Hadith 4461
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أَخْبَرَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّ ، قَالَ : أَنْبَأَنَا وَهْبُ بْنُ جَرِيرٍ ، قَالَ : حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي ، عَنْ يُونُسَ ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ تَغْلِبَ ، قَالَ : قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ : " إِنَّ مِنْ أَشْرَاطِ السَّاعَةِ ، أَنْ يَفْشُوَ الْمَالُ ، وَيَكْثُرَ ، وَتَفْشُوَ التِّجَارَةُ ، وَيَظْهَرَ الْعِلْمُ ، وَيَبِيعَ الرَّجُلُ الْبَيْعَ ، فَيَقُولَ : لَا حَتَّى أَسْتَأْمِرَ تَاجِرَ بَنِي فُلَانٍ ، وَيُلْتَمَسَ فِي الْحَيِّ الْعَظِيمِ الْكَاتِبُ فَلَا يُوجَدُ " .
´It was narrated that 'Amr bin Taghilb said:` "The Messenger of Allah said: 'One of the portents of the Hour will be that wealth becomes widespread and abundant, and trade will become widespread, but knowledge will disappear. A man will try to sell something and will say: "No, not until I consult the merchant of banu so and so: and People will look throughout a vast area for a scribe and will not find one." (Sahih )
Explanation & Benefits
Hafiz Muhammad Ameen
(1) The purpose of the chapter heading’s translation is to present the sayings of the Messenger regarding trade and commerce, and the relevance of the hadith to the chapter is that it mentions the prevalence of trade and its being among the signs of the Hour.
(2) Abundance of wealth is one of the signs of the Day of Judgment. Wealth can be a source of good for a person, and it can also be a source of evil; however, the latter possibility is far more common. This is because, from the general manner in which people conduct trade and earn wealth, it is evident that their sole concern is acquiring wealth, and they have become utterly devoid of and heedless regarding concern for the Hereafter. However, the one whom Allah grants success, he purchases Paradise with his wealth. Allahumma aj‘alna minhum (O Allah, make us among them).
(3) This blessed hadith also indicates that the emergence of worldly knowledge and its spread among the Muslim Ummah is among the signs of the Hour. And even in this, there is not much good or benefit for the Ummah, except that the individuals of the Ummah also acquire religious knowledge alongside it and become truly aware of the rulings of the Shari‘ah as is their due. However, general observation is to the contrary. Nevertheless, the person who acquires religious knowledge along with contemporary education, and does so properly, then this is like gold upon gold, and it is a deed full of much good and benefit.
(4) This blessed hadith is also an open and explicit miracle of the Prophethood of the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam), that the matters which you informed about long ago have occurred exactly as you described.
(5) “There will be knowledge”—in some versions, instead of “knowledge,” the word “ignorance” appears, and that is more appropriate to the subsequent text, as there will be such an extent of ignorance that a person with understanding and one who can write documents will be extremely rare. If the word “knowledge” is retained here, then the relevance would be that, outwardly, there will be much knowledge, but there will be no competence, to the extent that neither will there be understanding of trade nor the ability to write documents. Even nowadays, a similar situation has arisen: schools are common, there are many teachers, but neither do the teachers teach with sincerity nor do the students study with diligence. The result is that the number of literate ignoramuses is increasing.
(2) Abundance of wealth is one of the signs of the Day of Judgment. Wealth can be a source of good for a person, and it can also be a source of evil; however, the latter possibility is far more common. This is because, from the general manner in which people conduct trade and earn wealth, it is evident that their sole concern is acquiring wealth, and they have become utterly devoid of and heedless regarding concern for the Hereafter. However, the one whom Allah grants success, he purchases Paradise with his wealth. Allahumma aj‘alna minhum (O Allah, make us among them).
(3) This blessed hadith also indicates that the emergence of worldly knowledge and its spread among the Muslim Ummah is among the signs of the Hour. And even in this, there is not much good or benefit for the Ummah, except that the individuals of the Ummah also acquire religious knowledge alongside it and become truly aware of the rulings of the Shari‘ah as is their due. However, general observation is to the contrary. Nevertheless, the person who acquires religious knowledge along with contemporary education, and does so properly, then this is like gold upon gold, and it is a deed full of much good and benefit.
(4) This blessed hadith is also an open and explicit miracle of the Prophethood of the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam), that the matters which you informed about long ago have occurred exactly as you described.
(5) “There will be knowledge”—in some versions, instead of “knowledge,” the word “ignorance” appears, and that is more appropriate to the subsequent text, as there will be such an extent of ignorance that a person with understanding and one who can write documents will be extremely rare. If the word “knowledge” is retained here, then the relevance would be that, outwardly, there will be much knowledge, but there will be no competence, to the extent that neither will there be understanding of trade nor the ability to write documents. Even nowadays, a similar situation has arisen: schools are common, there are many teachers, but neither do the teachers teach with sincerity nor do the students study with diligence. The result is that the number of literate ignoramuses is increasing.
Source: Sunan Nasa'i: Translation and Benefits by Shaykh Hafiz Muhammad Amin Hafizullah, Page: 4461
