The Malhama Al-Kubra is detailed in multiple hadith narrations with varying details. However the basic narrative framework of the cycle of prophecies found in Islamic eschatology is as follows. This Great Battle is said to occur after the Muslims and Christian Romans victoriously fight alongside each other against a common enemy.[4][5] Following their victory a conflict will break out in which a Christian claims that the cross brought them victory, a Muslim in response claims that Allah brought them victory and proceeds to destroy the cross, which leads to further reprisals from the Christian side.[6] [7] [5] This culminates in the Malhama Al-Kubra, an apocalyptic scale battle so intense, according to some hadith narrations, that were a bird to pass their flanks, "it would fall down dead before reaching the end of them." [8]