کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

I wished that every pearl on the face of the earth had become tar. People do not stop until they take sheep, milk them, and compete over them, until when they become numerous, they leave the cities, communities, and mosques, and flock to them. Allah has not sent a prophet, nor appointed a caliphate, nor a king except among the people of the villages and the civilization, and they did not aspire to place them among the people of the pillars or the Bedouins, so if Allah sees their desire for the groups and mosques, Allah will send to them what their right hands possess. People who speak to them in Arabic, and beat them with the Musharrafiyya until they return to the congregation and the mosques. Do not take too much captivity of the Persians. If I were to control the captives in your hands, I would kill nine out of every ten. And look at the remaining ten, then exile them to Wadi Al-Shajar, or Wadi Al-Arj, or Wadi Al-Junir. By Allah, if they remain yours, He will make life easier for you.

Ibn Ayyash said: Dawud bin Abd al-Rahman told me, on the authority of Qais bin Asim al-Thaqafi, on the authority of Ibn al-Musayyab, he said: I said: If you went out and wandered with your people? He said: Allah forbid that I abandon the twenty-five and one hundred prayers for five prayers. Then Saeed said: I heard Ka’b al-Ahbar say: “I wish this milk were tar.” It was said: Why that? He said: The Quraysh followed the tails of camels into the paths, and Satan is with the one, and he is further away from the two.

If you see the Arabs being negligent in the matter of the Quraysh, then you see the followers being negligent in the matter of the Arabs, then you see the Muslim lands being negligent in the matter of the Quraysh, then the signs of the Hour have overtaken you.