Mukhtasar Muslim

Sayyiduna Thawban (may Allah be pleased with him) reports that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Allah, the Exalted, folded the earth for me (that is, He gathered all the earth and presented it before me), so I saw its east and its west, and the rule of my Ummah will reach as far as the earth was shown to me. And two treasures, one red and one white, were given to me (meaning gold and silver, or the treasures of Caesar and Chosroes). And I asked my Lord that my Ummah not be destroyed by a general famine, and that no external enemy overpower them so as to annihilate them completely and uproot them (that is, so they are utterly wiped out). My Lord said: O Muhammad! When I make a decision, it is not reversed, and I have accepted your prayers, and I will not destroy your Ummah by a general famine, nor will I allow any external enemy, who is not from among them, to overpower them so as to uproot them, even if all the people of the earth were to unite against them (they would not be able to destroy them), until the Muslims themselves begin to destroy one another and imprison one another.

Sayyiduna Amir bin Sa’d narrates from his father Sa’d (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came one day from ‘Aliyah (‘Aliyah are those villages which are outside Madinah) until he passed by the mosque of Banu Mu’awiyah. He entered it and prayed two rak’ahs, and we also prayed with him, and he made a very lengthy supplication to his Lord. Then he came to us and said: I asked my Lord for three things, but He granted me two and did not grant one. I asked my Lord that He not destroy my ummah by famine (i.e., the whole ummah by famine), so Allah accepted this supplication. And I asked that He not destroy my (entire) ummah by drowning, so Allah accepted this supplication as well. And I asked that Muslims not fight among themselves, but this was not granted.