I was at my home in Kufa when I heard a voice at the door of the house say, "Peace be upon you. May I enter?"I replied, "And upon you be peace. Come in."When he entered, it was Abdullah bin Masud. I said, "Abu Abdul-Rahman, what kind of hour is this for a visit?" This was at the peak of midday.He said, "The day grew long for me, so I thought of someone I could talk to."He began telling me hadith from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and I shared with him as well. Then he said, "I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, 'There will come a tribulation in which the one asleep is better than the one reclining, the one reclining is better than the one sitting, the one sitting is better than the one standing, the one standing is better than the one walking, the one walking is better than the one riding, and the one riding is better than the one galloping. All those killed in it will be in the Fire.'I asked, 'Messenger of Allah, when will that be?'He said, 'Those will be the days of slaughter.'I asked, 'When are the days of slaughter?'He said, 'When a man cannot trust the one sitting beside him.'I asked, 'What do you command me to do if I live to see that time?'He said, 'Restrain yourself and your hand, and stay in your house.'I asked, 'Messenger of Allah, what if someone enters my house?'He said, 'Then go into your inner room.'I asked, 'Messenger of Allah, what if he enters my inner room?'He said, 'Then go into your place of prayer and do this,' and he gripped his right wrist, 'and say, My Lord is Allah, until you die in that state.'"
إني لبالكوفة في داري إذ سمعت على باب الدار: السلام عليكم أألج؟ قلت: وعليك السلام، فلج، فلما دخل إذا هو عبد الله بن مسعود، قال: فقلت: يا أبا عبد الرحمن أية ساعة زيارة هذه- وذلك في نحر الظهيرة- قال: طال علي النهار، فتذكرت من أتحدث إليه قال: فجعل يحدث عن رسول الله ﷺ وأحدثه قال: ثم أنشأ يحدثني فقال: سمعت رسول الله ﷺ يقول: تكون فتنة، النائم فيها خير من المضطجع، والمضطجع فيها خير من القاعد، والقاعد فيها خير من القائم، والقائم خير من الماشي، والماشي خير من الراكب، والراكب خير من المجري، قتلاها كلها في النار، قال: قلت يا رسول الله ومتى ذلك؟ قال: ذلك أيام الهرج، قلت: ومتى أيام الهرج؟ قال: حين لا يأمن الرجل جليسه، قال: فبم تأمرني إن أدركت ذلك الزمان، قال: اكفف نفسك ويدك وادخل دارك، قال: قلت: يا رسول الله، أرأيت إن دخل رجل علي داري قال: فادخل بيتك، قال: قلت: يا رسول الله، أرأيت إن دخل علي بيتي، قال: فادخل مسجدك واصنع هكذا وقبض بيمينه على الكوع وقل ربي الله، حتى تموت على ذلك.
Narrated by Abdul-Razzaq (20727) and, by his route, Hakim (4/426-427), from Muamar bin Rashid, from Ishaq bin Rashid, from Amr bin Wabisah, from his father, and so he related it. Ahmad (4287) and Naeem bin Hammad in al-Fitan (339) both narrated it by the route of Ibn Mubarak, from Muamar, with the same wording. Its chain is hasan on account of Amr bin Wabisah, for he is hasan al-hadith. Hakim said, "Its chain is sahih."This is not undermined by what Ahmad narrated (4286) by the route of Abdul-Razzaq, from Muamar, from a man, from Amr bin Wabisah, from his father, and so he related it, except that it lies outside al-Musannaf, for I did not find this narration in Musannaf Abdul-Razzaq. The unnamed man is Ishaq bin Rashid al-Jazari, as Daraqutni affirmed decisively in al-Ilal (5/281), and Ibn Hajar followed him in al-Tajil (2/632).Abu Dawud narrated it (4258) by the route of Qasim bin Ghazwan, from Ishaq bin Rashid al-Jazari, from Salim, who said, Amr bin Wabisah al-Asadi told me, from his father Wabisah, from Ibn Masud, with similar wording. He added in it, When Uthman was killed, my heart was shaken wherever it turned, so I rode until I came to Damascus, where I met Khuraym bin Fatik al-Asadi. I told him what I had heard, and he swore by Allah, besides whom there is no god, that he had heard it from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ just as Ibn Masud had related it to me.Qasim bin Ghazwan is a figure of unknown status, and he has been contradicted by Muamar, who is trustworthy and did not mention Salim in it. So the correct account is that of Muamar, and the mention of Salim falls under the category of an added detail. As for Salim mentioned in this chain, there is disagreement over his identity, whether he is Ibn Abu Jaad, or Ibn Abu Muhajir, or Ibn Ajlan al-Aftas, though all of them are trustworthy.