Sayyiduna Dhi Mukhbir (may Allah be pleased with him), who was the nephew of Najashi, narrates: He said that he heard the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Soon you will make a peace treaty with the Romans, until you and they together will fight an enemy who is beyond them. You will be helped, you will remain safe, and you will gain spoils of war, until you camp in a pasture. Then a man from among the Romans will say: 'The cross has prevailed.' A man from among the Muslims will say: 'Rather, Allah Almighty has granted victory.' Then they will fight each other. The cross will not be far from the Muslims. A man from among the Muslims will advance towards it and break it. Then the Romans will advance towards the one who broke the cross and will behead him. Then the Muslims will go towards their weapons and the fighting will begin. Allah Almighty will honor them with martyrdom. The Romans will go to their king and say: 'We are sufficient for you to attack the Arabian Peninsula.' Then they will gather for war and come under banners, under each banner there will be twelve thousand men."

Sayyiduna Abu Musa Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates this statement of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "Before the Day of Judgment, there will be 'Harj'." The people asked: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! What is meant by 'Harj'?" The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Killing and bloodshed." The people said: "Will it be more than what we have killed?" The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "It is not your killing of the polytheists, rather it will be killing one another." The people asked: "(At that time) will our intellects remain with us?" The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The intellects of the people of that time will be taken away."

Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Time will contract, knowledge will decrease, tribulations will appear, miserliness will become widespread, and killing (harj) will increase greatly." The people asked: "O Messenger of Allah! What is meant by harj?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) replied: "Killing, killing."

Sayyiduna Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "The destruction of my Ummah will be through the foolish youths of the Quraysh."
(The narrator states: Upon hearing this hadith of Sayyiduna Abu Huraira, Marwan said: These youths are the very people (who are the rulers of today).)

Malik bin Zalim narrates: I heard Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) saying to Marwan bin Hakam: My beloved, the truthful and trustworthy, Sayyiduna Abu al-Qasim (peace and blessings be upon him) has told me this: "Corruption in my Ummah will be through the foolish youths of the Quraysh."

Sayyiduna Thawban (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates this statement of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "Indeed, Allah the Exalted folded the earth for me, until I saw its eastern and western parts. He granted me two treasures, red and white, (and granted this) that the rule of my Ummah will reach as far as the earth was folded for me. I asked my Lord for my Ummah that He not destroy them through a general famine, nor impose upon them an enemy from another nation who would annihilate them, nor divide them into groups so that they would begin to strike each other's necks. So the Lord said: O Muhammad! When I grant something to someone, there is none to withhold it. I have granted your Ummah that they will not be destroyed by a general famine, and I will not impose upon them an enemy from another nation who will annihilate them. However, I will divide them into different groups, until people from distant parts of the earth will gather; they will destroy one another, annihilate one another, and take one another captive. (The Noble Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said:) Some tribes of my Ummah will return to the Turks and to the worshippers of idols. And what I fear most for my Ummah is the misguiding rulers. When the sword is placed among them, it will not be lifted from them until the Day of Resurrection. And soon, about thirty great liars will appear in my Ummah. I am the Seal of the Prophets; there is no prophet after me. A group from my Ummah will always remain steadfast upon the truth and will continue to be helped, until the command of Allah the Exalted comes."

(Imam Ibn Hibban, may Allah have mercy on him, says:) The correct word in the narration is "shirk" (polytheism).

Sayyiduna Abu Umamah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Soon the ropes of Islam will be undone one by one. Whenever one of these ropes is undone, people will hold firmly to the next one. The first of them to be undone will be ruling (i.e., making judgments), and the last will be prayer."

Sayyida Khawla bint Qais (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates this statement of the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him): "When my Ummah will walk with pride and the people of Persia and Rome become their servants, then one among them will be given authority over the others (that is, the Ummah will fall into mutual discord)."

Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Time will contract, knowledge will decrease, tribulations will appear, and killing (harj) will increase greatly." The people asked: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! What is meant by harj?" The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) replied: "Killing."

Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates this statement of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "The Hour will not be established until knowledge is taken away, tribulations appear, falsehood becomes widespread, time contracts, (markets) come close together, and killing becomes abundant." It was asked: What is meant by killing? The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Killing."