کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

If your ignorant people are many, and your scholars and jurists are few, and your reciters and princes are many, and your trustworthy ones are few, and you seek this world with the work of the Hereafter.

There is nothing between you and evil being sent upon you beyond measure, except the death of Omar, (may Allah be pleased with him)

There is nothing between you and evil except a man, and if he dies, evil will be poured upon you for miles

By the One in whose hand is my soul until the Day of Resurrection

O Amer, do not be deceived by what you see, for these people are about to renounce their religion just as a woman renounces her kiss.

The first people to perish were Persians, then the Arabs followed them

Our direction during the time of the Messenger of Allah, ﷺ, was one. When the Messenger of Allah, ﷺ, died, we headed here and there.

Ka'b never told me anything that happened to him in my authority except that I saw it

O Mujahid, if you see the houses of Mecca with their roofs exposed and water running down their roads, be careful.

Narrated Shaqiq:I heard Hudhaifa saying, "While we were sitting with `Umar, he said, 'Who among you remembers the statement of the Prophet (ﷺ) about the afflictions?' Hudhaifa said, "The affliction of a man in his family, his property, his children and his neighbors are expiated by his prayers, Zakat (and alms) and enjoining good and forbidding evil." `Umar said, "I do not ask you about these afflictions, but about those afflictions which will move like the waves of the sea." Hudhaifa said, "Don't worry about it, O chief of the believers, for there is a closed door between you and them." `Umar said, "Will that door be broken or opened?" I said, "No. it will be broken." `Umar said, "Then it will never be closed," I said, "Yes." We asked Hudhaifa, "Did `Umar know what that door meant?" He replied, "Yes, as I know that there will be night before tomorrow morning, that is because I narrated to him a true narration free from errors." We dared not ask Hudhaifa as to whom the door represented so we ordered Masruq to ask him what does the door stand for? He replied, "`Umar

Baqiyya ibn al-Walid told us, on the authority of Safwan, on the authority of Shuraih ibn Ubaid, on the authority of Ka’b, who said: “A time will come upon the people when a believer will be criticized for his faith just as the ungodly is criticized today for his immorality, until it is said to the man: You are a believer and a jurist.”

If lies spread, there will be a lot of commotion

As for Ibn al-Khattab being alive, no, but that is if the people are in a state of calamity and calamity, and a man begins to remember that the land has nothing like the one he is fleeing to, and he does not find him, then temptations appear.

The worst of the nights, days, months and times are the closest to the Hour

Other than that is a closed door that is about to be broken or opened completely, and that door is a man who is about to be killed or die

It was narrated from Abu Musa Al-Ash’ari that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:“Before the Hour comes, there will be tribulation like pieces of black night, when a man will wake up as a believer but be a disbeliever by evening, or he will be a believer in the evening but will be a disbeliever by morning. And the one who is sitting will be better than the one who is standing, and the one who is standing will be better than the one who is walking, and the one who is walking will be better than the one who is running. So break your bows, cut their strings and strike your swords against rocks, and if anyone enters upon anyone of you, let him be like the better of the two sons of Adam. (i.e. the one killed, not the killer).”

Narrated Hudhaifa:Once `Umar bin Al-Khattab said, "Who amongst you remembers the statement of Allah's Apostle regarding the afflictions?" Hudhaifa replied, "I remember what he said exactly." `Umar said, "Tell (us), you are really a daring man!" Hudhaifa said, "Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, 'A man's afflictions (i.e. wrong deeds) concerning his relation to his family, his property and his neighbors are expiated by his prayers, giving in charity and enjoining what is good and forbidding what is evil.' " `Umar said, "I don't mean these afflictions but the afflictions that will be heaving up and down like waves of the sea." Hudhaifa replied, "O chief of the believers! You need not fear those (afflictions) as there is a closed door between you and them." `Umar asked, "Will that door be opened or broken?" Hudhaifa replied, "No, it will be broken." `Umar said, "Then it is very likely that the door will not be closed again." Later on the people asked Hudhaifa, "Did `Umar know what that door meant?" He said, "Yes, `Umar knew it as everyone knows that there will be night before the tomorrow morning. I narrated to `Umar an authentic narration, not lies." We dared not ask Hudhaifa; therefore we requested Masruq who asked him, "What does the door stand for?" He said, "`Umar

Abu Musa narrated that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:“Before the Hour comes there will be Harj.” I said: “O Messenger of Allah, what is Harj?” He said: “Killing.” Some of the Muslims said: “O Messenger of Allah, now we kill such and such a number of idolaters in one year.” The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “That will not be like killing the idolaters, rather you will kill one another, until a man will kill his neighbor and son of the cousin and a relative.” Some of the people said: “O Messenger of Allah, will we be in our right minds that day?” The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “No, reason will be taken away from most of the people at that time, and there will be left the insignificant people who have no reason.”

Hushaym told us, on the authority of Abu Balj, on the authority of Amr ibn Maimun, on the authority of Abdullah ibn Masoud, (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: “How will you be if you are afflicted with tribulation in which the old grow old, the young grow up in it, and the people take it as a religion, and if it changes, they say: This is reprehensible? It was said: And when is that? He said: If your princes increase, and your trustees decrease, and your preachers increase, and your jurists decrease, and the world seeks knowledge other than religion, and the world seeks work "The afterlife"

O people of Egypt, do not take revenge on me. By Allah, I have increased your number, increased your support, and strengthened you over your enemy. Know that I am better than those who come after me, and the last one is evil.

It was narrated from Hudhaifah bin Yaman that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:“The Hour will not begin until you kill your ruler and fight one another with swords, and your world is inherited by the worst of you.”