“O Jibril, what is thisgoodfragrance?” He said: “This is the fragrance of the grave ofthehairdresser and her two sons and her husband.” He said: “Thatbeganwhen Khadir, who was one of the nobles of the Children ofIsrael, usedto pass by a monk in his cell. The monk used to meet himand he taughthim Islam. When Khadir reached adolescence, his fathermarried him toa woman. He taught her and made her promise not toteach it to anyone.He used not to touch women, so he divorced her,then his fathermarried him to another woman, and he taught her andmade her promisenot to teach it to anyone. One of them kept thesecret but the otherdisclosed it, so he fled until he came to anisland in the sea. Twomen came, gathering firewood, and saw him. Oneof them kept the secretbut the other disclosed it and said: ‘Ihave seen Khadir.’ It wassaid: ‘Who else saw him besides you?’He said: ‘So-and-so.’ (The otherman) was questioned but he keptsilent. According to their religion,the liar was to be killed. Thewoman who had kept the secret gotmarried, and while she was combingthe hair of Pharoah’s daughter, shedropped the comb and said: ‘MayPharoah perish!’ (The daughter) toldher father about that. Thewoman had two sons and a husband. (Pharoah)sent for them, and triedto make the woman and her husband give uptheir religion, but theyrefused. He said: ‘I am going to kill you.’They said: ‘Itwould be an act of kindness on your part, if you killus, to put usin one grave.’ So he did that.” When the Prophet (ﷺ)was takenon the Night Journey (Isra’), he noticed a good fragranceand askedJibril about it and he told him.”

“I came to the Messenger ofAllah(ﷺ) during the campaign of Tabuk, when he was in a tent madeofleather, so I sat in front of the tent. The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ)said: ‘Enter, O ‘Awf.’ I said, ‘All of me, O Messengerof Allah?’ Hesaid: ‘All of you.’ Then he said: ‘O ‘Awf,remember six things (thatwill occur) before the Hour comes, one ofwhich is my death.’ I wasvery shocked and saddened at that. Hesaid: ‘Count that as the first.Then (will come) the conquest ofBaitul-Maqdis (Jerusalem); then adisease which will appear among youand cause you and your offspringto die as martyrs and will purifyyour deeds; then there will be(much) wealth among you, so that if aman were to be given one hundredDinar he would still bedissatisfied; and there will be tribulationamong you that will notleave any Muslim house untouched;* then therewill be a treatybetween you and the Romans, then they will betray youand marchagainst you with eighty banners, under each of which will betwelvethousand (troops).’”

“Time will pass quickly,knowledgewill decrease, miserliness will be cast into people’shearts,tribulations will appear and there will be much Harj.” Theysaid: “OMessenger of Allah, what is Harj?” He said: “Killing.”

“Marwan broughtoutthe pulpit on the day of ‘Eid, and he started with the sermonbeforethe prayer. A man said: ‘O Marwan, you have gone against theSunnah.You have brought out the pulpit on this day, and it was notbroughtout before, and you have started with the sermon before theprayer,and this was not done before.’ Abu Sa’eed said: ‘As forthis man, hehas done his duty. I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)say: ‘Whoeveramong you sees an evil action and can change it withhis hand (bytaking action), let him change it with his hand. If hecannot do that,then with his tongue (by speaking out); and if hecannot do that, thenwith his heart (by hating it and feeling that itis wrong), and thatis the weakest of faith.’”

“I came to AbuTha’labah Al-Khushani and said: ‘How do you understand thisVerse?’ Hesaid: ‘Which verse?’ I said: “O you who believe!Take care of your ownselves. If you follow the (right) guidance, nohurt can come to youfrom those who are in error.”?[5:105] He said:‘You have asked one whoknows about it. I asked the Messenger ofAllah (ﷺ) about it and hesaid: “Enjoin good upon one another andforbid one another to do evil,but if you see overwhelmingstinginess, desires being followed, thisworld being preferred (tothe Hereafter), every person with an opinionfeeling proud of it, andyou realize that you have no power to dealwith it, then you have tomind your own business and leave the commonfolk to their owndevices. After you will come days of patience,during which patiencewill be like grasping a burning ember, and onewho does good deedswill have a reward like that of fifty men doingthe same deed.”

