al-ʿAqadī narrated to us—Hishām related to us, from Qatādah, from Anas, who said:
“I am going to relate to you a report that I heard from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. I heard him say: ‘Among the portents of the Hour are that knowledge will be taken away, ignorance will abound, fornication will become widespread, wine will be drunk, men will grow few and women will increase, until one guardian will be responsible for fifty women.’”

It is recorded by al-Bukhārī (1) through Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm and Ḥafs ibn ʿAmr, both from Hishām al-Dastawāʾī, with similar wording.

52 – Ḥammād ʿAjrad, Abū ʿAmr ibn ʿUmar al-Suwaʾī, their client*

The accomplished poet, Abū ʿAmr Ḥammād ibn ʿUmar ibn Yūnus ibn Kulayb al-Suwaʾī, their freedman, originally from Wāsiṭ—or, according to another opinion, from Kūfa.

He was an intimate companion of al-Walīd ibn Yazīd, then came to Baghdad in the time of al-Mahdī. Between him and Bashshār ibn Burd there was playful banter and coarse invective.

He had little religion, was given to wantonness, and was accused of zandaqa (heresy). He is the one who said:

I swear, were you to wake in passion’s clasp,
you’d quit reproaching me and lengthen my excuse;
Yet my affliction with you is that you proffer counsel,
and that you do not know that you do not know. (2)

He died in 161 AH; he was killed by Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, the governor of Basra, on