It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he said: We were sitting with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). He (peace and blessings be upon him) mentioned the trials and spoke about them at length, until he (peace and blessings be upon him) mentioned the 'trial of al-ahlas' (a long and continuous trial). Someone asked: "O Messenger of Allah! What is the trial of al-ahlas?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "It is a trial of fleeing and plunder. Then (will come) the trial of prosperity (fitnat al-sarra). Then the people will agree (to give allegiance) upon a man who will be like a hip bone upon a rib (an unsuitable and weak foundation). Then (will come) the 'trial of al-dahma' (fitnat al-dahma, a dark and great trial), which will not leave a single person of this Ummah without striking him a heavy blow. Whenever it is said that it has ended, it will be prolonged further. In this trial a man will be a believer in the morning and a disbeliever by evening, until the people are divided into two camps: a camp of faith in which there is no hypocrisy, and a camp of hypocrisy in which there is no faith. So when this situation comes about, then await the Dajjal on that very day or the next day." This hadith has an authentic (sahih) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "By the One in whose Hand is my soul! The Hour will not be established until beasts of prey speak to human beings, and until the tip of a man's whip ('adhabat sawtih) and the strap of his sandal (shirak na'lih) speak to him, and (the strap) informs him of everything that his family did after he left." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "If any of you wishes to know whether he has been struck by trial or not, let him look: if he has begun to regard as lawful something he (previously) regarded as unlawful, then he has fallen victim to trial; and if he has begun to regard as unlawful something he (previously) regarded as lawful, then (certainly) trial has engulfed him." This hadith has an authentic (sahih) chain of narration on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that a shepherd was grazing his sheep in the Harrah (the stony tract of Madinah) when suddenly a wolf attacked one of the sheep. The shepherd came between the wolf and the sheep, so the wolf sat back on its tail and said: "O servant of Allah! Are you coming between me and provision that Allah has sent to me?" The man said (in amazement): "How astonishing that a wolf is speaking to me like a human being!" The wolf said: "Shall I not tell you of something even more astonishing than this? The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) is between the two Harrahs (the lava fields of Madinah), informing people of the news of past times." So the shepherd drove his sheep to a corner of Madinah, then came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and related the whole incident. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came out to the people and said: "He has spoken the truth, by the One in whose Hand is my soul (it is so)." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with them both) that (soon), upon the emergence of some ruler or the rise of some tribe, two groups will fight each other over the slogans of Jahiliyyah (pre-Islamic ignorance). Then the group that prevails will (in reality) be humiliated, and its nearest enemy will covet it (its position), and then they will plunge into the Fire. This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "A trial is presented to the hearts. Whichever heart rejects it, a white spot is placed in it, and whichever heart does not reject it, a black spot is placed in it. Then another trial is presented to the hearts. If the heart that rejected the first time rejects it (again), a further white spot is placed in it, and the one that does not reject it, a black spot is placed in it. Then a third trial is presented to the hearts. If the one that rejected the first two times rejects it (still), that heart becomes firm, white and pure, and no trial will ever harm it. But if it did not reject the first two times, that heart becomes black, dusky in colour and turned upside down; then it neither recognises any good nor rejects any evil." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to us: "I warn you of seven trials that will occur after me: a trial that will arise from Madinah, a trial in Makkah, a trial that will come from Yemen, a trial that will come from Sham, a trial that will come from the east, a trial that will come from the west, and a trial that will arise from the heart of Sham, and that is the trial of the Sufyani." Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Among you will be those who will witness the beginning of these trials, and among this Ummah will be those who will witness their end." Al-Walid bin Ayyash (the narrator) said: The trial of Madinah was from the side of Talhah and al-Zubayr, the trial of Makkah was the trial of Abdullah bin al-Zubayr, the trial of Sham was from the side of Banu Umayyah, and the trial of the east was from the side of these people. This hadith has an authentic (sahih) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Abd al-Aziz, the nephew of Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him), that Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "The first thing of your religion that you will lose is humility (khushu'), and the last thing of your religion that you will lose is the prayer. The handholds of Islam will certainly be broken one by one, to the point that women will pray even while menstruating. You will certainly follow the path of those before you exactly, as one feather (of an arrow) matches another and as one sandal matches another; you will not stray from their path, nor will you be diverted from it, until only two sects remain out of many sects. One of them will say: 'What is the matter with these five prayers! Those before us surely went astray; Allah Almighty has only said: "And establish the prayer at the two ends of the day and in some hours of the night." [Surah Hud: 114] ' So they will pray only three prayers. And the other sect will say: 'We believe in Allah just as the angels believe; there is neither a disbeliever nor a hypocrite among us.' So it is a right upon Allah that He gather both of these (misguided sects) with the Dajjal." This hadith has an authentic (sahih) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Abu al-Tufayl that he said: Amr bin Sulay' and I went to Sayyiduna Hudhayfah bin al-Yaman (may Allah be pleased with him) while two rows of people were with him. We said: "O Hudhayfah! You attained what we could not attain, you came to know what we could not know, and you heard what we could not hear; so tell us something by which Allah may benefit us." He said: "If I were to tell you everything I have heard, you would not wait with me even until nightfall (out of astonishment and displeasure)." We said: "That is not what we intend; rather, tell us something by which Allah may benefit us." He said: "If I were to tell you that the mother of one of you (the Mother of the Believers) would fight with a great army until she wields the sword, you would not believe me." We said: "We are not asking about this; tell us something beneficial." Then Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "This tribe of Mudar will continue to kill the righteous servants of Allah, destroying and annihilating them, until Allah sends His armies against them, which will kill them in such a way that they will not be able to protect even the lower end of a watercourse (or a place of refuge)." Amr bin Sulay' said (in amazement): "May his mother lose him! Have you warned the people only of the evil of the tribe of Mudar?" Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Are you not from the tribe of Muharib Khasafah?" He said: "Certainly." So Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Then when you see that the tribe of Qays has taken control of Sham, take your precautions." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said to Marwan bin al-Hakam: My beloved, Abu al-Qasim (peace and blessings be upon him), the truthful and the one confirmed as truthful, informed me: "The ruin of my Ummah will be at the hands of some foolish young men of Quraysh." This hadith has an authentic (sahih) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it. And Hudhayfah bin al-Yaman has testified to the authenticity of this hadith.