Uqba bin 'Amir reported that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) one day went out and he offered prayer over the martyrs of Uhud just as prayer is offered over the dead. He then came back and sat on pulpit and said: I shall be present there (at the Cistern) before you. I shall be your witness and, by Allah, I perceive as if I am seeing with my own eyes my Cistern at this very state and I have been given the keys of the treasures of the earth or the keys of the earth and, by Allah, I am not afraid concerning you that you would associate anything (with Allah after me), but I am afraid that you would be vying with one another (for the possession of) the treasures of the earth.

Uqba bin 'Amir reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: Allah's Messenger offered prayer over those who had fallen matyrs at Uhud. He then climbed the pulpit as if someone is saying good-bye to the living and the dead, and then said: I shall be there as your predecesor on the Cistern before you, and it is as wide as the distance between Aila and Juhfa (Aila is at the top of the gulf of 'Aqabah). I am not afraid that you would associate anything with Allah after me, but I am afraid that you may be allured by the world and vie with one another in possessing material wealth and begin killing one another, and you would be destroyed as were destroyed those who had gone before you. 'Uqba said that that was the last occasion that he saw Allah's Massenger on the pulpit.

'Abdullah reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying; I shall be there at the Cistern before you, and I shall have to contend for some people, but I shall have to yield. I would be saying: My Lord, they are my friends, they are my friends, and it would be said: You don't know what innovations they made after you.

The hadith has been narrated on the authority ot al-A'mash with the same chain of transmitters but no mention is made of: "They are my companions; they are my companions."

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of 'Abdullah through another chain of transmitters.

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Hudhaifa through another chain of transmitters.

Haritha reported that he heard Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: His Cistern would be as extensive as the distance between San'a' and Madinah. Mustaurid (one of the narrators) said: Did you not hear anything about the utensils? Thereupon he said. No. Mustaurid said: You would find that the utensils would be like stars.

Haritha bin Wahb al-Khuza'i reported Allah's Messeiiger's ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) words concerning the Cistern like it, but he made no mention of the words of Mustaurid.

Ibn 'Umar reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: There is before you a Cistern and the distance between its two sides is as it is between Jarba' and Adhruh.

This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Ibn 'Umar and the words are: That he said there would be before you a Cistern extending from Jarba' and Adhruh and the same has been transmitted on the authority of Ibn Muthanna and the wording is: "My Cistern."