A man asked, "Messenger of Allah, does Islam have an end?"He replied, "Any household." And in another place he said, "Yes. Any household among the Arabs or non-Arabs for whom Allah intends good, He brings Islam into it."The man asked, "Then what?"He said, "Then trials will fall like patches of shade."The man said, "Never, by Allah, if Allah wills."He replied, "Yes indeed. By the One in whose hand my soul rests, you will return to them as black serpents striking, some of you striking the necks of others."
قال رجل: يا رسول الله، هل للإسلام من منتهى؟ قال: أيما أهل بيت. وقال في موضع آخر قال: نعم، أيما أهل بيت من العرب، أو العجم، أراد الله بهم خيرا، أدخل عليهم الإسلام. قال: ثم مه؟ قال: ثم تقع الفتن كأنها الظلل. قال: كلا والله إن شاء الله. قال: بلى، والذي نفسي بيده، ثم تعودون فيها أساود صبا يضرب بعضكم رقاب بعض.
Ahmad narrated it (15917), Bazzar in Kashf Astar (3353), Tabarani (19/198), and Bayhaqi in al-Qadaa wal-Qadar (1/377), all of them through routes from Sufyan, from Zuhri, from Urwa, from Kurz bin Alqama al-Khuzai, and he related it.Its isnad is sahih. Hakim graded it sahih (1/34) and said, "It has no defect, and the two of them did not include it." Then he mentioned Daraqutni's statement holding the two Shaykhs [Bukhari and Muslim] obligated to include this hadith in their two Sahihs.Haythami mentioned it in al-Majma (3057) and said, "Ahmad, Bazzar, and Tabarani narrated it through several chains, and one of them has narrators who are the narrators of sahih."His saying, "No," was not said as a denial of that, but rather he said it to show his love for Islam.His saying, "asawid," means snakes, the plural of aswad.His saying, "subban," with damma and doubling, means as if they were snakes poured upon the people from the sky.