Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 430-60b
✧ Abdullah b. Mas'ud
"عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ: كَيْفَ بِكُمْ إِذَا لَبِستْكُم فِتْنَةٌ يَهْرَمُ فِيهَا الكَبيرُ وَيَرْبُو فِيهَا الصَّغيرُ يَتَّخذُهَا سُنَّةً إِذَا تُرِك منْهَا شَىْءٌ وقَليلٌ تُرِكَتِ السُّنَّةُ، قيلَ؛ يَا أَبَا عَبْد الرَّحْمن وَمَتَى ذَلَكَ؟ قَالَ إِذَا كَثُرَتْ جُهَّالُكُمْ وَقَلَّتْ عُلَمَاؤُكُمْ وَكَثُرَتْ خُطَباؤُكُمْ، وَقَلَّتْ فُقَهَاؤُكُمْ وَكَثُرَتْ أُمَرَاؤُكُمْ وَقَلَّتْ أُمَنَاؤُكُمْ وَتُفُقِّهَ لغَيْر الدِّينِ، وَالْتُمسَتْ الدُّنْيَا بعَمَل الآخرَةِ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ibn Masʿūd
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"From Ibn Mas'ud who said: How will you be when a trial envelops you, in which the elder grows old and the young grows up, and people take it as a sunnah? When some of it is abandoned, it is said: The sunnah has been abandoned. It was said: O Abu 'Abd al-Rahman, and when will that be? He said: When your ignorant ones multiply, your scholars become few, your preachers multiply, your jurists become few, your rulers multiply, your trustworthy ones become few, knowledge is studied for other than religion, and worldly life is sought through deeds of the Hereafter."
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Notes
[ش] ابن أبى شيبة ونعيم بن حماد في الفتن
machine translation[Ibn Abī Shaybah and Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād in al-Fitan]
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