "waqafat" and "ba'athat" will come ahead with the author in hadith number (8737), in the narration of Sufyan from al-Harith bin Hasirah from Zayd from Hudhayfah, in which it says: Hudhayfah was asked: What are its "waqafat" (pauses)? He said: "When the sword is sheathed." He was asked: What are its "ba'athat" (outbreaks)? He said: "When the sword is drawn."

General principle: "Al-ba'athat": as Ibn al-Athir says in "al-Nihayah", it means stirrings-up and incitements (of turmoil); it is the plural of "ba'thah", which is a single instance of "ba'th", and whatever you stir up or set in motion, you have "ba'ath"-ed it (roused it).