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Sayyiduna Abu Dharr al-Ghifari (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that he heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "The Hour will not be established until a fool, who is the child of a fool, dominates the world; and the most excellent of people will be the believer who is the child of righteous parents."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat. Its narrators have been declared trustworthy, and there is weakness in some of its narrators. (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say: A chapter on this same meaning has already passed.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Soon, in the last age, people will come whose faces will be like the faces of human beings and whose hearts will be like the hearts of devils. They will be like ravening wolves; there will not be the slightest mercy in their hearts. They will be great shedders of blood and will commit every vile thing. If you follow them, they will conceal you; if you hide from them, they will backbite about you; if they speak with you, they will lie to you; if you entrust them, they will betray you. Their child will be sinful, their youth will be cunning, and their old man will neither enjoin good nor forbid evil. Seeking honour through them will in reality be disgrace, and desiring what they possess will be poverty. The forbearing person among them will be considered astray, the one who enjoins good among them will be accused, the believer among them will be weak, and the sinner among them will hold a prominent position. Among them the Sunnah will be counted as innovation (bid'ah), and innovation will be counted as Sunnah. At that time Allah Almighty will set the worst of them over them; then their righteous people will supplicate, but their supplication will not be answered."
Al-Tabarani recorded it. Its chain contains Muhammad bin Mu'awiyah al-Naysaburi, who is matruk (abandoned).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) reports this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "Among the signs of the nearness of the Hour is that the wicked will be elevated and the righteous will be brought low, vile speech will be uttered, deeds will be held back, and the mathnah will be read among the people. I asked: What is meant by the mathnah? He said: Whatever is written other than the Book of Allah."
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyiduna Samurah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The Hour will not be established until the mountains move from their places, and you see momentous matters such as you had never seen before."
Al-Tabarani recorded it. Its chain contains Ufayr bin Ma'dan, who is da'if (weak).

It is narrated from him; he said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Before the Hour is established, you will see things that you will consider gravely objectionable. You will say: 'Were we told about these?' When you see those things, remember Allah and know that they are the beginning of the Hour (drawing near)." Until he said: "Soon you will see mountains move from their places before the Trumpet is blown." (The narrator says:) The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) also used to say to us: "The Hour will not be established until a stone points out a Jew who is hiding behind it, whom a Muslim man will have driven back; he will come from in front of it, the Jew will be hiding, and the stone will say: 'O servant of Allah! Here is the one you are looking for.'"
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it, and Imam al-Bazzar recorded it in abridged form. Its chain is da'if (weak), and its chain contains narrators whom I do not know.

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) says: Among the signs of the Hour is that miserliness and indecency will spread, the treacherous person will be entrusted, the trustworthy person will be declared treacherous, garments will appear that women will wear and yet, despite wearing them, they will be naked, and the tuhut will prevail over the wu'ul. The narrator says: He asked: "O Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him), did you hear it this way from my beloved?" He said: "By the Lord of the Ka'bah! Yes." We asked: "What is meant by tuhut?" He said: "The base people and those who live in obscure houses; they will be raised above their righteous ones. And wu'ul means the people of righteous households." (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say: In the "Sahih" only the hadith of Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) is narrated, and only part of it is mentioned. The narrators of this report are the narrators of the Sahih, except for Muhammad bin al-Harith bin Sufyan, and he is thiqah (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "The Hour will not be established until tribulations appear, lying becomes widespread, the markets draw close together, time draws close together, and harj becomes abundant. The narrator says: I asked: 'What is meant by harj?' He said: 'Killing and bloodshed.'" (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say:
This report is mentioned in the "Sahih", but these words are not in it: "Lying will become abundant and the markets will draw close together."
Imam Ahmad recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih, except for Sa'id bin Sam'an, and he is thiqah (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The Hour will not be established until indecency and the severing of the ties of kinship become widespread, there are bad neighbours, and the trustworthy person is declared treacherous." It was said: "O Messenger of Allah! What will be the state of the believer at that time?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "He will be like the bee: if it falls (into something edible), it does not spoil it, and if it is eaten, it is not broken; it brings out something pure. And (the example of the believer) will be like a piece of gold that enters the fire, and when it is taken out, its excellence has only increased."
Imam al-Bazzar recorded it. Its chain contains a narrator, Abd al-Rahman bin Maghra', whom Abu Zur'ah and a group declared thiqah (trustworthy), while Ali bin al-Madini declared him da'if (weak). The remaining narrators of this report are the narrators of the Sahih.

