1883 — “There are six portents of the Hour: my death; the conquest of Jerusalem; a mortality that will strike the people like the sudden death that afflicts sheep; a tribulation whose heat will enter the home of every Muslim; a man being given a thousand dinars yet regarding it as too little; and the Byzantines’ treachery, whereupon they will march under eighty banners, with twelve thousand beneath each banner.”

Aḥmad (5/228) narrated it, and al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī, through him, in Faḍāʾil al-Shām (2/44/2), from al-Naḥḥās ibn Qahm, who said: Shaddād Abū ʿAmmār narrated to me from Muʿādh ibn Jabal, attributing it to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.

I say: This is weak and interrupted. Abū ʿAmmār did not hear from Muʿādh, for they have stated that he did not hear even from ʿAwf ibn Mālik, who died in 73 AH. Muʿādh, however, died much earlier, in 18 AH. Al-Naḥḥās ibn Qahm is also weak. Yet the hadith has a supporting narration from ʿAwf ibn Mālik, attributed to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, with similar wording. Al-Bukhārī and al-Ḍiyāʾ narrated it from Abū Idrīs al-Khawlānī, from him. Al-Ḥākim (3/546) narrated it from him through another chain. It is cited in Faḍāʾil al-Shām by al-Rabʿī, no. 23, and elsewhere. I then found a third chain for it in al-Ḥākim (4/422–423), which he declared authentic according to the criteria of both of them, and al-Dhahabī concurred.

1884 — “The worldly life will be opened up to you until the Kaabah itself is richly adorned.” We said, “Will this happen while we remain upon our religion as we are today?” He said, “You will be upon your religion then.” We said, “Will we be better then, or are we better today?” He said, “Rather, you are better today.”

Al-Bazzār narrated it (p. 330, al-Zawāʾid): Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿīd al-Jawharī narrated to us; Abū Aḥmad narrated to us from ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn al-ʿAbbās, from ʿAwn ibn Abī Juḥayfah, from his father, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said this. And he said: