Hazrat Shaqiq narrates from Hazrat Hudhaifa (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: We were sitting with Hazrat Umar when he said, "Who among you remembers the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) about tribulations exactly as he said it?" I said, "I do." Hazrat Hudhaifa (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Hazrat Umar said, "Indeed, you are courageous. So how did the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say it?" I said, "I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: 'The tribulation that befalls a man regarding his family, wealth, self, and neighbor will be an expiation for fasting, charity, enjoining good, and forbidding evil.'" Hazrat Umar said, "This is not what I intended. I mean the tribulation which will will be like the waves of the sea." The narrator says: I said, "O Commander of the Faithful, what concern do you have with that? Indeed, between you and it is a closed door." Hazrat Umar said, "Will the door be broken or opened?" The narrator, Hazrat Hudhaifa (may Allah be pleased with him), said: I said, "No, rather it will be broken." He said, "That (door) is more fitting to be broken than to be closed again." Shaqiq, the narrator, says: We asked Hazrat Hudhaifa (may Allah be pleased with him), "Did Hazrat Umar know who the door was?" He replied, "Yes, just as I know that morning precedes night. I narrated this hadith to him, not misleading words." The narrator, Hazrat Shaqiq, says: We were afraid to ask Hazrat Hudhaifa (may Allah be pleased with him) who the door was, so we said to Hazrat Masruq, "You ask him." He asked, and Hazrat Hudhaifa replied, "Hazrat Umar."

Hazrat Shaqiq narrates from Hazrat Hudhaifa (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "The trial of the whip is more severe than the trial of the sword." His companions asked, "How can this be?" He replied, "Indeed, a man is beaten with a whip until he is made to ride upon wood."

Hazrat Saeed bin Zaid narrates: We were with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) when he mentioned a tribulation and considered its matter grave. The narrator says: We, or they, said, "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), if we encounter it, will we be destroyed?" He replied, "Never; killing will be sufficient for you." Hazrat Saeed says: I saw my brothers, all of them were killed.

Hazrat Hudhaifah (may Allah be pleased with him) says that three tribulations will occur, and the fourth tribulation will lead people towards the Dajjal. For them, the first tribulation will strike with a stone that dries up water, the second will throw a hot stone, and the third will spread such darkness that it will surge like the waves of the sea.

Hazrat Yashkari narrates that I heard Hazrat Hudhaifa (may Allah be pleased with him) saying that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There will be a blind and deaf tribulation, whose callers will be calling towards the doors of Hell. O Hudhaifa (may Allah be pleased with him)! It is better for you to die in a state where you are eating the root of a tree than to follow any one of them."

Hazrat Rubayyi' narrates that a man asked Hazrat Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him), "What should I do if the worshippers quarrel among themselves?" Hazrat Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) replied, "Take refuge in your house." The man said, "If they enter my house as well, then what should I do?" Hazrat Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) replied, "Say to them: I will never kill you, because I fear the Lord of all the worlds."

Hazrat Hudhaifah (may Allah be pleased with him) says: Fitnah will arise because of three types of people: First, the hardworking and insightful person—whenever anything rises before him, he eliminates it with the sword; and the orator, towards whom all matters of invitation are directed; and the aforementioned noble one. The hardworking and insightful person overcomes this fitnah, while the remaining two—the fitnah seeks them out and whatever they possess, it renders old.

Hazrat Khursha bin Harrar narrates that Hazrat Hudhaifa (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "What will be your condition when that (trial) comes to you, pulling its reins, and it will come to you from this side and from that side?" The people said, "By Allah, we do not know." So Hazrat Hudhaifa (may Allah be pleased with him) said, "But by Allah, I know. On that day, you will be like slaves and masters: if the master abuses him, the slave cannot abuse him back, and if he beats him, the slave cannot beat him back."

Hazrat Khursha narrates from Hazrat Hudhaifa (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "What will be your condition at that time when you will sell your religion cheaply, just as that woman sells her private parts who does not prevent anyone from coming to her?" Then the people said, "We do not know." Hazrat Hudhaifa (may Allah be pleased with him) said, "But by Allah, I know. On that day, you will be between the helpless and the wicked." One of the people said, "Will this helpless one be kept away from goodness in comparison to that wicked one?" The narrator says that Hazrat Hudhaifa (may Allah be pleased with him) struck his back several times and said, "If he is kept away from goodness, then he is kept away from goodness."

It is narrated from Hazrat Khursha that Hazrat Hudhaifa (may Allah be pleased with him) came to the mosque and passed by some people among whom some were teaching the Qur'an to others. So Hazrat Hudhaifa (may Allah be pleased with him) said: If you are established upon the correct way, then you have surpassed greatly, and if you have abandoned it, then you have gone astray. The narrator says: Then he sat in a circle and said: Indeed, we believed before we learned to recite the Qur'an, and in the future, some people will recite the Qur'an before believing. One of the people said: Will this be a trial (fitnah)? He replied: Yes, it will come to you from the direction that will grieve you, and then it will continue to come like a rash (slowly and persistently). Indeed, a man will turn away from it and command two things: one of them is humility, and the other is immorality and wickedness. Hazrat Khursha says: Not long after this, I saw a man who had taken up his sword and was chasing after people.