28 – Salamah ibn Shabīb narrated to us; he said: Khalīl ibn Yazīd narrated to us; he said: al-Zubayr ibn ʿĪsā Abū al-Ḥumaydī narrated to us, from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah—may Allah be pleased with her—who said: “I asked, ‘Messenger of Allah, when will people stop enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong?’ He replied: ‘When miserliness takes hold of your best people, knowledge passes to your most worthless, flattery characterises your Qur’an-reciters, and authority rests with your young ones.’”