This was around 1-2 years before Muhammad was given the duty of Risalah… Our Master Muhammad was at the fair of Uqaz with Abu Bakr…  As they were walking around, they came across an old man with a white beard preaching to the people from his camel… 

Our Master asked Abu Bakr, “Who is this man?”

“He is of the nobles of the Iyad clan… He’s known as the preacher of the deserts… His name is Quss the son of Saida… He is of the arbitrators and the poets…”

Quss the son of Saida was saying:

“O sons of Adam… Listen to my words and try to understand them!

Every living thing will die and pass on from this world… What must take place will take place… A child will come to life, grow, then take the place of his parents… Deaths, marriages and separations will take place, everything will come to an end… and these chains of events will never stop transpiring…

Can you not see that no human stays on earth forever, and no human that dies comes back!? Why do they go and why can’t they come back? Do they like the place they go to? Is it because they don’t want to leave their place of rest? Or is it that they want to come back but they are not allowed to?

I swear there is a great religion in the sight of Allah which is much more favorable than the one we are currently upon… Allah has a Rasul and he will be exposed soon… His shadow walks amongst us today… How blessed are the ones who will believe in him when they see him… And how sad for those who will deny him and rebel against him… They will blindly and heedlessly squander their lives…

O sons of Iyad! Where are your grandfathers now? Where are the great buildings of the past? Where are their builders? Where are the pharaohs who claimed to be gods? Where is Nimrud? Were they not stronger and more powerful than you? The mill of time grinded all of them and turned them into dust and soil… Neither their bones remain nor their homes… Their homes have become a playground for the dogs now!

O sons of Adam! Do not fall into heedlessness like those before you! We will all leave this place! Only Allah will remain, the One who has created us… But what is the way of Allah? Allah will show His way… His Rasul will come soon to teach us this great religion!

O mourners of the deceased! The deceased are in their graves with their decayed shrouds… Leave them to themselves… For they will remain therein for a period of time and then awaken to a call! A call that will awaken all of the deceased, whether they want to or not...”

Quss the son of Saida went on like this…

He was one of the few of the HANIF’s at that time… They believed in a single Creator and knew their lives weren’t purposeless… But how could they thank this Creator? They followed their hearts and spent their days waiting for the Rasul of Allah to show them the way…