It is narrated from him; he said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The Hour will not be established until people copulate (openly) in the streets the way donkeys copulate."
Imam al-Bazzar and Imam al-Tabarani recorded it, and the narrators of Imam al-Bazzar are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Among the signs of the Hour are indecency, obscene speech, severing the ties of kinship, and entrusting the treacherous person." The narrator says: I think the report also contains these words: "and declaring the trustworthy person treacherous," or some other word like it.
Imam al-Bazzar recorded it. Its chain contains a narrator, Shabib bin Bishr, who is weak. Ibn Hibban declared him thiqah (trustworthy) and said: "He makes mistakes." The remaining narrators of this report are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The Hour will not be established until the hypocrites of every tribe become its chiefs."
Imam al-Bazzar recorded it, and Imam al-Tabarani recorded it. It contains a full story. Its chain contains a narrator, Husayn bin Qays, and he is matruk (abandoned).

Sayyiduna Abu Bakrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The Hour will not be established until the chief of every tribe is that tribe's hypocrite."
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat. Its chain contains a narrator, Mubarak bin Fadalah, and he is a mudallis; and a narrator, Habib bin Farrukh, whom I do not know.

Sayyiduna Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) says: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) led us in the Fajr prayer. When he had finished the prayer, a man called out to him loudly, saying: "When will the Hour come?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) scolded him, rebuked him and said: "Be quiet." Then, when the light of dawn had spread, he raised his gaze towards the sky and said: "Blessed is the One who raised it and who governs it." Then he turned his gaze towards the earth and said: "Blessed is the One who spread it out and who created it." Then he said: "Where is the man who asked about the Hour?" The man knelt on his knees and said: "It is I, may my father and mother be sacrificed for you! I asked you." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "That will be when the rulers act unjustly, the stars are believed in, divine decree is denied, until the trust is taken as booty, charity as a fine, and indecency increases. At that time your people will perish."
Imam al-Bazzar recorded it. Its chain contains narrators whom I do not know.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) says: "O people! Obedience (to the ruler of the time) and staying with the community are obligatory upon you, for it is the rope of Allah that He has commanded. What you dislike within the community is better than what you like in separation. For Allah Almighty has not created anything without appointing for it a final limit at which it ends. When Islam came, it had firmness, and it will soon reach its final limit; it will keep decreasing and increasing until the Day of Resurrection. Its sign is that poverty will become abundant and provision will be cut off, until the poor person will not find anyone who can give him something, until the well-off person will think that what he has is not sufficient for him, until a man will complain of his poverty to his brother or his cousin and he will give him nothing, until a beggar will go about for a whole week and nothing will be placed in his hand. When such a situation comes about, the earth will rumble with a great rumbling, so that the people of every open space will think it has rumbled only in their own space; then it will be calm for them for as long as Allah wills; then the earth will suddenly vomit out the pieces of its liver." It was said: "O Abu Abd al-Rahman, what is meant by the pieces of the earth's liver?" He said: "Pillars of gold and silver; and from that time until the Day of Resurrection no one will be able to benefit from gold or silver."
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it with various chains. Its chain contains a narrator, Mujalid, who has been declared trustworthy, though there is a difference of opinion about him. The remaining narrators of one of its routes are thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Wathilah bin al-Asqa' (may Allah be pleased with him) says: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "The Hour will not be established until ten signs have come: a sinking of the earth in the east, a sinking of the earth in the west, a sinking of the earth in the Arabian Peninsula, (the emergence of) the Dajjal, the descent of Sayyiduna Isa bin Maryam (peace be upon him), the coming of Ya'juj and Ma'juj, the emergence of the Beast of the earth, the rising of the sun from the west, and a fire that will come out of the depths of Aden and drive the people to the place of gathering; it will gather even the small ants and the large ants."
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it. Its chain contains a narrator, Imran bin Harun, and he is da'if (weak).

