It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that one night the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) could not sleep, so he said: "If only a man from among my Companions would guard me tonight." Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) says: Suddenly we heard the clatter of weapons, so the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Who is this?" Sayyiduna Sa'd bin Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "O Messenger of Allah, it is I; I have come to guard you." Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) says: After that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) slept (so peacefully) that I heard the sound of his snoring (peace and blessings be upon him). The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic), but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Husayn bin Kharijah that he said: When the first tribulation (after the martyrdom of Sayyiduna Uthman, may Allah be pleased with him) broke out, it became confusing for me, so I supplicated: O Allah, show me the path of truth to which I may hold firmly. Then I was shown, in a dream, this world and the Hereafter, and between them there was a small wall, and I was standing in the shade of that wall. I thought: If I climb this wall, I will be able to see the slain of (the tribe of) Ashja' who perished (in the tribulation), so that they may tell me the reality of the matter. The narrator says: Then I descended onto a land with trees, where some people were sitting. I asked: Are you the martyrs? They replied: We are the angels. I asked: Where are the martyrs? They said: Go forward towards those ranks. So I ascended to a rank that was unmatched in beauty and spaciousness, and there I saw Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), and Sayyiduna Ibrahim (peace be upon him) was present in the form of an elderly man. He (peace and blessings be upon him) was saying to Sayyiduna Ibrahim (peace be upon him): "Seek forgiveness for my Ummah." Ibrahim (peace be upon him) replied: "You do not know what tribulations they stirred up after you; they shed one another's blood and killed their Imam. If only they had done as my friend Sa'd did!" I thought: I have seen a dream by which Allah will benefit me; I will go to Sayyiduna Sa'd (bin Abi Waqqas) and stay with him. So I came to Sayyiduna Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) and told him the whole story. He was very pleased on hearing this dream and said: "Whoever does not have Ibrahim (peace be upon him) as his friend has indeed failed." I asked: Which of the two groups are you with? He said: "I am not with either of them." I asked: Then what do you command me to do? He asked: "Do you have any goats?" I said: No. He said: "Then buy some goats and stay among them until this tribulation is over."