Sayyiduna Shaddad bin Aws (may Allah be pleased with him) reports this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "Indeed, Allah Almighty folded up the earth for me, and I saw its eastern and western parts, and the dominion of my Ummah will soon reach as far as the part of it that was folded up for me. I was given two kinds of treasure, the white and the red. I asked my Lord that He would not destroy my Ummah through a general famine, that He would not set their enemy over them in such a way that they would be destroyed altogether, and that He would not divide them into factions so that they harm one another. The Lord said: 'O Muhammad, when I issue a decree, it cannot be undone. I have granted you, for your Ummah, that I will not destroy them through a general famine, and that I will not set their enemy over them so that the enemy destroys them altogether; rather, they will destroy one another, kill one another and take one another captive.'" The narrator says: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "For my Ummah I fear only misguiding rulers. When the sword is placed among my Ummah, it will not be lifted from them until the Day of Resurrection."
Ahmad and al-Bazzar recorded it; the narrators of Ahmad are the narrators of the Sahih.
Hadith Referenceمجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد / كتاب الفتن - أعاذنا الله منها / 11965
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:إسنادہ صحیح
Hadith Takhrij«اخرجه البزار فى المسند (3291) اخرجه احمد فى المسند (123/4) ، أخرجه مسند أحمد برقم: 27593، 16666، وأخرجه مسند البزار برقم: 3487، وأخرجه صحيح ابن حبان برقم: 4570»