Silsilat al-Ahadith al-Sahihah

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) says: We were sitting with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) discussing tribulations. He (peace be upon him) also mentioned many tribulations, including the “Fitnah of Ahlaas.” A man asked: O Messenger of Allah! What is meant by the Fitnah of Ahlaas? He (peace be upon him) said: “The Fitnah of Ahlaas refers to a time of fighting and chaos. Then the fitnah of prosperity and ease will emerge, its beginning and leadership will be in the hands of a man who will claim to be from me, but he will not be from me. My friends are only the pious. Then people will make peace with a man who will not be permanently fit for kingship nor worthy of it. After that, a tribulation containing dreadful calamity and affliction will appear, which will shake every individual of this Ummah. When it will be said that the tribulation has ended, it will intensify even more. A person will be a believer in the morning and a disbeliever by evening. People will split into two groups: one group will be of believers, in which there will be no hypocrisy, and the other group will be of hypocrites, in which there will be no faith. When the matter reaches this stage, then await the Dajjal; he may come that very day or the next.”