It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with them both); Wahb bin Jabir says: I was with him when a steward came to him from Syria, with two days of Ramadan remaining. Sayyiduna Abdullah asked him: Have you left with my family enough to suffice them? He said: I have left some provision for them. Sayyiduna Abdullah said: I firmly command you to go back and leave with them enough to suffice them, for I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "It is sin enough for a man that he neglects (leaves without support) those whose sustenance is his responsibility." Wahb says: Then Sayyiduna Abdullah began narrating to us and said: When the sun sets, it gives greeting, prostrates and asks permission (to rise again), and permission is given to it. Until a day will come when it sets, gives greeting, prostrates and asks permission, but permission will not be given to it. It will say: O my Lord! The journey is long, and if I am not given permission, I will not reach my destination. So it will be held back for as long as Allah wills, then it will be said to it: Rise from where you set. He said: From that day until the Day of Resurrection, "no soul will benefit from its faith if it had not believed before" [Surah al-An'am: 158] . Then he mentioned Gog and Magog and said that no man among them dies until a thousand of his own offspring have been born to him, and behind them there are three more nations whose number no one knows except Allah: (their names are) Mansak, Tawil and Taris. This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: Tribulations have times of surging (intensity) and times of pausing (subsiding). So if you are able to have death come to you while they are in a state of pause, then do so. Zayd bin Wahb says: Sayyiduna Hudhayfah was asked: What is their pausing? He replied: When the sword is in its sheath. He was asked: What is their surging (intensity)? He said: When the sword is drawn (that is, when war and fighting break out). This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.