Al-Thamar al-MustatabNasir al-Din al-Albani

sound, or ḥasan (fair), or something close to those two grades. He would never do so if the chain contained anyone who has been branded a liar, a fabricator, suspect, unanimously abandoned, declared weak, and the like—as he explicitly stated in the introduction to his book. For narrations of that sort he introduces them with the word ruwiya (“it is reported”) to signal their weakness. Since we have already seen that Abū al-Khalīl is accused of fabrication, it is therefore inconceivable that he would open a report transmitted by him with the word ʿan. This, together with the previous evidence, shows that Ibn Ḥibbān must have had another chain for the ḥadīth.

Even so, I personally cannot content myself with Ibn Ḥibbān’s mere authentication before examining its chain and transmitters, given the leniency for which he is known in such matters, as we have repeatedly pointed out on various occasions. If we manage to locate that chain and judge the report authentic—or at least ḥasan—it must be included in the main body of the book, and Allah, exalted be He, is the Grantor of success. (1)

The ḥadīth was also cited by al-Ghazālī in al-Iḥyāʾ with the wording:

“At the end of time there will come people from my community who enter the mosques and sit there in circle after circle; their conversation concerns the world and the love of the world. Do not sit with them, for Allah has no need of them.” He then said:

(1) My earlier supposition has now been confirmed: I found the hadith in Ibn Hajar’s Takhrij al-Kashshaf (p. 73, no. 94), where he writes: “Al-Tabarani transmits it through Abu Waʾil from Ibn Masud in a marfuʿ form: ‘Toward the end of time people will sit in the mosques in circles; their only concern is the dunya. Do not sit with them, for Allah has no need of them.’ In the chain appears Buzaʿi Abu al-Khalil, the transmitter from al-Aʿmash, and he is matruk (discarded). Al-Daraqutni said he is the sole narrator of it, but this is open to question, for Ibn Hibban recorded it in his Sahih through ʿIsa b. Yunus from al-Aʿmash with a different wording….” Ibn Hajar then says that he quoted that version, adding: “There is also a marfuʿ report from Anas on the same subject.” I remark: he cited the latter through al-Hakim and left it without further comment.
حسن أو ما قاربهما وهو لا يفعل ذلك (إذا كان في الإسناد من قيل فيه: كذاب أو وضاع أو متهم أو مجمع على تركه أو ضعفه أو. . .) كما صرح في مقدمة الكتاب فمثل هذا يصدره بلفظة: (روي) إشارة إلى ضعفه وقد رأيت أن أبا الخليل متهم بالوضع فلا يعقل إذن أن يصدر ما رواه بلفظة (عن) فدل هذا وما قبله على أن الحديث عند ابن حبان من طريق أخرى ومع ذلك فإني شخصيا لا أستطيع الاعتماد على مجرد تصحيح ابن حبان له قبل الاطلاع على سنده ورواته لما علمنا من تساهله في ذلك حسبما نبهنا عليه مرارا في مناسبات شتى فإن وقفنا عليه وحكمنا بصحته أو على الأقل بحسنه وجب ذكره في أصل الكتاب والله تعالى ولي التوفيق (١) ثم الحديث أورده الغزالي في (الإحياء) بلفظ: (يأتي في آخر الزمان ناس من أمتي يأتون المساجد فيقعدون فيها حلقا حلقا ذكرهم الدنيا وحب الدنيا ولا تجالسوهم فليس لله بهم حاجة) فقال
(١) ثم تحقق ما استظهرته فقد عثرت على الحديث في (تخريج الكشاف) للحافظ ابن حجر فقال (ص ٧٣ رقم ٩٤): (رواه الطبراني من رواية أبي وائل عن ابن مسعود رفعه: (سيكون في آخر الزمان قوم يجلسون في المساجد حلقا حلقا مناهم الدنيا لا تجالسوهم فليس لله فيهم حاجة) وفيه بزيع أبو الخليل راويه عن الأعمش عنه وهو متروك. وقال الدارقطني: إنه تفرد به وفيه نظر فقد أخرجه ابن حبان في (صحيحه) من طريق عيسى بن يونس عن الأعمش بلفظ:. . . قلت فذكره. قال: وفي الباب عن أنس رفعه قلت: فساقه من طريق الحاكم وسكت عليه

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