Mu'jam Kabir Tabarani 15150 — about Sayyiduna Abis al-Ghifari that we

Zadhan narrates about Sayyiduna Abis al-Ghifari (may Allah be pleased with him) that we were with him on a rooftop of his, when some people passed by carrying their belongings. He asked: Who are these people? It was said: They are fleeing from the plague. He said: O plague, take me! O plague, take me! O plague, take me! A nephew of his, who had had the companionship of the Prophet, said: Is death being wished for? And I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Let none of you wish for death, for death is the end of the believer's deeds; he does not return so that he may repent." He said: O my nephew, I want to get ahead of the appearance of things that I heard from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would happen at the end of time, and which he (peace and blessings be upon him) feared for his Ummah: "The rule of fools, an abundance of police guards, taking bloodshed lightly, severing ties of kinship, and the emergence of people who will take the Qur'an as musical instruments; they will put forward a man who is neither the most knowledgeable of them in religion nor the most learned, even though there will be among them those more knowledgeable and learned than him; yet they will put him forward only so that he may sing to them."