It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with them both); Wahb bin Jabir says: I was with him when a steward came to him from Syria, with two days of Ramadan remaining. Sayyiduna Abdullah asked him: Have you left with my family enough to suffice them? He said: I have left some provision for them. Sayyiduna Abdullah said: I firmly command you to go back and leave with them enough to suffice them, for I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "It is sin enough for a man that he neglects (leaves without support) those whose sustenance is his responsibility." Wahb says: Then Sayyiduna Abdullah began narrating to us and said: When the sun sets, it gives greeting, prostrates and asks permission (to rise again), and permission is given to it. Until a day will come when it sets, gives greeting, prostrates and asks permission, but permission will not be given to it. It will say: O my Lord! The journey is long, and if I am not given permission, I will not reach my destination. So it will be held back for as long as Allah wills, then it will be said to it: Rise from where you set. He said: From that day until the Day of Resurrection, "no soul will benefit from its faith if it had not believed before" [Surah al-An'am: 158] . Then he mentioned Gog and Magog and said that no man among them dies until a thousand of his own offspring have been born to him, and behind them there are three more nations whose number no one knows except Allah: (their names are) Mansak, Tawil and Taris. 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: Tribulations have times of surging (intensity) and times of pausing (subsiding). So if you are able to have death come to you while they are in a state of pause, then do so. Zayd bin Wahb says: Sayyiduna Hudhayfah was asked: What is their pausing? He replied: When the sword is in its sheath. He was asked: What is their surging (intensity)? He said: When the sword is drawn (that is, when war and fighting break out). 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 Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The rulers will be from Quraysh, the rulers will be from Quraysh, as long as they do three things among you: when they are asked for mercy, they show mercy; when they distribute, they act with fairness; and when they judge, they act with justice." 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); Masruq says: One night we were sitting with him while he was teaching us the Qur'an, when a man asked him: O Abu Abd al-Rahman! Did you ask the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) how many caliphs this Ummah will have? Sayyiduna Abdullah said: Since I came to Iraq, no one besides you has asked me this question. Then he said: Yes, we asked him (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There will be twelve, equal to the number of the leaders (nuqaba') of the Children of Israel." In this book, one cannot dispense with the narrations of Mujalid and other narrators like him.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: The Sufyani will prevail over Syria. Then there will be a battle between them at Qarqisiya, such that the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth will eat their fill of their corpses. Then a breach will open up behind them, and a group of them will advance until they enter the land of Khurasan (and the Sufyani's cavalry will set out in pursuit of the people of Khurasan), and they will kill the followers of the family of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) in Kufah. Then the people of Khurasan will set out in search of the Mahdi.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Thawban (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: When you see that black banners have come out from the direction of Khurasan, then be sure to reach them, even if you have to drag yourselves (on your knees), for among them will be the caliph of Allah, the Mahdi. 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 Amr (may Allah be pleased with them both), in the narration of Sayyiduna Salman bin Rabi'ah (may Allah be pleased with him), that he said: I reached Makkah with a group of my companions. We looked for Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr but did not find him; there were about three hundred people on foot there. Then we turned back and found him in the mosque. He was an old man wearing two Qatari cloaks and a turban, but he was not wearing a shirt. He asked: Where are you from? We said: From the people of Iraq. He said: You people of Iraq lie, deny the truth and mock. We said: We neither lie, nor deny, nor mock. He asked: How far is it between you and al-Ubullah? We said: Four farsakhs. He said: Soon the Banu Qanturah bin Karkar will drive you out of Khurasan and Sijistan with great harshness. Then they will advance until they tie their horses at the river Tigris. They will be a people with small eyes and flat noses, their faces like layered shields. This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.

Zayd bin Sallam narrates from his father, and he from his grandfather, that when the time of death drew near for Sayyiduna Hudhayfah bin al-Yaman (may Allah be pleased with him), some Bedouin people came to him and said: O Hudhayfah! We see that your soul is about to be taken. He said: A joy that came after long waiting, and a beloved who arrived at a time of need. He who regrets (leaving the world) will never succeed. O Allah! I never joined any traitor in his treachery, so today I seek refuge in You from an evil companion. (Then he said:) People used to ask the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) about good, and I used to ask him (peace and blessings be upon him) about evil. I said: O Messenger of Allah! We were in evil, then Allah granted us good; so will there be evil after this good? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes." I said: Will there be any evil behind that good too? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes." I asked: How? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "After me there will be rulers who will neither follow my guidance nor adhere to my Sunnah, and soon there will arise men whose hearts will be the hearts of devils in human bodies." I said: If I encounter this situation, what should I do? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "You should listen to and obey the supreme ruler, even if he strikes your back and seizes your wealth." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Mas'ud al-Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "This matter (of rule) will remain among you, and you will remain its governors, as long as you do not do deeds that strip it away from you. When you do that, Allah will set over you the worst of His creation, who will peel you apart just as the bark of a branch is peeled off." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.

It is narrated from Sa'd bin Hudhayfah (may Allah have mercy on him) that the faults of Sa'id bin al-As were mentioned before Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him), and he said: I do not know which of the two things you want. Do you want to seize the authority of a people that is not yours, or do you want to turn back this tribulation? Yet it has been sent by Allah; it will roam grazing through the earth until it tramples even its own halter. There is no one to turn it back and no one to stop it, and no one who says "Allah, Allah" will be left without being killed. Then Allah Almighty will send people like the scattered clouds of autumn (qaza'an ka-qaza' al-kharif). He said: Al-qaza' means a patch of thin cloud that is like a shadow when it passes beneath many clouds. This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.