(1) N, M, S: wa-htajjat (“and it cited as evidence”). (2) The hadith appears in Sunan Ibn Mājah, 2:1340–1341 (Book of Tribulations, Chapter on the Severity of the Times), with the following wording: “Yūnus ibn ‘Abd al-A‘lā narrated to us: Muhammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfi‘ī narrated to us: Muhammad ibn Khālid al-Janadī narrated to me, from Abān ibn Sālih, from al-Hasan, from Anas ibn Mālik, that the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—said: ‘Matters will only grow more difficult, the world will only decline, and people will only grow more avaricious. The Hour will not come upon the worst of people, and there is no Mahdī except Jesus, son of Mary.’” The editor—may Allah have mercy on him—discussed the hadith in terms indicating that he considered it authentic. Al-Albānī disagreed in Silsilat al-Ahādīth al-Da‘īfa, no. 77, 1:103–105, stating that it is a munkar hadith and that al-Hākim included it, 4:441, as did Ibn ‘Abd al-Barr in Jāmi‘ Bayān al-‘Ilm, 1:155. He noted that Muhammad ibn Khālid al-Janadī is majhūl (unknown as a narrator), as the hadith master (Ibn Hajar) stated in al-Taqrīb, and that al-Dhahabī described it in al-Mīzān as a munkar report. He then said: “Al-Saghānī said: ‘Fabricated,’ as cited in al-Shawkānī’s al-Ahādīth al-Mawdū‘a, p. 195. In al-‘Urf al-Wardī fī Akhbār al-Mahdī, in al-Hāwī, 2:274, al-Suyūtī quoted al-Qurtubī as saying in al-Tadhkira: ‘A weak chain of transmission.’ … The hadith master also indicated in al-Fath … that this hadith should be rejected because it contradicts the hadiths concerning the Mahdī.” (3) N, M, S: al-mab‘ūth (“the one sent”); this is a textual corruption.