It is narrated from Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he went out to the outskirts of Kufah, and a man was with him. He looked towards the Euphrates and said to his companion: "What will be your state when you see them coming out, or being driven out, from there, and they will not taste even a single drop of its (the Euphrates') water?" A man asked: O Abu Abdullah! Is that what you think? He said: "It is not what I think; rather, I know it (with certainty)." 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 Abu Thawr that he said: I was sitting with Sayyiduna Hudhayfah and Sayyiduna Abu Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with them both) at the time when the people of Kufah turned back Sa'id bin al-As on the Day of al-Jara'ah. Abu Mas'ud said: I did not think that he (Sa'id) would go back without blood being shed. At this Hudhayfah said: But by Allah, I knew that we would return in this way and that not even the amount of blood in a cupping vessel would be shed in this matter. And I had no knowledge of anything about this except what I learned during the lifetime of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "A man will be a believer in the morning and by evening he will have become a disbeliever, with nothing of his religion left with him; and he will be a believer in the evening and by morning he will have nothing of his religion left with him. He will fight in today's tribulation and Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, will destroy him tomorrow. His heart will be turned upside down and his lower part will come on top." I asked: His lower part? He said: "Yes, his rear (that is, he will be disgraced and humiliated)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) concerning this verse: "And when the word is fulfilled against them, We will bring forth for them a beast from the earth that will speak to them" [Surah al-Naml: 82] , that he said: "(This will happen) when people no longer enjoin good and no longer forbid evil."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "After sixty years there will come unworthy successors who will neglect the prayer and follow their desires, so they will soon meet destruction (ghayy). Then after sixty years there will be unworthy successors who will recite the Qur'an, but it will not go beyond their throats. And three kinds of people recite the Qur'an: the believer, the hypocrite and the wicked." Bashir says: I asked al-Walid: What is meant by these three? He said: The hypocrite is one who denies it, the wicked is one who earns his living (of this world) through it, and the believer is one who believes in it. This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, 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 Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "By the One in whose hand is the soul of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)! The Hour will not be established until indecency and miserliness become widespread, the trustworthy person is regarded as a traitor and the traitor is regarded as trustworthy, and the 'wu'ul' perish while the 'tuhut' prevail." The Companions said: O Messenger of Allah! What are the wu'ul and the tuhut? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The wu'ul are the honourable and noble class of people, and the tuhut are those who were beneath people's feet (obscure and lowly), of whom no mention used to be made." All the narrators of this hadith are from Madinah, and none of them has been subjected to any criticism (jarh).

It is narrated from Abu Zur'ah bin Amr bin Jarir that three men sat with Marwan in Madinah and heard him speaking about the signs of the Hour, saying that the first of them is the emergence of the Dajjal. Those men got up from Marwan and came to Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with them both) and told him what Marwan had said. Sayyiduna Abdullah said: "Marwan has said nothing (that is, his statement is not correct). I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: 'The first of the major signs to appear are the rising of the sun from its place of setting and the emergence of the Beast of the earth (Dabbat al-Ard); whichever of them appears first, the other will follow soon after it.'" Then he explained in detail and said: "This is how it will happen: when the sun sets, it comes beneath the Throne, prostrates and asks permission to go back, and it is given permission. Until, when Allah Almighty wishes to make it rise from its place of setting, it will come beneath the Throne, prostrate and ask permission to go back, but no answer will be given to it. Then it will ask permission again, but no answer will be given to it. Then it will ask permission a third time, and no answer will be given to it. Then it will realise that even if it were given permission, it would not be able to reach the east. It will say: O my Lord! How far the east is! Who will take me to the people? Until, when the night has grown long, it will ask permission, and it will be said to it: Rise from your own place (the west)." Since Sayyiduna Abdullah used to read the earlier scriptures, he recited this verse about that occasion: "No soul will benefit from its faith if it had not believed before or had not earned some good through its faith." [Surah al-An'am: 158] 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: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "When the great battles (malahim) take place, an army of non-Arab Muslims (mawali) will come out from Damascus. They will be the most honourable of the Arabs in horsemanship and the finest in weaponry, and Allah Almighty will support and aid the religion of Islam through them." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Bukhari, 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 the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A fire will be sent upon the people of the east which will drive them towards the west. That fire will spend the night wherever they spend the night, and will take its midday rest (qaylulah) wherever they rest. Whoever of them falls or lags behind, the fire will engulf him. It will drive them as an injured or exhausted camel is driven." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Talhah al-Nasri (may Allah be pleased with him) that when a man among us came to Madinah and had an acquaintance (an 'arif) there, he would stay with him, and if he had no acquaintance there, he would stay in the Suffah. So I came to Madinah and had no acquaintance there, so I stayed in the Suffah. Every day we would receive from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) one mudd of dates between every two men, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) would clothe us in fine cotton cloth (khunuf). One day the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) led us in one of the daytime prayers, and when he (peace and blessings be upon him) said the salam, the people of the Suffah called out to him (peace and blessings be upon him) from the right and the left: "O Messenger of Allah! The dates have burned our stomachs, and our garments have been torn to shreds." Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) went to his pulpit, ascended it, praised and extolled Allah, and then mentioned the hardships he (peace and blessings be upon him) had endured from his people, until he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "More than ten days passed over me and my companion in which we had nothing to eat except the fruit of the arak tree (al-barir)." The narrator said: I asked Abu Harb: What is barir? He said: It is poor food, namely the fruit of the arak tree. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then we came to these brothers of ours from the Ansar, whose main food was dates, and they shared it with us. By Allah! If I could find bread and meat for you, I would certainly feed you your fill of it. But perhaps you will live to see a time, or whoever of you lives to see it, when great bowls of food will be brought to you morning and evening, and you will wear garments like the coverings of the Ka'bah." Dawud said: Abu Harb asked me: O Dawud! Do you know what the coverings of the Ka'bah were like in those days? I said: No. He said: They were white cloths that used to be brought from Yemen. Dawud said: I narrated this hadith to al-Hasan al-Basri, and he said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) also said: "You today are better than you will be on that future day. Today you are brothers by the blessing of Allah, whereas on that day you will be enemies of one another and will strike one another's necks." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that she said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Night and day will not come to an end until al-Lat and al-Uzza are worshipped (again). Then Allah Almighty will send a pure wind which will take the soul of everyone who has in his heart good (faith) equal to the weight of a mustard seed. Then only those in whom there is no good will remain, and they will return to the (polytheistic) religion of their forefathers." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.