among Thaqif there will arise a liar and a ruthless destroyer. As for the liar, we have already seen him; as for the destroyer, I think he can be none other than you.” Muslim recorded it; by “the liar” she meant al-Mukhtār ibn Abī ʿUbayd.

Al-Walid ibn Muslim narrated—from Marwan ibn Salim al-Jazari—that al-Ahwas ibn Hakim and Khalid ibn Maʿdan transmitted from ʿUbādah ibn al-Samit that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “In my community there will be a man named Wahb to whom Allah will grant wisdom, and a man named Ghaylan who will prove more harmful to my nation than Satan.” (Marwan is weak.)

Ibn Jurayj said: Abū az-Zubayr informed us that he heard Jabir ibn ʿAbd Allah say: “A month before his death I heard the Prophet ﷺ declare: ‘You ask about the Hour; its knowledge is with Allah alone. By Allah, none of the souls alive on the face of the earth today will still be living one hundred years from now.’ ” Muslim narrated it.

Shuʿayb transmitted—from al-Zuhri—from Salim ibn ʿAbd Allah and Abū Bakr ibn Sulayman ibn Abī Hathmah—that Ibn ʿUmar said: “Toward the end of his life the Messenger of Allah ﷺ led us in the Night Prayer. When he had completed it he stood and said, ‘Consider this night of yours; a hundred years from now none of those alive on the face of the earth today will remain.’ ” Agreed upon.

Al-Jariri said: “I was circumambulating the Kaʿbah with Abū at-Tufayl when he remarked, ‘No one who met the Messenger of Allah ﷺ is still alive except me.’ I asked, ‘What was the Messenger of Allah ﷺ like?’ He replied, ‘He was fair-skinned, handsome, and of moderate stature.’ ” Muslim recorded it.