of whom 40,000 were killed; that was on the Day of Ṣiffīn.

Shuʿbah said: Abū Muslimah narrated to us, from Abū Naḍrah, from Abū Saʿīd, who said: Someone better than I—meaning Abū Qatādah—told me that the Prophet ﷺ said to ʿAmmār, “The rebellious faction will kill you.”

Al-Ḥasan related—from his mother, from Umm Salamah—a report like it from the Prophet ﷺ; both versions were recorded by Muslim.

ʿAbd al-Razzāq said: Ibn ʿUyaynah informed us—he said: ʿUmar ibn Dīnār related to me, from Ibn Abī Mulaykah, from al-Miswar ibn Makhramah—that ʿUmar said to ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf, “Do you not know that we used to recite, ‘Strive for Allah with the striving due to Him at the end of time just as you strove for Him at its beginning’?” ʿAbd al-Raḥmān asked, “When will that be, Commander of the Believers?” He replied, “When the Banū Umayyah are the rulers and the Banū al-Mughīrah the ministers.” Al-Ramādī transmitted it from him.

Abū Naḍrah narrated—from Abū Saʿīd—that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “A renegade group will break away when the Muslims are divided; it will be killed by the faction that is nearer to the truth of the two.” Muslim recorded it.

Saʿīd ibn Masrūq narrated—from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Nuʿm, from Abū Saʿīd—that ʿAlī (may Allah be pleased with him), while he was in Yemen, sent some gold still mixed with its ore to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. The Prophet ﷺ divided it among four men: ʿUyainah ibn Biḍr al-Fazārī, ʿAlqamah ibn ʿUlāthah al-Kilābī, al-Aqraʿ ibn Ḥābis al-Ḥanzalī, and Zayd al-Khayl al-Ṭāʾī. Quraysh and the Anṣār became angry and said, “He gives to the chiefs of Najd and leaves us aside!” The Messenger of Allah ﷺ replied, “I give to them only to win their hearts.” Then a man with sunken eyes, a shaven head, and prominent cheekbones stood up,