and if it is said, “He is not a brother in faith,” we reply: This is patently false speech, devoid of any evidence.

Fourth: Hudhayfah ibn al-Yamān (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:

“Islam will wear away just as the embroidery of a garment wears away, until people no longer know what fasting is, nor prayer, nor the sacrificial rites, nor charity. The Book of Allah will be lifted in a single night, so that not a single verse remains on earth. Yet some people will survive—elderly men and elderly women—who will say, ‘We found our forefathers holding to this statement: lā ilāha illā Allāh (there is no god but Allah), so we too say it.’ ”

Narrated by Ibn Mājah (4049) and al-Ḥākim (4/473) through the chain of Abū Muʿāwiyah → Abū Mālik al-Ashjaʿī → Ribʿī ibn Ḥirāsh → Hudhayfah ibn al-Yamān, as a marfūʿ report.

Al-Ḥākim declared it authentic and al-Dhahabī agreed. Al-Buṣayrī likewise judged it sound in Miṣbāḥ al-Zujājah, and Ibn Ḥajar reinforced its grading in Fatḥ al-Bārī (13/16).

Nonetheless, some scholars have criticized the hadith and declared it weak because of remarks concerning Abū… ⦗14⦘