Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

In the fifth, blind, deaf, and devastating fitnah, people will become like animals

The Fourth Trial, in which my nation will struggle like humanity, the affliction will become so severe that good will not be recognized and evil will not be denounced.

After me, four trials will come to you. The fourth of them is deaf, blind, and deafening. The nation will be afflicted with afflictions that will afflict people, until goodness is denied and evil is recognized. Their hearts will die in it as their bodies die.

I wish I had a hundred men with hearts of gold, so I could climb onto a rock and tell them a conversation that would never harm them after it, and then I would go away and not see them and they not see me.

Indeed, temptation is presented to hearts. Any heart that drinks it will have a black spot on it, and any heart that denies it will have a white spot on it. So whoever among you wants to know whether temptation has afflicted him or not, let him see. If he saw what was lawful, he would see it as forbidden, or what was forbidden, he would see it as lawful, for it has befallen him. Indeed, the man becomes a seeing man, and what he sees touches with a blade.

If it was the year one hundred and sixty, the dreams of those with dreams and the opinion of those with opinions were diminished

Sedition is a questionable right and wrong, so whoever knows the truth will not be harmed by sedition

You have the Book of Allah and you have your minds

True misguidance is that you know what you used to deny, and you deny what you knew, so look at what you are today and adhere to it, for no more temptation will harm you.

You present good and evil to your heart, not knowing which one to ride

The Hour is based on people whose dreams are the dreams of birds

The least you can overcome in terms of jihad is jihad with your hands, then jihad with your tongues, then jihad with your hearts. For any heart that does not know what is right and does not denounce what is wrong, it makes the highest its lowest.

If the heart does not know what is right, nor does it reject what is wrong, it is set back, making the top the bottom

What do you think of the heart if it breaks?

How would you be if you saw twenty or more men who did not see among them a man who was feared for the sake of Allah Almighty?

Muhammad ibn al-Harith al-Bahrani told us, on the authority of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Bilmani, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Ibn Umar, (may Allah be pleased with them) both, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him, said: “The Hour will not come until a man passes by the grave and says: I wish I were in his companion’s place when the people face the trials.”

Ibn Wahb told us, on the authority of Yunus, he said: Abu Hamid, a servant of Musafa’, told me: I heard Abu Hurairah, (may Allah be pleased with him), saying: “A day will come upon you when one of you walks to his brother’s grave and says: I wish I were in his place.”

Ibn Mahdi and Waki` told us, on the authority of Sufyan, on the authority of Salamah ibn Kuhail, on the authority of Abu al-Za`ra, on the authority of Abdullah, who said: “A time will come upon the people when a man comes to a grave and lies on it and says: I wish I were in the place of his companion, not for love of meeting Allah, but for the severity of the calamity he sees.”

Narrated Abu Huraira:The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "The Hour will not be established till a man passes by a grave of somebody and says, 'Would that I were in his place

There will come a time for people when death is more beloved to one of them than washing with cold water on a hot day, and then he does not die

A time will come upon the people when a man comes to the grave and wallows over it as an animal wallows, wishing to be there in the place of its companion, not out of love for meeting Allah, meaning because of the calamity he sees.

Ibn Mahdi told us, on the authority of Sufyan, on the authority of Al-A’mash, on the authority of Ibrahim, on the authority of Abdullah, and the like

The Hour will not come until a man comes to the grave and wallows over it like an animal wallows, wishing to be in the place of its owner

You are called to an enemy on one side, while you are like that when you are called to another enemy, and you do not know to which enemy you will flee, and on that day that will happen.

Baqiyya and Abd al-Quddus told us, on the authority of Safwan bin Amr, on the authority of Amr bin Salim al-Hadrami, on the authority of Abu Athbah al-Hadrami, who said: “If you live a short lifespan, then a man will soon come to the grave of his intimate friend and look at you, saying: I wish I were in your place. I had been saved. I had been saved.” So he mentioned something similar to the first hadith.