Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 40548 — Reports on Uthman (may Allah be)

It is reported from Shaddad Abu Ammar that Sayyiduna Awf bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) said: O plague, draw me also to you! The people said: Have you not heard the saying of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) that the longer a Muslim's life is, the more it is a cause of good for him? He said: Certainly, but I fear six things: the rule of fools, the selling of judgments, the shedding of blood, the severing of family ties, the great number of police, and a new generation who will grow up taking the Qur'an as flutes.