It is narrated from Sayyiduna Samurah bin Jundub (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Soon a time will come when Allah Almighty will fill your hands with non-Arabs; then they will prove to be lions (on the battlefield) who do not flee. They will kill your fighters and consume your spoils (fay')." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs 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: "Years will come upon the people in which the liar will be believed and the truthful one will be belied, the trustworthy will be deemed treacherous, and in them the 'Ruwaybidah' will speak." It was said: O Messenger of Allah, what is the 'Ruwaybidah'? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The foolish and base person who speaks about the (political and social) affairs of the general public."

Ibn Qudamah narrates through Yahya bin Sa'id al-Ansari from al-Maqburi: "And in that era, shamelessness and indecency will become widespread." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs did not record it, and this narration of Yahya bin Sa'id al-Ansari from al-Maqburi is extremely gharib (rare).

Salih bin Umar bin Shu'ayb narrates from his grandfather Shu'ayb bin Umar al-Azraq, who said: We set out for Hajj and passed along the route of al-Munkadir, for in those days people used to travel by that route, and we lost our way. He said: While we were in that state, suddenly a Bedouin appeared before us as if he had emerged from the earth. He asked: O Shaykh, do you know where you are? I said: No. He said: You are at al-Raba'ib, and this white hill that you see is the bones of (the tribes of) Bakr bin Wa'il and Taghlib, and this is the grave of Kulayb and his brother Muhalhil. He said: Then he showed us the way and said: There is a man here who has the honour of companionship with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him); would you like to meet him? I said: Yes. So he took us to an elderly man who had a band tied over his forehead and was staying in a leather tent. We asked him: Who are you? He said: I am al-Adda' bin Khalid, known in the Days of Ignorance by the title 'Faris al-Dahya'' (the horseman of al-Dahya'). He said: We said to him: May Allah have mercy on you, narrate to us a hadith of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). He said: We were in the presence of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) when suddenly he (peace and blessings be upon him) stood up as though greatly alarmed; then he (peace and blessings be upon him) returned and said: "I warn you of three Dajjals." At this, Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: O Messenger of Allah, may my father and mother be sacrificed for you! You (peace and blessings be upon him) have told us about the one-eyed Dajjal and about the greatest of liars; who is this third one? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A man who will appear among a people whose first and last are all doomed to destruction; a perpetual curse will be upon them. He will be in the time of the trial of 'al-Jarifah' (the sweeping, devastating trial). He will be the most cunning and crafty Dajjal, who will exploit the servants of Allah in the name of the family of Muhammad, while he will be the furthest of people from his (peace and blessings be upon him) Sunnah." It is the rule of Imam Abu Bakr Muhammad bin Ishaq that when he narrates a hadith which he does not consider sahih, he says about its narrator: So-and-so and so-and-so have narrated from him, and I do not know him to be of integrity and trustworthiness. Yet he has recorded this hadith on the condition of the Sahih, and he is a leader and exemplar in this science of hadith.

Abu Sabrah al-Hudhali narrates: I met Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with them both), and he narrated to me a hadith of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). I understood it well and wrote it with my own hand: Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim (In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful). "This is what Abdullah bin Amr narrated from Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him); he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'Indeed, Allah Almighty does not love the one who speaks obscenely nor the one who utters indecent talk.' Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'By the One in whose Hand is the soul of Muhammad! The Hour will not be established until obscenity, indecency, bad neighbourliness and the severing of family ties become widespread, and until the trustworthy is deemed treacherous and the treacherous is deemed trustworthy.' Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'The example of the believer is like that of the bee: when it settles, it eats what is pure; then when it alights (on a branch or flower), it neither spoils it nor breaks it. And the example of the believer is like a piece of red gold which is put into the fire and blown upon; it does not change, nor does it lose anything when it is weighed.'" This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.

Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A time will come upon the people when the sky will rain abundantly, but the earth will grow nothing." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.

Mujahid narrates that Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said to me: "Had I not heard that you are like us, the People of the House, I would not have narrated this hadith to you." Mujahid said: "It will remain a secret; I will not tell it to anyone whom you dislike." Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: "From us, the People of the House, there will be four (special figures): from us will be al-Saffah, from us al-Mundhir, from us al-Mansur and from us al-Mahdi." Mujahid says: I said to him: "Explain these four to me." He said: "As for al-Saffah, he will at times kill his supporters and pardon his enemy. As for al-Mundhir, he will give so much wealth that he will not consider it great in his heart, and he will withhold only a small portion of his own right. As for al-Mansur, he will be granted such victory and help over his enemy as will be half of the help given to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him); his (peace and blessings be upon him) enemy was struck with awe at a distance of two months' journey, while the enemy of al-Mansur will be struck with awe at a distance of one month's journey. And as for al-Mahdi, he will fill the earth with justice and fairness just as it will have been filled with oppression and injustice; grazing animals will be safe from beasts of prey, and the earth will cast out the pieces of its liver." Mujahid says: I asked: "What is meant by the pieces of its liver?" He said: "(Treasures) like pillars of gold and silver." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Trials will overwhelm you like pieces of the dark night. In (the era of) those trials, the safest of people will be a man who lives on a mountain peak and subsists on the milk of his goats, or a man who holds the reins of his horse beyond the frontiers and eats from the earnings of his sword." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "What will be your state when a trial envelops you in which the old will grow older and the young will grow up, and the people will adopt it (that trial) as a Sunnah (an established practice), so that whenever any change is made to it, they will say that the Sunnah has been changed?" It was said: O Abu Abd al-Rahman, when will that be? He said: "When your reciters (of the Qur'an) are many but your jurists (those with deep understanding of the religion) are few, your rulers are many but the trustworthy people are few, and when the world is sought through the deeds of the Hereafter."

It is narrated from Dawud bin Abi Salih that one day Marwan came and found a man placing his face on the blessed grave (of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)). Marwan seized the man by the neck and said: Do you know what you are doing? When the man turned towards Marwan, it was Sayyiduna Abu Ayyub al-Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him). He said (in reply to Marwan): Yes (I know very well). I have come into the presence of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him); I have not come to a stone. I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: "Do not shed tears over the religion when those in charge of it are its worthy (righteous and deserving) people; rather, weep and lament over the religion when those who are not worthy of it become its guardians and custodians." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.