Musnad Ahmad 3831

Translation

✧ A people will emerge at the end of time, foolish in their minds, young—or he said: young in age—uttering the best speech of people, reciting the Qur'an with their tongues, but it does not go beyond their collarbones. They pass through Islam as an arrow passes through the game. Whoever catches them, let him kill them, for in killing them there is a great reward with Allah for the one who kills them.

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Sahih Muslim 1063aSahih Muslim 1063b

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

   One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمة
   عن
2. 2
   Zirr b. Ḥubaysh al-Thaʿlabī

   trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. 81 AH, or: 82 AH, or: 83 AH
   زِرٍّثقة جليل
   عن
3. 3
   ʿĀṣim b. Bahdalah

   Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 127 AH, or: 128 AH
   عَاصِمٍصدوق له أوهام
   عن
4. 4
   Abū Bakr b. ʿAyyāsh

   Trustworthy (thiqah) and devout, except that his memory deteriorated when he grew old; his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ).d. 192 AH, or: 193 AH, or: 194 AH
   أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍثقة عابد ، إلا أنه لما كبر ساء حفظه ، وكتابه صحيح
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Yaḥyā b. Abī Bukayr

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 208 AH, also said 209 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ أَبِي بُكَيْرٍثقة .
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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