"Prophethood will remain among you as long as Allāh wills it to remain, then Allāh will lift it when He wills to lift it. Then there will be a caliphate following the way of prophethood, and it will remain as long as Allāh wills it to remain, then He will lift it when He wills to lift it. Then there will be a biting monarchy, and it will remain as long as Allāh wills it to remain, then He will lift it when Allāh wills to lift it. Then there will be a tyrannical monarchy, and it will remain as long as Allāh wills it to remain, then He will lift it when He wills to lift it. Then there will be a caliphate following the way of prophethood. Then he was silent." It was narrated by Aḥmad (4 / 273), [who] said: Sulaimān ibn Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī narrated to us, [saying]: Dāwūd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Wāsiṭī narrated to us, [saying]: Ḥabīb ibn Sālim narrated from al-Nuʿmān ibn Bashīr, [who] said: We were sitting in the mosque, and Bashīr was a man who would restrain his speech. Then Abū Thaʿlabah al-Khushanī came and said: O Bashīr ibn Saʿd, do you remember the ḥadīth of the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) regarding the rulers? Ḥudhayfah said: I remember his sermon, so Abū Thaʿlabah sat down, and Ḥudhayfah mentioned it to them as a marfūʿ ḥadīth. Ḥabīb said: When ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz rose to power, and Yazīd ibn al-Nuʿmān ibn Bashīr was among his companions, I wrote to him about this ḥadīth to remind him of it. I said to him: I hope that the Commander of the Faithful—meaning ʿUmar—will come after the biting and tyrannical monarchy. My letter was brought to ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, and he was pleased and delighted by it. Through the route of Aḥmad, it was narrated by al-Ḥāfiẓ al-ʿIrāqī in "Maḥajjat al-Qurb ilá Maḥabbat al-ʿArab" (17 / 2), and he said: "This is a ṣaḥīḥ ḥadīth, and Ibrāhīm ibn Dāwūd al-Wāsiṭī was deemed trustworthy by Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī."