It is narrated from Abu Ubaydah: I used to ask people about the hadith of Sayyiduna Adi bin Hatim (may Allah be pleased with him) while he was right beside me in Kufah. Then I went to him and said: A hadith has reached me on your authority; narrate it to me yourself. He said: When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was sent, I detested him more than I had ever detested anything. So I went to the remotest land of the Arabs, but there too my aversion remained. Then I went to the land of the Romans, and there I felt an aversion even greater than, or more intense than, before. Then I said (to myself): I will certainly go to this man; if he is truthful, I will listen to him, and if he is a liar, he can do me no harm. So I came to him (peace and blessings be upon him) and asked him, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "You are asking about something that is not lawful for you in your religion." I felt as though he (peace and blessings be upon him) had expressed disapproval of something of mine. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) said twice: "O Adi bin Hatim, embrace Islam and you will be safe." Adi says that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Perhaps what is preventing you from accepting Islam is that you see poverty and want among the people around me, and you see that people have united against us." Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Have you seen al-Hirah?" I said: I have not seen it, but I know where it is. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Soon a woman in a howdah will travel alone from al-Hirah without any protector until she performs Tawaf of the House, and soon the treasures of Kisra bin Hurmuz will be opened to us." I asked (in amazement): Kisra bin Hurmuz?! He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes! Kisra bin Hurmuz. And the time is also near when a man will go out with his charity but will find no one to accept it." Adi says: I have seen the woman in the howdah travelling alone, and because of the truth of the words of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) I swear that the third thing too will certainly come to pass, for his (peace and blessings be upon him) word is the truth. This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs, but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Hudhayfah bin al-Yaman (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Soon Allah Almighty will fill your hands with non-Arabs and will make them lions who will not flee (from the battlefield). Then they will strike your necks and consume your fay' (spoils)." 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: "Rulers will be imposed over you who will abandon this much of the Sunnah," and he pointed to the tip of his finger. "And if you leave them as they are, they will bring about a great calamity. The reality is that for every nation that abandoned its religion, it began with abandoning the Sunnah, and the last thing they will abandon will be the prayer; and were it not that they felt shame before people, they would not pray either." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs, but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sent an expedition towards Dumat al-Jandal and instructed: "Go, and you will find Ukaydir, the ruler of Dumah, outside the town hunting game; so seize him." So they went and found him just as he (peace and blessings be upon him) had said, and they seized him. Meanwhile the people of the town shut themselves up in the fortress and began to look down on the Muslims from above and talk with them. One of the Muslims said to one of the people of the fortress: I ask you by Allah, do you find mention of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) in your scripture? He said: No. Then another man standing beside him said: We find him in our scripture as one who has the qualities of Quraysh (but along with this he said some improper words). That Muslim asked: O Abu Bakr, have these people not disbelieved? He said: Yes, and you too will soon disbelieve. Then, when the army returned and Musaylimah the Liar claimed prophethood, that man asked Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him): Do you remember your statement which you made at Dumat al-Jandal, that you too will disbelieve? Was this affair of Musaylimah what was meant by it? He said: No, rather that will be at the end of time. The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic), but the two Shaykhs did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A man called al-Sufyani will emerge from a remote part of Damascus, and most of his followers will be from the tribe of Banu Kalb. He will kill so much that he will rip open the bellies of women and kill children. The tribe of Qays will gather to confront them, but he will wipe them out so that no one will remain to protect them. Then a man from my family will appear in the Haram (Makkah). Al-Sufyani will send one of his armies towards him, but that army will be defeated. Then al-Sufyani himself will advance towards him with all his forces, until, when they reach a barren plain (Bayda') of the earth, they will be swallowed up by the earth, and none of them will survive except the one who will give news of them." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs, but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Hittan bin Abdullah al-Raqashi that they were returning from a military expedition with Sayyiduna Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him). When they camped at a place, he said: We used to discuss that before the Hour there will be 'harj'. The people asked: O Amir, what is meant by harj? He said: "Killing." We said: Even more than what we kill now? We kill more than one hundred thousand (enemies) in a year, by Allah's will. He said: "It will not be the killing of the polytheists; rather, it will be your killing of one another." We said: Will our senses be intact at that time? Sayyiduna Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "The minds of most of the people of that time will be taken away, and there will remain behind people whose worth will be like dust. Most of them will think that they are upon something of the truth. By Allah, in that situation which we read of in the Book of Allah and in the sayings of our Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), I find no way of escape for myself and for you except that we leave this world as innocent as we entered it." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs, but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Sa'd bin Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The devil of al-Radhah (a hollow or place so named) will be overcome by a man of the tribe of Bajilah who will be called al-Ashhab - or Ibn al-Ashhab. He will be a herder of horses, and he will be a (prominent) sign among the wrongdoing people (of that time)." 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 the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The millstone of Islam will keep turning for thirty-five or thirty-six (years). Then if they (the people of Islam) perish, it will be the way of those who perished (before them); and if their religion remains established for them, it will remain for seventy years." Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: O Messenger of Allah, (in this period of seventy years) is the time that has already passed included, or is what is meant the time that still remains? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The time that still remains." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs did not record it. The chain of this hadith is outside the condition of the three books; I have mentioned it because of its scholarly relevance to this chapter.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The emergence of the Beast of the Earth (Dabbat al-Ard) will be after the rising of the sun from its place of setting. When it emerges, it will kill Iblis while he is in prostration. After that, the believers will live on earth in ease and comfort for forty years; whatever they wish for will be given to them and they will find it. There will be neither oppression nor injustice, and all things will have submitted to the Lord of the Worlds, willingly or unwillingly, to the extent that even the beasts of prey and the birds will be subdued (even if unwillingly), so much so that no beast of prey will harm any animal or bird. A child will be born to a believer, and he will not die without completing forty years after the emergence of the Beast of the Earth. Then death will return among them, and they will remain in that state for as long as Allah wills. Then death will come swiftly among the believers until no believer remains. Then the disbelievers will say: We used to be in awe of the believers, and now none of them remains, and now no repentance will be accepted from us either; so what is wrong with us that we should not commit indecency with one another like animals?! So they will fall upon one another in the roads like cattle (committing indecency). Then one of them will commit indecency with his mother, sister and daughter in the middle of the road; when one finishes and gets up, another will mount her, and no one will object to it or stop it. On that day the best of them will be the one who says: If you had done this away from the road, it would have been better. They will remain in this state until none of the offspring born of marriage remains, and all over the face of the earth only the illegitimate offspring will remain. They will remain in this state for as long as Allah wills. Then Allah Almighty will make the wombs of women barren for thirty years; no woman will give birth and there will be no child on earth. All of them will be the worst of people and the offspring of fornication, and it is upon them that the Hour will be established." The hadith of Muhammad bin Thabit bin Aslam al-Bunani is very precious among the narrations of the people of Basrah and the children of the Tabi'un; however, Abd al-Wahhab bin Husayn is unknown (majhul).

It is narrated from al-Ahnaf bin Qays; he said: I was in Madinah when suddenly my eyes fell on a man from whom people would run away as soon as they saw him. I asked: Who are you? He said: I am Abu Dharr, the Companion of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). I said: Why do people run away from you? He said: I forbid them from hoarding treasures just as the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to forbid them. I said: Today our stipends and incomes have increased greatly; do you fear anything for us? He said: "Not today, but soon these stipends will become the price of your religion. So when they become the price of your religion, leave them and keep away from them." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.