Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: I said to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): O Messenger of Allah! When will we abandon enjoining good and forbidding evil, when these two are the chiefs of the deeds of the righteous? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: (You will abandon them) when there befalls you the same thing that befell the Children of Israel. I said: O Messenger of Allah! What befell the Children of Israel? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When your best people practise mudahanah (compromise) before your sinful people (that is, they show the opposite of what is in their hearts), knowledge passes to your worst people, and kingship passes to your young ones, then at that time trials will envelop you, which will attack, and you will be attacked."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat; its chain contains Ammar bin Sayf, whom al-Ijli and others declared thiqah (trustworthy) and a group declared da'if (weak); the rest of its narrators are thiqat, and there is disagreement about some of them.
Hadith Referenceمجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد / كتاب الفتن - أعاذنا الله منها / 12238
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:إسنادہ ضعیف
Hadith Takhrij«اخرجه الطبراني فى المعجم الاوسط (144)»