حَدَّثَنَا
أَبُو النَّضْرِ ، حَدَّثَنَا
الْمُبَارَكُ ، عَنِ
الْحَسَنِ ، عَنِ
النُّعْمَانِ بْنِ بَشِيرٍ ، قَالَ : صَحِبْنَا النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ، وَسَمِعْنَاهُ يَقُولُ " إِنَّ
بَيْنَ يَدَيْ السَّاعَةِ فِتَنًا كَأَنَّهَا قِطَعُ اللَّيْلِ الْمُظْلِمِ ، يُصْبِحُ الرَّجُلُ فِيهَا مُؤْمِنًا ، ثُمَّ يُمْسِي كَافِرًا ، وَيُمْسِي مُؤْمِنًا ، ثُمَّ يُصْبِحُ كَافِرًا ، يَبِيعُ أَقْوَامٌ خَلَاقَهُمْ بِعَرَضٍ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا يَسِيرٍ ، أَوْ بِعَرَضِ الدُّنْيَا " . قَالَ الْحَسَنُ : وَاللَّهِ لَقَدْ رَأَيْنَاهُمْ صُوَرًا وَلَا عُقُولَ ، أَجْسَامًا وَلَا أَحْلَامَ ، فَرَاشَ نَارٍ وَذِبَّانَ طَمَعٍ ، يَغْدُونَ بِدِرْهَمَيْنِ ، وَيَرُوحُونَ بِدِرْهَمَيْنِ ، يَبِيعُ أَحَدُهُمْ دَيْنَهُ بِثَمَنِ الْعَنْزِ.
It is narrated from Hazrat Nu'man (may Allah be pleased with him) that we had the honor of sitting in the company of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and we heard the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: The first tribulations of the Day of Judgment will appear like the parts of a dark night. In that era, a man will be a Muslim in the morning and a disbeliever in the evening, or a Muslim in the evening and a disbeliever in the morning, and people will sell their religion and morals for a small portion of worldly goods and possessions. Hasan says: By Allah! We are seeing such people; they have forms but no intellect, bodies but no wisdom. They are like moths of the fire and flies of greed and desire, who become happy with two dirhams in the morning and evening, and are ready to sell their religion for the price of a goat.