ذِكْرُ الْأَمْرِ لِلْمَرْءِ أَهْلَهُ بِصَلَاةِ اللَّيْلِ
O Messenger of Allah, our souls are in the hand of Allah and if He wills to wake us up, He will wake us up. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ left when I said that to him and I heard him, as he was leaving, strike his hand against his thigh and say: ʿBut, man is ever more quarrelsome than anythingʿ (al-Kahf:18:54). (Using translation from Aḥmad 575)
أَخْبَرَهُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ طَرَقَهُ فَقَالَ «أَلَا تُصَلُّونَ؟ » فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّمَا أَنْفُسُنَا بِيَدِ اللَّهِ فَإِذَا شَاءَ أَنْ يَبْعَثَنَا بَعَثَنَا فَانْصَرَفَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ حِينَ قُلْتُ ذَلِكَ وَلَمْ يَرْجِعْ إِلَيَّ شَيْئًا ثُمَّ سَمِعْتُهُ وَهُوَ يَضْرِبُ بِيَدِهِ وَيَقُولُ {وَكَانَ الْإِنْسَانُ أَكْثَرَ شَيْءٍ جَدَلًا}