We were sitting with Umar when he asked, "Which of you remembers what the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said about the trial?"I replied, "I do, just as he said it."He said, "You are bold about it," or "about him."I said, "The trial of a man concerning his family, his property, his children, and his neighbor is expiated by prayer, charity, enjoining good, and forbidding evil."He said, "That is not what I mean. Rather, I mean the trial that surges like the waves of the sea."I said, "You have nothing to fear from it, Commander of the Believers, for between you and it there is a locked door."He asked, "Will the door be broken or opened?"I said, "Rather, it will be broken."He said, "Then it will never be closed again."We asked, "Did Umar know who the door was?"He replied, "Yes, just as he knew that the night precedes tomorrow. I narrated to him a hadith free from confusion."Waki said in his version of the report, Masruq said to Hudhayfah, "Abu Abdullah, did Umar know what you told him?"We asked, "Did Umar know who the door was?"He replied, "Yes, just as he knew that the night precedes tomorrow. I narrated to him a hadith free from confusion."We were too in awe of Hudhayfah to ask him who the door was, so we instructed Masruq to ask him, and he asked. Hudhayfah replied, "The door is Umar."
حدثنا يحيى بن سعيد عن الأعمش حدثني شقيق قال سمعت حذيفة ووكيع عن الأعمش عن شقيق عن حذيفة وحدثنا محمد بن عبيد وقال سمعت
كنا جلوسا عند عمر فقال أيكم يحفظ قول رسول الله ﷺ في الفتنة قلت أنا كما قاله قال إنك لجريء عليها أو عليه قلت فتنة الرجل في أهله وماله وولده وجاره يكفرها الصلاة والصدقة والأمر بالمعروف والنهي عن المنكر قال ليس هذا أريد ولكن الفتنة التي تموج كموج البحر قلت ليس عليك منها بأس يا أمير المؤمنين إن بينك وبينها بابا مغلقا قال أيكسر أو يفتح قلت بل يكسر قال إذا لا يغلق أبدا قلنا أكان عمر يعلم من الباب قال نعم كما يعلم أن دون غد ليلة قال وكيع في حديثه قال فقال مسروق لحذيفة يا أبا عبد الله كان عمر يعلم ما حدثه به قلنا أكان عمر يعلم من الباب قال نعم كما يعلم أن دون غد ليلة إني حدثته حديثا ليس بالأغاليط فهبنا حذيفة أن نسأله من الباب فأمرنا مسروقا فسأله فقال الباب عمر
Its isnad is sahih through its three routes, and the hadith is very well known. It was narrated in this manner by Bukhari 2/8/8 no. 525, in Fath al-Bari, in the chapter on prayer times, by Muslim 4/2218 no. 2892, by Tirmidhi 4/524 no. 2258, who said, a sahih hadith, and by Ibn Majah 2/1305 no. 3953, all of them in the chapter on tribulations, and by Humaydi 1/12 no. 447.