Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 40131 — Those who disliked going out during

It is narrated from Sa'd bin Hudhayfah that he said: When the people agreed on dismissing Sayyiduna Sa'id bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with him), they wrote a document among themselves that no one would be appointed governor over them except a man with whom they were satisfied for themselves and for their religion. While they were in that state, Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) suddenly arrived from al-Mada'in. They went to him with their document: "O Abu Abdullah, we have dealt with this man in the way that has reached you. Then we wrote this document, and we want not to decide any matter finally without you." Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) looked at their document, smiled and said: "By Allah, I do not know which of the two things you intended. Have you intended to take over the authority of a people to which you have no right? Or have you intended to turn back this trial now that it has shown its halter and has become firmly established? This trial is indeed sent by Allah Almighty upon the earth. It grazes until it treads on its own halter, so that no one among the people has the power to stop it. No one among the people fights in it except that he is killed, until Allah Almighty sends scattered clouds like the clouds of autumn, and that fighting takes place among themselves."