کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

By Allah, if you overtake me and you, I do not know for you or me a way out of it according to what our Prophet (may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him) covenanted with us, unless we leave it as we entered it.

There is no way out for you or me if we have reached it except to leave it as we entered it. This is how our Prophet, ﷺ, entrusted us.

Narrated Abu Huraira:Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "There will be afflictions (in the near future) during which a sitting person will be better than a standing one, and the standing one will be better than a walking one, and the walking one will be better than a running one, and whoever will expose himself to these afflictions, they will destroy him. So whoever can find a place of protection or refuge from them, should take shelter in it

There will be tribulations, so stay on the ground, and let one of you guard his house, for no one will be exposed to it unless you want him to.

There will come a time when a man will have to choose between impotence and immorality. Whoever realizes this should choose impotence over immorality

A time will come upon people when the believer will be more humiliated than the female slave, the most deceitful among them, the one who tempts the foxes with his religion.

The best of people on that day is a believer who secludes himself in a mountainous area, fears his Lord and shuns people from his evil

A time will come upon the people from which no one will be saved except the one who prays like the prayer of drowning

Abdah bin Sulaiman told us, on the authority of Al-A’mash, on the authority of Amara, on the authority of Abu Ammar, on the authority of Hudhayfah, the same. Al-A’mash said, on the authority of Ibrahim, on the authority of Hammam bin Al-Harith, on the authority of Hudhayfah, the same.

The best people in turmoil are black people who graze on the tops of the mountains and in the countryside, and the worst people in it are every rider in a place, and every preacher in a place.

A man may be in temptation or from temptation, and what he is from

It was narrated from Anas bin Malik that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:“Islam began as something strange and will go back to being strange, so glad tidings to the strangers.”

Ibn Uyaynah told us, on the authority of Masar, on the authority of Aoun bin Abdullah, he said: “While a man was in Egypt during the turmoil of Ibn al-Zubayr, he was making fun of the ground when a man stood up to him and said to him: What are you talking to yourself about, in this world? He said: Rather, think about what has befallen the people, for I am interested in it. He said: Allah has saved you from it because of your thought about it. Who is the one who asked Allah and He did not give it, or relied on Him and He was not sufficient for it?”

Whoever realizes the temptation, let him break his leg, and if it is forced, let him break the other

If the people of truth prevail over the people of falsehood, then you are not in temptation

The best people in turmoil are a man who takes the head of his horse and frightens the enemy, or a man who is isolated and performs Allah’s rights upon him

The best people in turmoil are a man who eats from the droppings of his sword in the name of Allah, and a man on a high mountain who eats from the messengers of his sheep.

The happy one is the one who avoids temptations, and the one who is afflicted with some of it and has a patient mouth and then loses it

A time will come upon the people when a man will have to choose between incapacity and immorality. Whoever of you realizes that, let him choose incapacity over immorality, for inability is better than immorality.

Let the man among you choose between inability and immorality. Whoever among you realizes that, let him choose inability over immorality

A time will come upon the people when the believer will be more humiliated than the nation, and the believer will tempt himself with his religion like foxes

A time will come upon people when their homes are best in the desert

The people have dispersed from me, and these people have invited me to safety, so what do you see? If you went out to revive the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Prophet, then die in accordance with the truth, and if you only went out in pursuit of this world, then there is no good in you, alive or dead.

The temptation of Ibn al-Zubayr is one of the few tribulations of temptation, and the applied retaliation remains. Whoever is most honorable to it, it will be honorable to him, and whoever is virtuous in it, it will be honourable.