It is narrated from al-Hasan al-Basri that Sayyiduna al-Hakam bin Amr al-Ghifari (may Allah be pleased with him) said (weary of the tribulations): "O plague, take me to you!" A man asked: "Why are you saying such a thing, when you have heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say that none of you should wish for death?" He replied: "I have heard what you have heard, but I want death before (the appearance of) these six things: the buying and selling of judgments, an abundance of police (state agents), the rule of boys, unjust bloodshed, the severing of family ties, and a generation that will come in the last times who will take the Qur'an as musical instruments (melodies)."