Tariq bin Shihab says: We were sitting with Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) when a man came and said: "The prayer has begun." He stood up and we stood up with him. When we entered the mosque, we found the people in the bowing position in the front part of the mosque. Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said the takbir and went into bowing, and we also bowed; then we walked forward, and we did as he had done. Meanwhile a man passed by hurriedly and said: "Peace be upon you, O Abu Abd al-Rahman!" Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Allah and His Messenger have spoken the truth, and the messengers of Allah have conveyed the message." When we had prayed and returned, he went back into his house and we sat outside. One of us said: "Did you not hear that he said to that man in reply: 'Allah and His Messenger have spoken the truth, and the messengers of Allah have conveyed (the message)'? Which of you will ask him about it?" Tariq bin Shihab said: "I will ask him." When he came out, Tariq asked him about it, and he mentioned the following from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Before the Hour, greetings of peace will be given only to particular people, trade will spread, so that a woman will help her husband in trade, the ties of kinship will be severed, false testimony will be given, true testimony will be concealed, and knowledge will appear."

In one narration the words are: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Among the signs of the Hour is that a man will give the greeting of peace, but he will greet only those he knows." Imam Ahmad recorded all of these narrations, and Imam al-Bazzar recorded some of them, with these additional words: "A man will pass through a mosque but will not pray in it."

Imam al-Tabarani recorded this report, but he recorded these words: The narrator says: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "The Hour will not be established until the greeting of peace is given only to acquaintances. This man, out of all of you, recognised only me, so he greeted me. (The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) also said:) The mosques will be taken as thoroughfares, and no prostration will be made to Allah Almighty in them, until a boy will send an old man as a courier to distant lands, and until a merchant will reach distant regions but will find no profit."

In a narration recorded by him, the words are: "Women and horses will become expensive, then they will become cheap, and then they will not become expensive until the Day of Resurrection; and men and women will all engage in trade." The narrators of Imam Ahmad and Imam al-Bazzar are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyiduna al-Adda' bin Khalid (may Allah be pleased with him) says: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "The Hour will not be established until a man gives the greeting of peace only to people he knows, until the mosques are taken as thoroughfares, until a woman and her husband engage in trade, and until women and horses become cheap and then do not become expensive until the Day of Resurrection."
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it. Its chain contains narrators whom I do not know.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Among the indications of affliction and the signs of the Hour is that minds will be dulled, understanding will diminish, killing will become abundant, the signs of goodness will be lifted, and tribulations will appear."
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it. Its chain contains a narrator, Afiyah bin Ayyub, and he is da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) says: "The first thing you will find missing from your religion is trustworthiness, and the last thing that will remain of your religion is prayer. Some people will pray who have no religion, and the Qur'an will be taken away from among you." The narrator says: He said: "O Abu Abd al-Rahman! Do we not recite the Qur'an? Have we not preserved it in book form?" Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "A night will come upon the Qur'an when it will depart from the breasts of people, and then nothing of it will remain on the face of the earth."
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih, except for Shaddad bin Ma'qil, and he is thiqah (trustworthy).

Al-Qasim says: A complaint about the Euphrates was made to Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him). The people said: "We fear that it will bring a flood upon us. It would be appropriate if you sent someone to it to dam it." He said: "I will not dam it. By Allah! A time will come upon the people when, if you were to search for a basinful of water, you would not find it. Every water will return to its source, and the water will be there, and (at that time) the Muslims will be in Syria (al-Sham)."
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih, except that al-Qasim did not meet Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him).