“It was said: ‘OMessengerof Allah, when should we stop enjoining what is good andforbiddingwhat is evil?’ He said: ‘When there appears among youthat whichappeared among those who came before you.’ We said: ‘OMessenger ofAllah, what appeared among those that came before us?’He said:‘Kingship given to your youth, immorality even among theold, andknowledge among the base and vile.’”

“I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)say:‘Allah will question His slave on the Day of Resurrection,until Hesays: “What kept you from denouncing evil when you sawit?” When Allahgrants His slave a response, he will say: “OLord, I hoped for Yourmercy but I feared the people.”

“Allah will curse them and those who curse will cursethem.” He said: “The inhabitants of the earth.”

“Nothing increases one’s life span except righteousness andnothingrepels the Divine decree except supplication, and a man maybedeprived of provision by a sin that he commits.’”

“I entered upon the Prophet (ﷺ) whenhewas suffering from a fever, I placed my hand on him and felt heatwithmy hand from above the blanket. I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah,howhard it is for you!’ He said: ‘We (Prophets) are like that.The trialis multiplied for us and so is the reward.’ I said: ‘OMessenger ofAllah, which people are most severely tested?’ Hesaid: ‘TheProphets.’ I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, then who?’He said: ‘Thenthe righteous, some of whom were tested with povertyuntil they couldnot find anything except a cloak to put aroundthemselves. One of themwill rejoice at calamity as one of you wouldrejoice at ease.’”

“Count for me all those who have uttered (the word of)Islam.”We said: “O Messenger of Allah, do you fear for us whenwe numberbetween six and seven hundred?” The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) said:“You do not know, perhaps you will be tested.”

“Do not associate anything with Allah, even if you are cut andburned. Do not neglect any prescribd prayer deliberately, for whoeverneglects it deliberately no longer has the protection of Allah. Anddonot drink wine, for it is the key to all evil.”

“By the One in Whose Hand is my soul, this world will notpassaway until a man will pass by a grave, and will roll on it andsay:‘Would that I were in the place of the occupant of thisgrave!’ Andthe reason for that will not be any religious motive,rather it willbe because of calamity.”

“Adhering to religion will only become harder and worldlyaffairs will only become more difficult, and people will only becomemore stingy, and the Hour will only come upon the worst of people,andthe only Mahdi (after Muhammad (ﷺ)) is ‘Eisa bin Maryam.”

“I and the Hour have been sent like these two,” and he helduphis two fingers together.

"The Prophet (ﷺ)looked out at us from a room, when we were talking about the Hour. Hesaid: 'The Hour will not begin until there are ten signs: Dajjal,(False Christ), the smoke, and the rising of the sun from the west.'"

“The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ)came out one day to the people, and a man came to him and said:‘OMessenger of Allah, when will the Hour be?’ He said: ‘Theone who isasked about it does not know more than the one who isasking. But Iwill tell you of its portents. When the slave womangives birth to hermistress, that is one of its portents. When thebarefoot and nakedbecome leaders of the people, that is one of itsportents. Whenshepherds compete in constructing buildings, that isone of itsportents. (The Hour) is one of five (things) which no oneknows exceptAllah.’ Then the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) recited thewords: “Verily,Allah, with Him (alone) is the knowledge of theHour, He sends downthe rain, and knows that which is in the wombs.(to the end of theVerse).”[31:34]

“Shall I not tell you aHadith that I heard from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), which no onewill tell you after me? I heard it from him (saying): ‘Among theportents of the Hour are that knowledge will be taken away andignorance will prevail, illegal sex will become widespread and winewill be drunk, and men will disappear and women will be left, untilthere is one man in charge of fifty women.”

“The Hour will not begin until the Euphrates uncovers amountainof gold and people fight over it, and out of every ten, ninewill bekilled.’”

“After you days will come when ignorance will become widespread,knowledge will disappear and there will be much Harj.” They said:“OMessenger of Allah, what is Harj?” He said: “Killing.”