It is narrated from Sulaym bin Qays al-Hanzali that he said: Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) addressed us in a sermon and said: "What I fear most for you after me is that an innocent man among you will be seized and sawn apart (to torment him) as a slaughtered camel is cut apart, and his flesh will be torn as its flesh is torn, and it will be said that he is a transgressor, whereas he will not be a transgressor." He said: Then Sayyiduna Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him), who was below the pulpit, said: O Commander of the Faithful! And when will that be, while the calamity has not yet become severe, the partisanship of the Jahiliyyah has not yet appeared, the offspring have not yet been taken captive, and the tribulations have not yet ground the people down as a millstone grinds grain and as fire consumes firewood? (Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him)) asked: O Ali! When will that be? He replied: "When jurisprudence (fiqh) is acquired for a purpose other than religion, knowledge is learnt for a purpose other than action, and this world is sought through the deeds of the Hereafter."

It is narrated from Hasan al-Basri (may Allah have mercy on him), who narrates from Sayyiduna Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him), that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I fear for you al-harj." The Companions said: O Messenger of Allah! What is al-harj? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Killing." They said: Even more than we kill today? We kill such-and-such a number of the polytheists in a single day. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "It will not be the killing of the polytheists; rather, it will be your killing one another." They said: Will the Book of Allah (the Qur'an) be among us then? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes, the Book of Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, will be among you." They said: Will our minds be with us then? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, the minds of most people of that time will be taken away, and in their place will remain the dregs of humanity (people of little intelligence) who will think that they are upon something (of the truth), whereas they will not be upon anything."

It is narrated from Hayyah bint Abi Hayyah that she said: A man came to me at midday. I asked: O servant of Allah! What do you need? He said: My companion and I set out in search of our lost camels, and I have come here to rest in the shade and to drink something. So I got up and offered him some sour buttermilk and a little sour milk. Then, looking at him closely, I asked: O servant of Allah! Who are you? He said: I am Abu Bakr, that companion of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) of whom you have heard. (Hayyah says:) Then I mentioned the tribe of Khath'am and our fighting one another in the Jahiliyyah, and the affection and love that Allah Almighty granted (through Islam), and, mentioning the ropes of the tents, interlaced the fingers together to show it. She says: I asked: O servant of Allah! How long will this state of the people (peace and affection) remain like this? He said: "As long as your leaders (imams) remain upright." I asked: What is meant by the imams? He said: "Have you not seen the tents of a tribe, that they have a chief whom the people follow and obey? So as long as those chiefs remain upright (this matter too will remain upright)." This hadith is sahih (authentic), but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna al-Husayn bin Kharijah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: When the first tribulation broke out, the matter became confusing for me, so I prayed: O Allah! Show me the path of truth that I may hold on to firmly. He says: Then I was shown in a dream this world and the Hereafter, with a small wall between them. I was on a high place, and I thought: If I go down from here, perhaps I may meet those killed from the tribe of Ashja' and they may tell me something. He says: I descended onto a land with many trees, and there were some people sitting there. I asked: Are you the martyrs? They said: No, we are the angels. I asked: Where are the martyrs? They said: They are ahead, in the lofty ranks, with Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). I went forward and saw a rank whose vastness and beauty Allah alone knows best. There I saw Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) and Ibrahim (peace be upon him). He (peace and blessings be upon him) was saying to Sayyiduna Ibrahim (peace be upon him): "Seek forgiveness for my Ummah." Ibrahim (peace be upon him) said to him: "You do not know what innovations they introduced after you. They shed their own blood and killed their imam. Why did they not do as my intimate friend Sa'd (bin Abi Waqqas) did?" I thought (in the dream) that I had been shown the path: I will go to Sayyiduna Sa'd and see whom he is with, so that I too may be with him. I came to him and related my dream to him, and he was very pleased with it and said: "Wretched is the one who does not have Ibrahim as an intimate friend." I asked: Which of the two groups are you with? He said: "I am not with either of them." I said: Then what do you command me to do? He said: "Do you have livestock?" I said: No. He said: "Then buy livestock and withdraw into seclusion with them until this tribulation is over." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Allegiance will be pledged to a man between the Corner (al-Rukn) and the Station (al-Maqam). And none will violate the sanctity of this House (the Ka'bah) except its own people. When they violate its sanctity, then do not ask about the destruction of the Arabs. Then the Abyssinians will come and demolish it in such a way that it will never be inhabited again after that, and they are the ones who will take out its treasure." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but the two Shaykhs did not record it in their books.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Leave the Abyssinians alone (do not provoke them) as long as they leave you alone, for no one will take out the treasure of the Ka'bah except that thin-shanked man from Abyssinia." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it. However, both of them agreed on recording this hadith narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The Ka'bah will be demolished by the short-shanked man from Abyssinia."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The Hour will not be established until the pilgrimage (Hajj) to the House of Allah is abandoned." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but the two Shaykhs did not record it in their books.

Imam Abu Dawud has also narrated this report through Shu'bah as mawquf (as the statement of the Companion). And Allah knows best.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The House of Allah will certainly be visited for Hajj and Umrah even after the emergence of Gog and Magog (Ya'juj and Ma'juj)." (Imam al-Hakim says:) So it is possible that the performance of Hajj and Umrah continues for some time after that (the tribulation of Gog and Magog), and then after that Hajj ceases completely.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he said: Soon neither a dirham nor any grain (qafiz) will come to the people of Iraq. The people asked: O Abu Abdullah! For what reason will that be? He said: Because of the non-Arabs; they will stop it. Then he remained silent for a little while and said: Soon neither a dinar nor any grain (mudd) will come to the people of Syria. The people asked: For what reason will that be? He said: Because of the Romans; they will stop it. Then he said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There will be a caliph in my Ummah who will give out wealth in handfuls and will not count it." Then he said: By the One in whose hand is my soul! This matter (the religion) will certainly return just as it began; every believer will return to Madinah just as it began from there, until all faith is gathered in Madinah. Then he said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "No one leaves Madinah out of aversion to it except that Allah brings in his place someone better than him. And some people will hear news of prosperity, plenty and low prices, and they will follow it (leaving Madinah), whereas Madinah is better for them, if only they knew." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Muslim, but they did not record it with this wording. Imam Muslim only recorded the narration of Dawud bin Abi Hind from Abu Nadrah, from Abu Sa'id, from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "At the end of time there will be a caliph who will give out wealth and will not count it", and there is a hidden defect ('illah) in it.