It is narrated from Hazrat Arqam bin Yaqoob that he said: I heard Hazrat Abdullah saying, "What will be your condition when you will leave your land for the Arabian Peninsula and the places where grass grows?" I asked, "Who will drive us out from our land?" He replied, "The enemy of Allah."

It is narrated from Hazrat Hudhaifah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: It is as if I am seeing them, that the ears of their horses will be erect and their monks and ascetics will be on both banks of the Euphrates.

It is narrated from Hazrat Hudhaifa (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: Never did any people adopt mutual cursing and taunting among themselves except that the matter of punishment became established upon them.

It is narrated from Hazrat Hudhaifa (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: After Hazrat Umar, I do not care whom I pledge allegiance to.

It is narrated from Hazrat Hudhaifa (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: Surely, a trial comes upon the hearts; whichever heart absorbs its love, a black dot is placed upon that heart, and whichever heart dislikes that trial, a white mark is placed upon it. Whoever among you wants to know whether a trial has reached him or not, let him consider: if he has started to regard as forbidden what he used to consider lawful, or has started to regard as lawful what he used to consider forbidden, then the trial has reached him.

It is narrated from Hazrat Hudhaifah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: A time will come upon the people that if you turn towards them in the Friday prayer and shoot an arrow, it will not hit anyone except disbelievers. (The meaning is that all will be in disbelief, but here disbelief does not mean that which takes one out of Islam; rather, it means that everyone will be involved in actions like those of the disbelievers.)

It is narrated from Hazrat Hudhaifa (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: In times of tribulation, there are moments when it pauses and moments when it flares up. If you are able, let death come to you during its pauses. And he said: There is no pure wine that intoxicates people's minds more than tribulations do.

It is narrated from Hazrat Rafi’ Abi Kathirah that he said: I heard Abu al-Hasan Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) say that the earth will be filled with oppression and excess, until fear and fighting will enter every house. Two dirhams and two jarib will be asked for, but they will not be given (a jarib is a measure equal to 8 qafiz). There will be fighting in response to fighting, and armies will march against armies, until Allah will encompass them in their city. Then the earth will be filled with justice and fairness.

It is narrated from Hazrat Tariq bin Shihab that he said: Hazrat Khalid bin Walid flogged a man as a prescribed punishment (hadd). The next day, he flogged another man as a prescribed punishment. A man said, "By Allah, this is a trial (fitnah); yesterday you flogged a man as hadd, and today you flogged another man as hadd." Hazrat Khalid bin Walid said, "This is not a trial. A trial is when countless sins are committed in a land, and a person wishes to go to a land where sins are not committed, but he does not find such a land."

It is narrated from Hazrat Sa’d bin Hudhaifah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: When the people agreed to depose Hazrat Sa’eed bin Aas, they wrote a document among themselves stating that no one would be appointed over them except a person with whom they would be pleased for themselves and for their religion. While they were in this state, suddenly Hazrat Hudhaifah (may Allah be pleased with him) arrived from Mada’in, bringing his document to them. He said,“O Abu Abdullah, we have dealt with this man as you have heard, then we wrote this document, and we wish that we do not make any definite decision in any matter without you.”Hazrat Hudhaifah (may Allah be pleased with him) looked at their document, smiled, and said,“By Allah, I do not know which of the two matters you intended: whether you intended to appoint as leaders those who are not beneficial for you, or you intended to return this tribulation to the place where it will become unbridled and strong. Indeed, this tribulation is sent by Allah Almighty upon the earth; it grazes until it tramples its reins, so that none among the people has the power to stop it. None among the people fights in it except that he is killed, until Allah Almighty sends clouds like the clouds of autumn, and the fighting occurs among them.”