Volume 1, Book 3, Number 81:
Narrated Anas:
I will narrate to you a Hadith and none other than I will tell you about after it. I heard Allah’s
Apostle saying: From among the portents of the Hour are (the following):
1. Religious knowledge will decrease (by the death of religious learned men).
2. Religious ignorance will prevail.
3. There will be prevalence of open illegal sexual intercourse.
4. Women will increase in number and men will decrease in number so much so that fifty women
will be looked after by one man.
Volume 1, Book 3, Number 97:
Narrated Abu Burda’s father:
Allah’s Apostle said “Three persons will have a double reward:
1. A Person from the people of the scriptures who believed in his prophet (Jesus or Moses) and
then believed in the Prophet Muhammad (i .e. has embraced Islam).
2. A slave who discharges his duties to Allah and his master.
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3. A master of a woman-slave who teaches her good manners and educates her in the best pos –
sible way (the religion) and manumits her and then marries her.”
Volume 1, Book 3, Number 82:
Narrated Ibn ‘Umar:
Allah’s Apostle said, “While I was sleeping, I saw that a cup full of milk was brought to me and I
drank my fill till I noticed (the milk) its wetness coming out of my nails. Then I gave the remaining
milk to ‘Umar Ibn Al-Khattab” The companions of the Prophet asked, “What have you interpreted
(about this dream)? “O Allah’s Apostle ,!” he replied, “(It is religious) knowledge.”
Volume 1, Book 3, Number 98:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
I said: “O Allah’s Apostle! Who will be the luckiest person, who will gain your intercession on the
Day of Resurrection?” Allah’s Apostle said: O Abu Huraira! “I have thought that none will ask me
about it before you as I know your longing for the (learning of) Hadiths. The luckiest person who
will have my intercession on the Day of Resurrection will be the one who said sincerely from the
bottom of his heart “None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.”
And ‘Umar bin ‘Abdul ‘Aziz wrote to Abu Bakr bin Hazm, “Look for the knowledge of Hadith and
get it written, as I am afraid that religious knowledge will vanish and the religious learned men will
pass away (die). Do not accept anything save the Hadiths of the Prophet. Circulate knowledge and
teach the ignorant, for knowledge does not vanish except when it is kept secretly (to oneself).”
Volume 1, Book 3, Number 83:
Narrated ‘Abdullah bin Amr bin Al ‘Aas:
Allah’s Apostle stopped (for a while near the Jimar) at Mina during his last Hajj for the people and
they were asking him questions. A man came and said, “I forgot and got my head shaved before
slaughtering the Hadi (sacrificing animal).” The Prophet said, “There is no harm, go and do the
slaughtering now.” Then another person came and said, “I forgot and slaughtered (the camel) before
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Rami (throwing of the pebbles) at the Jamra.” The Prophet said, “Do the Rami now and there is no
harm.”
The narrator added: So on that day, when the Prophet was asked about anything (as regards the
ceremonies of Hajj) performed before or after its due time, his reply was: “Do it (now) and there is no
harm.”
Volume 1, Book 3, Number 99:
Narrated Abdullah Ibn Dinar:
also narrates the same (above-mentioned statement) as has been narrated by ‘Umar bin ‘Abdul
‘Aziz up to “The religious scholar (learned men) will pass away (die).”
Volume 1, Book 3, Number 84:
Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas:
Somebody said to the Prophet (during his last Hajj), “I did the slaughtering before doing the Rami.’
The Prophet beckoned with his hand and said, “There is no harm in that.” Then another person said.
“I got my head shaved before offering the sacrifice.” The Prophet beckoned with his hand saying,
“There is no harm in that.”
Volume 1, Book 3, Number 100:
Narrated ‘Abdullah bin ‘Amr bin Al’ As:
I heard Allah’s Apostle saying, “Allah does not take away the knowledge, by taking it away from
(the hearts of) the people, but takes it away by the death of the religious learned men till when none
of the (religious learned men) remains, people will take as their leaders ignorant persons who when
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consulted will give their verdict without knowledge. So they will go astray and will lead the people
astray.”