Abu Umayyah ash-Sha'bani said: I asked Abu Thalabah al-Khushani: What is your opinion about the verse "Care for yourselves". He said: I swear by Allah, I asked the one who was well informed about it; I asked the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم about it. He said: No, enjoin one another to do what is good and forbid one another to do what is evil. But when you see niggardliness being obeyed, passion being followed, worldly interests being preferred, everyone being charmed with his opinion, then care for yourself, and leave alone what people in general are doing; for ahead of you are days which will require endurance, in which showing endurance will be like grasping live coals. The one who acts rightly during that period will have the reward of fifty men who act as he does. Another version has: He said (The hearers asked:) Messenger of Allah, the reward of fifty of them? He replied: The reward of fifty of you.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: How will you do when that time will come? Or he said: A time will soon come when the people are sifted and only dregs of mankind survive and their covenants and guarantees have been impaired and they have disagreed among themselves and become thus, interwining his fingers. They asked: What do you order us to do, Messenger of Allah? He replied: Accept what you approve, abandon what you disapprove, attend to your own affairs and leave alone the affairs of the generality. Abu dawud said: A similar tradition has been transmitted by Abdullah bin Amr from the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم through different chain.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As: When we were around the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم , he mentioned the period of commotion (fitnah) saying: When you see the people that their covenants have been impaired, (the fulfilling of) the guarantees becomes rare, and they become thus (interwining his fingers). I then got up and said: What should I do at that time, may Allah make me ransom for you? He replied: Keep to your house, control your tongue, accept what you approve, abandon what you disapprove, attend to your own affairs, and leave alone the affairs of the generality.

Narrated Abu Saeed al-Khudri: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: The best fighting (jihad) in the path of Allah is (to speak) a word of justice to an oppressive ruler.

Narrated Al-Urs bin Amirat al-Kindi: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: When sin is done in the earth, he who sees it and disapproves of it will be taken like one who was not present, but he who is not present and approves of it will be like him who sees.

A similar tradition has also been transmitted by ‘Adl from the prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم though a different chain of narrators. This version has: He who sees it and disapproves of it will be like him who was not present.

A man from among the companions of the prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم reported him as saying: The people will not perish until their sins and faults become abundant, and there remains no excuse for them.

Abdullah bin Umar said: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم led us in the night prayer one night towards the end of his life. When he uttered the salutation, he got up and said: Have you seen this night of yours ? No one of those who are on the surface of the earth will survive at the ends of one hundred years. Ibn Umar said: The people fell into fallacy by this statement of the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم about the traditions they used to narrate concerning one hundred years. The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: No one of those who are present today on the surface of the earth will survive, meaning when that century comes to and end.

Narrated Abu Thalabat al-Khushani: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Allah will not fail to detain this community for less than half a day.

Narrated Saad ibn Abu Waqqas: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: I hope my community will not fail to maintain their position in the sight of their Lord if He delays them half a day. Saad was asked: How long is half a day? He said: It is five hundred years.