“Among the signs of the Hour is that a man will pass through the mosque, lengthwise or crosswise, without praying two rakʿahs in it.”

Al-Ṭabarānī recorded it and said: “This is how Manṣūr narrated it; Qatādah narrated it with a connected chain of transmission.” I say: However, the chain of transmission to Qatādah is weak and contains an objectionable addition, as I have explained in the other book (4514).

As for the other addition, “and that sudden death become widespread,” I have found another route for it from Anas. It was recorded by ʿAbd al-Razzāq in al-Muṣannaf (6780), Ibn ʿAdī in al-Kāmil (83/1), and al-Dīnawarī in al-Muntaqā min al-Mujālasah (270/2), through al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUmārah, from al-Ḥawārī ibn Ziyād, from Anas, in a report attributed to the Prophet: “Among the approaching signs of the Hour are the spread of paralysis and sudden death.” But this Ibn ʿUmārah is abandoned.

Nevertheless, it has been established in the previously mentioned mursal report of al-Shaʿbī. Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā narrated it from his father, from Ḥammād ibn Salamah, from ʿĀṣim ibn Bahdalah, from al-Shaʿbī, in a report attributed to the Prophet. Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī recorded it in al-Fitan (52/1 and 53/1). This is a good mursal chain of transmission. Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā is Ibn Saʿīd ibn Farrūkh al-Qaṭṭān, and he is trustworthy. As for his father, he was a ḥāfiẓ, trustworthy, and an imam; those above them are well known. Thus, when the hadith of Anas is joined to it, this addition attains the rank of good, Allah willing.