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2653. Jubair bin Nufair narrated from Abū Ad-Dardā' who said: "We were with the Prophet ﷺ when he raised his sight to the sky, then he said: 'This is the time when knowledge is to be taken from the people, until what remains of it shall not amount to anything.' So Ziyād bin Labīd Al-Anṣārī said: 'How will it be taken from us while we recite the Qur'ān. By Allāh we recite it, and our women and children recite it?' He (ﷺ) said: 'May you be bereaved of your mother O Ziyād! I used to consider you among the Fuqahā' of the people of Al-Madinah. The Tawrah and Injīl are with the Jews and the Christians, but what do they avail of them?'" Jubair said: "So I met 'Ubādah bin Aṣ-Ṣāmit and said to him: 'Have you not heard what your brother Abū Ad-Dardā' said?' Then I informed him of what Abū Ad-Dardā' said. He said: 'Abū Ad-Dardā' spoke the truth. If you wish, we shall narrate to you about the first knowledge to be removed from the people: It is Khushū', soon you will enter the congregational Masjid, but not see any man in it with Khushū'.'" (Sāhīh)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadith is Ḥasan Gharīb. Mu'āwiyah bin Ṣāliḥ (a narrator in the chain) is
trustworthy according to the people of Hadīth, and we do not know of anyone who criticized him except for Yaḥyā bin Saʿeed Al-Qaṭṭān. Similar to this has been reported (by others) from Muʿāwiyah bin Ṣāliḥ, and some of them reported this Hadīth from ʿAbdur-Raḥmān bin Jubair bin Nufair, from his father, from ʿAwf bin Mālik from the Prophet ﷺ.
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Religious knowledge will gradually come to an end by the death of religions scholars, even though the Qurʾān will yet exist, but the people will not act upon it. The real and true purpose of knowledge is to act accordingly, when knowledge is not practised, as if it is ignorance instead of knowledge. Were knowledge true and firm it would be practised. Knowledge brings fear and consciousness to a man regarding Allāh and the result of fear is humbleness and humility i.e. lowliness and submission.
