Majma al-Zawaid — Hadith 6245

In al-Mu'jam al-Kabir it is reported from Habib bin Ubayd that he said: I saw Sayyiduna al-Miqdam bin Ma'dikarib (may Allah be pleased with him) in the market. His slave girl was selling milk while he sat collecting the dirhams. He was spoken to about this, and he said: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "When the last times come, dirhams and dinars will be indispensable for people in them; by them a man will maintain his religion and his worldly life." All the routes of this narration revolve around a narrator named Abu Bakr bin Abi Maryam, and his memory had become confused (ikhtalat).