Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ قَالَ ثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ زَيْدٍ عَن حِطَّانَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الرَّقَاشِيِّ عَن أَبِي مُوسَى عَنْ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ إِنَّ بَيْنَ يَدَيْ السَّاعَةِ الْهَرْجَ قَالُوا وَمَا الْهَرْجُ قَالَ الْقَتْلُ قَالُوا أَكْثَرُ مِمَّا نَقْتُلُ إِنَّا لَنَقْتُلُ فِي الْعَامِ الْوَاحِدِ أَكْثَرَ مِنْ سَبْعِينَ أَلْفًا قَالَ إِنَّهُ لَيْسَ بِقَتْلِكُمْ الْمُشْرِكِينَ وَلَكِنْ قَتْلُ بَعْضِكُمْ بَعْضًا قَالُوا وَمَعَنَا عُقُولُنَا يَوْمَئِذٍ قَالَ إِنَّهُ لَيُنْزَعُ عُقُولُ أَكْثَرِ أَهْلِ ذَلِكَ الزَّمَانِ وَيُخَلَّفُ لَهُ هَبَاءٌ مِنْ النَّاسِ يَحْسَبُ أَكْثَرُهُمْ أَنَّهُ عَلَى شَيْءٍ وَلَيْسُوا عَلَى شَيْءٍ قَالَ أَبُو مُوسَى وَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ مَا أَجِدُ لِي وَلَكُمْ مِنْهَا مَخْرَجًا إِنْ أَدْرَكَتْنِي وَإِيَّاكُمْ إِلَّا أَنْ نَخْرُجَ مِنْهَا كَمَا دَخَلْنَاهَا لَمْ نُصِبْ فِيهَا دَمًا وَلَا مَالًا.
English Translation
Affan told us: Hammad ibn Salamah told us: Ali ibn Zayd informed us, from Hittan ibn Abdullah al-Raqashi, from Abu Musa, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: "Before the Hour there will be al-harj." They said, "What is al-harj?" He said, "Killing." They said, "More than we already kill? We kill more than seventy thousand in a single year." He said, "It will not be your killing of the polytheists, but rather the killing of some of you by others." They said, "Will we have our reason on that day?" He said, "The reason of most of the people of that time will be taken away, and a worthless remnant of people will be left, most of whom think they are upon something, while they are upon nothing." Abu Musa said, "By the One in whose hand is my soul, I find no way out for myself and for you from it, if it reaches me and you, except that we come out of it just as we entered it, having not incurred any bloodshed or wealth wrongfully in it."