Five things he asked not to live to see
He addressed the Emigrants directly before naming them.
يَا مَعْشَرَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ خَمْسٌ إِذَا ابْتُلِيتُمْ بِهِنَّ وَأَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ أَنْ تُدْرِكُوهُنَّ
Yā maʿshara-l-muhājirīn, khamsun idha-btulītum bihinna, wa aʿūdhu bi-Llāhi an tudrikūhunn
Company of the Emigrants, there are five things. If you are tested with them, and I seek refuge in Allah that you should live to see them.
Where this comes from
He then set them out as a chain, each with its consequence attached. Indecency never appears openly in a people without plague and pains spreading among them that were not in those who came before.
The full narration
It was narrated that ‘Abdullah bin ‘Umar said:“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) turned to us and said: ‘O Muhajirun, there are five things with which you will be tested, and I seek refuge with Allah lest you live to see them: Immorality never appears among a people to such an extent that they commit it openly, but plagues and diseases that were never known among the predecessors will spread among them. They do not cheat in weights and measures but they will be stricken with famine, severe calamity and the oppression of their rulers. They do not withhold the Zakah of their wealth, but rain will be withheld from the sky, and were it not for the animals, no rain would fall on them. They do not break their covenant with Allah and His Messenger, but Allah will enable their enemies to overpower them and take some of what is in their hands. Unless their leaders rule according to the Book of Allah and seek all good from that which Allah has revealed, Allah will cause them to fight one another.’”
Source
Sunan Ibn Mājah · 4019
- Al-Albani: Hasan
- Muhammad Fouad Abd al-Baqi: Hasan
- Shuaib Al Arnaut: Hasan Lighairihi
- Zubair Ali Zai: Sahih