It is narrated from Hazrat Hudhaifah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: What will be your condition when such a time comes upon you that one of you will leave his room to go to his toilet, and when he returns, his face will have been transformed and he will have been turned into a monkey. He will look for his place to sit, but he will not be able to find it.

It is narrated from Hazrat Wabisa Asadi that he said: I was in my house in Kufa when suddenly I heard at my door: "Assalamu Alaikum, may I come in?" I said, "Wa Alaikum Assalam, come in." So it was Abdullah bin Mas'ud. I said, "O Abu Abdur Rahman! What time is this for a meeting? It is the middle of the day." He said, "The day had become long for me, so I thought I would talk to someone." Then he began to narrate the ahadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) to me, and I also narrated ahadith to him. Hazrat Abdullah bin Mas'ud said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "There will be a tribulation in which the one who is sleeping will be better than the one lying on his side, and the one lying on his side will be better than the one sitting, and the one sitting will be better than the one standing, and the one standing will be better than the one walking, and the one walking will be better than the one running. All those killed in this tribulation will go to Hell." The narrator, Hazrat Abdullah, said: I asked, "When will this be, O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)?" He said, "It will be during the days of Harj." I asked, "When will the days of Harj be?" He said, "When a person will not be safe from his companion." Hazrat Abdullah said: I asked, "If I reach that time, what do you command me to do?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "Enter your house." I asked, "If someone enters my house, what do you advise?" He said, "Then go into your room." I said, "If he enters there as well, what do you think?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "Then do this" (he, peace and blessings be upon him, made a gesture, the details of which are found in the narration of Musnad Ahmad, that the narrator grasped his wrist with his right hand to explain the gesture) "and say: 'Return with my sin and your own sin, and become a slain servant of Allah.'"

It is narrated from Hazrat Jundub bin Sufyan that he said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: Soon after me there will be tribulations like pieces of a dark night. People will collide with them as herds of wild bulls collide. In them, a person will wake up as a Muslim and by evening become a disbeliever, and in the evening be a Muslim and by morning become a disbeliever. One of the Muslims asked, "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), what should we do at that time?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Enter your homes and make yourselves unknown. One of the Muslims asked, "What do you think if someone enters the house of one of us?" The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: He should withhold his hand and become a slain servant of Allah, and not a killer servant of Allah. Surely, a person's faith is strong, yet he eats his brother's wealth, sheds his blood, disobeys his Lord, and denies his Creator, so Hell becomes obligatory for him.

It is narrated from Abdullah bin Umar that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: Is any one of you incapable, when someone comes to kill him, meaning that someone among certain people says that he should do so, and he gestured with one hand towards the other hand, then he will become like the best of the children of Adam, and that person will be in Paradise and his killer will be in Hell.

It is narrated from Hazrat Shurayh that he said: Since the turmoil began, neither did I inform about it nor was I asked about it. Masruq said to him: If I were in your place, I would have preferred to die. Shurayh said to him: What will be your condition at that time when the turmoil increases even more? There will be a fight between two groups, and one of them will be more beloved to me than the other.

It is narrated from Hazrat Safwan bin Muhriz that he said: Each one of you should beware lest there is not the distance of a palm’s breadth of a Muslim’s blood between him and Paradise.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Alia that he said: We used to discuss among ourselves that a time will soon come upon people when the best person among his family will be the one who, upon seeing goodness and virtue, will begin to follow it.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Huraira that he said the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: A believer will not be killed by deception; faith has prevented killing by deception.

It is narrated from Hasan Basri that he said: During the days of the Battle of Jamal, a man came to Hazrat Zubair and said, "Shall I kill Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) for you?" He replied, "How?" The man said, "I will go to him and tell him that I am with him, then, taking advantage of the opportunity, I will kill him deceitfully." Hazrat Zubair said, "No. I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say that faith prevents killing by deceit. A believer should not be killed deceitfully."

It is narrated from Hazrat Hudhaifa (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: My companions learned about good, and I learned about evil. People asked: What prompted you to do this? He replied: Indeed, the person who knows the place of evil will be able to avoid it.