It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdur Rahman bin Sannah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, Islam began in a state of estrangement, and soon it will return to being as strange as it began, so glad tidings are for the strangers." Someone asked: "O Messenger of Allah! Who are the strangers?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) replied: "They are those who, when corruption spreads among the people, they reform (the situation). By the One in Whose hand is my soul! Faith will retreat to Madinah just as a flood flows towards its lowest point. By the One in Whose hand is my soul! Islam will seek refuge between these two mosques just as a snake seeks refuge in its hole."