It is narrated from Abd al-Rahman bin Ghanm al-Ash'ari; he said: Sayyiduna Abu al-Darda' (may Allah be pleased with him) asked me: How do you find the people? I said: They are well; their call is one, their Imam is one, their enemy is wretched, and their stipends and provisions flow in abundance. He said: (That is how it is now,) but what will their state be when their hearts are filled with hatred against one another, their tongues curse one another, their enmity becomes openly manifest, their mutual relations are corrupted, and they begin striking one another's necks?! This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.