Urwah bin Muhammad al-Sa'di narrates from his father this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "Three things, when you see them, then at that time (the Hour will be near): the ruining of what is flourishing, the building up of what is in ruins, war becoming an employment, and a man devouring his trust the way a camel eats (the leaves) from a tree."
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it. Its chain contains a narrator, Yahya bin Abdullah al-Babulutti, and he is da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Ka'b bin Ujrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The Hour will not be established until one man is the guardian of the affairs of fifty women."
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it. Its chain contains a narrator, Muhammad bin Isa al-Ramli, and I do not know him. The remaining narrators of this report are thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Awf bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Before the Dajjal there will come some years of famine, in which rain will be abundant but produce will be little. During them the truthful person will be called a liar and the liar will be believed; during them the treacherous person will be entrusted and the trustworthy person declared treacherous; and during them the ruwaybidah will speak." It was said: "O Messenger of Allah! What is meant by ruwaybidah?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A person to whom no regard is paid."
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it with various chains; the best of them contains a narrator, Ibn Ishaq, and he is a mudallis. The remaining narrators of this report are thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The Hour will not be established (until the situation is such that) the sky sends down widespread rain, yet the earth produces nothing."
Imam Ahmad, Imam al-Bazzar and Imam Abu Ya'la recorded it. He says: Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "We used to talk among ourselves that the Hour would not be established (until the situation is such that) rain falls from the sky but there is no produce from the earth, and it will not be established until a woman passes by a man, and the man takes hold of her, looks at her and says: 'This woman too once had a man.'" After that the narrator recorded it in the same way. Hammad recorded it from Thabit, from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him), from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), without any doubt. He also stated that it is narrated from Thabit, from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him), from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), as far as I reckon. The narrators of all these reports are thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "The Hour will not be established until 'Allah, Allah' is no longer said on the earth, until the state is such that people receive rain but the earth gives no produce, until one man is the guardian of fifty women, and until a woman passes by a sandal and says: 'This too once had a man.'" (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say: Part of it is mentioned in the "Sahih".
Imam al-Bazzar recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyiduna Abd al-Rahman al-Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Among the signs of the Hour drawing near are abundant rain and little produce, many reciters and few jurists, many rulers and few trustworthy people."
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it. Its chain contains a narrator, Abd al-Ghaffar bin al-Qasim, and he is a fabricator of hadith.

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The Hour will not be established until so much rain falls from the sky that no house of clay will be able to keep it out; only houses made of hair will be able to keep it out."
Imam Ahmad recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

It is narrated from him; he said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The Hour will not be established until the land of the Arabs becomes pastures and rivers, until a rider travels between Iraq and Makkah fearing nothing but those who lead astray on the road, and until harj becomes abundant." The people said: "O Messenger of Allah! What is meant by harj?" He said: "Killing and bloodshed."
Imam Ahmad recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

It is narrated from him; he said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The Hour will not be established until time contracts, so that a year will be like a month, a month like a week, a week like a day, and a day will be like the burning of a leaf."
Imam Abu Ya'la recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

This saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is narrated from him: "By the One in whose hand is my soul! This Ummah will not perish until a man gets up, goes to a woman and lays her down right in the street; and the best of them at that time will be the one who says: 'If only you had taken her behind this wall.'"
Imam Abu Ya'la recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyiduna Abd al-Rahman bin Shibl (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "Night and day will not come to an end until a sandal is found in the rubbish and it is said: 'This looks like the sandal of a man of Quraysh.'"
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it. Its chain contains narrators who are not named and narrators whom the majority declared da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The Hour will not be established until many mines appear, in which only the basest of people will dwell."
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat. Its chain contains a narrator whom I do not know.

Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When my Ummah deems six things lawful, destruction will come upon them: when cursing one another becomes widespread among them, they drink wine, they wear silk, they keep singing girls, men suffice themselves with men, and women suffice themselves with women."
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat. Its chain contains a narrator, Abbad bin Kathir al-Ramli, whom Yahya bin Ma'in and others declared thiqah (trustworthy), while a group declared him da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A time will come upon the people when a sturdy camel and two water-skins will be dearer to a man than everything he owns."
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat. Its chain contains a narrator, Isma'il bin Ayyash, in whom there is weakness with regard to the reports he narrated from other than the people of Syria, and he narrated
this report from Isma'il bin Abi Khalid, who is a Kufan. The remaining narrators of this report are thiqat (trustworthy). (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say: Further on, after the Dajjal, various chapters will come about the sinking of the earth, transformation, the emergence of Ya'juj and Ma'juj, those upon whom the Hour will be established, and other matters.