English translation
3610. Narrated Abū Sa'īd Al-Khudrī رضي الله عنه: While we were with Allāh's Messenger ﷺ who was distributing (some property), there came Dhul-Khuwaīsira, a man from the tribe of Bani Tamīm and said, "O Allāh's Messenger! Do justice." The Prophet ﷺ said, "Woe to you! Who could do justice if I did not? I would be a desperate loser if I did not do justice." 'Umar said, "O Allāh's Messenger! Allow me to chop his head off." The Prophet ﷺ said, "Leave him, for he has companions who offer Ṣalāt (prayer) in such a way that you will consider your Salāt (prayer) negligible in comparison to theirs and observe Saum (fast) in such a way that you will consider your fasting (negligible in comparison) to theirs. They recite the Qur'ān but it does not go beyond their throats (i.e., they do not act on it) and they will desert Islām as an arrow goes out through a victim's body, so that the hunter, on looking at the arrow's blade, would see nothing on it; he would look at its Rišāf and see nothing: he would look at its Nādī and see nothing, and he would look at its Qudhādh(1) and see nothing (neither flesh nor blood), for the arrow has been too fast even for the blood and excretions to smear. The sign by which they will be recognized is that among them there will be a black man, one of whose arms will resemble a woman's breast or a lump of meat moving loosely. Those people will appear when there will be differences amongst the people." Abū Sa'īd added: I testify that I heard this narration from Allāh's Messenger ﷺ, and I testify that 'Ali bin Abī Tālib fought with such people,(2) and I was in his company. He ordered that the man (described by the Prophet ﷺ) should be looked for. The man was brought and I looked at him and noticed that he looked exactly as the Prophet ﷺ had described him.