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2210. 'Alī bin Abī Tālib narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "When my Ummah does fifteen things, the afflictions will occur in it." It was said: "What are they O Messenger of Allāh?" He said: "When Al-Maghnam (the spoils of war) are distributed (preferentially), trust is usurped, Zakāh is a fine, a man obeys his wife and disobeys his mother, he is kind to his friend and abandons his
father, voices are raised in the Masājid, the leader of the people is the most despicable among them, the most honored man is the one whose evil the people are afraid of, intoxicants are drunk, silk is worn (by males), there is a fascination for singing slave-girls and music, and the end of this Ummah curses its beginning. When that occurs, anticipate a red wind, collapsing of the earth, and transformation.” (Da'if)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Gharīb we do not know of it as a narration of 'Alī [bin Abī Tālib] except through this route. We do not know anyone who reported this Hadīth from Yaḥya bin Sa'eed Al-Anṣārī other than Al-Faraj bin Faḍālah. [And Al-Faraj bin Faḍālah] was criticized by some of the scholars of Hadīth and graded weak, due to his poor memory. Wakī' and others among the A'immah reported from him.
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[1] Meaning, "foolish the son of foolish" or, "disgraceful the son of disgraceful" etc.
Commentary
The evil habits and innovations listed in this Hadīth, also catalogued in the next Hadīth, are already in evidence albeit on a comparatively limited scale but the upward trend in them on a daily basis is clearly discernable.
