It was narrated to me by Muhammad ibn Rafi‘ and al-Fadl ibn Sahl al-A‘raj, both of whom said: Shababah ibn Sawwar narrated to us, from ‘Asim — and he is Ibn Muhammad al-‘Umari — from his father, from Ibn ‘Umar, from the Prophet (peace be upon him), who said: "Indeed, Islam began as something strange, and it will return to being strange just as it began, and it will retreat between the two mosques just as a snake retreats into its hole."