Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah bin Haydah al-Qushayri (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: I came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). When I was brought to him, he said: "I have asked Allah to suffice me against you by means of a drought that would wear you out, and by means of awe that He would place in your hearts." The narrator says: He gestured with both his hands together and said: "I had sworn this many and this many times that I would neither believe in you nor follow you. Since then the drought has kept wearing me out and the awe has kept growing in my heart, until I have come and stood before you." (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say:
Al-Nasa'i (may Allah have mercy on him) and others recorded it, but they did not mention the awe and the drought.
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, and its chain is hasan (good).