Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 40405 — Reports on the tribulation

It is narrated from Abu al-Rabab and a companion of his that they heard Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) supplicating. He said: We said: "We saw you pray a prayer in this city, and we have never seen a longer one in its standing, bowing and prostration. When you finished, you raised your hands and supplicated, and you sought refuge from the Day of Trial and the Day of Exposure." He said: "What did you find strange?" We told him, and he said: "The Day of Trial (the day of calamity) is when two groups of Muslims will fight and kill one another. As for the Day of Exposure (the day of uncovering what should be covered), it means that Muslim women will be taken captive and their shins will be uncovered, and whichever of them has the thickest shin will be bought on account of her thick shin. I supplicated to Allah that this time should not reach me, and perhaps the two of you will live to see it." The narrator said: Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) was martyred, and Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) sent Ibn Abi Artah to Yemen. He took Muslim women captive, and those women were made to stand in the market (to be sold).