It is narrated from Sa'd bin Hudhayfah (may Allah have mercy on him) that the faults of Sa'id bin al-As were mentioned before Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him), and he said: I do not know which of the two things you want. Do you want to seize the authority of a people that is not yours, or do you want to turn back this tribulation? Yet it has been sent by Allah; it will roam grazing through the earth until it tramples even its own halter. There is no one to turn it back and no one to stop it, and no one who says "Allah, Allah" will be left without being killed. Then Allah Almighty will send people like the scattered clouds of autumn (qaza'an ka-qaza' al-kharif). He said: Al-qaza' means a patch of thin cloud that is like a shadow when it passes beneath many clouds. This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.