was accepted by both Imams is his brother ʿAbd Allah ibn Buraidah.

87 – “Islam will wear away just as the pattern on a garment wears away, until people no longer know what fasting, prayer, sacrificial rites, or charity are. During one night the Book of Allah will be taken away so that not a single verse remains upon the earth. Small groups of people will survive—an elderly man and an elderly woman—who will say, ‘We found our forefathers holding to this statement: “There is no deity worthy of worship except Allah,” so we repeat it.’ ”

Ibn Mājah (4049) and al-Ḥākim (4/473) transmitted it through the chain of Abū Muʿāwiyah, from Abū Mālik al-Ashjaʿī, from Ribʿī ibn Ḥirāsh, from Ḥudhayfah ibn al-Yamān, as a marfūʿ report, and he added: “Ṣillah ibn Zufar said to Ḥudhayfah, ‘Of what benefit to them is ‘There is no deity but Allah’ when they do not know what…’”